There really is such a thing: Please Rob Me. I find it amazing that people don’t see the places where their online behavior may turn out to be detrimental to their real lives.
Posts under ‘Amusing’
Hayek vs. Keynes
I truly never even considered the possibility that someone would ever make a rap video about economics. It’s brilliant. Go watch it.
Need an Excuse to Go to Minneapolis?
How about Commedia Beauregard’s Klingon Christmas Carol. “Performed in the Original Klingon with English Supertitles, and narrative analysis from The Vulcan Institute of Cultural Anthropology.”
Go, Martha, Go!
This is why I’ve decided I may actually like our state Attorney General. I mean, seriously. How petty is it to deny a state funding because two people who love each other want to be buried together?
Muggle Quidditch
I didn’t realize until I read it in the campus paper, but my alma mater (which also happens to be my employer) has a Quidditch team.
Sometimes Having to Explain It Just Makes It Funnier
Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends Rick Rolled the Macy’s Parade yesterday. You should have seen my in-laws’ expressions when I burst into hysterics.
What We Used to Read
Via Elizabeth Bear. Yes, I am in fact several weeks behind in reading some of my favorite blogs. It’s been a busy life. MGK Versus His Adolescent Reading Habits MGK Versus His Adolescent Reading Habits, Part Two It’s only side-splittingly funny because it’s true. I say this despite my lingering fondness for most of the [...]
I Love Cafe Press
Lookee! Christopher Marlowe t-shirts and sweatshirts and coffee mugs and mousepads and baby bibs and coasters and tote bags and… thongs? Christopher Marlowe thongs?!?
See? It ISN'T Bad For You!
Cory Doctorow blogs about the latest theory on the usefulness of masturbation: Wank your way to nasal clarity
What Were They Thinking?
The tanning salon that I pass on my way to and from the train station every day is apparently under new management. It has been renamed “Solar Eclipse Tanning.” I kid you not. Um, guys? Not going to get much of a tan if the moon’s in the way.
