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1002.7
15:02:58

The best part of wikipedia is the vandalism

So I was reading this article on slashdot about how paypal reneged on a bunch of payments to Indian subscribers, essentially because Paypal pretends not to be a bank and the Indian central bank is turning the screws. At least, that’s why according to this slashdotter Naturally the first thought to my mind and that of many other was that beautifully racist phrase “Indian giver” and naturally somebody posted a wikipedia link. It’s pretty informative about the possibilities of the origin of the phrase, and then, you know, I scrolled down to the “See Also.”

PRICELESS, ERR

Previously on It's All About the Benjamins

Intuition once again substantiated by facts

1002.4 21:39:05 | No Comments
Ever since I moved to Norfolk I’ve always thought that traffic was terrible and that these people drive like idiots! Turns out I’m freaking right and here are the statistics to prove it: Most likely place in Va. to crash is Hampton Roads (Virginian-Pilot) Oh, and here’s some delectable morsels: On average, there’s a traffic accident in [...]

A taste of the old vitriol

1001.26 16:24:00 | One Comment
Did you know that there are people out there who don’t believe that people drank alcohol in classical antiquity? Did you know that these people probably call antiquity “Bible Times” but never distinguish between classical antiquity of and the Late Bronze Age, which are so totally like 800 years apart? And plus in the Late [...]

IAATB.net is well within the Cone Zone

1001.14 12:23:11 | No Comments

Money money money is all you need

0911.18 15:53:06 | One Comment
So I was perusing a great publication by the European Central Bank today, entitled “Price Stability: Why is it right for you?” On page 16, it starts with a nice little anecdote about the history of the word money. Well, hey! I know that EU documents are printed in a bunch of languages. While cognates [...]

All you heathens take note

0911.17 22:17:36 | 2 Comments
By your refusal to say ‘Happy Holidays’ I will understand you to be engaging in a War on Ben Lamb’s Birthday and also sort-of Thanksgiving and New Year’s. These are integral parts of the True Meaning of December (parties and Christmas tree smell and snow), which is the moral bedrock of our society and also [...]