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Farberisms
David Farber, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Delaware, has been known to utter strange and wondrous remarks, which his students have dutifully recorded. Here is a sample.
funny  language  education  humor  quotes  farber  farber  david 
december 2008 by vielmetti
The Dark Star Gazette: Al Gore on subjunctivision
Subjunctivision: a term from Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid. Subjunctivision is a sort of "what if" television: by twiddling the controls, you can watch TV as if things had gone differently.

Al Gore opened for Saturday Night Live this past weekend. I hadn't seen the opening sequence until tonight. It's a very funny bit of comedy subjunctivision where he addresses the country as if he were elected President in 2000. You can catch the Quicktime link here.
gore  al  hofstadter  douglas  subjunctivision  counterfactual  alternative-reality-television  snl  comedy  humor  party-like-its-2000  subjunctive 
november 2008 by vielmetti
The Science Creative Quarterly » HOW TO GET YOUR OWN SCIENTIFIC EPONYM, AND, INTRODUCING THE ARBESMAN LIMIT
But first, a cautionary note: do not be greedy, for there is a threshold. This upper barrier, which I term the Arbesman Limit, is the maximum number of concepts or ideas that can be named after a single person. This boundary is unknown, but I imagine it to hover in the neighborhood of twenty. Johann Dirichlet, a French mathematician from the nineteenth century, is probably somewhere near it, with about fifteen formulas and theorems named after him. Einstein also did well for himself, with probably around ten concepts associated with his name.
law  science  humor  naming  arbesman  samuel  dirichlet  johann  arbesman-measure 
october 2008 by vielmetti
Bug 448604 – Can't get out of Whistler
bugzilla log from the firefox team trapped in Whistler BC because of a rock slide
funny  news  firefox  humor  canada  mozilla  vancouver  rocks  bugs  bears  buses  whistler  we-gave-you-these-rocks  we-gave-you-these-bears  moz08 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Baby’s First Internet - The Morning News
It doesn’t matter what you say / just publish it twelve times per day.
comics  funny  humor  internet  toread  ha-ha-only-serious 
july 2008 by vielmetti
A Way with Words, public radio's lively language show
Co-hosts Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett take calls from listeners about linguistic disputes, grammatical pet peeves, the origins of words and phrases, and curious regional expressions
grammar  humor  linguistics  words  podcast  radio  usage  via:joegermuska 
july 2008 by vielmetti
LOL together - right now - OMG
this is really quite awesome, in its own filk way - omgwtfbbq
beatles  funny  humor  lolcat  lolcats  music  filk  lol-together-right-now-omg 
june 2008 by vielmetti
'The Book of my Enemy Has Been Remaindered' - Clive James
The book of my enemy has been remaindered // And I am pleased.
free  funny  humor  poem  poetry  writing  books  publishing 
february 2008 by vielmetti
The world's first and only stand-up economist
Economics humor has a new home: the Miscellany section of Economic Inquiry!
economics  funny  humor 
november 2007 by vielmetti
Restaurant review: Divo, 12 Waterloo Place, London SW1 | Food and drink | Life and Health
There are many words I could use to describe the food served here, but this is a family newspaper and none of them should be available before the watershed. I can't deny my disappointment because the remaining candidates - awful, calamitous, the horror, t
funny  guardian  humor  restaurant  restaurants  review  reviews  foodie  uk 
november 2007 by vielmetti
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censorship  code  copyright  html  humor  internet  law  legal  tos  lawyers 
october 2007 by vielmetti
Linguistic humor
decafalon the grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you
fun  funny  humor  language  wordie 
october 2007 by vielmetti
Poet Takes Extra 5 Minutes To Vague Up Poem | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
ANN ARBOR, MI—After completing a poem originally titled "Last Dawnbreak," local poet Keith Taylor spent five additional minutes removing verbs and punctuation in order to give the piece a level of vagueness more suitable for publication.
annarbor  fun  funny  humor  poems  writing  poets  local  keith-taylor  orion-orion 
august 2007 by vielmetti
Mark Evans - I’m Not the Blackberry’s Bitch
By the way, I ran into a friend at a party last night who recently gave up his Blackberry after deciding he didn’t need it anymore. The world he used was “liberating”.
communication  humor  mobile  continuous-partial-attention  blackberry  crackberry 
june 2007 by vielmetti
LOL Feeds
every feed a lolfeed.
feeds  funny  humor  lolcats  news  rss  via:deusx 
june 2007 by vielmetti
Wood Charles News Service: What's This All About?
The WCA is a wire maintained by the global publishing empire, Wood-Charles Associates. Prior to the invention of the blog, WCA pioneered the distribution of completely false and abusive "news." As the blogosphere came on line, WCA moved into other, less o
annarbor  humor  news  not-the-onion  blog 
march 2007 by vielmetti
Amazon.com: Leningrad Cowboys Go America: Video: Matti Pellonpää,Kari Väänänen,Sakke Järvenpää,Heikki Keskinen,Pimme Korhonen,Sakari Kuosmanen,Puka Oinonen,Silu Seppälä,Mauri Sumén,Mato Valtonen,Pekka Virtanen,Nicky Tesco,Olli Tuominen,Kari Lai
The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Finnish musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, trying to get to a wedding in Mexico, they are followed by the village idiot, who wishes to join the band.
Finland  humor  video  music 
march 2007 by vielmetti
The Happiness Project: Today’s prosaic secret to happiness? Long underwear.
i wouldn't have thought my mindful tag exploration would yield such immediate results, but there you go.
clothing  humor  mindful  weather  cold  warm  underwear  via:jhritz 
february 2007 by vielmetti
Frito-Lay Angrily Introduces Line Of Healthy Snacks
In January, Frito-Lay will launch a Flat Earth marketing campaign based on the slogan, "Bet You Can't Eat Even One."
health  humor  funny 
november 2006 by vielmetti

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