Friday, August 14, 2009

10 Things We Don't Understand About Humans

A NewScientist article tells us how we are odd.

Don't know 'bout you, but i'm quite fond of our laughter, dreams, and bizarre urge to swap spit.

False Fruits

Did you eat your daily allowance of fruit today? What is fruit? Sure, you knew tomatoes oddly are, but what else? Apparently, not much.

Strawberries, you will be glad to know, are a 'false fruit'. Which seems reasonable enough. But at this point a small doubt started to grow in my mind... what, actually, then, was a real fruit? Oranges? No, they're a modified berry. Bananas? Leathery berry. Plums? Drupe -- fleshy bit with one stone inside.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Multi-tasking, now in game form

In Multitask, you start off playing one game and then another and so on until you're playing several games at the same time.

It will either blow your mind or make you want to blow your brains out.