In sadder news today, George Carlin has passed away. As a tribute to him, here is one of my favorite stand up routines:

10. People who believe in talking snakes and virgin births are allowed to hold public office. Currently it is the opposite; belief is basically a requirement.

9. Libraries still use the dewey-decimal system.

8. Sending a text message costs 10cents, but a data plan costs $10/month. What’s the difference….it’s all digital signals.

7. It’s cool to be dumb in high school.

6. People actually watch Fox news.

5. 91% of Americans believe in god.

4. $1.2 trillion can buy this, a bit outdated but still a good article.

3. People still use Internet Explorer 6, or less. IE 6 accounts for 30% of IE traffic on this site. Overall I am actually pretty impressed with my readers. My site is viewed by Firefox 75% of the time, well ahead of the Internet average. That reminds me, make sure to download Firefox 3 tomorrow.

2. People pay for bottled water.

1. The Homeschooling Science Fair (Where is the science?) I feel really sorry for this girl, but I am putting her picture up anyways:

If you guys have any more to add to the list, just email them to me, and I’ll add yours to the list with a link.

http://www.imvotingrepublican.com/

This is for my mom, who has one of these in front of her computer.

Last Friday, I graded a comment by Etienne. I just want to announce that he has shown himself and written quite a long defense.

Go check it out [here]. It’s pretty funny. He has even invented a few new words.

A few exceprts:

trying to ridiculize me does not make you smarter ( this is a well known technique used to try gaining credibility when faced with opposition)

This information about Darwin is not usually communicated because the main reason that this theory is so widely accepted is because it gets rid of all morality. (no God to answer to anymore)

According to the evolution theory all the matter of the universe was concentrated into a tiny area the size of a dot (.).

There’s plenty more of these gems in the full comment.

I want to start out by saying how much I appreciate comments. They are one of the things that keeps me blogging and almost all of them are good.

Lately, however, I have been getting quite a few poorly thought out comments. These are normally from creationists. I really do not understand why they keep on exposing themselves like this, as people are just going to make fun of them even more (like this).

Etienne has been kind enough to provide me with some fodder for this post, and I have kindly graded her comments below.

I hope this does not put too many people off commenting here, but maybe it will make people a bit more cautious.

These comments were from a post I wrote a while ago about losing respect for Ben Stein. Check out the graded version below:

(click the image to enlarge to fullsize)

I have noticed that google ads’ targeting system is getting progressively worse over time. I noticed some pretty random ads in my gmail sidebar today, and decided to take a screenshot and share them with you.

Obviously, they don’t match the content of my emails, but they are pretty funny. All of the ads are totally unrelated even to themselves. I wonder what kind of of ads people that actually have vampire fetishes are getting.

I am happy that they are better targeted here on this site than on gmail. Maybe it is because content on this site is easier to target.

If you notice any funny, unrelated adsense units, please send them in.

Check out the link unit below:

Ok, I didn’t get owned that badly, but I have definitely been one upped. Last week, I posted a Lego creation of the online personality Chris Pirillo that I made at home. Yesterday, some more Lego creations appeared in Pirillo’s Flickr Photostream. These new ones are definitely better than the ones I did. The bad part is that my Lego is still at my parents’ place, so I can’t try to make a better one.

These were made by someone under the alias Oysterjelly565. I couldn’t really find any info about this guy. Maybe he should have taken Chris’s recent advice to make sure you have an online home. To quote Chris:

It’s great to have accounts on many different places. But if you cannot at least direct people back to you somehow, by having your own personal space to keep track of it all… you’re potentially losing yourself and your identity

…..will the real Oysterjelly565 please stand up….

Here’s the Lego creation:

[via]