Miss Cellania
Morning Cup of Links: Canine Merengue!
by Miss Cellania - January 4, 2010 - 4:01 AM
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What did you do on New Year’s Eve? Maybe you can relate to one of these true stories.
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Darfur has gone from genocide to a not-quite-peaceful stalemate, but no one knows which way to go from this point. There is no peace agreement for peacekeepers to enforce, and refugees no longer want to go home. (via Metafilter)
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I guess I don’t need to see Avatar since someone’s already gone and put the plot on the internet. Oh, wait, no, that’s Pocahontas (or are they the same)!
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Which is the world’s hardest language? !Xóõ, a language from Botswana, causes a lump to grow in a speaker’s larynx, but that’s just one example of the world’s linguistic complexities. (via Neatorama)
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A dog dances the merengue! Dancing with the Stars should book her as a contestant -or even as a pro!
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Austin Kleon makes poetry from a page of a newspaper. He just blacks out all the words he doesn’t need. (via Nag on the Lake)
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10 Trailblazing Scientists About to Change Your Future. And ready to inspire the next generation of thinkers, as well!

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Comments (9)

  1. I heard that “Avatar” is this century’s “Fern Gully.”

    Having seen “Pocahontas” and “Fern Gully” in my childhood, should I still go see “Avatar”?

    posted by Tracie on 1-4-2010 at 9:24 am

  2. My brother told me that he’s sure that the plot of “Avatar” was based on “Dances With Wolves”.

    posted by Kelly on 1-4-2010 at 10:40 am

  3. Thanks to “Avatar” we also have a new example of “irony”… a film whose message is anti-technology yet requires lots and LOTS of tech to tell its message.

    posted by TBV on 1-4-2010 at 10:47 am

  4. The link for the Avatar thing doesn’t work for me.

    posted by Sarah in CA on 1-4-2010 at 11:00 am

  5. Sorry, Sarah, I think the bandwidth was blown. I changed the link, so you should see it now.

    posted by Miss Cellania on 1-4-2010 at 12:34 pm

  6. Awesome collection of links today. Nicely done!

    posted by SteveO on 1-4-2010 at 12:57 pm

  7. One of the things that makes English so difficult is that it is so inconsistent.

    Hold => Held
    Fold => Folded

    Fall => Fell
    Call => Called

    posted by PartiallyDeflected on 1-4-2010 at 1:09 pm

  8. Turkish is such an elegant language, and seems to make its speakers’ voices low-pitched and soothing. I lived in Turkey for two years and still love to hear the language spoken.

    posted by Jen Sweeney on 1-4-2010 at 7:08 pm

  9. PartiallyDeflected- these are irregular verbs. All languages have them, and are much more abundant in some than they are in English.

    As far as mechanics goes, English is fairly straightforward for all the reasons listed in the introduction of the article.

    posted by Lori on 1-5-2010 at 12:02 am

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