Mad Prime: Tag random

Cool words

Madeleine Ball — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Here is a short list of some cool words. If you have a cool word, add it with a comment (make say what it means and why it is cool)!

crapulent / crapulence

definition: sick due to excessive eating or alcohol, excessively drunk
why it's cool: this should be obvious

pulchritude

definition: beauty
why it's cool: ugliest word for beauty I've ever heard

chaotropic

definition: disrupts the structure of proteins and/or DNA, denaturing them
why it's cool: sounds bad ass

UPDATE 7/8:

callipygian

definition: having well-shaped buttocks
why it's cool: fancy-ass ass-fancy

Doh!

Madeleine Ball — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:39:00 +0000

From Science magazine news Hobbit Redux? article:

Paleoanthropologist Lee Berger of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg discovered the bones while on vacation in Palau in 2006. (His wife had deliberately chosen a remote, young island because it was unlikely to have fossils on it).

Random Links

Madeleine Ball — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:39:00 +0000

on Etsy: Monster hoodies
Words cannot begin to describe The PCR song. There's even a "behind the scenes" video.
Assuming you've seen the Yes We Can music video, you should check out this john.he.is parody.
In contrast, a painfully lame Clinton ad.