I haven't studied any languages where the word for "blue" and "green" are the same. Oh, and blue + green can also = turquoise.

English seems to have a bi-level treatment of color -- a generic word broken down into specifics. Example -- scarlet, crimson, and wine are all subsets of red.

The language as perception thing makes sense, I guess. It's like being able to differentiate between types of lava. In English, you get lava. But in Hawaiian you have two different words because you know there are two types of lava. In English you'd need an extra modifier for when you noticed the difference.

Oh MAN, my stomach hurts. Enough that I've been up since 2 AM. It's like a giant ragey fist squeezing my innards. I do not like it, Sam I Am.

Greek - ancient and modern - has very different color words than English. Lots of nuance in the yellow-green-brown spectrum, little blue and red. (No, I can't give you any freaking examples, I am pulling this out of deep memory=my ass.)

Like, most people would be aghast at the idea of the classical Greek statues being painted bright colors.

Yeah, the bright red lips on the Athena in Nashville's Parthenon were kind of a shock. Apparently Athena needed a colorist.

OK, I have much hatred in my heart regarding the Open Source Boobie Project. SO MUCH.

GAH!!!!

Hey, is anybody else's gmail in a death spiral? Mine seems to be attempting to reload itself unto eternity, and will not cough up my mail.

Very irritating.

Yeah, gmail is not talking to me this morning.

Nutty, it's happened to me a couple of times lately. I've been able to get to the email through igoogle, but not directly through the gmail page because of the endless loading.

OK, I have much hatred in my heart regarding the Open Source Boobie Project. SO MUCH.

Honestly, my reaction has passed into just pointing and laughing at the douchebag who started it; the reason my reaction has turned into mockery is that he's married. So, his wife's boobies weren't enough to bring about his Speshul Magical Healing From The Indignities of High School?

That says it all to me about his douchebaggy patriarchal entitlement. Loser.

I mean, it uses ethanol but that's not really saying a lot. But it's zoooooooooooomy. And zoomy is good to me. Unless it's a teal car.

So not only is there the carbon footprint, but also the offsetting of farmland for fuel production resulting in world starvation. Now in baseball you have the creation of farmland. To make baseball bats you use the entire trunk of a tree to whittle down to a baseball bat (it's true, I saw it on a cartoon. Simpsons maybe? I forget.) so you need a lot of trees to be cut down. What do you do with with forests that have been cut down and cleared to make baseball bats? It's turned into cropland or grazing land for cattle.