Archive for December, 2002

Monkeys Produce Hamlet: Feasibility Study

Friday, December 27th, 2002

We’ve all pondered the cliche “sit a great enough number of monkeys down in front of a great enough number of typewriters and they will eventually produce Hamlet by typing at random.”

We’ve all pondered it, sure, but this guy did something about it. He calculated the odds.

According to him, the possibility is zero, even out […]

Disgusting

Thursday, December 19th, 2002

Let me spare you the introduction on this one.

Follow the links:

BBC:
Mass arrests of Muslims in LA

San Francisco Chronicle:
INS arrests hundreds from Mideast, Africa They were held when they showed
up, as requested, for a registration program

Fox News:
Men in U.S. From Saudi Arabia, Pakistan Required to Register With
Government

Salon:
Thousands protest new immigration policy

I’m going to copy the LA […]

Genius

Tuesday, December 17th, 2002

We all know that linking to the Onion is the death-knell for a blog, but fer crikey’s sake, I just can’t let this huge, crusty gem roll by without pointing at it.

Sometimes I feel like I’m living in some kind of obscure cultural ivory tower, enjoying the fruits of engineered trees that don’t occur in […]

Whoa

Tuesday, December 10th, 2002

Now I am not one to swoon over the accuracy of those psych-you-out tests where you take your age, add your lucky number, take away the number you first thought of, etc…

I can’t stand those retarded consciousness hacks that make you scroll through page after page, answering idiotic questions, only to leave you thinking “carrot” […]

Everybody say Awwwwwwww…..”The animals were

Sunday, December 8th, 2002

Everybody say

Awwwwwwww…..”The animals were given presents for Christmas.”

Torsion

Wednesday, December 4th, 2002

Reasons to be pissed:

Bush is fucking up the entire world
Life is hectic and I haven’t had enough time to spend with the people I care about
I’m once again in a place where I don’t know what I want to do with my life
This site isn’t doing it for me so much anymore. Blog […]