almost witty

Obama and McCain in a US Presidential candidate funny face-off at the Alfred E Smith memorial dinner:

Admittedly, they probably had the best gag-meisters in the world working on their respective routines, but how did we let America steal the comedy crown? First Friends and now this. (I refuse to acknowledge The Office - it is [...]

They say that you only need to repeat things three times for it to be funny. This is aptly demonstrated by a YouTube video (via b3ta) which has compiled every single instance of a character in Doctor Who saying “What are you doing here?”. Over the last 30 years or so. They say that you [...]

So far, my most embarassing desk-work moments have involved:
- merrily miming along to a superlative Pet Shop Boys track called I’m In Love With A Married Man.
- shrieking like a girl when I played a video that unexpectedly turned into one of those scary jumpy videos.
But fortunately, I’ve not yet been caught looking at things [...]

Slate looks into the Breast Motion Power Generator

at least in South Africa, where:
Chinese South Africans are to be reclassified as black people … so that ethnic Chinese could benefit from affirmative action policies, aimed at improving living standards for black people. (BBC News)