This and That
July 28, 2015
Apparently, if you ask Siri on your iPhone to divide 0 by 0, she has a very snarky answer.
Jerry Pournelle's daughter has written a book set in Jerry's Mote universe called Outies. If you liked The Mote in God's Eye, you might enjoy this one as well.
A friend writes: Clickhole is a funny site. Very po-mo--didn't know whether to slap my forehead or my thigh with this chestnut about towels.
Several items via Daniel Dern:
- A wire recording (!) of a show written and performed by Tom Lehrer while he was at Harvard.
- 110 new Mark Twain stories discovered in digitized newspapers.
- The adorable short that played before The Hunger Games
- Must-see fan trailer: Avengers of Oz: Age of Tin Man
- Trailer for Oct 2015 PAN movie
- Joe Phillips Silver Screen Heroes Imagines an Old Hollywood Take on Superhero Movies
- Muppet Show promo: Worth watching the whole thing. Cameos include Topher Grace halfway thru.
And a few from Dan Grobstein
- Netflix funny take on Groundhog Day
- Writers! Behind on that deadline? Need to tell your editor? Let Dorothy Parker show you how it's done.
Kent Peterman passed along this link: Chattanooga Shooting: American Violence Never Ends
I made the HumorLab list again--almost number one!
And the Number Two Ant-Man Pet Peeve.. I'm ignored by clerks at the DMV. Oh wait...