English Spelling

A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling by Mark Twain

For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all. Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli. Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.

Your Lucky Number

Your lucky number is 3552664958674928. Watch for it everywhere.

Taken from fortune.

Who's Peter Heidenstam?

Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds

The MIT OpenCourseWare Project

MIT OCW is a large-scale, Web-based publication of the educational materials from virtually all of the MIT faculty’s courses. This unique initiative enables the open sharing of MIT teaching materials with educators, enrolled students, and self-learners around the world.

MIT OCW provides open access to the syllabi, lecture notes, course calendars, problem sets and solutions, exams, reading lists, and even a selection of video lectures from MIT courses representing 33 academic disciplines and all five of MIT’s schools. By the year 2008, the initiative will include materials from 1,800 courses.

Educators around the globe are encouraged to utilize the materials for curriculum development, and selflearners and students may draw upon the materials for self-study or supplementary use. Course materials contained on the MIT OCW Web site may be freely used, copied, distributed, translated, and modified by anyone, anywhere in the world for non-commercial purposes.

Truly a global initiative, MIT OCW has received users from more than 215 countries, territories, and city-states around the globe—including every member of the United Nations—and materials already have been translated into at least ten different languages.

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Carnival of Rust

Poets of the Fall - Carnival of Rust

D' you breath the name of your saviour in your hour of need,
n' taste the blame if the flavor should remind you of greed,
Of implication, insinuation and ill will, till' you cannot lie still,
In all this turmoil, before red cape and foil come closing in for a kill

Come feed the rain
Cos I'm thirsty for your love dancing underneath the skies of lust

Yeah feed the rain
Cos without your love my life ain't nothing but this carnival of rust

It's all a game, avoiding failure, when true colors will bleed
All in the name of misbehavior and the things we don't need
I lust for after no disaster can touch us anymore
And more than ever, I hope to never fall, where enough is not the same it was before

Come feed the rain...

Don't walk away, don't walk away, oh, when the world is burning
Don't walk away, don't walk away, oh, when the heart is yearning

POTF - Poets of the Fall

The RS 10 Greatest Songs of All Time

The RS 10 Greatest Songs of All Time (Taken from The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time : Rolling Stones)

1. Like a Rolling Stone, Bob Dylan


2. Satisfaction, The Rolling Stones


3. Imagine, John Lennon


4. What's Going On, Marvin Gaye


5. Respect, Aretha Franklin


6. Good Vibrations, The Beach Boys


7. Johnny B. Goode, Chuck Berry


8. Hey Jude, The Beatles


9. Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana


10. What'd I Say, Ray Charles

The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
The RS 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

Grow Old or Die Trying

The Orange Box - Portal

Portal is a single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.

The game is designed to change the way players approach, manipulate, and surmise the possibilities in a given environment; similar to how Half-Life 2’s Gravity Gun innovated new ways to leverage an object in any given situation.

Players must solve physical puzzles and challenges by opening portals to maneuvering objects, and themselves, through space.