Size matters 13 Jan 201213 Jan 2012 As always, click on the image to go see the entire Tony Piro goodness Evolution Humor
Censorship No shit! 14 Dec 2008 Here’s an article, by MSN no less, that explains the problems with broad filtering. A fellow named Herman Libshitz can’t get an email account from Verizon because his name contains “shit”. Residents of Scunthorpe in the UK apparently have similar problems. God only knows what the residents of Testiclebreastpenisvaginaville can… Read More
Humor Wikipedia is down 5 Jul 2010 Now, the question is, does that decrease or increase the available knowledge? Read More
Evolution Some reading 18 Jul 2009 My longtime correspondent Bill Benzon has a very nice piece on the biological failure of the so-called “literary Darwinism” movement, in particular that of Joseph Carroll, who is the leading exponent of it. As Bill points out, we can mistake cultural tropes for biological traits all too easily. Will Thomas… Read More
So why are plantain bigger? And what about pineapple? (there is a joke surrounding fruit size but it’s not PC, and is best told in a pub)