In The Onion – Archaeologists Unearth Lousiest Civilization Ever:
Archaeologists working in a remote section of the Amazon Rainforest announced Tuesday that they have discovered the ancient remnants of what they claimed may be the lousiest civilization in human history.
According to Dr. Ronald Farber, a professor from the University of Minnesota who [...]
For all those who’ve had the pleasure of going through peer review – this video shows us that it affects even the worst of us:
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Good news: The journal Computational Linguistics is going open access in 2009.
Bad news: The announcement that the journal Computational Linguistics is going open access in 2009, isn’t open access. Oh well, at least their hearts are in the right place!
A chimpanzee riding on a segway. That is all.
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When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the reply was what they needed.
Unfortunately, the e-mail response to Swansea council said in Welsh: “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated“.
A steady stream of devoted evolutionists continued to gather in this small Tennessee town today to witness what many believe is an image of Charles Darwin—author of The Origin Of Species and founder of the modern evolutionary movement—”made manifest on a concrete wall in downtown Dayton.
Joe Queenan in the LA Times tries to justify his hatred of sharks, hyenas and anacondas:
Like most people in this country, I have long hated sharks, largely because of what they did to Robert Shaw in “Jaws.” For years, I thought of sharks as mindless, demonic eating machines, an attitude reinforced by [...]
