Today's xkcd:
Mouseover title: "The Romeo and Butt-Head film actually got two thumbs up from Siskel and Oates."
A less satisfactory alternative method would yield Romiette and Julio, or Abelise and Heloard, or Antopatra and Cleony.
Today's xkcd:
Mouseover title: "Platonic solids for my real friends and real solids for my platonic friends!"
The first panel from today's Girl Genius refers to Traubhünd's Universal Apocrypha of Linguistics and Verbal Ordnance:
…better known these days as the Oxford English Dictionary…
Dinosaur Comics for 2/3/2016:
Mouseover title: "oh wow a comic in which ryan argues the technology that gave us the word "bonertastic" is really important, WHAT A SURPRISE"
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Listen to what the Chinese scout in this video says at :43. My first impression was that it sounds like he is speaking Cantonese, not Mandarin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRIdJCzCpOg
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Today's xkcd:
Mouseover title: "Researchers just found the gene responsible for mistakenly thinking we've found the gene for specific things. It's the region between the start and the end of every chromosome, plus a few segments in our mitochondria."
For background, see "The hunt for the Hat Gene", 11/15/2009.
Today's xkcd:
Mouseover title: "If that's too easy, you could try joining Tautology Club, which meets on the date of the Tautology Club meeting."
Today's xkcd:
Mouseover title: "2060: The gregarious superintelligent AI, happily talking its way out of a box, is fast becoming a relic of the past. Today's quantum hyper-beings are too busy with their internal multiverse sims to even notice that they're in boxes at all!".
To be read along with this?
