Live Shakespeare sketch with Hugh Laurie and Rowan Atkinson

Shakespeare sketch

"Joe public … loves the crazy chick in the see through dress who does the flower gag and then drowns herself."

Tales for the Leet: Romeo and Juliet

Tales for the Leet: Romeo and Juliet it's the sound track from Baz Luhrmann's production that does it for me. in my defense, i had a big crush on Claire Danes from "my so called life". oh yeah, i forgot that was supposed to be in my defense.

2007 John Schneider Memorial Open

More about the tournament to come (waiting for the results), but for now there's the picture.

Update: John Schneider Memorial Open Results are in. There's a video of the championship match.

Update 2: USATT ratings are in, along with the results of my matches. I went up from 970 to 1026. Would have been a bunch more if I'd won that last deuce game with Lou Claude. The elder two Zeleners (whose family I played altogether too many times that tournament) did very well, Both Alex and Ilana are now over 1200.

Katsumushi Katana - Limited Edition

man. this blade, this Dragonfly Katana, just took my breath away.

Renaissance Festival Podcast

Bedlam Bards, etc. I think I've found my favorite musical genre.

Ajaxload - Ajax loading gif generator

dunno about you, but I sure don't have time to fuck around in ImageReady designing my own loading graph. Just plug in the corporate blue and you're ready to go.

Desktop Tower Defense

flash game for those who like to create death traps on their desktops at work.

xkcd - Collecting Double-Takes

this post is just a reminder to read the title text of the comic image. and feel free to blame me if you had forgotten and are subsequently deeply disturbed.

I Used To Believe : selected : best

i so needed something like this to lighten up my day. now be damned if i get any work done.

YouTube - Andy vs. Everybody: Origins 2005

too painfully nerdy not to share.

This Guy Can Get 59 MPG in a Plain Old Accord.

This guy is crazy, but you gotta respect that level of obsession, and turning better MPG into something that sounds fun (if somewhat scary and stupid at times, try some of this shit in LA and you'd die). kottke.org.

Evolution and Religion - Darwin’s God - Robin Marantz Henig - New York Times

Spent the weekend painting Cybil's new location with her mom. Have decided that the best way to approach religious nut cases is to simply not reply to their zealotry. Don't negotiate with terrorists, don't discuss science with creationists; both are lose-lose situations. Creationists dismiss little concepts like peer review, so I have no problem dismissing them.

Once you've dismissed the nut cases you're still left with otherwise perfectly sane people who believe in something else, which is not as easily dismissed, but begs the question, "Why?" That's where this article picks up, trying to come up with a rational (evolutionary) explanation for religious belief.

xkcd » Blog Archive » Velociraptor Safety

xkcd is one of the best web comics that has been recently added to our collective reading at work, but in case you guys aren't subscribed to his blog, this one is a must read.