The 460-year old Wye Oak was toppled by a thunderstorm on Saturday. 
A campaign is being launched against triple kisses. This is what my tax dollars are being used for? Oh wait, this is in the Netherlands. Never mind.
Printer companies are gouging you for ink because they are selling printers at a loss. I always figured that the obligatory “USE EPSON INKS ONLY OR YOUR PRINTER WILL BLOW UP” disclaimers were a little exaggerated, but I never realized just how much the manufacturers were profiting from ink sales.
Mmm… Drakkar and Coke. I guess I shouldn’t make fun, but it’s just too easy.
These clothes look like people’s butts. Huh huh, I said butts.
Don’t like the view from your window? Make a new one! Take a look at The Cityscape Project, one man’s effort to transform his dull view of bushes into a majestic night vista.
An essay question is expected to be added to the SAT. It’s about time! It was bad enough that they came out with the SAT2 or whatever its name was in the late ‘90s because it was felt that the SAT test was too difficult. Yeah, that’s the kind of moral we need to teach our children: we’re not doing our job educating you, so we’ll just make the standardized tests easier so your scores are higher. Maybe this revamping will hold the educational system more accountable…
Download this cool “live-action” Transformer video of a VW bug transforming into a robot.
Here is a new version of the educational video demonstrating how to conceptualize the Powers Of 10. Basically you start at a view of 10e22 meters from Earth and zoom in one order of magnitude at a time until you are at the nanometer (10e-9) scale inside an atom. The original version is still available here.
The Borowitz Report is consistently one of the funniest daily humor columns I’ve come across. Check out
this story; it’s always funny to point out W.’s many inadequacies, to say the least.
