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Checkers Is Solved

Old men everywhere grumble.

Okay, so I’m not much into LOLCats , but I found a few examples of the meme pretty funny.

For the physicists, there’s Schroedinger’s LOLCat.

For Sci-Fi fans, there LOLHal9000 and LOLTrek.

And of course, for us programmers there’s LOLCode! With implementations in Python, Perl, .NET, and C++.

The awesome Rockfish was voted Channel Frederator‘s Cartoon of the Year. Blur Studio is also the creator of the ‘Bunny’ Simpsons trailer.

Welcome to Google TiSP

at least as long as they’re the ones doing the violating:

http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-steals-code-violates-linkware-license/

(via boingboing)

I love this table – it expands from seating 6 to seating 12 when you twist it.

Sadly, it’s probably a little out of my price range. From the site: “Please understand that this is an extremely special piece of furniture, of exceptional quality and design – it is not for everyone by a very very long way and can only be afforded by the lucky few of us with exceptional wealth.”

hunt together in perfect harmony

side by side in the coral reefs, so
oh, Lord, why don’t we?

Eels and groupers in the Red Sea apparently cooperate to hunt other fish.

According to New Scientist, this is the first discovered instance of two species cooperating to hunt that doesn’t involve humans as one of the species.

First, there’s Brian Noe’s

Verbum Domini

with readings from the public domain Douay-Rheims translation; for copyright reasons he cannot use the New American Bible.

The US Conference of Catholic Bishops CAN use the NAB, and they just started podcasting the Daily Readings as well!

Funny commercial
YouTube – man on ice

Today’s
Astronomy Picture of the Day

shows the Antikythera mechanism, a geared device from around 150-100 BC which could predict star and planet locations, and solar and lunar eclipses.

A grammatically correct sentence consisting of the word ‘buffalo’ repeated eight times. (The capitals are important.)
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

pacmanchart.png

I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.0, which has a comment spam catcher plug-in. I’m opening up comments, so you don’t need to register to comment. I’ll keep it open at least until I get an idea how good the filter is, if it works, we’ll stay open!

xkcd – Misusing Slang

(via boingboing)

A freaky optical illusion featuring Margaret Thatcher

via Happy Catholic blog

David Morgan-Mar gets chimp-slapped by Jane Goodall!

Love it!

In fact, Irregular Webcomic is always a good read.