I found a fail!

I submitted it to failblog.

The Noam Chomsky Show

(Via Brian Leiter; Crossposted to Johnny Logic)

Short, Short, Short Story Contest

NPR is holding a contest, which ends this week. (I just learned about it.)

This summer, we're beginning a contest called "Three-Minute Fiction." The premise is simple: Listeners send in original short stories that can be read in three minutes or less — that's usually about 500-600 words long.

The winner gets interviewed on Weekend All Things Considered, gets to have his or her story read on air, and gets a book.

Here's where you'll find the rules.

I submitted one and hope to get another in.

How about you?

Lovelace and Babbage Comics!

Turing bless Sydney Padua for his alternate universe version of Lovelace and Babbage.

Read them all:

• The origin of Ada Lovelace
• Babbage vs The Economy, part 1, part 2, and part 3
  
• Ada Lovelace in The Person from Porlock
• Babbage and Lovelace vs The Client (in progress)

READ THEM!

The Powerpuff Girls - The Mayor as the Big Lebowski

This is so very good. That is all.

GROW UP, Already!

Oh, Morgan Freeman- that's just... gross. And sad.

Not sure I can ever look at him the same way again...

Don't Mess with Mr. Stuffins

Teddy Ruxpin meets Bond. I'm sold!

Really?

My first thought upon seeing the above picture was not Sarlacc Pit.

(To be fair, though, as I got older, when I saw that scene in Jedi, all I could really see was the teeth and that made me think of being bitten.)

via GeekDad

How did Death Star 2 blow up?

Oh, yeah!

There's another panel to the comic, but really, who cares?

The Uber-Cute

Many more over here.

I had to cleanse myself after reading the horrible Pokémon fan fiction.