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Frustrated With West, Turks Revel in Empire Lost – NYTimes.com.

What's Babelfish in Ukrainian?

What an interesting tool Google Translate has become. Now it dynamically translates as you type. Instant Translation in Google parlance. Various name and verb forms are listed. So, not only you don’t need to submit a form to seek a translation, you also get many other related matches without asking for it. A translator’s dream, bringing us yet another inch closer to Babelfish.

People who are interested in non-Latin languages will also love the phonetical spelling: You can just type things in Latin and Google Translate will offer you the closest matches. When dealing with Arabic-to-English, As Google helpfully tips, type marhaban and it will instantly be spelled as “مرحبا”. Psst: Mrhban works too. No idea why that’s not available for Russian. People think it’s easy to write “трудный”? Does it even look easy?

The sad story of the ‘Paris’ crash. In nice NatGeo clip from MetaCafe.

Saddest part: The crash was wholly attributable to the failure of the NTSB – FAA system. A faulty cargo door was identified by the designers, NTSB warned the FAA but FAA failed to issue an airworthiness directive.

via Turkish Airlines Flight 981 Dc 10 Crash – Video.

How many Muslims are there in Nigeria?

What about Russia?

What is the most populous Muslim country?

The answers may surprise you.

I’m especially impressed by nearly even distribution of Muslims in certain neighbourhoods. Like Algeria and Morocco. Like India and Pakistan.

BBC NEWS | World | One in four is Muslim, study says.

According to the Guardian, these may well be the last days of the United Kingdom.

If the prospect of an all-out confrontation with the rest of the EU is unsettling to middle of the road opinion, the end of the UK is much more so. What do you call the country that remains? It isn’t England, quite, because there is also Wales. Does it stay a Diminished Britain, a Little Britain, whose flag is a simple spider of red lines on white?

For a country that has historically invested so much time and energy on dividing, weakening, taming, balancing, destroying other countries, that may be an apt end. Yet, say what you want about the English, they will handle the end of their own empire with an air of dignified resignation. There will be no (serious) calls for national unity, no conspiracy theories about foreign powers destroying the UK, nothing. Note how easily they effectively let go of Northern Ireland. And I support “Little Britain” for the name of the new England.

via Cameron could well be the last ever UK prime minister | Jackie Ashley | Comment is free | The Guardian .

How many stupidities can you spot here?

What if he was of Jewish extract?

What if he is Jewish?

When will we learn not to be bigots?

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad revealed to have Jewish past – Telegraph.

It’s been sometime since the popular media trashed Sigmund Freud for good. But Jung’s place in the history books looked a little bit more secure. That’s where the New York Times comes in handy:

The book tells the story of Jung trying to face down his own demons as they emerged from the shadows. The results are humiliating, sometimes unsavory. In it, Jung travels the land of the dead, falls in love with a woman he later realizes is his sister, gets squeezed by a giant serpent and, in one terrifying moment, eats the liver of a little child.

It’s a great read. A long one but well worth spending your valuable time on.

Carl Jung and the Holy Grail of the Unconscious – NYTimes.com.

How frightening are yours?