Yeah, it’s probably been linked to a jillion times by now, but it’s new and freshly hysterical to me. If you haven’t given it a gander, you owe it to yourself to read The “Holy Crap We’re Moving Saturday And Need To Sell Our Stuff” Sale” over on craigslist LA.
What happens when you combine the Mythos tales of H. P. Lovecraft with the adorable characters of Charles Schultz? The resulting fiction, The Great Old Pumpkin, is by turns chilling and amusing, and one of the best short stories I’ve read in quite some time.
The author, John Aegard, has a rare talent for subtle prose, [...]
Bowman is a clever Flash game that features one-on-one combat using bow and arrow. The physics and gratuitous violence to stick figures make the game well worth the (free) price of admission.
It also gives me SCA flashbacks. I used to engage in one-on-one bow combat, albeit with blunted arrows instead of the deadly little barbs [...]
Yet another amusing waste of time at Memegen, this really short online quiz determines what your life would be like as a character in an anime show:
What would your Anime life be like? by hearthlight
Name:
Gender:
Your looks:
Kitty ears and few clothes.
Your best friend:
Your computer. Really.
Your powers:
No powers, just a magic sword.
Your beloved:
Mr.Wiggles the sock puppet.
Your occupation:
Magical [...]
So You Want To learn Japanese is an amusing send-up on learning the Japanese language. As a former student of Japanese, I can attest to the veracity of everything in the article.
And yet, I still adore Japanese language and culture. They don’t always make sense to my tiny Western brain, but I still love them.
How well can you tell people with poor social skills from people with aggressively violent social tendencies? Try the Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer quiz and find out.
The color-coded national terror alert level is one of the smallest-minded attempts at spreading fear and doubt that an administration has ever devised. It has, however, spawned some great humor, such as this Terror Alert Level based on Sesame Street characters.
I like to think of the color system in terms of designer colors:
pomegranate
tangerine
chartreuse
periwinkle
olive
For those of you pondering the eternal Monty Python-posed question, may I present Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow, an exhaustive study of the problem involving avian kinematic data, Strouhal numbers, and altogether far too much math for such a simple question.
via The Daily Illuminator
I need to print out a few of these to trade with over-enthusiastic evangelical lunatics when they force their weird little comic books on me. The Cthulhu Chick Tract is a brief and informative pamphlet to help others go mad with the knowledge of horrible evil. Cthulhu fhtagn!
And while you’re there, be sure to check [...]
Britney Spears is a pop and softcore pr0n sensation, and simply by including her name in a blog entry, I’m guaranteed to get hits in my referrer log from the more pathetic population of the net. However, most people don’t realize that she’s also a brilliant physicist. Need proof? Have a look at the britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm.
The [...]
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