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The eternal triangle isn’t what it was….

Via The Zen of Motorcycling, this math-challenged student’s solution to the age old problem:

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Postcard from a bobblehead in transit

It is a truth universally acknowledged that postcards beginning “Dear customer” bode no good. And yet…. Dear customer, I will be arriving in New Hampshire soon. I am in a freight train car in New...

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“This is no game”: the pep talk to end all pep talks (if only, if only)

This is no game. You might think this is game, but, trust me, this is no game. This is not something where rock beats scissors or paper covers rock or rock wraps itself up in paper and gives itself as...

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The shaggy-guru “life-is-a-fountain” story

“Life is a fountain.” For some reason, this catch-phrase always brings me comfort. It comes from a long shaggy-dog tale I once heard: A man sold all his possessions and left his family to travel the...

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Aargh, dude! Pomos are indexing my Discourse!

A scholarly pomo analysis of “dude”? And it comes with a spreadsheet? As Bill and Ted would say, “Heinous!” The term is used mainly in situations in which a speaker takes a stance of solidarity or...

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Coders and cannibals: Can you tell them apart?

Funny, quick Flash quiz–10 anonymous faces, 10 simple choices. Are you seeing a serial killer? Or somebody who invented a programming language. I guessed right on Gerald Sussman, but wrong on Sam...

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Now we know what the little red hand really means

Driving near Harvard Square is…educational. The world’s most aggressive drivers are totally vanquished by the world’s most entitled pedestrians. Today, as I struggled to drive my car through a short...

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Tom, the loud cat, or enough politics for a while

I heard three fine jokes last night from Nick Samios, a former director of Brookhaven National Laboratory. Nick has a great NY accent, so try to hear these jokes as if Nick were telling them to you....

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Paku-paku, Mr. Pac-man!

“Ho ho ho!” That’s “refined feminine laughter” (sorry, Santa!) at least, according to this comprehensive list of Japanese “manga” sound effects. “Ho ho ho” is distinct from more general laughter (“ha...

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Mathematical love song is punny ha-ha

a taste of fruit Originally uploaded by monkeyc.net. If you know the answer to “What’s yellow and equivalent to the Axiom of Choice, this corny a cappella YouTube video is just for you: The path of...

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