from the desk of stinkpot

apparently, chuck norris has a good sense of humor; he’s teamed up with the absurb “chuck norris fact” website to produce a line of t-shirts. you can buy them here. and here’re the top facts getting put on shirts: Guns don’t kill people. Chuck Norris kills People. There is no theory of evolution. Just a […]

a cool video showing the interior of the netflix dvd stork.

here’s a fun example of what you can do w/ the half-life 2 physics engine and a ton of time on your hands: [google-video-link].

christina being a finance major, and all, went ahead the other day and calculated how much money we’d spend renting for our > 5 years here in massachusetts, as opposed to just buying a place of our own. turns out by living the american dream, we’d save well over half a 100 grand, assuming that […]

it’s hard not to read this story with a bit of glee. it seems that once again, president bush took an unqualified, but loyal supporter and installed him in a public office – and the guy’s now getting hung out to dry: George C. Deutsch, the young presidential appointee at NASA who told public affairs […]

Rakhmat is Uygur for thank you! I came across this site the other day; it spells out how to say “thank you” in over 465 languages. It’s interesting to see how many different ways there are to show one’s appreciation, even within one language. For instance, this site lists 5 ways to say thank you […]

i was poking through all the code i wrote during undergrad and came across one fun little gem. it’s a perl script that goes ahead and solves all the puzzles in the yahoo multiplayer game, “word racer.” in case you haven’t played it, word racer allows you to compete with other players online to form […]

i’d always thought it silly to buy bottled water in non-third world nations; tap water is probably just as clean and free. in any case, yahoo news has decided to run a story about the sham that is bottled water. get enlightenified here. if you’re too busy/lazy to make the jump, here’s a pretty juicy […]

i saw an article today on slashdot about one wasp’s amazing evolutionary adaptation. apparently, a particular species of moth has evolved a mechanism for turning roaches into zombies. the wasp then “drives” the roach-zombie back home, where wasp larvae ultimately burrow into the roach and consume it from the inside out. yummy. since the link […]

there’s this monster thread on the “student doctor network forums” i came across via boing boing. the topic is “things i’ve learned in the emergency room.” there are some real gems: *** If you call EMS because your husband has collapsed on the floor it might be a good idea to mention that he did […]