Do you know Jack? If you don’t, it’s no problem at all, because You don’t know Jack is back!

But the franchise isn’t coming back to CD-ROM games (or DVD-games nowadays), now it is a free online flash-game in your browser. Sweet!

Cookie, You don’t know Jack’s moderator of old is back with it too, and he is as witty and as cruel if you answer a question wrong as ever.
Each week a new episode is released featuring several questions, including a DisOrDat as well as Jack Attack round.

So wherever you are, be it at work, at home or even at the beach, go to www.youdontknowjack.com and play a few rounds of this great game, you might even learn something (you will laugh, that is for sure).

Superman and Batman discuss Supermans cheesy actions. Especially the comment “Made out with Lois a little bit, flew out into space, smiled for the camera” when Batman asks what Superman was up to made me crack up.

Found on: Dan’s Blog

Did you know that there used to be a large forest swastika in germany, where some foresters planted larch trees in a pine area so people flying over it would see the swastika?
Have you ever heard of the little austrian town of Fucking?
Have you been to the penis museum in iceland?
Seen the tree that owns itself?
Did you know that the pin that holds the rotor to the mast of some helicopters is called a Jesus nut?

If such obscurities bring even a little smile to your face, the following page might be worth a visit: Unusual articles on the english Wikipedia

Students at the University of East Anglia in the UK are working on the Wikipedia online encyclopedia as part of their degree course. Wikipedia has recently divided academics when a US university banned the site because of fears that students could reproduce content from it without checking its accuracy. But there is hope when a project such as the middle east course embeds Wikipedia into university courses with tasks like “edit eight articles and then write your own article concerning the subject”.

Read more: Students assessed with Wikipedia [BBC]

Gmail is just great. I seriously could not manage my daily emails anymore without the conversation view it offers, and of course the best thing is the powerful labeling/taging capability. Instead of moving your mails into specific folders, you just assign (one or more) labels to them, so one mail can show up in more than one of the virtual label folders. This is a great way to organize your mail, and I still struggle with the normal IMAP email I have at my new workplace, at least there are a few extensions, particularly GmailUI for Thunderbird that make the free mail program at least behave like gmail (it uses the same shortcuts with the extension and archiving is also done in the same way, although labels still are missing).

But back to gmail itself: There is even more to it, you can use it as your personal nerve center, doing things such as: Using gmail as a personal database, getting real-time news updates, bookmarking, calendar and todo lists, and even write blog entries via mail.

Read more: Turn Gmail into your personal nerve center [micropersuasion]

M. I. T. Almost everyone interested in computers or technics in general will have heard those 3 magic letters. MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Only a few able are allowed to study there every year. But now you can at least be like the little mouse watching in the classroom: MIT OpenCourseWare enables everyone, and even without registration, to view and download the lot of MIT courses from the last years. Even the student presentations and audio and video files from teachers are available there.

The courses they provide are manifold: ranging from “Aeronautics and Astronautics” through “Music and Theater Arts” to “Writing and Humanistic Studies”. A great opportunity for everyone that wants to learn new and exciting stuff!

What happens when an independent musician meets web programming meets World of Warcraft? One funny music video happens!

The song has got some great lyrics about oppressive bosses and stressed out programmers too, available here, if you want to read them to the song.

… would normally be out of our reach. Yes, you can argue that about 4 million people are going to have sex just now, 15 million are sleeping in their bed, and around 9 million are surfing the web just this moment. Don’t sue me on these numbers, they are completely unrelated, and everyone knows 96% of statistics are made up on the spot anyway.

If you would like to take a look at what random people from all over the world are doing just now, the new fad when it comes to publishing your thoughts online might be Twitter.
It’s a sort-of-blog where you can register and then answer the only question they ask you there, over and over: “What are you doing?”
Then you will see yourself in the twitter timeline together with what all the other user have done or are doing at the moment. More or less another service mankind didn’t really need to surive, but a fancy thing nontheless. I like to give the site a visit whenever I am bored on the net, i.e. when I’m at work.

Also there is the option to use Twitter productively [lifehack.org]

Browse through all the Fraud of the Rings comics at Tolkien Gateway.

Having trouble keeping up-to-date with your favourite weblogs and/or news sites? Don’t want to install just another program to read those handy RSS feeds almost any website has today?
Then maybe RSSfwd is for you. It’s a service where you just have to enter a feed and an e-mail address and the magic is right on its way to you: From now on you will get the updates on the selected feed as e-mails - especially handy if you got sophisticated labels and filters in your mail application (web Gmail that would be for me) so your feeds get automatically categorized and archived.

And because I mentioned filters and Gmail, a quick and last aside: Using Gmail to… [ExtremeTech article]

As they say, the best advertisements come from Britain. As I say, the best comedy comes from Britain, too. These 2 ads show that they can do both. The Johnny Walker “Android” one is a little bit melancholy but it does feature a strong message to the viewer - as does the “Get a Mac” ad, but the latter carries a much more comedic undertone. But watch for yourself:

Found on: the thinking blog and must have GIZMOS respectively.

Men vs women. Testicles vs Mammaries. Drying with a towel the size of a small state vs making a shampoo mohawk. It is always the same with the eternal gender struggle. But more often than not the very differences between us are a source of comedy. As in this little video:

DJ Wiij [prounounced deejay wee-jay]: the original bluetooth wireless dj control setup using Wiimotes.

A very interesting application for the Wii remote controller indeed. Check out the technique and features over at the site DJ Wiij.
They are using a freeware application called GlovePie, that is able to recognize the Wii remote controller as an input device for the computer, and with that program they than control the (digital) turntables. There are a few scripts already available for GlovePie, and it features much more than just the Wiimote, e.g. Gamepads, Joysticks and even VR Gloves.

Just if you are wondering what the banner above this line displays, it’s the Google logo in braille. Anyway, I am using Google mail since about half a year now, after a presentation at a friends place convinced me that sorting mails by conversation is extremly convenient. The only not-so-good thing about gmail is that is does not support PGP encryption. But there are some clever plugins (mostly javascript) that enable the webmail to do even more than it normally does:
First, there’s the complete collection over at GmailTips.com and a very interesting guide I found on another blog - Hack Attack: become a Gmail master. The latter site, Lifehacker is especially nice for so-called geeks and in general everyone who wants to be more efficient when using their computer.

The Guinness book of records sure has some strange records in it, like putting 60+ cigarettes in your mouth at the same time and such feats. But this one sadly tops them all:

That kind of deadpan humor happens when dynamic pages get created with database entries sometimes. I don’t think that anyone who wants to “break” this “record” would first announce it to Guinness…