Philosopher Jokes
Descartes is sitting in a bar, having a drink. The bartender asks him if he would like another. "I think not," he says and vanishes in a puff of logic.
Wes Phillips
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Seeing Is Believing?
Not on magazine covers, it ain't!
Airplane Maintenance Humor
I've seen this attributed to the USAF, Quantas, and the Marine Air Corps. Personally, I think they're too perfect to be real, although my buddy Steve (who was a Marine pilot <I>and</I> AvTech) sez these are plausible.
Isn't This How Gamera Started?
Probably a sign of my misspent youth, but I know that nothing good can come from a project where Japanese scientists drill towards the center of the earth.
A Piece of Pi
How many decimal places can you take it? The Pi trainer can get you further.
You Tolkien To Me?
Google Middle Earth.
Is Electronic Clothing Far Away?
Stretchable silicon gonna be the next big craze.
Neologism Watch
It's <I>Double-Tongued Word Wrester</I>—one-stop shopping for slang, jargon, and geek speak of all categories. Why didn't <I>I</I> think of this?
Stupid Movie Computing
Tastes like "physics."
The Music Industry's Explosive Decompression
This time last year the music industry was ready to celebrate. Compact disc sales were up for the first time in years, peer-to-peer file-sharing networks were reeling from lawsuits, ringtone sales were proving unexpectedly profitable, and legitimate (paid-for, that is) downloads were rising. But this year, Jim Urie, president of Universal Music Group, told <I>The Wall Street Journal</I> that Christmas 2005 was "a bleak holiday season at the end of a bleak year."