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POPSTen of the strangest names (ever) • @. And finally, let's go full circle to "@," pronounced "ai ta" or "love him" by an unidentified Chinese couple: The unidentified couple and the attempted naming were cited Thursday by a Chinese government official as an example of bizarre names creeping into the Chinese language. "The father said 'the whole world uses it to write emails and translated into Chinese it means 'love him'," Li Yuming, the vice director of the State Language Commission, said at a news conference. More Unusual Names: Check out Wikipedia, which has a HUGE list of unusual names ...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_personal_names
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POPSNightmare Playgrounds LOL this is the biggest creep-fest I've ever seen. Parents, would you let your kids play on this stuff? How depressing is this stuff?
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POPSLife on the edge That throws up a tricky problem for engineers sending space craft to explore these alien worlds. What if the craft were to carry its own cargo of Earth microbes which set up home there?One major problem for any accidental interplanetary microbe would be how to survive the punishing radiation bombardment in space. Most would be rapidly frazzled en route. Most, but not all. Deinococcus radiodurans, nicknamed "Conan the Bacterium", is listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the "world's toughest bacterium". By rapidly replacing its DNA, it can survive cold, dehydration, vacuum, acid and a hefty radiation dose. Its Latin name means "terrifying berry that withstands radiation".
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POPSPhoto Essay: Examining X-Ray (may need to scroll over to the right to see the entire image) -------In his new book, photographer Nick Veasey creates inside-out images of the everyday and the bizarre. Using a lead-lined studio he shoots his subjects, then composes and embellishes the images on a computer.
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POPSThe World of Bizarre Sound (made into music) Recordings Sometimes, the strangest recordings are also the most familiar. Take, for example, the “mic-in-track” recordings accidentally made available during Napster’s heyday. During this time, a default setting to name saved audio recordings as “mic-in-track” resulted in the ability of Napster users to download masses of such recordings, often to comical end. What did they hear? If you said “kids unaware anyone would ever hear them being silly with a microphone,” you’d mostly be spot-on. The Evolution Control Committee has a nice section of “mic-in-track” downloads, for the morbidly curious. Link to “mic-in-track” recordings: http://evolution-control.com/culturejamming.html Several other musicians are profiled at the source page - each with their own unique......
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POPSCommonly overused words "When you write, use the most precise word for your meaning, not the word that comes to mind first. Consult this thesaurus to find alternatives for some commonly overused words. Consult a full-length thesaurus to find alternatives to words that do not appear here. Keep in mind that the choices offered in a thesaurus do not all mean exactly the same thing. Review all the options, and choose the one that best expresses your meaning."
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POPSRate Your Beer Yes, this is a real product - Budweiser + Clamato. Most of the testers were not pleased.
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POPS...And the award goes to ‘vanilla from dung’ Past winners have included the creator of the plastic pink flamingo, the inventor of an alarm clock that runs and hides and a researcher who reported the first known case of homosexual necrophiliac behaviour in the mallard duck
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