Today’s Google features
As usual this time of year, there are a whole bunch of nifty new features and other changes in various...
Archive for Humor
Mean Disney Girls
If you've seen Mean Girls and you like Disney stuff at all, you must go watch this two-minute mini-remake of...
More epic win: dragon coffee, Lincoln, Vader, Death Star pumpkin
In my previous entry, I forgot to link to one of my favorite items from Epic Win FTW: an artist...
Fun and funny photos: Epic Win FTW
Various people have been linking to a newish site, Epic Win FTW, that features all manner of cool and fun...
When Carcassonne pigs fly
We were playing Carcassonne yesterday, and we started discussing the real-life city of Carcassonne, and the following conversation ensued (loose...
Hallelujah Choruses
A few days ago, Amy S linked to a video of a fabulous performance: silent monks performing the Hallelujah Chorus....
Three videos, with music, that made me laugh this morning
On the Tonight Show, Conan O'Brien has been having William Shatner read Sarah Pain's tweets aloud as if they were...
Paleface anthropology
I'm reading William Tenn's 1958 story "Eastward Ho!" (as reprinted in the 60th-anniversary volume The Very Best of Fantasy &...
Woofer, Twitter, Squeaker
Courtesy of links from a discussion thread on Otavia's recent Facebook post: Woofer: Just like Twitter, except that any given...
How to Write Your Own Gilbert & Sullivan Opera
While I was driving yesterday, Anna Russell's "How to Write Your Own Gilbert & Sullivan Opera" came up on my...
Alexander the Great and…
Alexander the Great and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good Very Bad Day (thanks to David W for the link!). Opening paragraph:...
Leverage + Dr. Who
One of the things that I like about Leverage is that the hacker, Hardison, is a geek. This is particularly...