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Samo za resne lingvistične gike: isti odstavek v angleščini, ki ga izgovarjajo govorci iz vsega sveta. V izgovorjave so tudi označene specifični elementi akcentov.

Pojma nimam, kaj bi s tem, ampak je res krasna zadeva

The speech accent archive is established to uniformly exhibit a large set of speech accents from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English all read the same English paragraph and are carefully recorded.¹ The archive is constructed as a teaching tool and as a research tool. It is meant to be used by linguists as well as other people who simply wish to listen to and compare the accents of different English speakers.


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Out of 438 incoming freshman students at Amherst College, 432 of them are on Facebook and only 5 have landlines.

6. Number of students in the class of 2012 who brought desktop computers to campus: 14.
7. Number that brought iPhones/iTouches: 93.
8. Likelihood that a student with an iPhone/iTouch is in the class of 2012: approximately 1 in 2.

Another interesting stat: 94% of all incoming email is spam. (via cd)

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Iz neznanega razloga¹ mi je ta reklama zelo všeč.

1. Ok, en mogoč razlog: vidim jo samo na enem wc-ju, v lokalu, kjer prav vedno pijem pivo. Ko sem na wc-ju, sem najbrž vsaj eno pivo že spil. [↩]

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Dobra ideja, ampak bolj za prihodnost, na GSM iskanje omrežij kar nekaj časa traja…

Google has filed a patent that might eliminate the need for mobile phone users to choose a single network. Instead, a piece of software would poll all available networks and select the most appropriate one based on price.

Devices using the system would send networks a description of their requirements—for example, a phone call or access to the internet—and receive back bids with a per-minute cost, or flat rate, at which those needs could be met. Users can either manually accept the bid that looks best to them, or have the phone choose one automatically, based on pre-programmed criteria.

Besides being a brain-dead obvious idea—nice work once again, USPTO —if a system like this were put in place, calling Mom on Mother’s Day would get a whole lot more expensive, as would calls and data usage during other peak times or locations.

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Zelo vredno ogleda (razen, če vam je popolnoma vseeno za finančno krizo) – 32 min

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imdb, piratebay
Bizaren film, ki zelo pritiče bizarni knjigi.

I love children. They do not prattle of yesterday; their interests are all of today and the tomorrows.
~Richard Mansfield

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But let us get back to all the sex going down in the village. One possibleexplanation centres on the fact that Olympic athletes have to display anunnatural (and, it has to be said, wholly unhealthy) level ofself-discipline in the build-up to big competitions. How else is this goingto manifest itself than with a volcanic release of pent-up hedonism? It is acommon sight to see recently knocked-out athletes gorging on Magnums andMcDonald’s, swilling alcohol and, of course, shagging like crazy. Sometimesall three at the same time.


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“It helps to answer a perplexing question – how can there be ‘gay genes’ given that gay sex doesn’t lead to procreation?” says Dean Hamer of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, who was not involved in the work. “The answer is remarkably simple: the same gene that causes men to like men also causes women to like men, and as a result to have more children.”


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It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.
—François de La Rochefoucauld