Humor

Mondegreen-sama


I find myself wondering if this verb has ever caused a problem with female tourists in Japan: ぶら下げる = bura-sageru = “to hang; to suspend; to dangle; to swing”.

Why you hire copy editors...


To prevent things like this:

Xenon - 8 SP1
3D finesse without constraints, solid & surface modeling, drafting, rendering.

So, what features does it have?

"Oh, by the way..."


Ordinarily, if someone said, “there’s a grill in your office”, I’d consider it a feature.

Cube clutter

Hey, no fair!


The advantage of learning to read a language is that you find out when they’ve been cheating on the translations.

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"Welcome to the ISS Andromeda Strain"


“We are not responsible for any mutations that cause your virus-infected laptop to wipe out human civilization after your return to Earth. Unless you land in Berkeley, in which case we’re totally claiming the credit.”

from the BBC: "Nasa has confirmed that laptops carried to the ISS in July were infected with a virus known as Gammima.AG.

"The worm was first detected on Earth in August 2007 and lurks on infected machines waiting to steal login names for popular online games."

Closed Captions provided by...


…some guy. Somewhere.

Doctor Horrible’s Sing-along Blog is briefly being streamed again, and I noticed that Hulu offers softsubs as closed captions. These were not provided by the producers of the show. Just a hunch.

A hero's drill

Ah, the classics


Does the sky taste like chocolate there?


News story from a parallel universe. The Guardian speculates that the World Bank has suppressed a report on the impact of biofuels on food prices, because:

Senior development sources believe the report, completed in April, has not been published to avoid embarrassing President George Bush.

“Need a clue, take a clue,
 got a clue, leave a clue”