via sharikkamur

When you see this, quote from Shakespeare in your journal.

"I’ll confine myself no finer than I am. These clothes are good enough to drink in, and so be these boots too: an they be not, let them hang themselves in their own straps." -- Sir Toby Belch from Twelfth-Night.
[Exeunt Eddie, off to the pub]

...thought Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, barely keeping his balance on the wobbling skateboard.
Go read Federal Reserve Skateboard: A Short Story from the XKCD
BlogBlag.

My ISP decided to change the IP addresses of all their DNS servers without bothering to inform their ADSL customers first. Fine for all those using DHCP, but a bit of a sod for customers like me with static IP set-ups. The service has been pretty appalling for the last few months, random down times, and poor performance. All since they were taken ( Read more... )

But on an appropriate day, 18th August
Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday.

Events1587 - Virginia Dare, granddaughter of governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas ( Read more... )

Awesome video via jmswallow
It's Imperial Fleet Week in San Francisco
Death Star over San Francisco

Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet

frostfox!

via lonemagpie
"Below is the Entertainment Weekly’s list of 100 Classic Movies of the past 25 years. Bold the ones you’ve seen, underline the ones you plan to."
( 96/100 )

Elon Musk of SpaceX is giving a free open lecture at the Royal Aeronautical Society on
"What is Needed to Extend Life Permanently Beyond Earth?". It will be at the RAeS Lecture Theatre at 4 Hamilton Place, London W1J 7BQ, on Thursday 03 July 2008, doors open 17:30, runs until about 8pm. See Read more... )

Troy McClure Film or Actual Terrible Movie?

Score: 73% (11 out of 15) Disappointing score, I was clearly not paying enough attention to the episodes.