I’m very glad I was not on this flight: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/odd_born_in_the_sky Having a child born next to you is going to do nothing for jet-lag. It might, however, lead one to reflect on the wonder of life.
Just a silly clip – one woman introducing herself in twenty one different accents. As someone who is incapable of mimicking accents, I’m impressed by two things. Firstly, by the fact that she captures the subtleties of several similar accents. Secondly, that she does it all in what appears to be a single take.
The domain name system was created by people who were used to a unix command line, and therefore does not allow spaces. While some websites use hyphens in their addresses, most just run the words together. Sometimes with amusing results.
The Daily show takes a look at Fox News. Part two is here.
What is it like to drive a time machine? The NYT knows.
My thanks to my friends at my second favourite place in the universe (you know who you all are) for pointing me in the direction of this rather interesting webpage: Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, [...]
Thanks to TLA for pointing out to me that the New York Times technology reviewers have an amazing sense of humour:
Perhaps people don’t really read what they see on the screen. Perhaps they are addicted to clicking (“Oooo. Blue and shiny. Must Click!”), but it turns out that you can actually offer to infect people’s computers and they will click on the link. Speaking of reading text online, the point made by Livelink (TM) is [...]
I was amused by this clip. You can get people to sign anything if you just know how to do it. In this case, a petition to ban that evil compound now found in drinking water near you, dihydrogen monoxide.
“The Internet” went mad yesterday when it thought that Sheryl Crow had suggested a limit on the use of toilet paper. I feel justified in saying “the internet” when even the BBC reports such a silly story. I never thought that the original blog (or is that “bog”?) post sounded entirely serious. There are several [...]