Remembering the hits and forgetting the Mrs.
Technically not a logical fallacy, but will cause you to lose the argument, every time.
Category Archives: Silly
The God-Particles Must Be Angry
Delays at CERN because of a magnet quench, requiring repairs. But you already knew that.
What you may not have heard:
There could be further delays because helium has also escaped into the LHC’s tunnel, and there were unconfirmed reports that the vacuum had been lost in part of the beam pipe in which protons circulate.
So, the folks searching for that lost vacuum are going to have high, squeaky voices.
But What If You Can't Draw a Dog?
How to draw anything (in 1 step)
Step 1. Draw a dog covering the thing you can’t draw.
Oh, sorry: Spoiler alert! There are examples at the link.
via kottke
Not Found in My Lab … Yet
Unfortunately, safety inspection people don’t generally have a sense of humor about such things.
Toys in the Office: We Daren't Go a-Hunting, For Fear of Little Men
Think Geek is an evil website, the way they separate me from my disposable income.
Crimp-connectors, pop-rivets and magnets. Somewhat pose-able. Pedantic man notes that they aren’t technically toys in the office unless perhaps if the door is open, since they sit/stand on the door and door jamb. But they do occasionally distract the odd passer-by (which describes a fair fraction of them) into putting them into new poses.
That's a Really Sharp Pencil
Pegging the Geekmeter
Someone with a little time on their hands, feeds some AC/DC into their laser (OK, technically the waveform of the music), and watches the trapped atoms “dance”
The low-pass filtering means it responds more to the bass and drums.
Hi-Tech Food
I’ll bet the slices are all the same size, but it’s disappointing that the pieces still stick to each other.
Print me some toast. The scan-toaster.
The toaster utilizes a network of toasting “modules” — hot wires that rotate within a 30 degree radius — that burn the image or text you have selected onto the delicious slice of your choice.
Not commercially available, though.
It Won't Be an "Open" Marriage
Cory Doctorow’s Cipher Wheel Wedding Rings
Cory Doctorow wanted a secret decoder wedding ring, and he asked me to help design it.
[…]
[N]ow it’s time to create some cryptographic applications for the rings. Cory and I are holding an open contest for the cleverest application.
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.
Arrr. That Helvetica Be a Scurvy Font!
Pirate Fonts, in preparation for Talk Like a Pirate Day, Sept 19th.
via Neatorama