This is from a while back, but I don’t believe we posted on it – iPhone’s Siri gives a seriously wrong answer:

All that time you spent trying to follow the plot? Here’s your reward.

[via Kottke]

We tweeted this instead of posting it yesterday, because we didn’t have it in us to publish a photo of a Dead Flying Cat.

And then we saw the video.

Cats away! Artist turns his dead pet into flying helicopter after it is killed by a car [Daily Mail UK, via @LuxMentis]

We hadn’t understood, until we watched this, how easy it is to measure distant stars: You start with a known quantity, and a few steps later, you’re applying that to the how much a star’s light shifts into the red spectrum by the time it reaches us.

The same would apply, we think, to somebody’s distance from reality, although we suspect that, like the galaxy, the distance increases each time it’s measured — so much so that some people can fairly be said not to exist in our universe at all.

[via Sully]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3BGkOKVMUU

We imagine we’re supposed to be impressed by 1) Sliding into a parking spot with less than six inches to spare, 2) Japanese drivers subverting the stereotype, and 3) Minis being good for something besides subway chases. But it strikes us that if you’re going to declare a world record for “parallel parking”, one of the conditions needs to be that you’re free to leave.

[via Nerdist]

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Okay, we think we’re done playing with InstaMitt. There are only so many Ironic Juxtapositions in the universe.

Amercian Graffiti [stinque@flickr]

So Mitt gets all social, paying some geek tool to program an Instamitt app, and it’s really cool! You just take a picture with your iPhone — we chose our Darth Maul mug — select one of the delightful app-provided overlays, and upload it to Twitter!

Hmmm… On second glance, maybe that geek wasn’t such a tool after all.

Romney Campaign Releases “With Mitt” iPhone App, Misspells “America” [BuszFeed]

Amercia Is With Mitt! [The Inevitable Tumblr]