While checking out the official Nobel Prize web site to see when the prizes will be announced, I was surprised to discover that the Nobel Foundation offers little Flash games on their web site. In particular, I had to check out the Laser Challenge site. Oh. My. God. Maybe it’s just the cold talking, but… Continue reading Amazing Laser Party!
Category: Silliness
Step Five: Make Yourself Indispensable
Following on the heels of my post on getting into graduate school, Jorge Chan offers some advice on how to stay in graduate school.
Idle Question
Does including his middle name make USC quarterback John David Booty sound more or less like a porn star? (Yesterday was the inauguration for our new college president, so it was a long day, and I’m a little punchy watching SportsCenter…)
Driver’s Ed Nostalgia
Via a mailing list, Peugeot offers a parallel-parking simulator. So, if you’re a person who thinks that Grand Theft Auto doesn’t contain enough three-point turns, there’s a Flash game just for you…
The Weirdness Event Horizon Approaches
The truly remarkable thing about the BaconCat incident is not that John Scalzi taped bacon to his cat (as you can tell from his wife’s reaction), or that he got a bazillion hits from Fark for it (which is what the Internet is for, after all), or that he made a motivational poster about it… Continue reading The Weirdness Event Horizon Approaches
I Got Your Nerdy Watch Right Here
Janet thinks she’s scoring nerd points by posting a picture of her nerdy watch, but I can match her timepiece: OK, there’s nothing particularly nerdy about the watch itself– the nerd part is the band, which in this case, is held together with a cable tie. The little loops that are supposed to keep the… Continue reading I Got Your Nerdy Watch Right Here
ScienceBlogger Nerd-Off
Fed up with the hotness contest results, Janet has decreed a nerd-off, asking for: your geekiest jokes, your nerdiest life-lessons, your testimonial to your favorite programing language (or tissue culture medium), what have you. We’ve already had a local thread of funny physics jokes, but for sheer nerd value, it’s hard to top the classics:
They Got a Perfect 20 on the New SAT
On Inside Higher Ed this morning: The University of Florida has distributed several thousand T-shirts in which Roman numerals intended to indicate 2006 (MMVI) in fact indicate 26 (XXVI). After discovering the mistake, the university will have many thousands of other T-shirts redone, The Gainesville Sun reported. But, hey, the football team is supposed to… Continue reading They Got a Perfect 20 on the New SAT
Pick a Seal, Any Seal
Lots of my fellow ScienceBloggers have been playing with the Official Seal Generator (Tara, Steinn, Bora, and Josh, and probably others by the time this posts). I’m just punchy enough to play along, but I can’t decide which way to go with this. So, below the fold, I present the competing options for the Official… Continue reading Pick a Seal, Any Seal
The Perilous Blogosphere
Medium Large has critical advice for all you websurfers. Of course, you didn’t need me to tell you that, because you already read Medium Large. Right? Right?