What’s your Bloginality?

I was keeping an eye on MIT’s Blogdex and noticed a very new and popular site: We Love the Iraqi Information Minister. The site has been overwhelmed with hits so it’s being moved to a more capable server at the moment, but I’d like to see how it develops. And I think Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf…

So, the usually hawkish Israeli PM Ariel Sharon has made a surprising turnaround in his stance, causing no small amount of consternation within his own party. To quote him: “I think that the idea of keeping 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation is the worst thing for Israel, for the Palestinians and also for the Israeli…

After working here for over 3.5 years, I think I have brainwashed myself. Whenever I want to type “HP” as in Hewlett-Packard, I inadvertently type “HPB”. When typing the name of a person, “Heath”, I always type “Health” instead. There! I did it again!!!

Tariq Aziz, Iraqi defence minister calls a meeting of all Saddam’s doubles after the latest attempt on Saddam’s life. “Guys, I have good news and bad news for you”, he says. “First the good news: our glorious leader Saddam escaped death in the last bomb blast. “The bad news is that he’s lost an arm.”…

Using a set of algorithms, the gender of the author of a body of text can be determined via the Gender Genie. Just paste something that you’ve written in here, and see how it goes. I know, I know, it stereotypes people linguistically, but it seems to have a high success rate. I conducted an…

Certain animals are probably breathing a sigh (or snort?) of relief to hear that strong Viagra sales worldwide might lead to a decrease in demand for traditional anti-impotence cures. Uplifting news indeed.