Wes Phillips

Good Math, Bad Math says phi is more fun. After all, "if you write φ as a continued fraction, it's [1;1,1,1,1...]; and if you write it as a continued square root, it's 1 + sqrt(1+sqrt(1+sqrt(1+sqrt(1...))))."

My buddy Jeff Wong sent this little video along and I initially resisted posting it, primarily because I used to work in a light show that featured strobe light effects (ah, the '60s, I'm told I enjoyed them). We used to create lots of chaos with unsynchronized strobes moving in different planes, so I was blasé about The Time Fountain's reversing time schtick.

One misplaced comma can cost you $2.13 million. Granted, those are Canadian dollars, but that still makes my hourly rates pretty fargin' cheap.

Hilarious send-up of Internet advice columns: An "expert" advises great photographers on how to improve their iconic images.

Need I say more? And, unlike many parodies, these are ha-ha funny, not simply funny strange.

Yeah, that's a shock to anybody who has ever seen any of those commercials on late-night TV. But here's the thing, this Claire Hoffman article from The Los Angeles Times is a wonderful piece of participatory journalism.

Given its ubiquity, strength, and lightness, why don't they build bikes out of bamboo?