Unofficially, November is National Beard month. If you’re considering face-fuzz, The Morning News offers a run down of the basic beard styles (or Wikipedia). If the benefits of beard growth alone aren’t worth it and you need some sort of reward, I suggest working towards an entry for the 2007 World Beard and Moustache Championship. Lastly, if you need inspirational support for your archipelago nightmares, you could try visiting the beard group or the Team USA weblog.
That worn, weathered, stamped look
Here’s a brief tutorial for creating that worn, weathered, stamped look.
Improving crappy comics: Fart Machine
This may be faulty logic, but follow me through. The Globe and Mail is supposed to be Canada’s high-brow, more intelligent newspaper, the New York Times of Canuckland if you will. As such, you will find me doing the challenge crossword on any given day of the week (like any good igloo-dwelling citizen). Now, we all know the Times invented the crossword, but they stay away from cryptics — it promotes a weird level of pomposity. For good cryptics, you want to turn to the New Yorker and Fraser Simpson (he authors the Saturday cryptic in the Globe).
So, what does all this newspaper name-dropping have to do with comics? Well, the Globe publishes a view comics next to their challenge cryptics. We can only assume that’s it’s some vain attempt at reproducing the cerebral air of the New Yorker’s strip. Long story short, the Backbench comic next to the cryptic wasn’t particularly funny until I made a few changes. See if you can spot them!
New photoshop image
This image is something I threw together tonight. There wasn’t really any purpose, that’s why it’s in junk over at Seal Club. Just one of those photoshop experiments that ended up looking kind of cool.
Women of curling nude calendar
The women of curling are gaining greater exposure via their nude calendar (insert obligatory playing with rocks joke here). You can purchase the calendar via The Curling News. They also have a weblog about the sport; it offers some details about the calendar and today’s media response.
Google costume
Need a costume for tonight? In a pinch, going as Google Image Search seems relatively easy, but you’ll probably need body armor or a helmet to stave off the inevitable beating.
How to Survive a Robot Uprising
How to survive a robot uprising. I want it. This book will be essential in helping us deal with the future robot rebellion.
The case of the 500 mile email
Here’s a weird sys-admin story about a statistics department that couldn’t send email more than 500 miles. It would definitely be one of those tech-support calls that you choke on.
Introduction to visual math
An introduction to visual math. For those unfamiliar with the likes of golden ratios and the Mandelbrot sets.
How to keep four feet on the ground
A physicist has shown that when you get a wobbly table at a restaurant, it’s pretty much a given that you can rotate the table so it’s no longer unstable. Research courtesty of the great minds at CERN.