This showed up on an internal FreeBSD mailing list: Continue reading “Best. Spam. Ever.”
Author: Dag-Erling Smørgrav
A voice like sand and glue
Well, that was a waste of money.
K and I went to see Bob Dylan play at Oslo Spektrum tonight. In one word: atrocious. Continue reading “A voice like sand and glue”
Weather &c
It’s been an interesting week. Quick replay of the last eight days:
Sunday
Off-road driving on a frozen field. Spent over an hour getting there because the directions I was given were out of date by about three years. Got to practice winter driving at unsafe speeds in borrowed RWD and FWD cars and my own AWD. Lot of fun, until something tore my left rear brake line. Got to ride home in tow truck. Continue reading “Weather &c”
The days of yore…
…before September:
What really caught me up in stitches, though, was the bit from 5:03 to 5:10.
Why Scientists Shun the Media
I picked this up from Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science blog:
Coffee gives your children cancer, doctors didn’t say today after not carrying out exhaustive research into the link that doesn’t exist between caffeine and babies.
Read the full article; it’s a deliciously spot-on parody of mass media’s approach to science. Unfortunately, it’s also based on a real newspaper article…