“Can you make me a thing? That looks like a thing?”

Dr. Horrible: An oral history

the power of now

This is just about right:

Yes.

Google and Virgin Join Forces, Plan Mars Colony

The new endeavor, named Virgle, has been written up on the Google blog by Sir Richard Branson.
Radcliffs, get your rockets ready!

Mind in the Gutter, Knickers in a Twist

Now, here’s something you don’t see everyday: Flushed Bra Causes Sewer Collapse. This was just so rich I had to quote the article here:

The bra was recovered from the sewer by engineers

A bra and a pair of knickers have been blamed for a flood and road collapse in County Durham.
Northumbrian [...]

Bill Clinton’s Last Days

This will make you laugh, then laugh some more, then cry because you miss Clinton so much:  Bill Clinton’s Last Days.  It’s online video, but so very worth watching.
Oh how I miss a president capable of this kind of humor.  “I wanna buy smoked ham.”

Hong Kong Chronicles

Those of you with an interest in things Chinese and para-Chinese (I’m looking at you. Ahem.) might be interested in reading the blog that anthropologist David K. Jordan has been maintaining while spending a semester teaching in Asia. It’s chock full of linguistic and religious observations, all with that pleasant snarkiness that DKJ has mastered.

Happy April Fool’s Day

This, like many Agnes cartoons, amuses the heck out of me:

thanks, Perl-man!

Once again, the best. webcomic. ever. expresses beautifully something that I didn’t even know I wanted to express:

See the rest of this comic. (I tried to link the panel above, but it just refused…)

the voice of god and other pranks

I love The Onion: The Voice of God Revealed to be . . .

happy new year, nantes style

As Jaime would say, “Sweet Nantes!”
Hundreds of protesters in France have rung in the New Year by holding a light-hearted march against it.
Parodying the French readiness to say “non”, the demonstrators in the western city of Nantes waved banners reading: “No to 2007″ and “Now is better!”
The marchers called on governments and the UN to [...]