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Good To Know: “There are few free-roaming African lions and tigers between Florida and San Francisco, the geological survey said.” [SFGate via Fark]

Garfield Minus Garfield Is Brilliant

For years I’ve been telling people (people who promptly lost all respect for me) that there was a certain brilliance to the comic strip “Garfield.” I think this (entirely accidental) brilliance stems from the fact that the strip was conceived as a merchandising vehicle. Eventually, the mental toll of writing a daily comic strip about [...]

Tried this list of audio illusions and quite a few of them didn’t work for me. This leads me to suspect that my brain is not functioning correctly. Listening to the barber shop one with the Grados was creeeeeepy, however. Especially since I’ve never allowed clippers near my head. [New Scientist via BoingBoing]

An Argument in favor of Monotasking.


This photo was in the NYT today. I didn’t read the article. Instead, I chose to change the headline to “So-Called ‘Chicken Suit Killer’ Spotted.”

So, I went into my spam folder to see what was what and I noticed this ad.

When I Am Sad, The Urlacher Fathead Commercial Cheers Me