I don’t know what the context of this photo is…and I don’t care!
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If Housepets Were Libertarians
Most of the comics on LeftyCartoons.com flop for various reasons, but I rather like this one:
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Burger Klingons!
If you thought that the “Burger King” character, with his glazed mask, wasn’t creepy enough…
…you haven’t seen the Burger Klingons. Qa’pla!
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Click the photo above to see it at full size.
Click the photo above to see it at full size.
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Career-Limiting Move
When using your company-assigned laptop to make presentations, remember to disable your pornographically-themed screensaver (and yes, the video below is not safe for work):
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“Cubical” vs. “Cubicle”
I’ve seen too many misuses of the word cubical in the past couple of days, so I thought I’d post this quick guide.
A cubicle is the office workspace created in by a system of dividing walls, such as the one below:
The cubicle system evolved from Herman Miller’s Action Office, a system for open-plan offices designed by Robert Propst. Propst wanted to design a system that boosted productivity; it was never his intention to build something whose primary purpose was to pack as many workers as possible into as little space as possible. He is said to have denounced the cubicle systems inspired by Action Office as “monolithic insanity”.
Cubical means “shaped like a cube” or “having the qualities of a cube”, such as the Borg ship in the photo below:
Perhaps the confusion between the two words arises because both cubicles and the cubical Borg ship are designed to house interchangeable drones who work in the service of a hive mind. Remember: they don’t have “Casual Fridays” on the Borg Cube!
Dork Shelf, a blog devoted to Toronto and nerd culture points to Nextround.net’s collection of photos of guys in so-bad-they’re-good Wolverine costumes. My favourite one is Jewish Wolverine, complete with adamantium menorah claws.
If you’re looking for costumed adventurers who really are “from the Tribe” (such as Kitty Pryde, mentioned recently in this blog entry), look no farther than Comic Book Religion’s catalogue of Jewish superheroes. The oddest one is “The Acidic Jew”, whose touch can dissolve anything.