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Celebrity Jeopardy Online

Of Languages.
Some linguist dude is suggesting that 90% of the 6,000 languages spoken today will be extinct in a century. He suggests that minor languages are a barrier to full participation in prosperous societies and that the unique world views encoded in them are kind of boring when you think about it. I’m down with that, everyone should have universal translators in their heads by 2110 anyhow, so fuck paying to preserve obscure languages.

Those wacky pirates are at it again. This time it looks as though their booty is fueling a real estate boom in Kenya. That’s right, a Pirate based real estate bubble.

“One pirate who gave his name as Osman Afrah said he bought three trucks that transport goods across East Africa. A second pirate, who only gave his name as Abdulle, said he’s investing in Kenya in preparation for leaving the pirate trade.”

What an amazing concept for time travel and cocaine jokes. A Hot Tub Time Machine. Check out the red band trailer.

Sinbad is Bankrupt and owes $8M in back taxes. I’m sure his crappy, bland humour can pay those bills.

Here’s a fun open letter to Dr Laura with some interesting questions on how to best follow the rules set down to please Sky Dad. A few sample questions:
5. I have a neighbour who insists on working on the Sabbath.Exodus 35:2. Clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself, or should I ask the police to do it?
9. I know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?

Despite a bit of a slow (but successful) run in North America Emmerich’s end o the world due to floods picture 2012 has raked in massive amounts of that mad overseas cash. Turns out Europe absolutely loves seeing the world destroyed.

That wacky Al Gore is at it again, apparently the ice in the Arctic is going to vanish in as little as five years.
Only the scientist who Gore quoted as saying this says that’s not true:

“It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at,” Dr Maslowski said. “I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.”

Mr Gore’s office later admitted that the 75 per cent figure was one used by Dr Maslowksi as a “ballpark figure” several years ago in a conversation with Mr Gore.

Oh Al Gore, will you ever catch a break? Oh wait, he’s made at least $100 million since leaving office (good for him, I liked his movie).

In the better late then never file, former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker has joined the chorus of voices calling out the banking industry on how utterly useless and dangerous they are.

Here’s a really cool time series map of unemployment by county in the USA since 2007. Sucks to be Michigan, now more so then usual. Also who knew Oregon was a hotbed of unemployment? I don’t really know what they do there, maybe an Oregonian can fill me in.