How would Socrates’ students evaluate him?  [via GMSV]

Al and Richard took photos of some sort of obsolete machine, and we’re supposed to guess what it is. My first guess, that it was a machine for making stranded wire, was incorrect. The most amusing guess so far is from Dennis Tillman:
I’ve seen this exact machine being used when I was in [...]

Waaaay out there!
Mysteriousnesses:  Atlantis
[They make you watch a brief advertisement first.]

Blind Date [via MaplePrimes]

If you’re on a diet, don’t even think about Pepperidge Farm Cream-Filled Pirouttes. Are these actually still legal?

A friend sent me a link to Oleg Atbashian’s essay “The Gospel of John & Yoko: The Origins of Mad Morality“.  I either don’t understand Atbashian’s position, or disagree with much of it.
I don’t believe that opposing the war, or opposing the so-called Patriot Act, means that I support terrorism, or that I don’t want [...]

It continues to amaze me that anyone would fall for 419 scams (advance fee fraud).  Normally I don’t even bother looking at the few 419 emails that make it through my spam filter, but today I happened to read part of one.  Surprisingly, it admits in the very first paragraph that many people lose money [...]

Here’s a brilliant new application certification program:  It Works on My Machine.

I received notification today by email that the Mission College Sigma Iota chapter of the Alpha Gamma Sigma Honor Society chose to nominate me for a scholarship. I feel honored by the nomination, but due to my current circumstances have chosen to decline the nomination. The deadline for application is imminent, so I [...]

In a forum I read, someone posted a link to the song Code Monkey by Jonathan Coulton.  He makes his works available under a Creative Commons license, so you can legally share them.  I liked this song, so I purchased it, and I’m going to try some of his others.