Website of the Day: Smugopedia
Let's say you're crashing a party at the White House.
You don't want to be discovered as an interloper, but you've never mastered the art of cocktail party banter. Never fear, stealthily steer your iPhone browser (You DO have an iPhone, don't you?) to www.smugopedia.com and quickly soak up a page or two of high culture learned opinions and factoids that can take an Ivy League education to acquire.
Yes, you too can learn and use exciting phrases like the following:
Although Herodotus is remembered today as the first historian, his strength was actually as a story teller; what he lacked in analytic rigor, he compensated for in his exquisite narrative prose.
Such departmental bickering always reminds me of Borges' observation on the Falklands War: It's like two bald men fighting over a comb.
Although a lot of fun to play, Go isn't as realistic as another ancient strategy game, the Viking "Hnefatafl," in which one of the two sides is the attacker and the other merely vies to help its own King escape.
Keep in mind, not all of the facts on Smugopedia are correct, but it's always better to be condescending than right.
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