http://xkcd.com/888/ best. mouseover. text. ever. “If you’ve never had sex, this is what it feels like. Complete with the brief feeling of satisfaction, followed by ennui, followed by getting bored and trying to make it happen again.”
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Physicists
Stunning timing! xkcd’s newest strip is on the subject of physicists. Why am I wittering about timing? Well, given that I’ve just written a post about physicists explaining what’s going on, it’s pretty awesome synchronicity. Oh yes, and we do laughing at them a little, as well :) [HT: Jason for sending me the link, […]
A miscellany: delinkification, engineer duels and email addresses
I spend a great deal of my time every day reading things. Not only is it my job, but it might well be a compulsive habit anyway. And I often want to share these things. For this purpose, I have begun using Twitter frequently, but sometimes it’s nice to share interesting and amusing findings using […]
Stunning science imagery Pt I
Presents for your visual systems today… And we’ll be presenting two different people who’re merging science and visuals in new, and quite effective, ways. I know I have a previous post somewhere (probably on my old blog) about engineering photos as well, but I thought I’d start afresh. So, first up (because I saw it […]
xkcd: Newton and Leibniz
I couldn’t resist. For the uninitiated, xkcd is a marvellous webcomic revolving around maths, physics, and, well, the human experience. In fact, its author, Randall Munroe, is even publishing a (real) book!(subtitle: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, m…