I’ve been a fan of Demotivators, those lovely demotivational posters and things from Despair.com for many years now. Come to think of it, I was familiar with their fun versions years before I was exposed to real “motivational” posters. Come to think of it even more, the first time I saw some of the “real” [...]
The internet needs this:
Click to see the whole thing at xkcd.
Oh fun. It seems the Doctor Who effect is growing stronger. Now that it’s been firmly established that people actually want family-friendly drama early on Saturday evenings, we’ve had the deliciously silly pseudo-historical fun and games of Robin Hood[1] and the CGI monster moves of Primeval[2]. But what with production cycles, schedules and so on, [...]
It be t’day, me hearties! Arrrrrrrrrrrr![1]
[1] So if anything looks odd on the site today[2], that may be the reason[3]
[2] More odd than normal[4], that is
[3] Unless it’s just my general oddness, of course
[4] That’s “normal for here” rather than “normal normal”, you understand
Last weekend, I spent an hour or so counting and sorting the coins in my change jar[1]. Obviously what I should have done was arrange the coins in little stacks and made myself a chess set like this one:
The World’s Most Expensive Chess Set
Of course, I wouldn’t have had the banknotes to make the board, [...]
Another nice one from xkcd to start the week.
Click the pic for the whole thing.
Once again, the excellent xkcd tells it like it really is:
Click the pic to see the whole thing. And if you still haven’t read all the others, what are you waiting for?
Heh heh. More delightfully odd weirdness from xkcd today:
As usual, click the pic to visit the site and see the whole thing. And read any in the archive you haven’t already read.
For a while now, Flickr has been putting friendly greetings on its home page. They have a random selection of languages, ranging from well-known ones to the quite rare and obscure. But today, they reached a new level in linguistic usefulness:
Nice.
More fun from the ever-brilliant xkcd. Click the picture to see the whole strip, then read the whole archive if you haven’t done it already. Come to think of it, you could read it again if you like.