Land reform in Africa may be the key to solving the continent’s other problems. Land rights would bring security, stability, sustenance, and power to those who’ve lost them over the past couple of centuries. (via Metafilter)
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The worst (UK) game show answers ever. Proving that American contestants aren’t the only ones who fall apart under pressure. (via Bits and Pieces)
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Top 10 Super Bowl FAILS of All Time. Sure, you play superb football all season and all they remember is that one little screwup that goes down in history. (via Gorilla Mask)
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The Top 100 Singles (ten for each year) of the 1970s. These would make the ultimate mixtape of memories for me. (via Neatorama)
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11 Little-Known Grammatical Errors That Will Shock and Horrify You. Curiously, I am neither shocked nor horrified, but I do find this information useful and worth passing along. (via J-Walk Blog)
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Ghost Ships: Ten Scary Spirits Of The Seven Seas. I’ll have to file these and pull them out to tell the kids around a campfire and ruin their sleep.
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If Famous Filmmakers Directed the Super Bowl. Each has their own style; I think I’d prefer Quentin Tarantino.
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A group of passionate Betty White fans want her to host Saturday Night Live. And why not? She’s funnier than any other 88-year-old woman you can think of!
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9 Great Inventions that come from … Connecticut? That’s what you get when you combine great educational institutions with nothing better to do.
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Loved the article on land reform. The dilemma, of course, being the uncertainty that the next regime will honor your property rights. As an evil Republican, I believe the key rights a government must not infringe are life, liberty, and PROPERTY.
posted by El Zarcho on 2-5-2010 at 8:55 am
Loved the grammatical errors site. I always say ‘try and’ rather than ‘try to’.
posted by Emma on 2-5-2010 at 10:23 am
One that bugs me, and it might be just my region, is when people say “located at” which is redundant. This was in ad copy for hundreds of radio spots I produced over the years. I usually dropped “located” unless they insisted.
People will call a business and ask “Where are you located at?” which is a double redundancy! “Where are you?” will do just fine.
posted by Miss Cellania on 2-5-2010 at 10:29 am
“Could care less” is a pet peeve of mine. When I hear someone use the phrase incorrectly I usually respond with “I couldn’t.”
A subtle nudge to point out the error.
posted by Zed on 2-5-2010 at 11:56 am
Slate link didn’t work for me, so I had to find it elsewhere:
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/02/if_famous_filmmakers_directed.html
I like Tarantio and Wes Anderson. Wonder what that says about me?
posted by Merinda on 2-5-2010 at 1:23 pm
i’m with zed on this one. i like for things to follow logic, and that phrase doesn’t.
posted by m on 2-7-2010 at 10:47 am
And why not? The First Lady of Television has more talent in one of her support hose than most of the “actresses” we’re subjected to every night. Plus, an appearance by her would make SNL worth watching, at least once.
posted by RIchard Y on 2-7-2010 at 11:38 pm