Remember the colossal stupid in Boston a few months back with the Lite Brites?

Here's the best comment on the whole thing I ever saw; sadly I was only pointed to it now.

Scientists find nothing in the void where the Bang caused the hole in the middle of it all.  Too bad Carl isn't here to make beelyuns and beelyuns ( Read more... )

Today's Ozy&Millie is brilliant. If you don't already read the strip, and you have even the vaguest white-boy appreciation of blues, go look.

From a release on NVidia's web site, that I clicked through from a news page:
"The Tesla GPU features 128 parallel processors, and delivers up to 518 gigaflops of parallel computation."

Unless I'm misreading something, that's half a teraflop on a single chip.

I'm in the middle of Charles Stross' Accelerando. The things he projects about the ( Read more... )

If you have some time and bandwidth to spare, I invite you to peruse TimeCatcher. Some truly Oh My God wonderful nature/landscape photography.

Thanks to polyfrog for telling me about this.

Some folks have a crazy plan to float a giant banana 50 miles above Texas.

If they actually manage to do it, we need to come up with a tie-in with Chambana(na)con.

Buried in the discussion on filkertom's journal, we get the following, not work safe due to slightly off color language and content and extremely high probability of attracting unwanted attention from your boss due to uncontrollable laughter.  Click at your own risk.

This is a hilarious look at how not to collaborate on writing.  It might not be real, but even if it isn't it's a hoot.

Edit: According to Snopes, it's fake. But still funny.

Reading someone else's journal, I learn about Cthulhu Fuzzy Slippers.  Something so wrong I feel I have to remark upon it.

Are you sick and tired of prescription drug advertising and the insidious evil in which it is steeped?  Try a little comic relief.  Check out this parody ad for "Panexa".