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Irony

January 11, 2005 at 13.42

This comment was written in response to a misinformed linguistic Nazi troll on a recent Slashdot story. > Not quite ingenious but certainly not ironic. I’m getting so amazingly tired of Alanis Haters Anonymous getting on everyone’s case for not understanding the word “irony,” when in fact, ironically, they themselves do not understand it. Irony … (Continue reading →)

By Thomas Upton | Also posted in Humor | Comments (0)

Uberman’s Sleep Schedule

January 10, 2005 at 16.01

Holy canoodles, how is this for weird? Monophasic sleep, which is how most people sleep, is divided into five stages. Polyphasic sleep causes the brain to bypass the first 4 – 4 1/2 stages and instead slip almost immediately into a short stage of NREM, followed by a lengthened stage of REM. The thing is, … (Continue reading →)

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