Hi folks. Sorry about the lack of blogging today. Work was busy, and the world was boring. A bad combo. As a small gesture of regret, please accept this video of two guys with accents playing Blitzkrieg Bop on ukuleles: Hey ho, let’s go! Via Boing Boing
Man, the Congo has had a run of bad luck lately, but this takes the cake. Police in Kinshasa have arrested a number of men accused of being sorcerers. Or more specifically, sorcerers who steal penises. A number of men have come forward claiming their cash & prizes have been rendered tiny, impotent or even [...]
Yes, that great maybe-existed, maybe-didn’t simultaneous example both human ingenuity and total stupidity, the Trojan Horse, got its day in the sun way back on April 24, 1184BC. Wired has a great post on how the TH, while perhaps historically dubious, has become a cultural touchstone. There’s also something in there about network security, but [...]
I’m such a sucker for father/son stories. Field of Dreams still makes me weep like a little girl. But this is definitely the sweetest/saddest/sweetest again thing I’ve found on the Interwebs in weeks. When Jack Hammond, an 88 year-old British WWII vet, moved into a retirement home some 40Km from his old ‘hood, he had [...]
So, somebody, for some reason, has put out a Blog Cuss-O-Meter, which ostensibly measure the amount of profanity on your site. In the interest of science, I ran Nunc Scio through, and came back with a 7.1 per cent, or ‘medium’, cuss rating. Aren’t I nice. Created by OnePlusYou Kinda makes me think I should [...]
Oh man, there is so much awesome in this story I had to lie down for an hour before I could write it. Awesome thing #1: Man from Holyhead, Wales drinks a 10 litre box of wine. Awesome thing #2: Man takes garbage bag, cuts a hole in it, puts it on. Awesome thing #3: [...]
The piddling human lifespan affords mankind a unique sense of security. Since we’re only around for about 80 years or so, its hard to comprehend the churning death-box of chaos that is the universe. Take our Solar System. Seems pretty static: everything is out there, just doing laps with comforting regularity of a ninth grade [...]