....except, for me, substitute internet for wikipedia.

XKCD being full of truth again

So my friend ChadLeeezard recently pointed me at this: a brilliantly silly demonstration of different sorting algorithms via folk dance...no really.... I cannot begin to tell you how much this makes me squee.

...thank you, xkcd. (I'm a little behind on my webcomics, so this one has been up since last week.)

...a very clever transform-y owl, with a well-deserved warning from bkleber to not be drinking anything while watching the second half of the video unless the computer screen is spray-proof.

Geeky fun with sheep , courtesy of charliezaunt

Courtesy of thewronghands, a truly sexy fusion of cello and programming that makes me thoroughly gleeful: http://www.zoekeating.com/projects.html. I know exactly what thewronghands means when she says it's the sort of music that makes her want to compose arias to sing atop it.

...and I want to shamelessly promote it.


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...who adore juvenile fiction and quirky, wonderland-esque worlds, there is much rejoicing - for there is now The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, courtesy of the exquisite word-wielding Catherynne Valente, with chapters to appear on a weekly basis.

...purloined from thewronghands: "If you'd like, [show] a picture of something you love that lives on this Earth. It can be a picture you took, or one you found online."


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...or at least the breakdown of actual time vs. what departments want: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1060.