I’m not sure which is funnier - the offensively juvenile essay, the fact that a student would submit it for credit, or the comments in red pen from the teacher who obviously is at a loss for how to grade it.

[Found at MESH Diaweblog, who in turn found it at Fark.]

Not too many people outside of the midwest (or even outside of Illinois and Wisconsin) understand the “friendly” rivalry that the citizens of the two states participate in. If you’re not an Illinoisian or a Wisconsinite, then you can begin to get a flavor for it by discovering that an Illinois car getting pulled over for speeding four times in one day is a highly newsworthy story in cheese-head land.

It’s been a long time since we’ve posted some humor, so here’s some more Craigslist comedy gold from a man who has a very special and intensely personal question for you, dear reader, now that he suspects his girlfriend is cheating on him.

Here’s a game you won’t see on Jay Bibby’s site anytime soon: ROFLAttack.

Hard to describe, ROFLAttack is a flash game with ASCII graphics that pits you as an elite ROFLer who must destroy LOLerskaters and LMAOplanes, armed only with your ROFLcopter’s ROFLcannon, WTFbombs, OMGmissles, and the all-important BBLshield.

(First seen on on the MESH DiaWebLog.)

Making their way around the blogosphere:

The RAND Corporation’s 1954 mock-up of what they thought a home computer would look like in 2004 - now with convenient teletype!

There are many geek religious wars - MacOS vs. Windows, Windows vs. Unix, Linux vs. *BSD, vi vs. emacs, Kirk vs. Picard, the Avengers vs. the Justice League, etc. One of the key arguments for the ages is Star Wars vs. Star Trek - in a battle between the Empire and the Federation, who would win? Many die-hard fans have made empassioned arguments one way or another on various newsgroups and message boards, but fortunately, someone has taken the time to do the math.

In lieu of providing a long-winded description of what’s been going on with Desiree and I that has prevented us from posting, I instead defer to this picture, which captures the essence of what our lives are like at the moment.

This is one cost of outsourcing they don’t teach you about in business school. All current or former IT staff are free to chuckle knowingly once they’ve followed this link…

Here’s some comedy for you as we head into the holiday weekend - a photoshop contest showing superheroes at their day jobs… enjoy!

Does the world really need a David Hasselhoff rap album? More to the point, can the world withstand a David Hasselhoff rap album?

Haven’t we had enough of TV stars making notoriously bad albums (even if they are huge in Germany)?

Desiree pointed me to this article in the Chicago Tribune (free registration required) explaining how Japanese PM Koizumi had to reprimand some of the junior lawmakers in his party for reading comics and sending instant messages during legislative sessions, which struck me as very funny for some reason.