Tim Danner

Impressive timing. A dead guy’s cell phone, which happened to still be on him in his coffin, rings during the wake!

A method for hacking your own bad habits to actually get something done. Brilliant. “And what could be more noble than using one character flaw to offset the bad effects of another?”

Here’s a silly list of the ways software developers are like drug dealers. It reads like an old chain forward, but fortunately it doesn’t have a bunch of >s on every line and broken word wrapping.

Remember the GFP bunny? It’s involved in a custody battle now between the “artist” who claims it was his idea and the scientists who actually bred the rabbit.

In other news, glowing Zebra fish may be for sale soon. No artists involved to complicate things.

A Berkeley economist posts a story of a Berkeley botanist, some hyenas, and a bunch of deer.

A very entertaining story that has all the right stuff: fire, rain, and Visual Studio.

Let Them Sing It For You is a little site where you can type in a sentence and generate a “song” out of it. Not by text-to-speech or anything like that. Oh no. It has a library of words extracted from pop songs that it strings together. There’s also an email feature, so you can send your monstrosity to unsuspecting friends. Or foes.

Ars points to the ten most overpaid jobs in America. A list like this is either going to make you depressed or smug, depending on whether your job is on it or not. I never would have guessed that airport skycaps would make the list.

A museum of characters in Ralston cereals through the latter half of the twentieth century. Make sure to scroll all the way to the end of page three

Adventures at the currency desk. This guy goes into a bank and changes 50 euros to dollars, then back, then back to dollars again, and so on until there’s nothing left.

Definitely the silliest explanation of the problems with nuclear proliferation I’ve seen.

Ars points to a collection of the worst album covers ever. Wow.

Talk about fragile sculpture!

Wow - someone actually tried it! They produced tomacco, a tomato that contains nicotine. Very nice.

PEZ is apparently too big a phenomenon to share space with other candy or toys. No, it definitely needs its own museum.

There are lots of people on the web who definitely have way too much time on their hands. Some of them make things that are kind of pretty, in a geometric sort of way.

The Nokia N-Gage is supposed to be a combination of a portable gaming device and a cell phone. At list price ($299) it costs enough to buy two or three of each. The design is likely to go down in history as a complete disaster. You have to take the batteries out to switch games. The form factor is pretty close to the original Game Boy Advance, but the speaker and microphone are on the side, so you have to hold it sideways on your head to talk with it. It’s this “feature” that inspired the Sidetalkin’ page, an exhibition of silly people holding other gaming devices up to their ears.