Cat Cartoons

I stumbled over these absolutely wonderful videos of Simon's Cat. If you have cats you will appreciate these small films.

If you liked them, you can find more stuff at the homepage of Simon's Cat.

There will be another video posted by the author tomorrow.

Lolcats part 1

I friend of mine recently started to send me funny pictures of cats. They made me laugh, so I started to look around for more, and soon found out there is a whole trend called lolcats (also known as cat macros).

Anil Dash has a great post on the phenomenon, and Wikipedia has a quite good article about lolcats. Also, Urban Dictionary has a few entries on lolcats and cat macros. The origins are discussed by Linguistic Mystic here - the forum without name in the article is 4chan.org.

Even the news have picked them up. Here are articles from Wall Street Journal, The Star and News.com.au just to pick a few.

This is enough for this post, but there will be more on this subject in future posts. Including links, pictures and videos.

Scott Adams on Ahmadinejad

If you feel like a laugh and a bit of afterthought, go over to "The Dilbert Blog"; Today Scott has an excellent post on Ahmadinejad. Sarcasm at work.

A few days ago, he wrote about the Nebraska state senator who is suing God. Oddly enough (or maybe not) this is not the first time God is being sued in the US. They even made a movie of it last time called "The Man Who Sued God" - Long live Hollywood :-)

If you don't know who Scott Adams is, he is the creator of Dilbert, a very popular cartoon about work.

Update: Scott Adams reply to the uproar on his post on Ahmadinejad.

Donald Knuth on Song Complexity

This one is a bit old (and very geeky), but I have just seen it for the first time. It was first published way before blogging existed - in 1977 to be exact. Thats two years before I was born :-/

I have always been fascinated by math and the many (odd) ways it can be used. Having studied computer science the name Donald Knuth has come up quite a few times. He is knows for being both smart and funny, but it was not before yesterday I read his paper on song complexity (pdf). The link is to the 1984 reprint in Communications of the ACM.

Even if you can't completely remember your computational complexity theory (I can't), it is still a funny paper. If you are not a little into math it might not be your best ever 3 pages ;-) .

New iProducts and a Mean Kitty

I got a link to a politically sarcastic movie about new iProducts from apple. It is quite funny if you know a bit about the current world affairs.

I then did a bit of surfing around YouTube, and found a link to The Mean Kitty Song. If you have ever had a (male) kitten, this movie is great. I clicked on that movie because I have a weakness for cats, and currently have two. More pictures of those will come soon too.