Printers Were Sent From Hell

A funny article from The Oatmeal about printers and how they haven’t really changed in 20 years…

Printers

From The Oatmeal via Gizmodo

The Truth about Gadgets and Flying

“Everything is amazing and nobody is happy”by Meowbay

Animator vs Animation

via fc01.deviantart.com

Great animation! Thanks John for pointing me towards this.

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My Sentiments Entirely

27b/6

Very rude, very funny website: 27b/6.com

Simon’s Cat

This is a great series of cartoons on YouTube. If you’ve ever had a cat you’ll understand..

Stephen Fry – Praise Be the Tweet!

Oh, to have a million followers on Twitter!

I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue

Waiting for Jack Dee, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and David Mitchell to come on.

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How Aeroplanes Work

And how it’s explained in the newspapers:

The jetbrake is what holds the thrilling-edge sluts in place during a roach on a taxiramp or a runtower. When the props are retarded on the combustion spool, sometimes the engine stalls and the hayler-ons have to go around on a mist roach. Often the plane is only [...]

G-Limits

From “Palace Cobra”, by Ed Rasimus, a great book about flying fighters in Vietnam:

“The aircraft G-limits are only there in case there is another flight by that particular airplane. If subsequent flights do not appear likely, there are no G-limits.” Frank Chubba, fighter pilot [...]