Josh and I bought a box set of the Riddick movies recently (don't laugh...) and watched Pitch Black a couple days ago (wooo Claudia Black). ( Warning: Juvenile Humor )

1) A clue as to why Canada Post is so slow: Very Threatening Cat

2) Guilty Quiz thing:

Guilt What is yours? Explain yourself Culinary: Fish & Chips
Fatty, fried greasiness. Can't resist! It's okay because it's British?
Literary: Harry Potter Books It's not a guilt thing because I read them...it's because I re-read them...a lot...especially ( Read more... )

( A grad school allegory )

This video is in French, but stupidity is apparently the universal language, and the only french you need to know to understand what's going on here is that the question is "Which of these orbits around the Earth?":
http://tinyurl.com/yhjyewAnd Lune = Moon and Soleil = Sun, but you could probably figure that out on your own ( Read more... )

How to feel like a card-carrying member of the nerd patrol: Drive a Prius to your job at a computing firm while blasting the Katamari Damacy soundtrack. Pure geeked out bliss ( Read more... )

This is why I can never take the art world seriously:
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=12540290

Okay, I thought I had encountered some bad cover letters on my own, but this one takes the cake ( Read more... )

At the wedding this weekend, in addition to little bottles of wine and an awesome "wedding newspaper" (the bride is a journalist), the tables settings all had little slips of paper with funny/sweet/wise quotes about weddings/marriage/love. I thought one of the ones near us was particularly apt, so we took it home with us. It's from Homer, and for ( Read more... )

This news story is both terrifying and hilarious. Be sure to check out the full transcript of the email exchange linked to towards the bottom of the article.
Stupid people should not be allowed near computers.

I followed a link to McSweeney's today and, as usual, got sucked into a couple of hours of reading and poking around on the site. There were a handful of pieces that I have to share.

Thursday and Empire: or, How a Typical Workday Can Seem More Important When Modeled As a Great Era in Western Civilization.

The iPod Zepto: Inconceivably Small

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