June 2010
Complete nerd joke
via accioally:
Archimedes, Pascal, and Newton are playing hide-and-seek. Archimedes covers his eyes and starts counting. Pascal looks around and hides behind a bush. Newton grabs a stick and scrapes a one meter by one meter square in the dirt and stands in it. Otherwise, he does not hide at all. Archimedes opens his eyes and looks around. Of course, he immediately sees Newton and calls, “I see Newton!” Newton calmly says, “but hang on, one Newton in a square meter is a Pascal!”
Internet overtakes newspapers for ad revenue →
theaustralian.com.au
THE internet is poised to overtake newspapers as the second largest U.S. advertising medium by revenue behind television, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report
“With his party having won 6 of the City Council’s 15 seats, Mr. Gnarr needed a coalition partner, but ruled out any party whose members had not seen all five seasons of “The Wire.”
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From the New York Times profile of Jon Gnarr — the newly-elected mayor of Reykjavik, Iceland.
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(via thedailywhat)
(via bobeda)
Oh my god - I could be on the Reykjavik City Council!
