一道挺有意思的题目：
You are given two ropes and a lighter. This is the only equipment you can use. You are told that each of the two ropes has the following property: if you light one end of the rope, it will take exactly one hour to burn all the way to the other end. But it doesn’t […]
Rumsfeld remembered for many famous quotes
看样子政界人物都很擅长搞笑。这两段实在是经典：
“Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there […]
Your Vocabulary Score: A
Congratulations on your multifarious vocabulary!
You must be quite an erudite person.
How’s Your Vocabulary?
栽在第12题手里，没拿到A+，可惜。
Bonus video: “Weird Al” Yankovic - White & Nerdy
非常期待的这本电影终于在美国发行了（目前只限于NYC和LA地区）。没错，电影的名字就叫Fuck，宣传语是“The movie that dare not speak its name”。官方网站的网址是fourletterfilm.com，已经够含蓄的了，而有些地方干脆就用XXXX这个名字，绝了。这本记录片探讨了fuck这个独一无二的单词对社会、政治、历史、人文、艺术等各方面无所不在的影响。
摘自导演兼制作人Steve Anderson的采访：
Q: Why the F-word? What made you want to do this project?
A: I was always intrigued with the word as a writer because it’s a word that you can use at any time in so many different ways. That’s really where it first started: it’s a verb, […]
目前最热门的话题人物毫无疑问是Ted Haggard，哪里都是头条。随便给两个吧：
CNN
MSNBC
说实话我一点也不觉得意外，也懒得关心他会有什么下场。我想知道的是，他买的这个methamphetamine到底是什么东西。查了下字典，看到它的中文叫“甲基苯丙胺，脱氧麻黄碱”。但这个也太专业化了，完全没概念。看外国人口口声声meth、meth，于是我想这个词可能应该拆成meth和amphetamine。再查了一下，果然，amphetamine是苯丙胺，也就是俗称的“安非他命”，meth表示“甲基”，同时也是整个词的缩写。
请gay prostitute按摩，还买安非他命，就这样还不承认干过那事儿，真是自欺欺人。
跟Ted Haggard形成鲜明对比的榜样： Neil Patrick Harris
Bonus video: Mario Vazquez featuring Baby Bash - Gallery