randomness…yay! and on a tuesday too.
ATLANTIS FOUND…FOR REAL!
first up is this interesting bit of news thats been making its way around the net. a u.s. researcher has claimed that hes found the lost city of atlantis. robert sarmast, an architect by training, claims (pretty confidently) that his use of side-scanning sonar has detected man-made walls just southeast of cyprus that fit platos description of atlantis. the areas long been speculated as a likely location if atlantis did indeed exist…due primarily to platos descriptions of the “pillars of hercules“, thought to be the straits of gibraltar, so its not surprising that sarmast wouldve focused his search in the area. whats interesting tho is really just how confident he sounds. i mean, he sounds like hes motherfucking leo dicaprio and king of the world. word bobby…more power to ya. still tho, whether this is genuine or not, or if atlantis could ever be definitively “found”, i think its interesting that theres just so much of human civilization thats relatively unknown, that it becomes the stuff of myths and legends. troy, the tower of babel, middle-earth and hobbits…recorded history as well as the things that fell between the cracks make for interesting lore.
WERENOTSORRY.COM
yay…a follow-up to a prior post. the bbc has an interesting article on the worldwide exposure sorryeverybody.com has gotten since it went live, as well as opposing sites that have been cropping up as a result. sites such as werenotsorry.com, which incidentally doesnt seem to be working, but its just as well. the bbc conveniently provided an accompanying picture of someone from werenotsorry.com…some dude holding up a sign and sporting what appears to be a civil war-era cavalry hat. its not definitively confederate (it actually looks blue), but way to look like a honky…
BUSH SUCKS AT ENGLISH
the english language is currently getting fucked up majorly, thanks to people like king george the retarded, and surprisingly tony blair too…according to john humphrys new book, “lost for words“. a leading british political journalist, humphrys book elaborates not only on bushs brutal destruction of proper english (misunderestimate? ouch), but also the prevalence of “management speak…meaningless phrases and hackneyed mantras to disguise policies or protect themselves from accountability.” he also specifically points out tony blairs fascinating habit of leaving out verbs in his speeches…”for our young people, a brighter future,” and “the age of achievement, at home and abroad“. word, those sound like corporate mission statements…or cheesy chinese mao-era catch phrases sung by choirs of 10-year olds.
and on the other end of the complexity spectrum, humphrys observes how bush is a “master of the language of political manipulation“…utilizing words over and over again til their nuanced definitions have shot far past quotidian and straight into becoming meaningless. words such as “freedom” and “democracy“…which incidentally, are two words quoted prominently in the bbc article from werenotsorry.com.
> atlantis discovered…confidently (via cnn)
> sorryeverybody.com’s worldwide exposure (via bbc)
> english language going downhill (via cnn)
Wow crazy, i would have never knew about the sorryeverybody.com if i didn’t come to your site.