Over on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Zach enlists the help of a youngster to explain how software gets made:
SMBC explains how software gets made
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i think i’m going to do this from now on…..
You know I've always hated her
Zack meets Abbot and Costello in Chemistry Class
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is one of my favourite web comics. Zach Weiner is a comedic genius ribbing us about our love/hate affair with science and religion and politics and personal foibles. The August 27, 2011 comic updates the famous Abbot and Costello “Who’s on first?” sketch with a little trip to chemistry class:
The chemical symbol for Nobelium
You said you'd tell me
Tree Lobsters speculate on the next Doctor
Tree Lobsters is one of my favourite web comics, I think it ranks right up there with xkcd and smbc. This time, the lobsters are speculating on who will play the next Doctor in Doctor Who after Matt Smith. Oh, you lobsters!!
Tree Lobsters!: #297 Doctor Hugh.
Nuclear Gastronomy
My Aussie friend, David Morgen-Mar writes a daily web comic using photographed Lego layouts called Irregular Webcomic. He is an incorrigible punster and the many converging and diverging story lines are wonderful to behold.
I must have missed this one back in March, but DMM has coined a new term: “Nuclear Gastronomy” (he was riffing on molecular gastronomy, but claims to be the originator on this one).
Here’s a sample of what nuclear gastronomy involves:
Chocolate Chip Gold Vein Cookies
Cream 1 cup of sugar with 250 grams of butter. Add 2 eggs and a teaspoon of baking soda. Add a splash of vanilla extract and a drop of mercury-196. Mix in 2 cups of flour to form a soft dough, and a cup of chocolate chips. Bake in a slow neutron source for at least 8 hours to convert all the mercury into gold. The gold will appear as attractive shiny flecks through the cookies, and since it is inert these will be safely edible. Warning: Do not use other isotopes of mercury, as they will produce unstable gold isotopes which can decay into highly toxic thallium!
via Irregular Webcomic! #2961.
Oh, any by the way, the comic strip is really funny, too!
Silly Booth cartoon from the New Yorker
Booth is one of the funniest cartoonest the New Yorker has ever had. This one appeared recently and just tickled me silly.
booth cartoon: The Queen is somewhere in the snuggery!
Booth cartoons are always the best, always a treat. He has recurring themes, like mangy dogs and cats, silly ordinary everyday people doing grandiose things to make their lives seem more important and exciting.
A long way ’round for a bad pun…
Howard Taylor on Talent Vs Practice
Howard Taylor, creator of Schlock Mercenary web comic, gave a talk at UVA a while ago that describe the basic difference between talent and practice. His assertion is that it’s not talent that gets you noticed or makes you good at something, but doing a lot of practice. This talk is not what I would consider the best presentation (Howard still needs to practice at creating presentations and public speaking), but the concepts are very applicable to all human endeavours. As one of my mentors has said “Anything worth doing, is worth doing poorly at first.” Howard exemplifies this view and expands on it in this talk.
Cartoon in need of a caption
From this week’s New Yorker, caption contest:
Captions we’ve come up with so far:
- “I knew you’d get a lift out of that.”
- “I knew you’d get a rise out of that.”
- “I didn’t know you were so up in the air about having children.”
- “I’m not sure you’re aware of the gravity of this situation.”
Supply yours!
xkcd: Constructive
via xkcd: Constructive.
At last, a great scheme for fixing the spam problem *and* the general comment problem on social sites. They should definitely implement this on YouTube!!