Your Monday morning FunnyStuff:

The 213 Things Professor Skippy is no longer allowed to do in the classroom. I actually found it a little funnier than the original Skippy's List, probably because I've never been in the military but I have spent far too much time on both sides of a classroom.

(Link blatantly stolen from fuvenusrs's userinfo page. Weird ( Read more... )

So at the recommendation of our Conclave guest of honour Steve Jackson, I thought I'd give Puzzle Pirates a go. Wandered through the website, it looked like fun, downloaded the client, tried to log in, and couldn't ( Read more... )

So it's the most gloriously slow day at work ever. Memorial Day in the US, everyone is off doing whatever they do in Michigan in the spring. Been here since eleven, had one call. So I figured I had time to write. What follows will be completely random snippets jotted down during the course of the next five hours ( Read more... )

Apologies to those for whom this is old hat. It's amazing the stuff you find out when randomly surfing.

One of the problems in high-media urban warfare is, how do you blow up a target building without blowing up the ones around it? Simple yet elegant solution: regular laser-guided smart bombs, with the explosive replaced with concrete ( Read more... )

So I stopped by Pizza Hut on the way to work. (Okay, I'm not proud of it, but I was hungry and Hell was closed.) Ate half for dinner, saved half for later. Left the half-full pizza box in the car, which in hindsight may have been a mistake ( Read more... )

So I was sitting in McDonalds this morning, knocking off a bacon and egg mcmuffin and waiting for rush hour to die down, and also reading a Herald that someone had left lying around. And I came across an article that just made my day. Last November the UN Commission on Human Rights (also known as Foxes United For A Safer Henhouse) sent a Special ( Read more... )

Not just music, not just a quiz, but a musical quiz! I had to share ( Read more... )

Here's an interesting pair of questions, nicked from janegalt.net:

1. Back when you were younger and first getting into SF, did you prefer Isaac Asimov or Robert Heinlein?

2. Would you describe yourself nowadays as more of a liberal or conservative?

Jane posits that the answers to these questions might be quite strongly correlated. I'd be ( Read more... )

Heh. Maybe it's just my weird sense of humour at half past four in the morning, but this is one of the funniest things I've read about Cheney's little hunting incident. Someone wrote it in a letter to Jerry Pournelle.

Millions pray for report of Mr. Worthington's deliverance from his brush with the hazards of the field, but the press seems ( Read more... )

Here's something interesting. You know the cartoons we are talking about? The ones that are so deeply offensive to the Muslim faith that otherwise peace-loving people are being forced to riot at the sight of them? The ones that many papers in the Western world won't print, even in the context of reporting on the controversy, due to "not wishing ( Read more... )