It occurs to me that not everyone has yet come across the Twitter feed of Donaeld the Unready and associated accounts. There is a growing collection of these, all interlinked from different viewpoints, and they are particularly perfect for the SCAdian -- of-the-moment political satire, all framed in terms of Anglo-Saxon England. I think my current ( Read more... )

h/t to Aaron for pointing out the one from the Financial Times. ("Moral hazard" is my favorite.)

[Thanks to Steffan for pointing this one out.]

For those who haven't come across it yet, *especially* if you're a foodie, I commend Brooklyn Bar Menus. It's a fine bit of ridiculousness.

(I started giggling when I got to, "free-range water, sublimated eggplant & locally-sourced farfalle"...)

Surely, I can't be the only game geek who looked at this XKCD comic, and immediately started wondering how that game would work. It's weirdly tempting to try and figure out hybrid rules that actually function...

Although I generally consider myself to have completely moved in with Kate, that ignores one little detail: the roughly 200 boxes that are in the basement and storage. So part of my daily routine these days is spending 30-60 minutes unpacking something. Lately, it's mostly been boxes of random papers. This is quite a treasure trove -- while I am ( Read more... )

Thanks to Aaron for pointing me at this obituary, which may set some sort of record for tongue-in-cheek. My initial reaction was, "are we *sure* this isn't an Onion article?", but it sounds like, no, this is just the way he wanted to be remembered...

I'm starting to seriously clear the house. It is *full* of boxes and papers and cruft, and I am beginning to realize that, if I'm going to actually list it in March, I need to get cracking on clearing stuff. So today's focus is going through miscellanea and making the fast separation: Keep, Discard, or Hold Onto For Further Study. And there's ( Read more... )

Thanks to TechCrunch for the pointer to the announcement of the MacBook Wheel. (Video, about three minutes.) As it says in the video: "The Wheel, reinvented."

(I really need to spend more time reading the Onion...)

Thanks to TechCrunch for the pointer to someecards -- "when you care enough to hit send". They describe it as what you get when staff of the Onion go into the greeting-card business, and that looks about right. Nice 1950s style artwork combined with text like "Adorable candy will help distract us from the astounding horror of a man being nailed ( Read more... )

Thanks to Gundormr for a pointer to this rudely hilarious article, which vividly demonstrates the dangers of machine translation. Slightly not safe for work, due to language. (We're talking about *really* bad translations here...)