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Friday Fun: University of Virginia Rector Dragas Aims to Remove God from Notre Dame
Posted by John Dupuis on June 29, 2012 One thing you have got to give to the more-than-slightly unhinged staff at The Cronk of Higher Ed is that they have a bizarre and hilarious take on the most important issues in higher education. And sort of dead-on too. This is a case of So Funny It Hurts. U-Va. Rector Dragas Aims to Remove…
Friday Fun: Family of Graduate Sets New Standard in Love-Showing Unruliness
Posted by John Dupuis on June 22, 2012 Since it’s convocation season, I thought I’d share this one from the ever-amusing, never-lets-me-down-late-on-a-Friday-afternoon-looking-for-something-anything-to-post-for-Friday-fun. Family of Graduate Sets New Standard in Love-Showing Unruliness Families at Kennebunkport State University’s commencement ceremony left in shame, realizing they had failed to show enough love for their respective graduates. “After watching the Forrester family’s display of support for their…
Friday Fun: The scientist’s guide to insulting other scientists
Posted by John Dupuis on June 15, 2012 I always thought Wolfgang Pauli’s famous remark was the ultimate insult to scientists, but apparently I was wrong. Perhaps I was not even wrong given the plethora of scientific insults you can find out there. In any case, many “thanks” to the Knoepfler Lab blog for their descriptive, specialized, perhaps overly ambitious but somewhat derivative…
Friday Fun: Remembering Ray Bradbury
Posted by John Dupuis on June 8, 2012 This past week one of the true giants of fantastic literature died: Ray Bradbury. I like what Gregory Benford had to say on the Tor.com blog: Nostalgia is eternal for Americans. We are often displaced from our origins and carry anxious memories of that lost past. We fear losing our bearings. By writing of futures…
Friday Fun: Furious Facebook investors pacified by amusing picture of kitten
Posted by John Dupuis on June 1, 2012 It’s unseemly to revel in the misfortunes of others. Words to live by, ones I usually take very seriously. Of course, all bets are off for my Friday Fun posts, so let’s revel a bit in the misfortunes of Facebook and the man seated at the throne in King’s Landing. As its share value continued…
Friday Fun: Celebrate Christopher Lee’s 90th birthday!
Posted by John Dupuis on May 25, 2012 Christopher Lee — long one of my absolute favourite actors — is celebrating his 90th birthday on Sunday May 27. I have fond memories of Lee as Dracula in the Hammer films of the 1950s and 1960s which I watched on TV as a very terrified little tyke. In fact, I can’t imagine that today’s…
Friday Fun: “Fussy” dung beetles refusing to eat shit any more
Posted by John Dupuis on May 18, 2012 Yes, it’s been that kind of day. “Fussy” dung beetles refusing to eat shit any more To zoologists, they are nature’s great recyclers, the 5,000 or so species that feed on faeces and maintain the ecological balance of the deserts, farmlands, forests and grasslands of the world. However, this may be about to change, as…
Friday Fun: Walter Mosley on The Case for Genre
Posted by John Dupuis on May 11, 2012 Longtime followers of this blog will know that I’m a fan of genre fiction, and the more genres the better: science fiction, fantasy, horror, hard boiled and noir. And in a lot of ways those genre boundaries are fluid, and sometimes the authors themselves embody that fluidity. Walter Mosley is one of those authors, writing…
Friday Fun: Jedis disappointed with new “energy-saving” lightsabers
Posted by John Dupuis on May 4, 2012 This seems like a fun one for May the Fourth: Jedis disappointed with new “energy-saving” lightsabers Jedi knights have expressed anger at plans to phase out traditional lightsabers in favour of new, more environmentally-friendly models. ‘These new lightsabers are rubbish,’ complained Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. ‘They take ages to light up and when they do…
Friday Fun: How much of a Klouchebag are you?
Posted by John Dupuis on April 27, 2012 Klout is kind of evil. Basically, it’s the impact factor for the Web, where this random company uses a mysterious algorithm to quantify and rank people’s standing on social media — Twitter, Facebook, etc. There’s been some interesting commentary about it on teh interwebs these lasts few days, such as It’s terrifying how important your…
