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I loved Avatar as much as the next guy, but the story isn’t exactly the most original. So, in that spirit: (via BoingBoing):

Man, do I ever hate The Phantom Menace. Apparently, so does this guy, to the point where he made a 70 minute (yes, the length of a feature film!) review deconstructing the movie. All seven parts are arranged on this web page.

The first part is here. Bet you can’t watch just the first part… :)

It’s funny because it’s true:

(via Dawg’s Blog)

xkcd is on point as usual, in this hilarious commentary:

Well, still cleaning up my hard drive… and found something else funny…

One of the my classmates back at medical school sent these out at the end of our pre-clerkship days… he’d been taking notes about all the funny things our crazy professors said during lectures. Ahh… brings back memories.

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I was cleaning up my hard drive and stumbled across this e-mail I had saved. I wrote it back when I was a student at Ottawa U and a member of the EDS (English Debating Society) there.

I seem to remember some argument or other that was happening on our e-mail list… and this was my interjection (I guess I was having an odd day).

Subject: Re: [englishdebatingsociety] none really…

Fellow bags of water,

I’d like to bring this case before you on the part of the tiny couriers that make these message exchanges possible… I implore you to side with me and cease this reckless waste of electrons! The poor things zip around all day at significant fractions of the speed of light, passing messages to photon couriers in the fiber optic cables, all for naught but sparing sips of Jolt (the ‘lectric juice, not the popular cola!). They do all this out of the kindness of their tiny lepton hearts; at least have the compassion and gratitude to relieve them of these sensless errands (Think of the electrons!).

Please, for all our sakes, lest you spark a giant sub-nuclear particle uprising (they’ve been our slaves for so long… but this kind of behaviour will surely anger them!), put them to more mindful work than sharing pet names and fantasies across the ether of the space that is not!

– [DancingSamurai]

(PS Don’t mind me I had a weird day)
(PPS Not responsible for misfirings of your neural net while attempting to decipher this message)
(PPPS – Somewhat on-topic, I wish everyone best of luck this weekend)

… even when there shouldn’t be.

I laughed so hard at this, I just had to share (via Shadowfax):

Similarly funny, if a more serious topic, is this great video – homeopathy vs real science (same source):

Choice quotes
“I’m sorry… ‘herbal medicine’ has been around for thousands of years… and indeed it has! And then we tested it all, and the stuff that worked became ‘medicine’. The rest of it is just a nice bowl of soup and potpourri, so knock yourself out!”

xkcd does it again (be sure to check out the ‘alt’ text when you hover over the image at the source):

xkcd – A Webcomic – Tech Support Cheat Sheet.