…because nothing says dictatorship like arresting people for eating ice-cream

• Clay Shirky

A Distributed Shared Memory System With Self-Adjusting.. Wang

• An unfortunate cropping of a research paper reference, lending itself to a rather amusing mental image. Also happens to be the the top google hit for “self-adjusting wang”. [source]

When the only tool you have is birth control, all your problems start to look like this thing you can maybe have safe sex with.

• dinosaur comics

UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer said: “We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.”

• BBC News

Any time i might ever have something to say in slashdot comments, thousands of geeks before me have said it, argued about it, and made crass jokes about its mother

• (me)

Bootable media is for pansies!

• me, in response to a computer’s accusation that I have none