By Brent Diggs on Jan 15, 2008 in Harold Toboggans, Humor, Reviews | 43 Comments
The NSA couldn’t find him. MI6 gave up in despair. Even geographic legend Carmen Sandiego had no idea where in the world he was.
But where they failed, the unstoppable might and devastatingly good taste of the Comma-reading horde has prevailed:
Spooky has been found.
In an event sure to sweep the dusty corridors of the blogosphere for […]
By Brent Diggs on Jan 11, 2008 in Humor, Reviews, Whining | 57 Comments
Entirely too often I allow the minor distractions of life to blind me to what is truly important. Family, career, college, writing, acting, even sleep, at one time or another, have all come between me and my responsibility to keep abreast of my favorite blogs.
It is precisely this sort of misplaced priority that has until […]
By Brent Diggs on Oct 8, 2007 in Consumer Commentary, Humor, Rant, Reviews | 30 Comments
Everyone does things that they later regret. Things that they wish they could blame on drugs or alien possession. Things that although seem rational at the time, later reveal themselves to be engraved invitations for suffering and endless recriminations of stupidity.
For some people it is signing the note for the new Hummer, for others it […]
By Brent Diggs on Sep 7, 2007 in Humor, Reviews | 21 Comments
If you’re young, or merely masochistic, you may be considering a career in corporate America.
In light of the self-destructive nature of this decision, you would be right to wonder, “Am I stupid? What if I’m not smart enough to make it in the corporate world?”
If you suffer these misgivings, you are definitely over-thinking the situation, […]
By Brent Diggs on Feb 19, 2007 in Reviews, Science, Very Cool Things | 9 Comments
Friends, today I would like to tell you about Jared Tarbell, the artist/programmer behind the stunning exhibits featured at Complexification | Gallery of Computation.
This man, this beacon of light in the otherwise poorly-illuminated field of computer programming, rips math from the daunting clutches of boredom, and infuses it with the spark of life, loveingly crafting […]