Last week, I sent my brother a link to the now-viral College Humor video, “We Didn’t Start the Flame War”, which we both found to be horrifyingly accurate and therefore hysterical. Then a few days ago, he sent me this email:

I am reading Gorgias and this quote reminded me of the Flame War video you sent along the other day.

Socrates: I suppose Gorgias, that like me you must have been present at many arguments, and have observed how difficult the parties find it to define exactly what the subject is which they have taken in hand and to come away from their discussion mutually enlightened; what usually happens is that, as soon as they disagree and one declares the other to be mistaken or obscure in what he says, they lose their temper and accuse one another of speaking from motives of personal spite and in an endeavour to score a victory rather than to investigate the question at issue; and sometimes they part on the worst possible terms, after such an exchange of abuse that the bystanders feel vexed on their own account that they ever thought it worth their while to listen to such people.

And that in 405 BCE, eh?

Mr. Portokalos was right, everything can be traced back to the Greeks.

It’s not quite cake, but it’s surely a tasty doughnut. So to speak. PhotoFunia places visitors’ photos into any one of a few dozen scenes using facial recognition software. I don’t think the program recognizes faces like a police program does, but more along the lines of “Hey, this is a face over here! Get it in a picture!” Having very little else to do today (except grading, the bane of my teaching existence), I finally settled on these pictures with these faces:

This is pretty cool. A site called Typealyzer will give the personality type of any given blog. Orthocomics is an ISFP:

The gentle and compassionate type. They are especially attuned their inner values and what other people need. They are not friends of many words and tend to take the worries of the world on their shoulders. They tend to follow the path of least resistance and have to look out not to be taken advantage of.

They often prefer working quietly, behind the scene as a part of a team. They tend to value their friends and family above what they do for a living.

I, however, am an INTJ. Apparently, I need to get myself and my blog a little more aligned.

At least GenderAnalyzer gets my gender right. Sort of. They “guess http://www.orthocomics.com is written by a man (55%), however it’s quite gender neutral.” This probably explains why I’m versatile.

This, however, really hurts. According to The Blog Readability Test, Orthocomics is

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