This isn’t a microscopic photograph of a bacterial culture! It’s actually of rolling, hummocky dunes near the north pole of Mars. Taken with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s powerful HIRISE camera, the normally grey basaltic sand of the dunes is covered with pinkish dust literally made of rust – iron oxide.
The Word Lens app is a free download, but the dictionaries are $5 each. So far, English to Spanish and Spanish to English are the only dictionaries available.
Whatever you think about using grating words, at the end of the day it’s actually better not to say whatever, if you know what I mean.
For the second consecutive year “whatever’ topped a Marist poll as the most annoying word or phrase in the English language. Nearly 39 percent of 1,020 Americans questioned in the survey deemed it the most irritating word, followed by “like” with 28 percent and the phrase “you know what I mean’ at 15 percent.
The Golden Girls playing D&D with Wil Wheaton….. framed in bacon.
Facebook has suffered an outage! Oh no!!!! Everyone panic! Time magazine, take back Zuckerberg’s award!
“For a brief period of time, some internal prototypes were made public to a number of people externally,” a Facebook spokesman said this afternoon when asked for comment. “As a result, we took the site down for a few minutes. It’s back up, and we apologize for the inconvenience.”
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