I hadn’t looked at McSweeney’s for a while. Here are some jokes somebody may not have remembered quite right.
For reasons that don’t bear scrutiny, I also found this pretty funny. I found the idea of it even funnier than the execution, though.

The cypherpunks have registered the username/password combination cypherpunks/cypherpunks at a number of places. Feel free to use it and/or register it yourself (the password may be “writecode” if the registration is old enough). If they want an email address, the convention is to use cypherpunks@toad.com.

Spalding Gray has gone missing, under circumstances that don’t foster optimism in me. He has been suicidal recently, and left his home without wallet, baggage, or medication.

All I’m asking for is deli-counter guys with frickin’ lasers on their heads.
Update: for technical specs of the laser (and the disappointing 1mm/sec cutting speed), see the optics.org report.

Alyson Hannigan in When Harry Met Sally. Yes, Luke Perry’s in it, too; but still, Alyson Hannigan!

I hadn’t heard that Brazil has been photographing and fingerprinting US visitors. Chamber of Commerce-types there are unhappy that it might discourage American visitors, but I say more power to them.

Opera sopranos’ excellent pitch comes at the expense of clarity. The only reason I mention this is because the article provides today’s Bonus Phrase: "fleshy tunnel".

Every so often, I feel obligated to remind myself and others that I really am a geek (yes, it’s probably hard to forget). To that end, Groklaw is the place to go if you want to know the latest in SCO’s battle to drive themselves out of business by attacking Linux users everywhere.

On the old blog, Sarah posted something about this Economist article about T9. That post is mysteriously gone, but I’m re-running my follow-up, because I love quoting myself:

Perhaps underscoring the difficulties associated with using (or learning, more to the point) T9, the article cited in the previous entry makes this statement: “Abbreviations such as ‘can’t’ and ‘won’t’ are difficult to type.” Leaving aside, of course, that the writer meant “contractions,” s/he must have been using a different T9 layout from the one I have, since “can’t” and “won’t” are no harder to type than any other five letter combination, and each is the first guess for its sequence.
There’s also no mention of the fact that T9 was not designed for cellphones, as such, and works better when freed from the phone keypad mapping.

Acid is cool. I mean, how else can you temporarily simulate such interesting brain damage?