Fun, useless, picture for today: Transformers’ Optimus Prime rendered from tin cans. Call this a pro-recycling message.
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The other night I was cleaning up an old computer so that I could give it away. On the hard-drive was an old text file with a bunch of websites I has noted down 8 years ago. And of course, I had made sure to record the telnet address of ASCII Star Wars.
Here […]

Here’s some fun art for fans of Calvin and Hobbes by artist spacecoyote, as seen on Deviant Art .com. LINK
Artists comments:
Few historians know of the heartwarming friendship between French Reformation theologian John Calvin and English political philosopher Thomas Hobbes, the latter of whom may or may not have been real, considering he was not […]

Well yeah, these people probably have a point. China may not be the coolest place on the planet to be a zoo animal. Maybe any kind of animal since they all make it on the menu. Still i’m not going to be all hippocratical about it.Watching lions and tigers ride freaked out horses would be […]

How long do Smurfs live? I remember they had baby smurfs, kid smurfs and grandpa smurfs, so they must age. But the little blue freaks have been around for 50 years, and now they’re coming out with a new movie, tv series, and comics!I’m looking forward to Basement Computer Smurf (aka WOW Smurf), Emo Smurf, […]

Virgil Griffith has put together an interesting data correlation: books and SAT scores. His goal: find out which books make you dumber.
Check out his website to see the results:
Booksthatmakeyoudumb
Ever read a book (required or otherwise) and upon finishing it thought to yourself, “Wow. That was terrible. I totally feel dumber after reading that.”? I […]

Today i get paidFor thinking up some HaikuAnd I get paid well
No one ever taught me about Haiku in school. I wish I went to Millikin University where they offer a Haiku course.

I’m back from a brief absence. I’ve been feeling the need to update the blog. What is it that makes an absence of posting uncomfortable. For that matter what makes it enjoyable in the first place? I ran across this great quote from Dilbert creator Scott AdamsBlogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you […]

Nothing says “Holiday Spirit” like a killer loose in your town. I know I’d love a little holiday mayhem to liven things up a bit, and if that means Santa jamming an icicle through someones eye then so be it.I don’t care if it’s Bill Goldberg, or Santa Bot from Futurama, I love it when […]

In my constant effort to support the wackier elements of the internet I bring you “A REALISTIC ASSESSMENT OF HOW MANY 12-YEAR-OLDS I COULD BEAT UP BEFORE THEY OVERTOOK ME“.I figure I could take on an even dozen before I get too tired and they swarm me