Chart and Graph humor

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more graph humor and song chart memes
more graph humor and song chart memes
more graph humor and song chart memes

Saturday Night Live Regrows a Backbone, Attempts to Get Political Again

Finally.

When I was a kid, SNL did great political work. It was funny, irreverent, and – most importantly – offensive in an equal opportunity fashion.
I was afraid that even though the earlier SNL Clinton skits were pretty funny (the one starting out with Hil trying to get Bill out of her [...]

Why NOT an FSM statue by the floral clock? Hmm?

I would totally, totally be okay with posting the Ten Commandments by the Floral Clock at the State Capitol if I could get this installed as well:

(Pic Credit: Crossville Chronicle. You should totally go there and, y’know, order a print of this thing for your FSM shrine at home. Click here for the full [...]

The Coolest TV Funhouse EVAH! (Corporate Media Edition)

Deus Ex Malcontent has put up this terrific TV Funhouse video (of SNL fame) lampooning the corporate media. Interesting tidbit, according to DEM, this video was considered by NBC Standards and Practices to be too offensive, and so was only run the once.

I’m definitely using this video in the Media and [...]

Cat Herding and Taking PS 545 Students on a Second Life Field Trip

My PS 545 American Political Thought class is doing a major Digital Ethnography project in Second Life this semester. To get everyone on the same page, we went on a “digital field trip” in the lab the other week,

and had some fun deconstructing the meth lab simulation on UK Island. That’s me in the all-black [...]

Sometimes I Fear That This Is What Is REALLY Going On In My Students’ Heads

Some days it can be very depressing being an educator.

Friends/Superfriends Mashup

I would totally watch this show every week.

h/t: BoingBoing

The Breakfast of Champions! To Go!

This explains why the Japanese are the cultural leaders of the Free World. Breakfast of Champions ingredients: (1) Coffee (check), (2) Cigarettes (check). All in one convenient take-out package = Doubleplusgood!
From the London Times’ Urban Dirt blog, I bring you: The Future!

h/t: Boing Boing

Merry Christmas (and a Nerdy New Year)

And a quick coda to all my nerd peeps out there:

h/t: BoingBoing

Chimps Smarter Than College Students (I suspected as much)

 Further proof that college students need to put down the Xbox and study harder. Forget Globalization: the chimps are coming to take your jobs!
“OK, humanity: time to pull up our socks. In a test of rapid number recollection, college students were resoundingly outperformed by a young chimpanzee.”
I fear I must take this new information into [...]