Y’arrr!

Via James Fallows, Taiwan’s Next Media Animation has a mock-news cartoon on Facebook’s legal issues. If you never seen one of these, they’re hysterical:

Server Attention Span

Via xkcd, another dorky comic: I recently heard that the xkcd author lives in Cambridge, and decided to check out his about section for the first time today. Here’s what I found: Who are you? I’m just this guy, you know? I’m a CNU graduate with a degree in physics. Before starting xkcd, I worked on robots at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia. As of June 2007 I live in Massachusetts. In my spare time I climb things, open strange doors, and go to goth clubs dressed as a frat guy so I can stand around and look terribly uncomfortable. At frat parties I do the same thing, but the other way around. What does XKCD stand for? It’s not

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Cockfighting Accident

Well this is ironic: A California man has died after being accidentally stabbed in the leg by a sharp blade attached to a rooster at an apparent cockfighting match, the Bakersfield Californian reports. That’s unfortunate for a lot of reasons. To quote Arrested Development: “That’s why you always leave a note.”