( bridge trip report )

Life imitates the Simpsons #1:

Tech Companies Looking Into Sarcasm Detection

Life imitates the Simpsons #2:

Real Version of Homer Simpson's Dream Car Built

Note: I was away from my desktop computer at home a lot over the last several weeks, and while the phone/tablet are ok/great for email/browsing, they really suck for posting with annotation/commentary, so the next few link dumps will contain increasingly stale stuff too.

So how's Wisconsin doing? I got this link off of FB. Per usual I will ( Read more... )

Sprint salesman refuses to sell iPhone to customer, says his ‘fingers are too fat’ to use it

(title reference)

I've had Barney's Plow King jingle stuck in my head these last couple days for some reason. As earworms go, could be worse I guess.

Fryer grease rustling rises due to oil price hikes

Grease thefts have spiked whenever fuel prices climbed during the last four years and this spring is no different, according to Tom Cook, president of the National Renderers Association ( Read more... )

via the KB, a compendium of newspaper headlines from The Simpsons

Ketchup-dispensing robot. Still a few kinks in the system, evidently.

What could be more awesome than xkcd and dinosaur comics? xkcdinosaurcomics

The Simpsons XXX parody preview. I've seen crude Simpsons porn GIFs before, but the video was pretty creepy. Audio may be NSFW, but the visuals should be safe. The voices are surprisingly good. ( Read more... )

Hungarian factory sorry for those killed by sludge

The owners of the metals plant whose reservoir burst, flooding several towns in western Hungary with caustic red sludge, expressed their condolences Sunday to the families of the seven people killed, as well as to those injured -- and said they were sorry for not having done so sooner ( Read more... )

Someone put a lot of time into this:

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There's also the Simpsons intro version