Here’s a list of politically incorrect alphabet cards. Ironically, I think my students would know some of these, and the ones for UFO and vampire would actually be quite appropriate. If you can’t figure out what the word is (some of them are British expressions), hover the mouse cursor over the picture.

http://better-together.co.uk/

Alright, sports fans, it’s time for a pop quiz: when did the NBA introduce the shot clock? Why is it 24 seconds, and not 25 or 30? Read all about it:

http://www.snopes.com/sports/basketball/24second.asp

Do you think that locking your door with a mechanical pin lock makes your house hard to break into? Maybe you should think again: even the dumbest criminal can break into your house with a bump key.

I’ve got this idea. Let’s take the world’s most famous fascist and make a musical about him! No, wait, somebody already did that. Well, then, how about a restaurant?

Blatantly stolen from Susanity.

I haven’t done any linkage in awhile. This is some photoshoppery courtesy of the goons at Something Awful. These guys take normal images and then edit them with a computer to make some pretty funny stuff. Most of the site is laden with profanity and such, for those of you who are easily offended, but by comparison this series is pretty tame. Well, most of them.

The theme for this series is “Increased Difficulty”.

http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=3996

A rather amusing take on the Fermi paradox:

http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/05/why_we_havent_met_any_aliens.php?page=1