RIM rolls out new french headwear inspired range...

Thanks Tom for this story:

This just happened, about 15 feet from me.

Senior Executive: What’s the box in my office?

Executive Assistant: It arrived this morning.

SE goes to office to open box, and returns holding a hat.

SE: It’s a hat. Do you know why I’ve been sent a hat?

EA: Ah – good. It’s the black beret you asked for.

SE: Black beret? I don’t remember asking for a black beret.

EA: Before you went to Singapore last week. You asked me to get you a new black beret.

SE: [cracks up laughing] Ah. I think I said “Blackberry”.

EA: [looks sheepish] oh.

Damn Bear

Keeps stealing my ideas.

They called it what?

Look what they called the fifth item down the page. No, really.

Also, I'm never quite sure if it's a good thing I don't remember the eighties. Who knows.

Lego + Aliens

For teh win.

(Cake?)

chess boxing

you heard me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzlR2oUFPG4

credit to godfather john graham for this one.

51% this 49% that

Money vs Problems &c.

Tesla coils playing the Mario theme. I wish I had a shed.

mineral of the day! boost your mineral knowledge!

Dead classy

Epic.

(Is this better? I have no idea. Erm.)

Pancakes in a can.

That is all.

I don't like to play by all of the rules, but I do most of the time just to be safe.

http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/im_quite_eccentric_within

Boom

Remember what happened at school when the teacher dropped a couple of grams of sodium in water? See what happens when you drop 9 tons in a lake...

And 'taches. Many 'taches.

More robots with guns. A good thing, obviously.

Pop Quiz

You're in the middle of an arena. You're being attacked by 5 year olds who will stop at nothing to kill you. How many can you take on before they overcome you?

Personally I'm thinking 11, if they're organised. Two for each arm, three for each leg, and one to kick you when you're down...

Vampires, zombies, oh my.

If you like "graphic novels" then you might like this. Not exactly jaw-droppingly brilliant, but entertaining enough. It's still got about 20 pages to go, but they're adding two or three a week, so that ain't too irritating.

And more stuff you really should have seen by now on the internet;

• Superman is a dick. If that's news to you, start here.


• TOTSE which is full of weird, weird stuff.

The Basics

More stuff you really have to know about in order to get your Internet license:

• From the now sadly defunct adequacy.org, Is your son a computer hacker?


• The Chick Tracts. I'd link to my favourite, but there are so many! (etc)


• Everyone's seen uncyclopedia (right?) but what about Conservapedia. Just as funny, but it's not satire!


• Timecube - behold the mind of a schizophrenic set down for you to read. Worrying.

More to follow, when I think of it.

Also, apropos of nothing, more crazy hi-fi stuff!

And, finally, weird, weird, weird (don't blame me if you watch the videos)

xkcd on self-censorship

http://xkcd.com/137/

Today's "wuh?"

...is what the kids'll be dancing to tomorrow, mark my words.

pinker on swearing

so that's where the word 'bloody' comes from!

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20071008&s=pinker100807

one or two you might debate, but fascinating stuff...

Sleep soundly at night

With The Backup.
(video with sound, by way of warning)

Making Bristol students seem classy

Some hi-larious sensitivity from US Students.

For the few who don't read xkcd, this strip has resulted in this set of photos (which you might not want to view in the office.)

Woahh! Holy shit.

(oh, yeah, and apropos the XKCD thing, google "Rule 34" at your peril...)

highbrow links - edge.org, the world in 2012

http://www.edge.org/
subscribe to the newsletter. good monthly read, makes you feel real smart, enjoy the occasional atheist rant or academic flame war

http://www.newyorker.com/promo/conference/
loads of cool discussions eg by johnny haidt on the psychological underpinnings of morality and how they vary across the political spectrum, some dude with big hair on genius, that cool company that makes computers analyse pop tracks to tell in advance whether they'll get to number one, and a chat by some dude regarding that ultimate god game thats called spawn or sperm or whatever it is

George Carlin - hicksian poet

I can't believe I only came across this guy yesterday.

you may recognise him as Rufus from Bill and Ted. it turns out he's also a highly scathing, dark, political comedian. and most importantly, very funny. Calling him hicksian is unfair since he predates hicks, but you'll see the similarity - all to the good

sketches on yootoob:
Rape CAN be funny
Religion is bullshit
I love Natural Disasters

You're a depreciating asset

Excellent advice for gold-diggers

Additionally, $7k speaker cables? ONE MILLION DOLLARS if you can prove an objective difference. Awesome review thereof
("Vocals came across with a tad less chest and flesh: thinner with less body, perhaps a tad coarser.")