So, apparently we aren't allowed to take any hand luggage onto 'planes on account of some bomb plot. Of course, this is just a cover-up. It's not really bombs they're worried about:

( Photographic Evidence! )

Lately I've been mostly listening to the cast recording of Monty Python's Spamalot. How much do I want to see this show? Alas, for some reason it opened on Broadway rather than in the homeland of the Python's. So unfair. I'm sure it will come to the West End eventually, although likely without Tim Curry, David Hyde Pierce et al on the cast ( Read more... )

Everything's funnier with pants.

Using this hypothesis, I conducted an experiment. I took a very funny film, namely 'The Princess Bride', and carefully grafted the word 'pants' into a few select lines.

The proof is in this (somewhat nutty) pudding, so I will leave you with the evidence. I am sure you will agree with me...

( The Princess Pants )

"Microsoft is working with Ford Motor Co. towards car that can't crash."

Am I the only person who finds this both amusing and terrifying? Apparently not. But seriously, this is a company whose flagship product is well known for its ability to ... er ... lock up (oops. That's not much better a thing for a car to do ( Read more... )

This has been around for a couple of weeks, but in case you haven't seen it yet:

Zero Wing Rhapsody

I laughed. A lot.

Ever wanted to learn how to speak 1337?

Micrsoft tells you how!

Yes, I am slightly disturbed by how well-written that article is. Gacked from Slashdot.

Gacked from Slashdot: Once upon a time, twenty-some years ago, Bill Gates did a photo-spread for Teen Beat.

View the pictures if you dare!

Please excuse me while I wash my eyes out with bleach.

Gacked from a magazine: A man gets into a cab in Washington and as they're driving along the driver asks: "Say, buddy, you heard the latest George Bush joke?"
The passenger leans forward and says: "I am George Bush."
The driver replies: "OK then, I'll explain it really slowly..."
Well, it made me laugh. A lot.
In other news, I finally have a ( Read more... )

Gacked from Slashdot:

Now for sale on Amazon: Presidential canditates.

As promised, I did indeed spend all of Sunday in the T00blerone. I even managed to be productive, getting a large slab of work done on my back-end code for RS.org - the author listings pages are now generated automatically (well, kinda. I haven't finished the management code yet, so it still requires a manual import-export, but the pages don't have ( Read more... )