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Miscellany
An old-school Disney animation about how to use a Boys anti-tank rifle.
A rather interesting mix of Shakespeare and Abbott & Costello
A fascinating mix of music and sand art
An amusing article about baseball injuries
Yet another reason why I love xkcd
A movie about RFID fields of effect we can't see
See the ( Read more... )

Why I never stumbled upon this before is beyond me:
The Barackroll.

Some auditory pareidolia for your (and my) amusement.

This. Is. Brilliant.

Being shows older than I am, I think it's pretty good that I can recognize half of the characters on there. Admittedly, if it weren't for Buck Rogers being available on Hulu, that number would be way down.
What's more disturbing is that the character on the left in the red tracksuit(?) reminded me more of the Red Ranger from ( Read more... )

Now this... is a gun.
Edit a month and a half after the fact: Now With More Video!

Just don't mix it with too much alcohol.

[insert platitudes of continued good tidings and cheer for a new annum]

Two video mashups I found highly amusing:
Doctor Who + Star Trek = ? The scary thing is I recognize the Trek dialogue for episodes I've never seen
The Vader Sessions

Steampunk T-Rexes and Cylon gorillas!

And a really pretty inflight picture of the Endeavour mounted on a 747.

Bacon headcrab turducken!
I do question its identity as true turducken if each variety bird meat kept separate from the others, though.

I donated one of these pink-ribbon Nintendo DSes to Child's Play. Why support one charity when you can support two at the same time?

Girl Genius is a most excellent comic. It took me a while to get used to the art style, but I read it almost non-stop until I'd worked through the archive. The authors can call it "gaslamp fantasy" if they want, it's still steampunk. And awesome.

The new Clone Wars TV series, despite being marketed at a much younger audience, is quite entertaining ( Read more... )

I don't know why this is funny, but it is.

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On a completely unrelated note, here's a picture of the Spirit rover on Mars from HiRISE.

I've been helping out with some analysis tasks at work the last week or so, meaning I've had to do actual coding (Matlab, of course) - the last time I had to do anything constructive with code was doing some microprocessor stuff three years ago. Let me just say this:

I loves me some vararginHere's to having too much fun with optional arguments in ( Read more... )