“Let us think the unthinkable
Let us do the undoable
Let us prepare to grapple with ineffable itself 
And see if we may not eff it after all”

This is awesome! If you’ve never seen the cartoon The Critic, you’re missing something great. Much like The Family Guy (which was cancelled far before its time), The Critic was not appreciated because (1) it was funny and (2) you…

From NASA: NASA announced plans to name the landing site of the Mars Opportunity rover in honor of the Space Shuttle Challenger’s final crew. The area in the vast flatland called Meridiani Planum, where Opportunity landed this weekend, will be…

Stolen from Slashdot: “How old is the oldest known technical manual? About 613 years, it seems. Written in 1391 by Geoffrey Chauncer for his ten year old son Lewis (Lowys), the manual explains in great detail but very rough spelling…

Jacques Chicrac wasn’t so much better-than-thou as he was cruder-then-thou in his opposition to the Iraq invasion. Read the story

Once again, completely stolen from Boing Boing: Unlike many nonsensical prejudices, it’s roughly possible to trace the root source of all this hostility, identify a locus classicus of Ikeaphobia: in this case, the vastly-overrated Fight Club. Ever since the film…

You know, when I read things like this, it makes me just sigh deeply and wonder where all the good people have gone. I think the Python’s had it right; “We don’t have a lord. We’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We…

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Totally stolen from Fark. Stick figure warning signs

I don’t think HP had this in mind when they turn their CEO loose at CES. Good job HP! You finally start making products almost worth buying, then you give everyone a political reason not to buy those products. Bravo!…

I never thought I’d have a reason to watch CNBC, but now I do. Dennis Miller is back on the air.