They Go to Impressive Lengths

I’m a sucker for lame jokes, and Unhappy Hipsters made me very happy with this, but I still prefer hipster puppies.

Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating « OkTrends

All my single friends should use OkCupid, if only for the awesome that is their blog.

Laser Pointer

I do worry my cats secretly hate laser-play.

That sound?

It’s my adolescent revolutionary fantasies bubbling to the surface after years of critique and repression:

Photo by Vladimir Pirogov/Reuters via Unleashing Chiang.

Easter Daddyblogging

You had me at 'primitive accumulation'.

YouTube – Janelle Monae: "Many Moons" Official Short Film

Now someone needs to fund the feature film.

Damage is a feature not a bug

Disaster porn for engineers:

This seemed like a good opportunity to point out that while that video makes the damage look pretty bad and cause youtube commenters to call for the designers heads, this is an example of a building behaving well.  The concrete outside the wall rebar cage spalled off, which looks like failure, but [...]

Way to go, guys!

Don't worry Nets, you'll always be the crappiest ever to me.

Chris Matthews: I'm still right & Grayson wrong about reconciliation!

I thought the show was called HARDFAIL.

They make the jokes too easy

The Architect’s Newspaper mistakenly lists the projected cost of the LA 101 freeway cap park at $1 trillion instead of $1 billion.  Come on architects, these are easy numbers…

Update: The landscape architects got it right.

Not forever…just for now

I thought this Ruffini health care retrospective began well, but what I don’t understand is once you admit to yourself that there are market failures that hurt people that government can ameliorate…where does that leave you?  Patrick says: “On health care, I have no idea what our basic guiding principle is. Seriously, I don’t.”  This sounds [...]

And it's on to the Senate

I agree with Biden.

Also refute the premise

SEK:

“Let me get this straight,” the liberals respond. “You want us to throw batting-practice fastballs, off a regulation mound, to batters holding rocket launchers while we’re in the field; but when we come to the plate, you expect us to hit doctored balls thrown off a spiked Little League mound with wooden bats, or you’re [...]

Bart Got What He Wanted – First Draft

I hope we get to experience the Bartmentum trainwreck really soon.

BBC News – Invisibility cloak created in 3-D

This is disturbing, and I'm the guy who always chooses invisibility over flying.

Even babies fall victim to Godwin’s Law

Photo from Potency by Nina Maria Kleivan

Nina Maria Kleivan:

You need to be conscious that your actions have consequences that impact on your fellow human beings. The people I let my daughter portray didn’t give a damn about the human cost, the casualties, their thoughts caused.

The responsibility is yours alone. You can’t throw it away [...]