“fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it”

via Lindsay Campbell, who makes the point that the faster you read the above text, the more accurate you get.

Speaking of Thriller, this video of 1,500 inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, in the Philippines doing a rendition of the zombie dance in Michael Jackson’s Thriller is awesome. Can you imagine what one has to do to get 1500 convicts to walk around like zombies, much less dance like Michael Jackson?

(via Watch, While Seated)

I opted for a chicken, roasted red pepper, and swiss wrap at lunch today in the office cafeteria. An hour later I was outside getting coffee and one of the two cooks was having a smoke. He saw me and said “how did you like your wrap? Was it ok?” I thought he was just a conscientous chef who took pride in his craft. I told him it was delicious and thanked him for the meal. As I entered the building the second cook, now in his civilian clothes, was exiting the elevator. He said, “hey, was everything ok with the wrap?”

Now I want to know what was wrong with my wrap?

As an aside, I noted today that all of the milk and cream in our refrigerators in the office say:

Use by March 25, if New York, March 20.

I want to know who in New York was responsible for getting a law passed that requires fresher dairy in New York than other states. Because there has to be a law (the alternative being that milk spoils faster in New York). There is some joke about the New York minute to made here but I am too under the weather to suss it out.

I’ll throw in a gratuitous link to Real Simple’s Surprising Expiration Dates (and you’ll note that they do not differentiate between New York and the rest of the United States).

I just walked out onto my balcony in the village. You can still hear a dull roar coming from Little Italy…

Alas, I was rooting for Les Bleus.

And I have to say, that head butt by Zidane was the craziest thing I have ever seen at a sporting event.

Update: Here is the video.

There is a northern bottlenose whale swimming in the Thames. It just passed Big Ben.