February 10th, 2010

Unit of measure

I came across a humorous measure today: there are two (live) popes per square kilometre in Vatican City. Consequentially, and perhaps unsurprisingly, Vatican City has the highest concentration of popes per square kilometre in the entire world.

March 7th, 2009

Saturday Morning

February 23rd, 2009

Seven-legged Spider

Yesterday there was an article posted to slashdot about Microsoft accidentally overpaying some laid-off employees. Microsoft has sent a letter to affected employees requesting the overpaid amount be returned. I was reading through the comments and one person suggested responding with “Dear Mr. Ballmer, please accept this drawing of a seven-legged spider…”

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