Letters Remain

Category: humour

  • Being Creative with gapingvoid

    You may know gapingvoid from Hugh MacLeod’s “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards“. Now he’s telling us How To Be Creative. So you want to be more creative, in art, in business, whatever. Here are some tips that have worked for me over the years: You are responsible for your own experience. Everybody…

  • Where the Hell is Matt… Again

    Where the Hell is Matt… again. The third video, available in HD. Featuring Zero-G Matt, no less! 14 months in the making, 42 countries, and a cast of thousands. Thanks to everyone who danced with me. All of Matt’s videos can be found on his YouTube Channel, and WhereTheHellIsMatt.com via Link Banana

  • Non-Voting Political Philosophers and Stealing Ethicists

    When I read that political philosophers vote less often than other philosophers (and political scientists) I was reminded of the book Can a Robot be Human?. This book touches on the logic behind voting, and comes to the conclusion that – for an individual – it is pointless because no election has ever been decided…

  • ‘Improv Everywhere’ Going Mainstream?

    Are the Pranks of Improv Everywhere Mean Enough for Prime Time? is a New York magazine article profiling the quasi-group and its leader. An interesting introduction for the uninitiated and a look at what’s in store for the future for those who are fans. To date, they’ve staged more than 70 “missions,” as Todd calls…

  • Three of the Best Movie Reviews. Ever.

    Peter Bradshaw on The Hulk (in Hulk-speak, no less) “Hulk. Smash!” Yes. Hulk. Smash. Yes. Smash. Big Hulk smash. Smash cars. Buildings. Army tanks. Hulk smash all hope of interesting time in cinema. Hulk take all effort of cinema, effort getting babysitter, effort finding parking, and Hulk put great green fist right through it. Hulk…

  • Bananas: An Atheist’s Nightmare, and the Scourge of United Fruit

    The Banana: An Atheist’s Nightmare is a video I’ve seen linked in numerous places. I think this video nicely sums up Intelligent Design’s ignorance arguments. God exists because bananas fit well in the human hand and peel easily. First: Hahahahaha! Second: Peels easily? Are we ignoring the fact that – if anything – the banana…

  • The Purity Scale of Science (xkcd)

    This is for those of you who aren’t subscribers to my favourite comic, xkcd – a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Today’s episode deals with different branches of science and their purity; that is, can they be distilled down to a ‘more pure’ science. Maths is classed as the purest of sciences –…

  • Randall Munroe (of xkcd) Visits Google

    I absolutely, positively, know I’ve written about this and I would bet my life savings that I posted it, but alas I cannot find it anywhere. Every-so-slightly delayed (months later!), here’s what happened when Randall Munroe (of xkcd fame) was invited to Google – he also gave an Authors@Google talk. More Googleplex videos here, including…

  • When Obama Wins

    I’ve just been reminded of the amusing micro-site When Obama Wins, created by the eminent technologist and blogger Jason Kottke. For the reasoning behind the creation of WOW, see here. My favourite? When Obama Wins… we will all shower in beer and soap will be replaced by bacon.

  • Suing in the Name of God

    Soon it’s going to be illegal to see into the future; contact the deceased; and find out what’s inside closed envelopes. Well, probably… New laws are about to criminalise clairvoyants who fail to note on their advertisements that their services ‘are not subject to scientific proof’. Obviously, I’d like to think that the more intelligent…