Internet Humor Archive - Simpsonisms "Now son, you don't want to drink beer. That's for Daddys, and kids with fake IDs." "Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen." "You couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine." "Marge, don't discourage the boy! "If you really want something in life you have to work for it. "To alcohol! "I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to speed around a city, keeping its speed over 50, and if its speed changed, it would explode! "I want to share something with you - the three sentences that will get you through life. "Marge, you're as pretty as Princess Leia and as smart as Yoda." "Step aside everyone! "Don't let Krusty's death get you down, boy. "Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose: it's how drunk you get." "Lisa, if the Bible has taught us nothing else - and it hasn't - it's that girls should stick to girls' sports, such as hot oil wrestling and foxy boxing and such and such."
Toronto vs. Paris The 10 Types of Crappy Interviewees All artwork and content on this site is Copyright © 2015 Matthew Inman. Please don't steal. TheOatmeal.com was lovingly built using CakePHP All artwork and content on this site is Copyright © 2015 Matthew Inman. TheOatmeal.com was lovingly built using CakePHP Health | Feeling grumpy 'is good for you' In a bad mood? Don't worry - according to research, it's good for you. An Australian psychology expert who has been studying emotions has found being grumpy makes us think more clearly. In contrast to those annoying happy types, miserable people are better at decision-making and less gullible, his experiments showed. While cheerfulness fosters creativity, gloominess breeds attentiveness and careful thinking, Professor Joe Forgas told Australian Science Magazine. 'Eeyore days' The University of New South Wales researcher says a grumpy person can cope with more demanding situations than a happy one because of the way the brain "promotes information processing strategies". He asked volunteers to watch different films and dwell on positive or negative events in their life, designed to put them in either a good or bad mood. Next he asked them to take part in a series of tasks, including judging the truth of urban myths and providing eyewitness accounts of events. Halleluiah! Absolutely right. Ah!
The 5 Scientific Experiments Most Likely to End the World Let's face it, we really trust science. In fact, studies suggest that the vast majority of people will murder another human being, if a guy in a lab coat tells them it's OK. But surely in their insatiable curiosity and desire to put knowledge above all things, science would never, say, inadvertently set off a chain of events that lead to some sort of disaster that ended the world. Well, here's five experiments that may prove us wrong. Recreating the Big Bang Scientists are kind of pissed that they weren't around when the Big Bang happened. The solution, science says, is to make it happen again. God, 1. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Well, first imagine an apocalyptic nuclear holocaust. So, Basically It's Like... Imagine you have a huge tanker truck parked outside a children's hospital. How Long Have We Got? Meet the Large Hadron Collider. This is not only the largest particle accelerator ever built, it's the largest anything ever built. Risk Level: 3 The Quantum Zeno Effect Not Pictured: Life.
Data brokers sell lists of rape victims, AIDS patients, privacy group finds - Dec. 18, 2013 The World Privacy Forum uncovered these lists, along with several others, while investigating how data brokers collect and sell consumer information. Marketers buy this data so they can target shoppers based on everything from their income to clothing size. Other lists the nonprofit found included the home addresses of police officers, a mailing list for domestic violence shelters (which are typically kept secret by law) and a list of people with addictive behaviors towards drug and alcohol. The mere existence of these lists highlights the need for increased government regulations, said World Privacy Forum executive director Pam Dixon. Related: What your zip code reveals about you "This is where I urge Congress to take action," she said Wednesday at a Senate committee hearing. Currently, data brokers are required by federal law to maintain the privacy of a consumer's data only if it is used for credit, employment, insurance or housing. Related: Find out what Big Data knows about you
The 6 Crappiest Interview Questions All artwork and content on this site is Copyright © 2015 Matthew Inman. Please don't steal. TheOatmeal.com was lovingly built using CakePHP All artwork and content on this site is Copyright © 2015 Matthew Inman. Please don't steal. TheOatmeal.com was lovingly built using CakePHP Short Quotes to Live By Many times when you have some really interesting quotes in your life through various mediums like funny sayings or some famous proverbs, it works like the psalms! Just keeping them in your bag or writing them down on your book marker or desk is sure to motivate you in the daily mundane activities of life. Have a look at the collection of short quotes to live by. Confidence comes not from always being right but not fearing to be wrong. ~ Peter T. People may forget what you said but they'll never forget how you made them feel. ~ Maya Angelou Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. ~ Plato Great minds discuss ideas. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~ Theodore Roosevelt The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. ~ Theodore Roosevelt Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it ~ Albert Einstein Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Pourquoi Google s'intéresse tant à l'allongement de la vie Atlantico : Le géant du web Google a annoncé le lancement d'une nouvelle société : Calico. Cette entreprise sera en charge de s'attaquer au défi "de l'âge et des maladies associées". Pourquoi Google et son dirigeant Larry Page, s'intéressent-ils à cette question de l'allongement de vie ? Daniel Ichbiah : Larry Page par nature, est friand de défis insensés. La spécialité de Brin, c’était le "data mining". Pourtant, très vite, Page s’est donné d’autres défis de même envergure. Il en résulte toutefois que Page et Brin ont une sorte de foi dans le brassage d’immenses volumes de données. Du coup, aux USA, un nouveau marché a progressivement émergé : disposer de son génome sur soi, pourquoi pas dans son iPhone par exemple. Google étant spécialiste du "data mining", il va de soi que ce type de défi puisse intéresser Larry Page : stocker le génome de millions d’individus, et pourquoi pas – je suis sûr que cela lui plairait beaucoup – de la planète entière. Intéressé par cet auteur ? Je m'abonne
Lucid Dreaming/Using Dream stabilization[edit] Once you are able to dream lucidly, you may find that it is difficult to stay in the dream; for example, you may wake instantly or the dream may start “fading” which is characterized by loss or degradation of any of the senses, especially vision. Alternatively, a new lucid dreamer could easily forget that they are in a dream, as a result of the shock of the sensation. Don't worry if you wake immediately after becoming lucid. As you gain more experience of becoming lucid, it will come as less of a shock and you’ll be less likely to wake up. You can avoid more gradual fadings by stimulating your senses. Ideally you should be able to use the techniques below to stabilize your dream before it starts to fade (or “black out”). If you still can’t stabilize your dream, you may decide to try and wake up with the aim of remembering your dream as accurately as possible while its still fresh in your mind. Hand Touching[edit] Spinning[edit] Slowing it down[edit] Easy[edit]
Loi de Godwin La loi de Godwin est une loi empirique énoncée en 1990 par Mike Godwin, d'abord relative au réseau Usenet, puis étendue à Internet : Dans un débat, atteindre le point de Godwin revient à signifier à son interlocuteur que son crédit est dorénavant compromis par sa vérification de la loi de Godwin. Par extension, du fait de la polysémie du mot « point » (signifiant à la fois « argument » et « point » en anglais), des « points de Godwin » sont parfois attribués à cet interlocuteur[1]. Au départ relative aux discussions sur des forums virtuels, la loi de Godwin peut s'appliquer à tout type de conversation ou débat ; l'un des interlocuteurs atteint le point de Godwin lorsqu’il en réfère au nazisme, à Hitler ou à la Shoah, pour disqualifier l’argumentation de son adversaire[2]. Concept[modifier | modifier le code] Ce procédé est fréquemment employé comme argument de combat politique[4],[5],[6],[7],[8]. Critique du concept et définition de sa nature réelle[modifier | modifier le code]