for all the schoolkids in the audience

[eirias]

Your daily snark, courtesy of the fine folks at Language Log.

Comments

[kirin]

xkcd is pretty awesome in general.

Also, in a discussion of that strip, I discovered that the wikipedia article on the "riddle" is pretty fascinating. Especially in the number of really dumb variants people have come up with.

[gieves.livejournal.com]

*laugh*

I'm in an evil mood right now, and that made me much, much happier than it probably should have.