Also starring: A Flying Police Box

Take Doctor Who (the 10th) and make it into a CSI show - CSI: Gallifrey. The Doctor is pretty smart, so the shows will be extremely short...

Well, he is a lot less annoying than 'H'.

Sassy Siri

Web warp

I thought this warp field was rather cool.

Then I moved my mouse. Whoa!

Then I moved my mouse wheel forward! Wheee!

Seriously, it's broken?

File under redundant.

And obvious.

Murmuration

I have never been close to a murmuration.

I'm guessing, based on this video, that it would be an awesome experience.

Where is it? (Edition 67)

It's back! Here is episode 67 of the hysterically popular geography game 'Where Is It?', where you - the humble reader, have to try and guess where this picture was taken. I will accept the closest town or city as an answer. You place your answers in the comments. If you've read this far, it's likely you've already lost to team Ecland, but good luck anyway.....

Note: I'm making the game a little harder this time. No more access to bigger pictures - what you see is what you get. But now, rather than satellite photos, I offer you Google Street view images instead.

New players: If you put an answer in the comments, indicate who you are so you get credit if you're correct.

I don't smell........ so.....

Evolution of the hipster, by Glove & Boots.

Llama art

Wer'v'they'been?

The Muppets are back in the spotlight, but they haven't been slacking off all this time. Oh no. They've been auditioning for various films. Unsuccessfully.... but I digress.

My favourite one was The King's Speech. I've already played that trailer in my head.....

Page 23

This video clip looks like an IKEA commercial.

Not so fast.

kijiji fun

Actual kijiji ad.

Blog post #8000

8000 blog posts. That's epic.

Who wants to celebrate with me?

Happy Thanksgiving USA

In honour of the holiday south of the border.

How not to do improv

Unless you're really going for tongue-in-cheek. Liam Neeson tries to convince Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant that he's the perfect candidate to do improv on stage. Then demonstrates exactly what not to do.

(For the 10 people who've not yet seen this)

Democracy is not for sale

I want to live in a democracy where the government cannot be bought. It's time to make our government serve its citizens again, not corporations. Governments go on about letting the free market decide, but they allow obsolete business plans to flourish. Am I the only one who has had enough?

Oh look.... it seems I am not alone.

City of growth

I am home to 23 million residents, almost 3 times as much as New York City.

I am growing by 500,000 people per year.

I have 11 subway lines, by 2025 I will have 22 of them.

I have a high speed magnetic levitation train line.

I have over 200 skyscrapers.

Where am I?

[see comments for the answer]

Duck duck moose

Love love love

Another glorious mashup by the...... talented Grant Woolard.

This time, it's a Beatles Love Mashup.

Mischievious cat is mischievious

"What do you mean it's not a touch screen? I'm touching it......"

Quiet riot

I think I participated in a riot like this once.

A little private rebellion.

Needs drinking training

Nano! Nano! Nano!

The world has been used to manufacturing stuff on a large scale. Electronics has been the exception, but now even materials manufacturing has entered the nano arena, to astounding effect. As a result, we are now able to build stuff like this:

"... researchers from UC Irvine, HRL Laboratories and the California Institute of Technology have developed the world’s lightest material – with a density... about one hundred times lighter than Styrofoam.

The researchers were able to make a material that consists of 99.99 percent air by designing the 0.01 percent solid at the nanometre, micron and millimetre scales. “The trick is to fabricate a lattice of interconnected hollow tubes with a wall thickness 1,000 times thinner than a human hair,” said lead author Dr. Tobias Schaedler of HRL.

The material’s architecture allows unprecedented mechanical behaviour for a metal, including complete recovery from compression exceeding 50 percent strain and extraordinarily high energy absorption.

“Materials actually get stronger as the dimensions are reduced to the nano-scale,” explained UCI mechanical and aerospace engineer Lorenzo Valdevit, UCI’s principal investigator on the project. “Combine this with the possibility of tailoring the architecture of the micro-lattice and you have a unique cellular material.”"

Batpinkie

I can't explain how much I love this picture.

I love this picture. A lot. Like... a lot lot (as the kids would say).

Punctuate!

Allow me to introduce some new punctuation marks to you, because we all love to broaden our horizons. Right? OK, here we go.

Guillemets

« »  Guillemets means "Little Williams," which is interesting but unhelpful. They're named after a 16th Century French printer. Their primary role exists in non-English languages that use them as quotation marks. So when you're feeling a little non-English, feel free to use them as such.

Because Sign

∵ This one's so cool. It's like the "Therefore" sign, but upside-down. Furthermore, it means because.

Interrobang

‽   It's a combination Exclamation and Question mark, and it's awesome. It is the punctuational equivalent of saying like OMGWTF?!

Pilcrow

¶   This one's for paragraph breaks. Most people will be familiar with it, because it's a button in MS Word. But they won't know that it's called a Pilcrow. It's also referred to as "The Blind P". Pilcrow is the Middle English word for Paragraph. Try to use that fun fact in real life. Why? ?

Coffee snobs

I almost snorted coffee watching this FunnyorDie clip. "Am I wearing a green apron? Do you hear Ray Lamontagne playing right now?"

Also digging the bat guano reference.

Filling up

Here is a fantastic video explaining how we went from 1 billion people in 1804 to 7 billion today.

He boiled for you

If you know the deal on The Flying Spaghetti Monster, you'll love this poster.

Things not to say while you're still on probation at your new job

“Sorry I’m late. I finally made it to level 10 in Halo.”
“When should I expect my offer?”
“Hey! My grandma has that same sweater! Cool!”
"I am so getting it on with the bosses' daughter."
"Sick days are just bonus vacation days, right?"
“Get your own coffee.”
“My mom’s on the phone. She wants to go over all my dietary restrictions with you.”
“What do you mean, the cafeteria doesn’t serve Stella Artois?”
“Oh, honey. Let’s talk about this outfit.”
“Fridays are optional, right?”
“I’m not really ‘into’ that whole 8 hour workday thing.”
“You started here in 1990? That’s, like, before I was born!”
“Wow, I never thought I’d get another job after what happened at the last one!”
“I get your job when this probation ends, right?”
“Can I expense my Playboy subscription? It’s research.”
“I found the best place to nap yesterday!”
“Heading out early. Glee is on tonight and I need to prepare.”
“It’s not sexual harassment if you say ‘surprise!’”
“You’re doing it wrong.”
“You’re cute. Do you have a son who’s closer to my age?”

FB perception versus FB reality

At home with Elvis

I love this little video clip with Elvis.

Who knew that Elvis was still alive and living in the UK. Not I....