"How can you try to tell me the light is better / when the darkness makes it whole?"

[larryhammer]

Stolen from kate_nepveu:

An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first orders a shot of whiskey. The next orders half a shot, then the next a quarter shot, the next an eighth -- at which point the bartender interrupts them, and says, "You're all idiots," and puts two shots on the bar.

Hee.

But that makes a good excuse for a link matzo brei:

• The. Future. Is. Here. Commercially available jetpack for $86,000. DUDE. There's the jetpack I was promised. (via)
  
  
• How the cure for scurvy was lost and found again, and the role of arctic exploration in the story. (via)
  
  
• Just follow his instructions and watch it in full-screen. Yes, it is all stop-motion.
  
  
• After watching The Daily Show's take on the rhetoric of political posturing (probably only visible in North America, alas), return to the previous and take another dose of relaxing.
  
  
• An investigation into the coterie of poets who've come together the comments of The New York Times website. (via)
  
  
• This? Is hysterically funny: What happens when a pro soccer team plays against 100 kids from a youth league. Watch past the nice ad first, pls. (via)
  
  
• Turn your iPhone into a foosball game. (via)
  
  
• This bluegrass cover of Metallica's "Enter Sandman" = almost as awesome as the bluegrass cover of The Wall. (via) But neither as as awesome as Christopher Lee reading "The Jabberwocky". (via)
  
  
• Thirteen ways to simply your workday. (via)

A final quote, from John Shedd:

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why ships are built."

Indeed.

---L.