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AvWeb’s Thanksgiving article on pumpkin bombing is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a day or two.

Hey, I’ve been reading a lot of the ‘Brow, OK?

Turns out the San Francisco Gate was right: Ken Jennings lost after 75 consecutive appearances on Jeopardy.

Because he didn’t know diddly squat about sports.

I think I coulda smoked all three of tonight’s contestants on that question bank.

Heh.

EDIT: woops. The number of wins was 74; the number of appearances was 75. And Slashdot has picked up the story.

Thank you, Dr. Seuss, for coming up with material that can be so easily and effectively satirized.

(Cue the jokes about lawsuits by Ludlow…)

Anyone know how to edit the search results HTML template in Movable Type 3? I can’t find it anywhere…

A 16-year-old New Jersey girl, whose father called police after she came home drunk because he wanted to “teach her a lesson,” turned him in for drug dealing and possession of weapons when the police arrived.

Never underestimate the vengeful nature of a teenage girl, especially if she’s drunk.

And for the dad:

Red Forman Dumbass Rating:

I’m in the midst of upgrading to Movable Type 3.x. Please excuse the mess. Things should be reasonably back to normal by tomorrow.

I was pointed to Lowbrow earlier this evening, and I’ve been laughing for about three straight hours.

Not safe for work, but then, neither is bash.org, and that’s never stopped anyone before…

Hey, it’s not my apartment, but regular readers will recall the drama I had with stupid handymen.

Now Matt has issues of his own. For about the fourth time. Note to Boston residents, or potential Boston residents: do not rent from the Giacalone Realty Trust if you value your sanity.

This one comes to you courtesy of Colin Purrington, an associate professor of evolutionary biology at Swarthmore:

Disclaimer Stickers for Science Textbooks

Researchers at Imperial College London have determined that theobromine was up to one-third more effective than cough remedies at stopping persistent coughs. Theobromine, an alkaloid found in cocoa, has been previously shown to have a mild stimulant effect, as well as an ability to improve the mood.

I was sitting on the couch tonight and a movement out of the corner of my eye caught my attention. Whaddaya know, a camel cricket was walking across the carpet.

Someone left the outhouse door open…

…to the vacuum tube!

The Wu-Tang Clan has lost one of its founding members. Russell T. Jones, aka the ODB, died yesterday in a Manhattan recording studio two days short of his 36th birthday.

In the immortal words of Chris Rock,

The Ol’ Dirty Bastard couldn’t possibly have committed all those crimes. Coolio did some of that shit!

Scott Pakin, perhaps best known for his automatic complaint letter generator that formerly occupied servers at the University of Illinois and the University of California at San Diego, has finally (well, as of April or something) gotten a new host for his magnum opus.

Ah, I missed you terribly. But I’m glad to have you back!

As promised, the NTSB accident report for the crash at Herlong that I mentioned last week is now available.

Just as long as it’s in the form of food or beautiful women.

I don’t like Chinese spam.

Which isn’t food. (That’s why this entry is in the Computing category, duh.)

I used to get piles upon piles of spam in Chinese.

Let it be stated for the record that I neither read nor speak Chinese.

The tide of Chinese spam stopped a few months back, but now a new scourge is plaguing my inbox:

Russian spam.

Yeah, for the record, I don’t speak or read Cyrillic either…

Super-cool: Eric Meyer has developed a standards-based (read: XHTML, CSS, JavaScript) slide show system that allows for PowerPoint-like presentations to be run in any standards-compliant Web browser.

(From Slashdot)