Overheard on Youtube
eekdog2005: CO2 is a pollutant in bizarro world.
granjuas: Put a plastic bag in your head and find out.
Doesn’t make scientific sense, but funny nonetheless.
humor
Late to the Party
I’m probably the last person to notice this, but if you hover your mouse over xkcd.com comics (here’s one), you get another funny punchline.
They’re like the little margin sketches that you get in the venerable old Tom Toles and Pat Oliphant comics, but tailored for the web.
Overheard on Instructables
Comment on some guy’s little hack to fix the knob on his car stereo:
PR22 says: wow. this is pretty ghetto
kqrpnb says: Thanks!
Web 2.0 is…
The conference has this gimmicky T-shirt where you fill in your own definition. Wisdom of crowds, folksonomies, etc… Here’s my contribution to the cloud:
If you don’t get it, you should be ashamed of yourself.
[Note: this is a Photoshopped image, text added to a blank posted to Flickr by whiteafrican.]
shortlinks
SFGate
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(posted by gknot on Tuesday November 14, 2006 · · Trackback · No comments yet)
San Francisco Board of Supervisors vote to outlaw foam food containers and decriminalize adult pot use.
The SFGate’s front-page headline: “SF Vote On Munchies, Pot.”
(posted by gknot on Tuesday November 14, 2006 · · Trackback · No comments yet)
three pointing back at you…
“It’s vile,” said Rep. Mark Foley, R-West Palm Beach. “It’s more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction.” On Bill Clinton - 1998
Not like the others…
why americans suck at math, part 1.609
From an otherwise okay article on Reuters today:
“If (this jet-stream shift) is going to stop and it just ends up being 70 miles, that’s not a big deal,” he said. “But if it were to continue at the same rate over the next century, then that would amount to a couple of hundred miles (kilometers) and that would start to have significant effects.”
sigh
