"Last night I heard that Wesson oil doesn't soak through food. Well, that's true. It's not dishonest; but the thing I'm talking about is not just a matter of not being dishonest; it's a matter of scientific integrity, which is another level."
by Eva Golinger. Transcription of the interview of Noam Chomsky about Venezuelan and Latin American done as promotion for the III International Book Fair in Venezuela, which this year focuses on the theme: "United States: Is Revolution Possible?"
by Edward de Bono. "There is a story of a man who painted half his car black and the other half white. He said he did this because he loved to hear the witnesses dogmatically contradict each other whenever he was involved in an accident. A wife tries on a new dress and loves it. Her husband who is with her dislikes it. She is looking at the colour and shape - he is looking at the price."
This letter was submitted to U.S. president George W. Bush via the Swiss embassy in Tehran on May 8, 2006, originally written in Persian. This translation provided by the Islamic Republic News Agency, official news agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
For the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae project of the University of California at Irvine, a method for representing Greek characters in ASCII was devised, called Beta Codes.
"It was only supposed to be a joke, I never thought people would take the book seriously. Anyone with half a brain can see that object-oriented programming is counter-intuitive, illogical and inefficient."
explores the apparent madness at the heart of US military intelligence. With first-hand access to the leading players in the story, Jon Ronson examines the extraordinary - and plain bizarre - national secrets at the core of George W Bush's war on terror.
"Only one third of a search engine is devoted to fulfilling search requests. The other two thirds are divided between crawling (sending a host of single-minded digital organisms out to gather information) and indexing (building data structures from the results)." By George Dyson
the home for language courses developed by the Foreign Service Institute. These courses were developed by the United States government and are in the public domain. This site is not affiliated in any way with any government entity; it is an independent, non-profit effort to foster the learning of worldwide languages.
"Creation is a process, and strangely, by looking at how everyone’s favorite plushy first-mate sprang into existence, we can learn a lot about any collaborative creative endeavor."