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Popularity Dialer

Have you ever felt like you needed to receive a phone call to your cellphone in a crowd just to feel important? Well, now you can arrange for your phone to be called anytime you like. And a recorded message will be played that sounds like an actual phone conversation in case anybody is trying to listen in on your phone call (or for those with the volume too loud). One of the interesting things about people is that the more new things we discover, the more new ways we find to maintain the old lies.

Rock-afire Explosion

The Rock-afire Explosion was the robot band that performed at Showbiz Pizza during the 1980s. I remember them from birthday parties held at Showbiz Pizza when I was growing up in New York. Apparently the company that made them still programs them and they started releasing videos to Youtube...here's a Nine Inch Nails performance. It's bizarre...

Louis C.K.

I think Louis C.K. one of the funnier comics on the scene today. He had a small TV show a few years ago that I thought was raw, intelligent and funny. Like all good shows, the network canceled it. I was surfing the web and came across a clip and wanted to post it. I'm not sure if it's the funniest clip, but it's a start.

Tic Tac Toe

Recently, tina emailed me. I'll post the email here:

In your pursuit of many things linguistic

I am curious about the game Tic-Tac-Toe (which is played nearly all over the world)

what is it called in other countries and why

I just found out that in Dutch it is called Cheese,butter, eggs - Dairy centric culture?

What is it in Israel?

Korea?

peace & just thinking

I decided to make a short study of it.. I asked some of my friends from around the world what Tic Tac Toe is in other languages. Here are the results of my efforts:

Russian
krestik i nolik
iks and zero

Hebrew
איקסעיגול
Eeks eegul (X and circle)
or
Eeks Meeks Dreeks

Korean
오목 게임
Oh Mok
(Row of Five)
Sam Mok Game
(Row of Three)

Irish (Gaelic)
Naughts (Zero) and Crosses

Spanish

tres en raya

Three in a Row

Catalan
tres en ratlla
Three in a row

Mandarin
连子棋 - lian zi qi : lianzi it's to put the parts in a row. Qi is this kind of board games.
九宫棋 - Jiu gong qi : jiu gong it's about the 9 squares of the games, the qi is the same as above.

Arabic (Palestinian)
XO

Thai
เกมส์โอเอ็กซ์
Pronounced: OX

Tagalog
Tic Tac Toe

Japanese
SANMOKU-NARABE
(pronounciation is like:sun mow coup nara-bay)
it is a bit difficult to explain how to pronounce.....
SAN means 3
MOKU means square
NARABE means to place, or to set or to arrange....
Sanmoku-narabe 三目並べ
三 目 並 べ
san moku nara be
maru-batsu ○×
○　　×
maru batsu
we don't have a Kanji for Maru-Batsu..