A bottle of mustard?

<a href="http://rvb.roostertooth.com">Since Reconstruction's over...</a>

Y'all might as well get caught up on Red vs Blue. What you can't get there is on YouTube. Don't worry, it's only 100 episodes, two mini-series totalling 9 episodes, 19 episodes of Reconstruction, and 30 or so PSAs. (You don't really need to watch the PSAs to get the rest.) All you really need to understand Reconstruction (which is fantastic) is a couple seasons of Blood Gulch Chronicles and the two mini-series (Out of Mind and Recovery One, in that order).

Why yes, I am pimping RvB everywhere nowadays.

http://www.dilbert.com/animation/

Dilbert strips animated. I suppose you could've guessed that from the address, huh? ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am3jc...eature=related

The Lumberjack Song as performed by Monty Python set to images from Ranma 1/2. It's fun!

Moskau buffalaxed. Lyrics are in places a little... explicit? Perhaps not for the easily upset, or those with taste in music. >.>

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=493630

The guys over at the Straight Dope forums are compiling quite the list of geek jokes. If you don't feel like browsing both pages I'll compile the best (in my opinion) here:
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f(x) goes into a pub. The landlord says "Sorry, we don't cater for functions".

f '(x) goes into a pub. The landlord says "Sorry, we don't cater for functions". (This may look like the same joke, but it's not; it's derivative humour.)
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An engineer walks into a room and spots a fire in a trash can. He runs out, grabs a bucket of water and throws it on the fire.

A physicist walks into a room and spots a fire in a trash can. He calculates the exact amount of water needed to put the fire out, runs out, gets the water and throws it on the fire.

A mathematician walks into a room and spots a fire in a trash can. He calculates the exact amount of water needed to put the fire out, then walks out of the room because the problem is essentially solved.
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To an optimist the glass is half full.
To a pessimist the glass is half empty.
To an engineer the glass is twice the size it should be.
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An engineer was crossing a road one day when a frog called out to him and said, "If you kiss me, I'll turn into a beautiful princess". He bent over, picked up the frog and put it in his pocket. The frog spoke up again and said, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will stay with you for one week." The engineer took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it and returned it to the pocket. The frog then cried out, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a princess, I'll stay with you and do ANYTHING you want." Again the engineer took the frog out, smiled at it and put it back into his pocket. Finally, the frog sked, "What is the matter? I've told you I'm a beautiful princess, that I'll stay with you for a week and do anything you want. Why won't you kiss me?" The engineer said, "Look I'm an engineer. I don't have time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog, now that's cool."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXWQIiFxjbc

Vreenak's Big Fake-Out. Just watch, you won't be disappointed, I promise.

http://stargate-sg1-solutions.com/blog/?p=720

It's sad that Daniel Jackson won't be a part of Stargate Universe, but the following quote was great. Regarding a desire to have Vala as well...

“He’s a gun-wielding archeaologist! She’s a hot alien thief! THEY FIGHT CRIME!!!”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuZPY...eature=channel

The Star Trek XI trailer. So, yeah...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMHAZ...eature=related

Apparently someone was irked that Riker keeps sitting on control consoles. Witness the results!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq3dG...eature=related

Clips of the first actress who was cast as Captain Janeway. You may be interested.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Zhoesi7cg

Clips from the Star Trek XI trailer set to the Smallville theme song. I'm a big fan of Smallville, so this tickled me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc4LP...eature=channel

As a longtime fan of the Floating Hands animations, of course this one tickled me. You're gonna love the trick ending.

http://www.dreadgazebo.com/index.php...=article&sid=8

The tale of Eric and the Gazebo. I never did any tabletop RPGs, but I have friends who do, so this story amused me.

Yep, that's a classic. Another of my favourites is the Head of Vecna. And Al Bruno III has a whole bunch of great RPG-hell stories in his Binder of Shame. By the way, although I love RPG humour, I've never role-played either -- though I have friends who do, including Sa'ar.

In other news... WHAT DO THEY THINK WILL HAPPEN?

Out me as a nerd, why doncha...?

I've never gamed with a group as profoundly stupid as some of those, but I've seen something close.

Then there's the fact my dice hate me...

You run the Babylon 5 section of a website. That ship has sailed, my friend.

For the sake of something to post...

http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/retrosciencefiction/

Some of them will have disappeared in the meantime, but there's still some excellent stuff on there.

It's the Sokumenzu Generator! This thing will take a word and show you another word it might look like from the side if the letters were constructed in a certain... well, it's easier just to try it and see.

<a href="http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/toys/dailymail/">Daily Mail-O-Matic</a>

My name works out to Shame, and "Saar" turns into anal. I think this thing has it in for me.

For all that he runs a "radical journal", I gotta hand it to this Withiel guy. If <s>Samuel Marchbanks</s> Robertson Davies were still alive, these are the kind of complaint letters he'd write.

http://www.xkcd.com/549/

XKCD takes on The Princess Bride. Must be read to be believed.

Via fortemaster (a fellow Ottawan and fan of the site), here's the memoirs of the guy who designed the decon chamber.

Also, my new favourite blog is Save Your Generation by pistols at dawn. To see why, scroll down to where it says "labels".

*Warning* Time-killers ahead!
 

Well, if we're gonna bring up RPG stuff, it doesn't look like "1250 things Mr. Welch can no longer do during an RPG" has been linked here yet.

And then there's the Post-Mortem Hall of Fame.

Maybe this is dangerous, and maybe you've already heard of it, but I present... Dwarf Fortress, quite possibly the most complexly thought out game ever created. The graphics are basic, to say the least (though if ASCII doesn't take your fancy there are fan created tilesets available) and the learning curve is atrocious... but if you can get to the end of Wikipedia's article without at least feeling intrigued then you are no true nerd.

I don't think I've seen this posted here yet: Drex Files

This has got to be the only place on the internet not linked to TV Tropes.

<a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main">And now it isn't.</a>

I coulda sworn we already linked to that. In any event...

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NateTheGreat

My Contributor Page. I hope you don't mind me using the quote, mudshark. It's a favorite of mine, and is quickly becoming my official motto.

Is this an appropriate point at which to mention Progress Quest and then go on to praise Planescape, KotOR II and NWN2: Mask of the Betrayer?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8gA6...eature=related

If any of you like Whose Line Is It Anyway, here's a game where they make a Geordi LaForge joke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWXcD...eature=related

Somebody took the normal swords out of the Inigo/Rugen duel from The Princess Bride and put in lightsabres! Sound effects and everything!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGQ20...eature=related

A group of students put on a performance of the original Super Mario Brothers on stage. Complete with sound effects, music, and props for all of the enemies and powerups.

http://xkcd.com/567/

Uh, is there an electrical guy out there that can explain this one to me?

Heheh.

It's not electrical so much as perceptual. ;) When an atom changes charge, it's usually because it loses or gains electrons. Protons tend to just sit around in the nucleus.

When an atom has one more electron than it has protons, it has a negative charge . . . but it presumably got that way by means of an electron being added to it . . . but that means its charge dropped from zero to -1 . . .

People are not used to associating "negative" or a "decrease" with "addition". ;) But they didn't know about electrons and protons back in Franklin's day, of course, and so he called one positive and the other negative without any knowledge of what was really going on. As it happens, he guessed "wrong".


[edit]I think that some engineers -- electrical engineers? engineers in the armed forces? -- use the opposite convention, calling electrons positive and protons negative. This means that their currents flow opposite to everyone else's currents! :p But then, they use J to signify a current in an equation, whereas everyone else uses I. So they're just kinda weird like that. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHX2TJkG-gY

The latest Trek 11 TV spot.

PNQ: Does "This is not your father's Star Trek'' feel insulting to anyone else? 'Cause I find it very insulting.

It felt insulting when they said it about ENT too. It's also literally untrue -- this IS my father's Star Trek. They went back to the same characters because they knew it would sell. Kinda hypocritical to pretend otherwise.

In other news: Fighting fire with fire, stream-of-consciousness style.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8037688.stm

It's official; Duke Nukem Forever is dead. For ten years I've paid tribute to the King of Vaporware, for ten years I've been tormented by those three words that haunt the dreams of every Duke fan, "when it's done."

Furthermore, I've been a fan of Apogee/3D Realms for much longer, so to hear that they've gone under depresses me greatly.

http://www.bunny-comic.com/

Like xkcd, but daily, funnier, less geeky, and original. With bunnies.

Bunny's a fun comic. The size of the archives is intimidating, but since it's a gag panel comic, you don't really have to read them all (unless you're some sort of near-neurotic completist... cough).

ShadowBent is an interesting sketch blog. I found it today while looking up a Ray Bradbury story (as I've noted before, he's probably my all-time favourite sf writer). Brian, the blogger, has done a sketch for each story in Bradbury's classic The Illustrated Man. His style is very much like that of Joe Mugnaini, a friend of Bradbury's who did the official illustrations for some of his books. If you've read the stories, the comment threads are worth checking out too.

And another thing: Kriegsaffe No. 9's reflections on doors. (K#9 is a guy I became familiar with through his extremely bizarre Azumanga Daioh fanworks. He's into Cthulhu and whatnot.)