This semester, my students were creating a website which features a to-do list. Anyone who registers on the site can create their own to-do items which they can retrieve later.   Unfortunately, some of the students hadn’t quite implemented authentication properly when their sites went live, and one of their classmates was a vandal with fellatio on their mind.

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I know you are all in awe of my mad procrastination skillz (go on, admit it!).  Well, now you too can learn this amazing ability in the comfort and privacy of your own home!!  Introducing the revolutionary new Complete Procrastination Flowchart System (patent pending), specially formulated for daily use!  All you have to do is follow these quick, easy steps and in just 12 hours a day you too can be transformed into a procrastinator*.

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The 2008 Ig Nobel Awards have been announced.  These awards are given to research “that cannot, or should not, be reproduced.”  Some of my favourites from previous years include research into curing hiccups through “digital rectal massage”, research into the brain activity of a locust watching Star Wars, testing whether we swim slower in syrup or water, and an investigation into the validity of the 5 second rule for food dropped on the floor.

Some of this years research findings include:

• Food tastes better when it sounds better (Nutrition)
• Armadillos can muck up an archaeological dig (Archaeology)
• Expensive placebos work better than cheap placebos (Medicine)
• Coca-Cola is a spermicide (Chemistry)
• Coca-Cola is actually not a very effective spermicide, although Diet Coke is slightly better than other recipes (Chemistry)

(Full list of winners with references in Wikipedia)

Scott Adams is the guy who writes the Dilbert cartoons. He also has a very entertaining (and sometimes thought-provoking) blog and has written some very funny and interesting books (which I’ll write about some other time). This is just a random collection of some of his soundbites that I enjoy the most:

“If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it’s done.”

It’s called a "concept car" because that sounds better than "something we pulled out of our ass and hope to someday shove up yours."
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It’s my blog, and I’ll post my favourite youtube videos if I want to :p At least, I will when I’m too busy to actually write anything more interesting.

This ad for Sky’s Fresh TV channel is full of innuendo. How many do you recognise?

I got 15 the first time I watched, and then there were a few others that I had to look up to confirm. How filthy are you?

Rainbow was a kids TV program that ran during the 70s and 80s. It featured Geoffrey, Bungle, Zippy and George and a few random others. It certainly wasn’t my favourite program, but I must’ve watched a fair bit of it over the years.

But this isn’t quite how I remember it from my childhood:

Some people out there on the interwebs seem to think this is evidence that children’s TV is and always was filthy and smutty and we kids used to be just too innocent to notice, but it’s not true. They filmed this for a BBC christmas party special – it was for internal use only. I bet they had a blast doing it, but I marvel at how they could keep straight faces through it.

One of the tasks my students have to do during their first assignment is to start a new thread on our discussion forum. There are no rules, they can post about anything.

Student 1 calls his thread ‘Sup noobs’. Here is the exchange that ensued:

Student 1: Assignment zero weow!
Student 2: lol t3h n00bz0r is j00
Student 2: wewt
Student 1: stfu

I know it’s ridiculous, but I really really like this. I keep playing it over and over and over. I think maybe I’m addicted to dick in a box