Things that were cool at the XKCD Meetup included:

Cosplays of Cory Doctorow, velociraptors, and stick figures.
A five man band featuring four guitars and a zither.
A booth that would spray paint stenciled images onto a shirt for you.

( More cool things, with pictures I nabbed from flikr. )

So, things on the internet. Wow.

Mario Level That Plays Itself

I kind of want to go try this. Right now. I bet it's a hack, though.

Lick My Ass, a Mozart canon sung as a three part round. This is ENTIRELY SERIOUS.

Unfortunately, so is this guy on the Talk Page. Quote:

No, no, I'm no authority figure. I'm actually a professional book burner and ( Read more... )

I have nothing against activists in gender politics, generally speaking. I like a number of the ones I've met, and I think that a lot of what they espouse needs to be said.

That said, it's really funny to watch the overzealous ones get smacked down just a little:

The professor, in part of a lecture on the theory of natural selection, writes down ( Read more... )

I've been looking into taking classes through Continuing Education at UMass. They seemed really frickin' expensive... right up until I compared the prices with tuition and did some math.

I paid in-state tuition at UMass, and enrolled in 12 to 17 credits a semester. At the current tuition (including fees) price of $9921/year this would work out to ( Read more... )

I looked at the calendar when I came into work today, as I usually do, and tried to figure out why August 20th sounded like something I ought to be remembering something about. I had a feeling that there was something important about the day, but couldn't think what it was ( Read more... )

I need to see a doctor. I have been trying to make an appointment to see a doctor ( Read more... )

Lore Sjöberg rewrites classic poems as limericks.

I want to read more of these. I tried to make some, but it's much harder than I expected.

So I was reading an interview online, and came across this little gem from the interviewer. Who really ought to know better, since he was interviewing Josh Wolf, who "spent more time in prison than any other American journalist in U.S. history for protecting his source materials."

RU: The big mainstream media question is "Can bloggers be ( Read more... )

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On Saturday, I went out to lunch with Lucky and David to a Vietnamese/Thai place called Lam's in Newton. On the way there, they noted that a nearby Chinese restaurant was under new management, and perhaps was no longer completely terrible ( Read more... )