How to Write a Blog Post

"Blog posts begin with a little preamble. This part sets the tone of the article, and helps the reader establish what they’re going to find out over the next 500 words, even though they’ll probably only just read the section headings."


http://www.distilled.net/blog/social-media/how-to-write-a-blog-post/

Tank School

"TANKSCHOOL: the ONLY place in western Europe where you can actually learn to DRIVE a real Russian BATTLE TANK !!!

the Tankschool T-55AM2 is the 'mother of all tanks'; it's only 10 years old and is in full COMBAT-READY condition

so, how do you get to grips with your extreme excitement experience of military tank driving ........"

http://www.tankschool.co.uk/

(In Monmouthshire)

Piano stairs - Rolighetsteorin.se - The fun theory

"We believe that the easiest way to change people's behaviour for the better is by making it fun to do. We call it The fun theory.

http://www.rolighetsteorin.se/"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw

A call for more scientific truth in product warning labels

"As scientists and concerned citizens, we applaud the recent trend towards legislation which requires the prominent placing of warnings on products that present hazards to the general public. Yet we must also offer the cautionary thought that such warnings, however well-intentioned, merely scratch the surface of what is really necessary in this important area. This is especially true in light of the findings of 20th century physics.

We are therefore proposing that, as responsible scientists, we join together in an intensive push for new laws that will mandate the conspicuous placement of suitably informative warnings on the packaging of every product offered for sale. Our suggested list of warnings appears below."

[...]

"WARNING:
This product attracts every other piece of matter in the universe, including the products of other manufacturers, with a force proportional to the product of the masses and inversely proportional to the distance between them."

[...]

"ATTENTION:
Despite any other listing of product contents found hereon, the consumer is advised that, in actuality, this product consists of 99.9999999999% empty space."

http://komplexify.com/epsilon/2009/05/13/a-call-for-more-scientific-truth-in-product-warning-labels/

Dharma Games

Dharma Games - The place to find Buddhist Games

http://www.dharmagames.org/

PHD Comics - Peak productivity

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1219

Grocery Store Wars

"Not long ago in a supermarket not so far away. Help fight the dark side of the farm. Rate the film, favorite the film, comment the film and subscribe to our channel for the freshest Free Range films. "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVrIyEu6h_E

Extreme Shepherding

http://www.kontraband.co.uk/videos/16589/Sheep-In-LED-Clothing-WTF/

Dragon Chase - Benny Hillified

"I can attest to the fact that nearly any video is immediately hilarious when the "Benny Hill Theme" (aka the Boots Randolph classic, "Yakkity Sax") is played behind it. The video can be an epic space battle from a sci-fi movie, or two minutes of adorable kittens--it doesn't matter. When paired with the Benny Hill theme, you can't help but laugh. With The Benny Hillifier, you can give the service a YouTube video of your choice and test the theory for yourself."

http://www.appscout.com/2009/01/the_benny_hillifier_makes_any_1.php


http://james.nerdiphythesoul.com/bennyhillifier/?id=tbryouzkvko

Also epic


http://james.nerdiphythesoul.com/epic/?id=tbryouzkvko

Bosons ...

One day, all of the world's famous physicists decided to get together for a tea luncheon. Fortunately, the doorman was a grad student, and able to observe some of the guests...

* Everyone gravitated toward Newton, but he just kept moving around at a constant velocity and showed no reaction.
* Einstein thought it was a relatively good time.
* Coulomb got a real charge out of the whole thing.
* Cavendish wasn't invited, but he had the balls to show up anyway.
* Cauchy, being the only mathematician there, still managed to integrate well with everyone.
* Thompson enjoyed the plum pudding.
* Pauli came late, but was mostly excluded from things, so he split.
* Pascal was under too much pressure to enjoy himself.
* Ohm spent most of the time resisting Ampere's opinions on current events.
* Hamilton went to the buffet tables exactly once.
* Volt thought the social had a lot of potential.
* Hilbert was pretty spaced out for most of it.
* Heisenberg may or may not have been there.
* The Curies were there and just glowed the whole time.
* van der Waals forced himeself to mingle.
* Wien radiated a colourful personality.
* Millikan dropped his Italian oil dressing.
* de Broglie mostly just stood in the corner and waved.
* Hollerith liked the hole idea.
* Stefan and Boltzman got into some hot debates.
* Everyone was attracted to Tesla's magnetic personality.
* Compton was a little scatter-brained at times.
* Bohr ate too much and got atomic ache.
* Watt turned out to be a powerful speaker.
* Hertz went back to the buffet table several times a minute.
* Faraday had quite a capacity for food.
* Oppenheimer got bombed. 

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3864759

A wandering monk

A wandering monk walked barefoot everywhere he went, to the point that the soles of his feet eventually became quite thick and leathery. And because he ate very little, he gradually became very frail. Several days often passed between opportunities to brush his teeth, so he usually had bad breath. Therefore, throughout the region, he came to be known as the super-calloused fragile mystic plagued with halitosis.

Found in many places, including: http://www.talkingtospirit.com/rec57.html

(I'm just spring-cleaning an ancient collection of files dating back to a time when the web was just a gleam in Tim Berners-Lee's eye and jokes used to arrive by e-mail)