From xkcd, here.

“A senior Polish official has ordered psychologists to investigate whether the popular BBC TV show Teletubbies promotes a homosexual lifestyle.”
Having been exposed to the Earth-shattering propaganda that is a fluffy purple Teletubby with a magic bag, thousands of Polish 3-year-olds will doubtless come out in the months ahead… BBC News article here.

“People who believe there are two kinds of people in this world have another thing coming … A study by the National Institute for Human Behaviour presented a study today that determines there are actually at least four kinds of people in this world and possibly as many as ten.”
From Tom Merritt’s satirical SuBBrilliant News, [...]

The terrible consequences of breaking the universal rules of men’s toilets. From YouTube, here.

“The dog is standing at the window, wagging her tail excitedly. I look outside, and the back yard is empty. ‘What are you looking at?’ I ask … ‘Bunnies made of cheese!,’ she says. I look again, and the yard is still empty.”
The start of a great physics sketch (I never thought I’d find use [...]

From xkcd, here.

“Is there anything more absurd than someone pursuing a $65 million lawsuit over a lost pair of pants?”
The Washington Post reports on the bizarre case of the US judge who is suing a dry cleaners for “mental suffering, inconvenience and discomfort” after the loss of some trousers, despite the company offering to reimburse him for [...]

I found this insane 1950s anti-homosexual propaganda film a while ago, but forgot to share it. It’s pretty offensive if you take it at face value, but it has to be viewed with the attitudes of the time in mind. Naturally, gays are perverts out to abuse underage boys at any opportunity… From YouTube, here.
Correction:Seems [...]

Reproduced by permission of Paul. Original on Devil Duck’s Pond, here.

“Residents of the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) are wondering how long it will take to remove a disused Boeing 737 that has been abandoned in a busy road … The decommissioned aircraft was being driven through the city at the weekend when the driver got lost and then abandoned the plane … The driver [...]

I hate MySpace. Why do people feel the need to have flashing backgrounds and pages which start playing five tracks and a YouTube video simultaneously when you open them? From bLaugh, here.

“A redshirt is a stock character, used frequently in science fiction but also in other genres, whose sole purpose is to die, often violently, soon after being introduced … The term comes from the popular American science fiction television series Star Trek, in which security officers wore red shirts…”
An amusing entry on Wikipedia. Whenever there [...]

“If I’m friends with John and John is friends with Sally, then Sally is syllogistically my friend, and if I visit her profile it will tell me just that: ‘Sally is in your extended network’. But if EVERYONE is friends with Tom, then there might as well not be an extended network feature at all, [...]

Thanks to Paul for permission to reproduce this The original post is on Devil Duck’s Pond, here.

I’m in the middle of revising but, during the course of a minor detour from my e-mail, I came across this and just had to post it From Slideshare, here.

Thanks to Paul for permission to reproduce this. I think it sums up the media over-reaction pretty well… See the full size strip on Devil Duck’s Pond, here.

From the Man and Sperm webcomic, here.

Reproduced by permission of Chris of the Book of Biff. Website here.

From xkcd, here.

A Cyanide and Happiness comic from Explosm, here.