Xeni Jardin at BoingBoing convened an open jokes thread earlier today. Geeky lols contained therein include:

Did you hear about the man who cooled himself to absolute zero? He’s OK.

Rene Descartes walks into a bar – a sleazy woman walks up to him and says “Hey handsome, buy me a drink?” He sneers at her and says, “Madam I think not” and disappears.

How did the hipster burn his mouth? Eating pizza before it was cool.

There are funny ones too.

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Yikes.

Taken literally this afternoon.

Habit-less and (we’re assuming) no-nonsense representatives from The Sisters of Mercy order on their way to meet Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn.

Members from 18 congregations, which ran children’s residential institutions condemned in the Ryan Report, were invited in to explain the estimated €350 million shortfall in their offered compensation.

Rather Ruairi than us, quite frankly.

(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

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A surreal, technically impressive short film created with 3D Studio Max software by Makerbot collaborator/animator Jonathan Monaghan (no relation to Karl).

There’s nothing to learn here, except that decapitated lions go to Heaven. Or something.

via

 

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gv_NdmUsoo

A little bit U2, a little bit Script.

We’re calling it ‘J1 Rawk‘.

The Fallen Drakes’ ‘Girl From New York’.

sez they:

SO……..WE MADE THE IRISH CHARTS!! The only independent artist in the charts! Number 34! And the highest new entry in the week! Next week we WILL place higher!

The Fallen Drakes on Facebook

 

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