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1 - You drop something and your left hand instinctively reaches out to press Ctrl-Z

2 - You receive a handwritten note and instinctively scan the top looking for a timestamp

3 - You try to write a handwritten note but you spend so much time looking for paper and pen or pencil that you give up and just write an email

4 - You try to write a handwritten note but your hand cramps after just 2 or 3 words

5 - You mentally categorize people without email addresses as 'Dead'

6 - When you hear a song you like on the radio/PA system you try to vote it up

A lot of corny jokes, but a lot of truth too

xkcd is a webcomic that has been around for a number of years and Randall is posting his 700^th entry this week.

It's the only comic I read now. The ones in the paper (on the rare occasion [less than once per month] when I read a newspaper) are embarrassingly unfunny, as are most web-only comics. But xkcd has moments of insight - and is perhaps the only heir to the long-lost and Calvin & Hobbes in terms of its mix of intellect, humor, and sentimentality.

The best strips are typically one-idea jokes that have something to do with math:

But some great ones are almost more like HowToons than comics:

It's not for everyone, and some of the nerdier strips require information that I don't, and won't ever, have - but it's worth checking out.

This is a punchline for which I just couldn't think of a good set-up:

"Orange you glad I didn't say, 'Banana hammock'"

If it needs explaining, it isn't worth it.

Chris McVeigh has a lot of fun and funny photos. There is something about the composition and color that makes them more compelling than simple snapshots of toys and animals.

From Variety:

"Elton John's Rocket Pictures hopes to make the first Jane Austen adaptation to which men will drag their girlfriends."

From the New York Times:

"The movie “Pride and Predator,” directed by Will Clark and written by Mr. Clark with Andrew Kemble and John Pape, will juxtapose brooding aristocrats with a brutal alien that lands in 1800s-era Britain, attacking residents and leaving them with neither sense nor sensibility."

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On Monday, Christoph Niemann had another piece in the Times: I LEGO N.Y.

It's one of those things that seems so obvious in hindsight, yet so clever. It made me quite nostalgic. One of the pictures I didn't get, the "worst" building. I lived in NYC for 11 years but don't know what that's supposed to be.

Niemann's last piece was the one on coffee. Where each picture is drawn using coffee on a paper napkin. Equally brilliant.

I wasn't sure whether there would be a second season of Flight of the Conchords. It seems everyone I know has the DVD of the first season, which was great, but exhausted all the good songs that the two guys have been performing for the past several years.

The first episode of season two follows the same format as the other season, except there are three songs instead of the usual two per episode, none of which are as good as the ones from last year. High hopes, though.

I just saw episode 2, though, and it was hilarious and the songs have been swimming in my head ever since.

This is a coup for Joost, which is trying to compete with the better-known Hulu.

"Used Frying Oil Available for Biodiesel"

(from cockeyed.com)