And I thought that People’s Republic of China had unions to protect workers…

But, when you’ve been using so much coke, you need to clean your car. Just don’t try to do it the same way as…

An Internet user collected them all (nearly) in a single sequence.

Today, I found this great cartoon from Ctrl+Alt+Del by Tim Buckley. This is the future of gaming, but be careful who you interact with in video games:

I definitely recommend your daily visit to the CAD-comic web site. Tim is producing a great stream of comics (for people found of video games, that is).

Your screen may not thank Xtian for this idea!

I love the sound of the commentary. This is so seventies.

If you’re not a scientist and you don’t understand these, there is no shame to feel. Some scientists are just wondering what this is all about…

Source: Brian Malow on Fora.tv.

For example, the only known video showing Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) at home with his two daughters Clara and Jean:

But a brilliant writer like Mark Twain is worth more than a bad quality old movie. Far from being an actor, he was a writer and, thus, was able to delightfully write about anything at any time. For example, when he addresses a a snake oil peddler: “You, sir, are the scion of an ancestral procession of idiots stretching back to the Missing Link”.

Dear Sir, Your letter is an insoluble puzzle to me. The handwriting is good and exhibits considerable character, and there are even traces of intelligence in what you say, yet the letter and the accompanying advertisements profess to be the work of the same hand. The person who wrote the advertisements is without doubt the most ignorant person now alive on the planet; also without doubt he is an idiot, an idiot of the 33rd degree, and scion of an ancestral procession of idiots stretching back to the Missing Link. It puzzles me to make out how the same hand could have constructed your letter and your advertisements. Puzzles fret me, puzzles annoy me, puzzles exasperate me; and always, for a moment, they arouse in me an unkind state of mind toward the person who has puzzled me. A few moments from now my resentment will have faded and passed and I shall probably even be praying for you; but while there is yet time I hasten to wish that you may take a dose of your own poison by mistake, and enter swiftly into the damnation which you and all other patent medicine assassins have so remorselessly earned and do so richly deserve. Adieu, adieu, adieu! Mark Twain

I would love to be able to apply this myself to one of the modern spammers.

But Mark Twain was also man of a wider judgment: “Of all the creatures that were made, man is the most detestable… The only one, the solitary one, that possesses malice… He is the only creature that has a nasty mind.” Mark Twain

Happy Birthday!

Even blondes can be real geeks!

I did not think so. This was probably quite a job to build, but it’s so nice.

Go to the web site for more: Old jews telling jokes.

You can join the competition for the beard holding the largest number of wooden toothpicks:

If you feel a pinch, don’t accuse the beard!

In order to stay on the competition field, there was this beard contest in Alaska in May 2009. The new champion: David Traver.

Isn’t it a nice beard?

But must must also know when to be serious about beards. This is why “The Language of the Beard“, published in 1913 in London, presented (and ranked) poets by the mass of their beard.

John Burroughs (1837 – 1921)
Beard type: Claus-esque
Typical opus: Waiting
Gravity (UPI rating): 43

But I was also mentioned a darker side of beards in our society so afraid of terrorism.

But some wanted to tell us about the more troubling side of beards in our society now permanently afraid of the possibility of terrorism.

So, there is no surprise in seeing super-heroes (this epitome of the American popular culture) turning to beards (would you recognize them?):

Last but not least, shouldn’t I mention the attention drawn to facial hair in Mafia Wars (the online game in Facebook)? There, you can collect beards, barber tools, etc.