quote:Originally posted by Teshi: eztv is causing people pain.
That's for sure. I went there this morning, realized it was an April Fools thing, but couldn't find a way to get to the real eztv. Very annoying. The joke is cute, but there ought to be a link to the real one.
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quote: Taiwan-China relations were dealt a severe setback yesterday when it was found that Taipei Zoo’s “pandas” are not what they seem.
Zookeepers discovered at feeding time yesterday that the two pandas are in fact Wenzhou brown forest bears that had been dyed to create the panda’s distinctive black-and-white appearance.
The Taipei Zoo’s head of ursidae ex-procyonidae care, Connie Liu (劉長春), said she became suspicious when the pandas, Tuan Tuan (團團) and Yuan Yuan (圓圓), began to spend almost all of their waking hours having sex. Pandas are notorious for their low libidos, which make them difficult to breed in captivity.
“Let’s just say Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan would tuan yuan at every chance,” said Liu, referring to the combination of the panda’s names, which means “to reunite” in Mandarin. “They would do it doggy-style and every armchair zoologist knows that pandas favor the missionary position — when they do it at all. Their behavior caused chaos. Children screamed and parents became irate.” ...
quote:Google unveils its new artificial intelligence system
CADIE'S webpage is so amazingly aweful.
Check out CADIE's favorite locations on Earth over at Google Maps too. Her descriptions had me laughing out loud at work.
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Belle - What killed me about it most was some woman in the comments talking about how she's always been really into brilliant, beaky men with high cheekbones. I read that and thought, "There are people who will read that and think I wrote it." *snerk* Something about a guy with a nice schnoz...
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I can't believe how far google went this year. every link on CADIE's home page takes you to something interesting.
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Also can I just say that what Blizzard has done on their forums is absolutely fantastic. You write just about anything and it comes out sounding like you are role playing.
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I didn't see this until now, but Improv Everywhere claimed to have crashed a funeral in a mission report posted April 1st, Best Funeral Ever. This was actually taken seriously by the nightly news on the local CW affiliate, which doesn't say much for their reporting team and fact-checkers. (If they even have fact-checkers...)
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