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Wednesday’s Penny Arcade is freaking hilarious.

Stephen Colbert talks to Congressman Lynn Westmoreland about the Ten Commandments. Really funny and also sad.

PhD Comics is always spot on, but the current storyline is particularly relevant: the central character’s relationship is just about to become trans-Atlantic. As I get ready to leave for the US to visit Brenda for several weeks, the topic of this one has come up a few times. Too funny…

Check out this great Doonesbury cartoon on Slate.

If only I could see what Jon Stewart has to say about this on the Daily Show… Robert Novak walked off a live CNN set after sparring with James Carville. From the New York Times:

The heated exchange occurred in a minidebate between Mr. Carville and Mr. Novak over the possibility that Representative Katherine [...]

If World War Two had been an online Real Time Strategy game, the chat room traffic would have gone something like this.

From someone unknown, via Brenda:

The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to
take any word from the dictionary, alter it by
adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply
a new definition.
Here are this year’s winners:
1. Intaxication:
Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until
you realize it was your money to begin with.
2. Reintarnation:
Coming back to [...]

Probably the whole world knows about these already, but somehow I had never seen them. Here are some choice examples:

<JonJonB> Purely in the interests of science, I have replaced the word "wand" with "wang" in the first Harry Potter Book
<JonJonB> Let’s see the results…
<JonJonB> "Why aren’t you supposed to do magic?" asked Harry.
<JonJonB> "Oh, well [...]

“Technically, you need only one time traveler convention.”

This is rather amusing.

I am a huge fan of the late Douglas Adams, and while I am excited about the prospect of the Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy being made into a live-action movie, I am afraid that they will screw it up. Recently, however, an interview with the screenwriter was posted to the web, and I [...]

The State was a hilarious sketch comedy show on MTV from about 1994 to 1996. Some of the participants have more recently been on the Comedy Central show Reno 911. There was only ever one archive release - a VHS tape that is long out of production. (There is a petition for [...]

This is the funniest thing I have seen in a while. Here’s a couple of links to Gizoogled pages:

The Inference Group
The Republican Party
CNN.com
Mathworld
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit

It is important that the drinking game for the greatest movie ever made not fade into obscurity. So, here it is, The Big Lebowski Drinking Game (courtesy of whoever’s page it is that is now gone but that was cached at The Wayback Machine):
Rules:

The beginning of the movie: Entire cup or beer
Dude smokes pot: [...]

Just in time for the nerds on your Christmas list: Giant Plush Microbes! They have mundane ones, such as the common cold or athlete’s foot, and exotic ones such as ebola and black death. Is this a great idea or what?

I am rather amused at a sidenote in my supervisor’s book, where he uses the British phrase “… such systems are two a penny” and gives this explanation in the sidebar:

Translation for American readers: ’such systems are a dime a dozen’; incidentally, this equivalence (10c = 6p) shows that the correct exchange rate is £1.00 [...]

Sure, Harvard beat Yale 35-3, but check this out. Fantastic!

Forget Iran, North Korea and the worldwide “Axis of Evil” - I think we have a larger and scarier conspiracy right here at home (Well, “here” if you are in the US. I’m actually in England, so I really mean “right there at home”). Anyway, there seems to be an Internet community out [...]

This site is not for the faint of heart, but as a Texan who has lived all over the place, I think it is hysterical. Aside from the over-the-top ranting, he makes some interesting points about the perception of “family values” and fiscal conservatism between red states and blue states. Here’s a choice [...]

Go buy this book right now. It is perhaps the funniest and most insightful commentary about our United States in a long time. It is like taking a long warm bath in The Daily Show. The truthful parts are interesting and the satirical parts are hilarious. Why are you still reading [...]