I’m the guy that, when forwarded an email about “amazing photos stored in an old Brownie Camera since 1941“, or this story about how some people get expensive paint-jobs for their cats will usually hit up Google for some Snopes reference.

So, today’s XKCD comic is quite up my alley:

Note: Comic is copyright, and used here under the Creative Commons licence. See XKCD for licence info

via Neowin, comes this great story in the UK Daily Mail:

Bus drivers have nicknamed a white cat Macavity after it has started using the No 331 several mornings a week.

The feline, which has a purple collar, gets onto the busy Walsall to Wolverhampton bus at the same stop most mornings - he then jumps off at the next stop 400m down the road, near a fish and chip shop.

Good to see atleast one cat using public transport - rather than driving a car around.

There’s a much more relaxed approach to animals on public transport in Europe & the UK, nothing like here in Aus where you’re likely to be set upon by passengers or officials.  

This is a crack up.

Man, I should have had this before I went to Italy. 

From Italy from the Inside (via Roberto D’Angelo’s MSDN Blog)

Absolutely brilliant.

Via Steve Clayton

Caution: NSFW.

via Userfriendly Link of the Day.

Despite my previous attempts at promoting Velociraptor awareness through this blog, it appears Velociraptors are still a major threat.

Today comes a Velociraptor Safety message from an XKCD reader Dr Daniel Snyder:

I notice that many of your comics revolve around people (including yourself) with a phobia of Velociraptor. This phobia revolves around Velociraptor overcoming some 70 million years of extinction and the geographic barriers between its home and yours, leaping out of the underbrush and/or through the kitchen, and doing unmentionable things to your innards with its teeth and claws.

Said Doctor holds a PhD in Vertebrate Paleontology, so is certainly more qualified than others who’ve given anti-raptor advice (such as Sam Neill).

Go read the full message, including some sage advice on how to adequately arm yourself against the inevitable Velociraptor attack.

Off to purchase several crates of grape juice.

Ah, more Bash.org:

#728751:

<ehFk> so today in class Mr. Frank was like “Guys, turn to page 404….”
<ehFk> me being a smartass say “Sir…. I can’t find it”
<ehFk> “Michael, It is page 404″
<ehFk> “SIR! I CAN’T FIND IT!”
<ehFk> I spent the next two minutes explaining  to my class what 404 meant
<ehFk> and they all looked at me like I was the biggest fucking nerd EVER

…Yeah, I wonder why

These arn’t new, but funny nontheless:

#6824 Truth in Coding:

<@Logan> I spent a minute looking at my own code by accident.
<@Logan> I was thinking “What the hell is this guy doing?”

#414593 Truth in Relationships:

DragonflyBlade21: A woman has a close male friend. This means that he is probably interested in her, which is why he hangs around so much. She sees him strictly as a friend. This always starts out with, you’re a great guy, but I don’t like you in that way. This is roughly the equivalent for the guy of going to a job interview and the company saying, You have a great resume, you have all the qualifications we are looking for, but we’re not going to hire you. We will, however, use your resume as the basis for comparison for all other applicants. But, we’re going to hire somebody who is far less qualified and is probably an alcoholic. And if he doesn’t work out, we’ll hire somebody else, but still not you. In fact, we will never hire you. But we will call you from time to time to complain about the person that we hired.

#205408 Truth in Internet Relationships

<malaclypse> The general rule on about people on IRC seems to be “Attractive, single, mentally stable: choose two”

Today’s comic from XKCD explains why the world is f’ed up and the only people who know how to fix it are being ignored. (They’re the somewhat weird guys shouting about some random gibberish).

It’s amazing what drunk South Australians can do.

An Eyre Peninsula man is the talk of the town after catching a bronze whaler shark in his hands and wrestling it up onto a jetty.

Phillip Kerkhof from Louth Bay was at the local jetty when the 1.3-metre shark began chasing squid lures.

He says he climbed down a ladder and began to follow the shark in shallow water.

“I just snuck up behind him and eventually I went for the big grab and I fluked it and got him,” he said.

“He’s just thrashing around in the water but then he was starting to turn around and try to bite me and I thought ‘well, it’s amazing what vodka does’.”

The only damage from the dangerous species was a bite mark to his jeans.

“It’s not something I’d recommend to do. When I sobered up I thought about it and I said, ‘I’m a bit of an idiot doing it’,” Mr Kerkhof said.

A bit of an idiot? No, really?