"As soon as the suspicion of an insult appears, they summon the angels of ad hominem to smite down their foes, before ascending to argument heaven in a blaze of sanctimonious glory."

The Nietzsche Family Circus pairs a random Family Circus cartoon with a random Friedrich Nietzsche quote.

'Why? Because guys like Joel and Don scream out to programmers that it’s alright to make complex buggy crap that’s difficult to use. “Complexity sells! Fuck the art let’s make cash.”'

"...I consider stored procedures and constraints vile and reckless destroyers of coherence. No, Mr. Database, you can not have my business logic."

"I've had many instructors before and since, but few that I remember with as much fondness - and why my favorite professor was a chronic liar."

"Once a vital component in a national economy, this sprawling urban environment is now a vast collection of blighted buildings, an immense petri dish of both ancient and new diseases..."

My point is that it took less than 2 hours to convince two sane, intelligent, and reasonably successful (possibly mildly inebriated) people that they had been magically transported into another world.

Some awesome humor from the Atheists of Silicon Valley.

'A couple of years back, an X-Box with some variant of Linux installed had been put in the server room to support a subject designed to teach computer-illiterate Philosophy students how to build their own web pages.'

Thelema is a modern religion, started in 1904, by the much-maligned Aleister Crowley. As a result of his association to Thelema, it is also much-maligned and misunderstood by many.

As long as we're on the FSM: why Pastafarianism, while originally designed to parody other religions, turns out to be a religion. Oops?

Starts with Pascal's Wager and moves on from there. Makes sense to *me*.

Little kids write to God. It's adorable, AND funny.

from McSweeney's Internet Tendency

Breakuplines from various philosophical schools