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Tag: humor

  • Robert Jordan Dead at 58

    Wheel of Time Book I Eye of the World …and millions of fanboys around the world scream, in their best impression of Darth Vadar realizing Padmé Amidala has died by his hand, “NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!” I am so glad I stopped reading the Wheel of Time series at book six. Robert Jordan’s WoT series was hands-down the…

  • You Know It’s Bad When the Computer Starts Mocking You

    So we’ve been training a new programmer at work on VBScript and ASP for our logistics software at the Coast Guard base, and this week my team leader and I thought it was a good time to give him a JavaScript-intense task to accomplish. JavaScript is one of the more frustrating web-based solutions because it’s…

  • Creationist Answer Wheel

    Dear Creationist Friends, Are you tired of all those troubling questions Evolutionists are always throwing at you? Rebuking questions like, “What’s with all the fossils?” and “Why do we have appendixes?” and “Genesis chapter one and two contradict each other, which is the real story of creation?” can really push a believer to sell their…

  • Bora Zivkovic is on My Facebook B!#@$s!!!

    Bora Zivkovic on Facebook This is like collecting sports cards, only scientists!!! Ha! Ha! Time to sell the comic book collection, I’ve found a new hobby. Bora Zivkovic runs A Blog Around the Clock, works as the “Online Community Manager” at Public Library of Science (PLoS-ONE), one of the two main organizers for the annual…

  • Jupiterday Humor: Who are the NPC’s in this Game of Life?

    Okay, so I can’t seem to get the whole life is a simulation meme out of my head. It’s simultaneously liberating, because life is all B.S., and fascinating, because of all the potential implications. Thinking about life as just a really advanced video game begs the obvious: Who are the Non-Player Characters? The bots? The…

  • Carl Zimmer’s on MySpace!

    And he added me as friend! w00t!!! I’m totally pwning these InterWebs and stuff! The Carl Zimmer, author of many excellent books that I need to read, and author of The Loom science blog, which has covered such fascinating topics as parasitic wasps that mind-control cockroaches and kick-ass Science Tattoos. Aaaaaand, for the moment, I’m…

  • Jupiterday Diatribe: Pluto is Still a Planet (Still)

    Somehow in all the incredibly complex hubbub of getting this blog set up (ie. figuring out how to post), I completely missed the fact that August 24th was the one-year anniversary of that infamous day when a bunch of dimbulbs at the International Astronomical Union (IAU) decided to demote Pluto to non-planet status with an…