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Here’s a little plug for my company - Language Weaver. The folks at the Christian Science Monitor wrote up an excellent article about the company entitled "Language Weaver: fast in translation". Here’s an excerpt from the article:
“The ability to translate lots of information quickly is becoming one of the important concerns of a global economy,” [...]

This Onion piece put a smile to my face today despite another ridiculous loss by the Mets last night. Unfortunately.. I don’t think even “Carlos Voltron” can help save the sinking ship. 
In reflecting upon this season, it’s clear to me that the Mets have some rebuilding to do. It’s not a complete rebuilding.. [...]

While I’m keeping my eyes closed and my ears shut to the rest of this Mets season (which amounts to five more games), I figured I’d share this YouTube clip of a rendition of Lisa Loeb’s song, “Stay”, sung to lyrics about Met’s starting pitcher John Maine. Thanks to V for this linky…
 

I thought this was an utterly hilarious story. Construction workers at the new Yankee Stadium unearthed a buried Boston Red Sox jersey with David Ortiz’s name on it. Apparently another construction worker, who was a Red Sox fan, had buried it within two feet of concrete while on the job in the hopes of jinxing [...]

Ever wonder when it’s appropriate to try and start a wave at a baseball game? (Never wanted to? GOOD!). Well here’s “The Drunk Jays Fans Guide to the Wave“. It’s a hilarious read folks.. just great. I for one can’t stand the wave but yes.. when it’s going, you might as well join in and [...]

File this under the “I wish I was there” category. I didn’t realize this until today but Conan O’Brien gave the Stuyvesant High School Graduation Commencement speech back in 2006 and man - it was awesome!

See more funny videos at CollegeHumor

See more funny videos at CollegeHumor

 
A transcript of the speech can be [...]

Here’s a fun variation on the game of Sudoku. It’s called Colour Sudoku and it’s based off of work on Empirical Modeling. Enjoy the game!
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A little warning to those of you out there planning to watch Cloverfield. If you easily get motion sickness or you vertigo, then you might want to wait till the movie comes out on video. If you threw up watching the Blair Witch Project, then you’ll more than likely also get sick while watching [...]

Ever wonder how many five year olds you could take on in a fight? Take the survey here on this website (aptly called howmanyfiveyearoldscouldyoutakeinafight.com) and find out! I scored a 32. Hilarious website!! Thanks to William for the linky.
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For those of you into volleyball and have access to the Universal HD channel, you should check out the Men’s World Cup Volleyball which is now being shown during the week at 6pm EST and 3pm PST. The full schedule can be found here at Universal HD’s website. Note - these are taped games [...]