When you think of Scotland, chances are you think of hilariously incomprehensible alcoholics, Nessie and Groundskeeper Willy, and you picture them all wearing kilts. The Internet is absolutely littered with guides to Scottish clans, all of which include information on the clan's inevitably ancient and storied tartan: the specific pattern of colors ( Read more... )

I was bored during my lunch break so I made an electrolyzer out of junk lying around in my cubicle. I bet you didn't know you could produce explosive gas out of water, a paper cup, a couple bits of wire, and a 9 volt battery. MUWAHAHAHAHAHA!

It's stupid how so many people are blaming Obama for the oil spill. It's not Obama, it's the British. Remember, the Americans dumped British tea overboard at Boston. Now, after biding their time for 237 years, the British have struck back!

YOUR MOVE AMERICA

I shall demonstrate the absurdity of this popular logical fallacy: I have a book. This book claims that an invisible pink unicorn lives in my backyard. Furthermore the book claims to be the absolute truth and to question it is blasphemous, even though there is no empirical evidence to suggest the presence of an invisible pink unicorn in said ( Read more... )

I decided to have a little fun with dictionary.com's translator ( Read more... )

Recent scientific studies found that the kind of male face a woman finds attractive can differ depending on where she is on her menstrual cycle. For instance, if she is ovulating she is attracted to men with rugged and masculine features. If she is menstruating she is likely to prefer a man doused in petrol and set on fire, with scissors shoved ( Read more... )

Here's the uptime on one of our servers:

14:23:34 up 494 days, 20:23, 2 users, load average: 0.13, 0.10, 0.09

oh snap, that pales in comparison to this one:

14:37:13 up 748 days, 11:59, 3 users, load average: 0.30, 0.07, 0.04

In case you were wondering, the cruising airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow, of the European variety, is roughly 11 meters per second.

Lunch was good. I had mattar paneer with curried chickpeas and basmati rice.

om nom nom.

No animals were harmed in the eating of this lunch.

I wonder if I can claim my parasites (toxoplasma gondii) as dependants on my tax return.