Amusing juxtapositions at Time
I've recently read several news articles at time.com, and I keep being struck (and annoyed) by their links to marginally-related sets of pictures. The links appear in parentheses at the...
Archive for Funny
Multilingual 404
Aaron H points to this cute multilingual file-not-found page. Not to be taken too seriously, especially the dialect versions in English and quasi-English....
Latest spam subject lines
My favorite spam subject lines of the day: First: the social networking site no one else knows about Now I want to generalize that to a sort of a game:...
News Mondegreen
Was half-listening to NPR news this morning, and thought I heard a reporter say that something was intended to "shore up the Gaza sea-spire." I thought to myself, "Neat--I don't...
Cute tees
Happened across the BustedTees T-shirt company the other day. (Run by the CollegeHumor.com people.) Most of the T-shirt companies I see have a bunch of crass, obnoxious, racist, sexist, and...
Filks, Xena, LotR, Classics, Old English, linguistics, B5, etc
So I was sitting around with O. and D. and Kam the other night, and someone mentioned Chicago, and D. said his brother Kevin lived in Chicago. And someone asked...