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OK, I’m probably the last person to hear about this, but this is insanely funny. In response to the Kansas State Board of Education’s ridiculous and backwards decision to teach Intelligent Design (essentially Christian Creationism dressed up as science), somebody has created a parody religion called “Flying Spaghetti Monsterism”, which has gained a huge following in the past few months. This open letter to the Kansas School Board describes the religion and states that is is just as much science as Intelligent Design....

Someone on the Pragmatic Programmer mailing list recommended this website: Clientcopia It’s a massive (3300+) collection of stupid client comments from all fields, many of which I’m sure you can relate to. Just hit “Random” a couple of times; it’s quite entertaining.

Dave Thomas has an interesting proposal on turning excess body fat into laptop energy. He calls this the LipoBattery. It would solve both the problem of overweight programmers, as well as the lack of battery power in laptops. As soon as they actually invent this thing, please sign me up for the beta test! :)