LaTeX vs. Latex

by | Jan 26, 2008 | Technology

I’m on a mailing list for a LaTeX newsgroup, so I receive a digest of new postings a couple of times a day. I was skimming through the new messages in my Gmail inbox a few moments ago when some of the Google-placed ads and helpful links, which I usually ignore...

Darths & Droids

by | Jan 4, 2008 | General

If you thought that there was no enjoyment to be found in _Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace_, then you were wrong. Darths & Droids is a funny little webcomic created by a group of talented folks that restructures this movie tragedy into a table-top RPG...

Public Secret

by | Dec 5, 2007 | Asides

Ok, this is amusing. I just noticed on my Facebook news feed that someone joined a group called “I Secretly Want To Punch Slow Walking People In The Back Of The Head.” What’s amusing about this is that once you join a group, it shows up in your...

Truffled

by | Oct 16, 2007 | Asides

Funny quote for today: “Staff said he was observed ‘handling truffles in a suspicious manner.'” (“#”:http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/16/chocolatier-resigns.html)