This piece originally appeared at Intuition:

for humor.
Yesterday I got an e-mail from my mother. This is not an uncommon event, but the e-mail was uncommon. She indicated that when she attempted to click the link my my blog-update email, that the computer told her that the web page was not accessible because it contained humor.
Humor?
I was blocked by a [...]

Who is who?
My roommate recently asked me: “What’s the difference between Joan Rivers and Joan Collins?” She then qualified: “I am not sure I know who either of them is.”
I have to say that I was taken aback. I could not describe the difference to her, but I knew there was one. This is [...]

No short supply
This is a great idea.

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Is there anything he can’t do?

Thanks to Michael Fountain for bringing this gem to my attention. It is superb.
What will Obama do?
What would you like Barack Obama to do if he is elected President?

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These are a few of my favorite things

This is my favorite new blog. I was not surprised to see that I do, as a white person, like many of the things listed: just on the first page!
Stuff White People Like
This will be a useful tool for anthropologists of the future to know what the cultural [...]

Figure this one out.
Question: A bulldozer is traveling toward the wall at the Gaza/Egypt border. If it strikes the wall at 25km per hour from a distance of 30 meters, how many Gazans will cross the border in the next week?
Answer: 800,000
Yeah, I just came up with that. I know. I’m hilarious. Go.

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Clap your hands for the President?

Earlier, I was explaining to Jeff the differences between the caucus system and the primary election system. His comment: “They need an applause-o-meter to count the size of the group.”
I think he is right. Modern technology shouldn’t replace systems like this: it should augment them. So, now that we [...]