It appears to have been a huge success.
Category Archives: Humor
Pedagogy
An amusing XKCD.
That was the question I always had when people explained how wings worked and the Bernoulli Effect. The answer, of course, is that there are lots of ways to get lift, but that this is the most efficient one with the least drag. You can get lift from a barn door. Stick your hand out the window in a fast car, and you can get lift by just increasing the angle of attack, but the L/D is terrible. So when aerobatic planes are upside down, they have to keep nose up (down, from the pilot’s perspective) and up the thrust quite a bit to maintain altitude.
Carbon Action Day
Iowahawk has a contest to increase your carbon footprint. I’m going to go for heavy breathing, myself, though if I had the money, I’d hire a private jet.
A Failure Of The Free Market
I’m not quite sure what the moral to this story is, if indeed it even has one.
If You Do This In An Email
[Via Geekpress]
Why I Am Not A Salesman
This is pretty funny, but NSFW, language wise.
News You Probably Can’t Use
This is pretty funny, but it has some bad words, so I won’t embed.
Keeping Score
Don Surber has the latest roundup of good versus evil.
What If The Bear Had A Pointed Stick?
A Montana woman fought off a bear attack with a zucchini.
Guess there were no bananas handy.
Well, That Explains It
I’m from the Midwest:
According to a new survey from Men’s Health, the Midwest is best at having sex.
Of course, I’m from the upper Midwest, which just makes it that much better. And I think this explains the higher procurement of marital aids by those coasters. Not to mention that they’re mostly Democrats.