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Chickens stop rabbits from fighting - Boing Boing

2008 Nov 18, 12:26"Peacekeeping chickens don't need tasers to maintain order."PermalinkCommentsbunny cute chicken humor video for:hellosarah

Sam Kass's Blog

2008 Nov 17, 8:21"The organization is now five years old, and our membership is larger than ever. It is estimated that one out of every four people on Earth is now a devoted member. The secret language has been perfected-- it allows us to talk freely, and sounds just like normal small talk. Also, we have an order of special agents who are particularly dangerous, and are all disguised as normal people. Our goal is the annihilation of all paranoid people."PermalinkCommentshumor club paranoia sam-kass

Onion Nation: A Look Inside the Offices of 'The Onion'

2008 Nov 17, 4:54"One of our unwritten rules is that, in order to work here, you had to have cleaned a grease trap at some point, and you had to have been punched in the face at least once,"PermalinkCommentsvia:ethan_t_hein humor onion

Keepon lite coming soon? - Short Sharp Science - New Scientist

2008 Nov 13, 10:30"There was bittersweet news for Keepon fans last month. The funky fuzzy yellow robot - pictured - is to be released commercially. But it won't come cheap - it carries a $30,000 price tag."PermalinkCommentskeepon robot dance humor video

Pong: Interactive Pong May be Most Fun You Can Have With a Whiteboard

2008 Nov 7, 4:06'A live "drawing on whiteboard" version [of pong], mixing electronics with the joy of drawing on, wiping off and repositioning your playing bat. Check it out, thrill to the high-speed action and grin at the ultimate use of a whiteboard: so much better than the usual business drivel that gets drawn on them.'PermalinkCommentshumor video interactive whiteboard pong game

Voting Machines Elect One Of Their Own As President | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

2008 Nov 5, 12:13Sure, we're laughing now but what if...PermalinkCommentsvoting politics humor onion video president voting-machine

Candy Vote

2008 Nov 4, 1:33Kid dresses up as voting booth for Halloween collecting candy as votes in either a McCain or Obama bag and tallies the results on CandyVote.com: "Welcome to CandyVote.com - The results are in!"PermalinkCommentshumor video politics election obama mccain voting halloween costume

Amazon.com: A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates: RAND Corporation: Books

2008 Oct 31, 7:10Bruce Schneier pointed out this book: "A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates (Paperback)". Its 600 pages of random numbers. I'd get a copy if it didn't cost $90! From the stats page Amazon lists the 100 most used words in the book: "6 8 11 19 23 28 30 32 37 38 42 47 52 54 56 60 72 77 80 84 86 92 101 102 107 108 111 115 125 126 131 143 147 148 150 157 158 163 166 167 171 179 183 188 190 197 206 207 212 215 218 220 226 228 230 234 236 242 247 249 251 253 261 265 272 292 297 304 311 323 332 336 337 338 344 345 354 356 358 359 364 371 372 374 384 389 391 409 412 413 421 433 436 443 457 481 489 516 517 642"PermalinkCommentsvia:schneier random book humor math csc

Cryptography and the Law... - sci.crypt | Google Groups

2008 Oct 27, 1:39Rubber-hose cryptanalysis is first defined by Marcus J. Ranum on Oct 15 1990: "..unless you resort to the rubber-hose technique of cryptanalysis. (in which a rubber hose is applied forcefully and frequently to the soles of the feet until the key to the cryptosystem is discovered, a process that can take a surprisingly short time and is quite computationally inexpensive)"PermalinkCommentshumor cryptography rubber-hose security

Language Log - Congress plans bailout for grammar epidemic

2008 Oct 23, 2:18I had no idea lingual prescriptivists vs descriptivists were split in a partisan manner: '... The Secretary [of the Department of Education] released a report that includes dire warnings of impending doom...The cause of this immanent catastrophe is, of course, those pesky linguists, the libertarian destroyers of good usage who claim that, well, anything goes. According to the report, "the language problem has now reached the crisis level and we are now experiencing a severe epidemic of bad grammar that will affect the very fiber of our nation." The Secretary added, "an alarming number of children are suffering from the bad advice given by those socialist, left-wing, atheistic linguists and we just gotta do something about it."'PermalinkCommentshumor language politics grammar

Yellow Dots of Mystery: Is Your Printer Spying on You?

2008 Oct 23, 11:27Informative and humorous video on the topic of printer tracking dots. "Most color laser printers and color copiers are designed to print invisible tracking codes across every single printed page of their output. These codes reveal which machine produced a document and, in some cases, when the document was printed or copied."PermalinkCommentshumor video security privacy eff printer

YouTube - Obama Roasts McCain at Al Smith Dinner

2008 Oct 17, 11:23"Barack Obama speaks at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner"PermalinkCommentshumor video obama mccain youtube politics election

PSFK - Trends, Ideas & Inspiration

2008 Oct 15, 2:53Stylish blog that looks like it has interesting cultural and business related articles and links (not just weird/humorous).PermalinkCommentsblog web advertising monthly design culture business

Mail Games: Testing the System | PSFK - Trends, Ideas & Inspiration

2008 Oct 15, 10:47The artist Harriet Russell encodes the destination postal address of her letters with anagrams, crosswords, and other puzzles: "Despite fears of a Royal Mail backlash, Russell found the system more than willing to play her game. The crossword edition was returned completed with the comment "Solved by the Glasgow Mail Centre". Only 10 of the 130 letters posted lost their way through the system, some held particularly testing anagrams, others were without a postal code."PermalinkCommentshumor puzzle crossword art mail postal-system harriet-russell book

Total Crisis Panic Button

2008 Oct 14, 10:39Total crisis panic button plate replaces normal cross walk instructions.PermalinkCommentsart propaganda street streetart cultural-disobediance button humor

xkcd - Blog Archive - The Goddamn Airplane on the Goddamn Treadmill

2008 Oct 10, 1:32Xkcd providing answers to questions that I forgot I had, like what is the answer to the lawn-sprinkler question from Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman. "Feynman used to tell a story about a simple lawn-sprinkler physics problem. The nifty thing about the problem was that the answer was immediately obvious, but to some people it was immediately obvious one way and to some it was immediately obvious the other. (For the record, the answer to Feynman problem, which he never tells you in his book, was that the sprinkler doesn't move at all. Moreover, he only brought it up to start an argument to act as a diversion while he seduced your mother in the other room.)"PermalinkCommentshumor feynman comic blog xkcd physics science math

FORTRAN Coloring Book

2008 Oct 9, 11:50An old coloring book that teaches you FORTRAN.PermalinkCommentsprogramming humor book history fortran coloring-book education

STGC Enumeration (Windows)

2008 Oct 1, 1:49One of the values in this enum is named 'STGC_DANGEROUSLYCOMMITMERELYTODISKCACHE'. After reading (and re-reading to make sure I word broke correctly) I'm left with the lingering impression that I've had an extensive conversation with whoever named this variable. Anyway, I thought it was a fun name.PermalinkCommentshumor software msdn microsoft reference

HELLO, I'M FAMOUS STARRING JOHN HODGMAN: GQ Features on men.style.com

2008 Sep 30, 12:11"Before he was on The Daily Show, before he was the PC in the Mac commercials, John Hodgman wondered, just like you, about the very special world of famous people. Now he explains why being one of America's best-known minor celebrities is even better than you imagined"PermalinkCommentsjohn-hodgman humor article apple tv fame

Knitt

2008 Sep 30, 10:46A rogue group of knitters 'tag' public objects and places with knit pieces. See thier gallery. "tag crew of knitters, bombing the inner city with vibrant, stitched works of art, wrapped around everything from beer bottles on easy nights to public monuments and utility poles on more ambitious outings."PermalinkCommentshumor art graffiti streetart knit cultural-disobediance
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