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I don't go to concerts much, but this one seemed like something I shouldn't miss. I only know of these guys because of a funny video I saw on YouTube months ago.

Here's the video I saw:

They're called Hurra Torpedo and they are from Norway, so you know they're going to be wacky. The show is tonight (June 9) at the State Theatre in Falls Church, Northern Virginia, which is probably mile from where I live, and is a nice small place. Tickets are $15 via TicketMaster or at the door.

What do you think? Heard of them? Seen them?!

I love this SkyMall parody, courtesy of gaming comic strip Penny Arcade.

The SkyMall catalog is the Gideon Bible of the airline industry.

What's a Neutrophil? My brother has the info. (Funny).

For my Mac friends, The Five Stages of Intel Macs. Click for the rest of the stages.

Bugboard.com's latest entry is another classic: "I hate computer abuse!"

Item 1:

A Capella troupe sings classic Nintendo Entertainment System tunes [video],

Can you name all the games?

Item 2:

When I was in college I found a web site that had free 3-way calling. We used it to call two pizza places and silently listen in at the chaos. A radio station in England took this a slight step further with two Chinese restaurants and the results are hilarious [audio].

Item 3:

HowStuffWorks.com presents... How Lightsabers work

My favorite section is Using Your Lightsaber Around the Home...

Reheating Coffee

Readme files. Does anybody actually read them?

What you may not realize is the amount of effort that goes into the creation of these rarely seen beasts.

Link: 28 Steps to Yak Farming

After reading that, you might put a little more thought before skipping the readme.

An excellent Passover Flash, this one is a mix between South Park and Super Milk-Chan.

This one features is much better, in my opinion, than the Jib Jab Passover video just released.

Source: JewSchool.

A very quick Flash: The 60 Second Seder. When it comes up click it to start.

Saw this on JewSchool.com.

From Engadget comes this quote from Verizon's CEO:

"Why in the world would you think your (cell) phone would work in your house? The customer has come to expect so much."

He also thinks that municipal WiFi is "one of the dumbest ideas ever."

Talk about a CEO not in touch with his customers...

This edit of the Revenge of the Sith trailer is funny, but most Jedi n00bs won't have the haX to understand it.

Heck, even I had to look up some of the terms in UrbanDictionary.com so that i could be teh roXXorz.

UPDATE: Even better - a total spoof of the trailer! Thanks Mike!

I find doing my taxes to be fairly boring.

Any suggestions for how to make it more fun?

Click on Comments to see what I've come up with. Can you think of something better?

ImprovEverywhere has been doing mass-scale pranks in New York City since 2001. How massive? Pranks, or missions as they like to call them, often involve over 100 members, including actors, coordinators, hidden cameras, and quick getaway plans. In the photo above, 61 people are in various store windows, all dancing in sync. They come, do their thing, and disappear.

The descriptions and photos are often really funny, and unlike what you might see on MTV, nobody gets hurt - even in the really funny ones.

From Ajaxian.com, for my friends at work: :)

You know you're a Java weenie when...

1. Hani viciously biles you, and you publicly thank him for it, calling it "an honor"
2. You go to TheServerSide Java Symposium even though you talk about how much you hate TheServerSide.com. You then try to hide in sessions as you blog that you only go because you like Vegas
3. You feel the need to tell the whole world that Sun has rejected your JavaOne talk, and then further embarrass yourself by claiming its some sort of conspiracy
4. You think its great that we have 45 XML APIs and 938 Web frameworks, claiming that "choice is a good thing."
5. You are excited about SQL AOP (and now SQXML AOP)
6. You complain that Maven is too complex and completely unusable, then gradually let it slip that you've never actually gone so far as to try it out before assailing it
7. You feel the need to blog every time you need a job or are offered a job
8. You go out and spend a small fortune on a 30" Apple LCD and then rub it in everyone's face... multiple times
9. You think that whoever doesn't choose to waste their money on overpriced, underpowered Apple hardware couldn't possibly have the critical thinking skills required to be a good software developer
10. After making a small fortune as a Java author and consultant you turn around and tell people it completely sucks and they should have been using Ruby for the past few years
11. After making a small fortune as a Java author and consultant you throw it all away to learn Objective-C and try to convince the world that managed code is just a fad and that platform marketshare really isn't all that important anyway
12. You are mercilessly rude to Microsoft for years until they send you on an expensive and exclusive "summit", after which you are all warm and cuddly with your new best friends in Redmond
13. You embarrass the entire Enterprise Java community by blogging about how neat it is that PHP wraps CGI state in variables (next blog: "Wow! Perl has this cool $_ variable!")
14. You endorse Struts for years and then overnight change positions and start claiming that it's a huge heaping pile of crap and taking irrational pleasure in bashing Craig McClanahan
15. You think naming client-side browser scripting after a cleaning agent will somehow change the hellish set of horrors that is dynamic HTML development ;-)

Happy April 1st -- Dion and Ben

I found Jeff Van Bueren's experiments with the US Postal Service to be hilarious...

Here's some examples:

• $1 bill. Sealed in clear plastic, with label attached with address and postage. Days to delivery, 6.
• $20 bill. Days to delivery, 4.
• Football. Days to delivery, 6. Male postal carrier was talkative and asked recipient about the scores of various current games. Carrier noted that mail must be wrapped.
• Rose. Postage and address were attached to a card that was tied to the stem. Delivery at doorstep, 3 days, beat up but the rose bud was still attached.
• Helium balloon. The balloon was attached to a weight. The address was written on the balloon with magic marker; no postage was affixed. Our operative argued strongly that he should be charged a negative postage and refunded the postal fees, because the transport airplane would actually be lighter as a result of our postal item. This line of reasoning merely received a laugh from the clerk. The balloon was refused; reasons given: transportation of helium, not wrapped.