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Found on Wikipedia: a completely torturous sentence composed of homophones homonyms that still makes sense (if you read it many many times and very slowly):

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Buffalo means three different things in the sentence: Buffalo the animal, Buffalo the city, and Buffalo the verb meaning ‘to bully’.

From the article: Thus, the sentence when parsed reads as a description of the pecking order in the social hierarchy of buffaloes living in Buffalo: ‘Buffalo bison whom other Buffalo bison bully themselves bully Buffalo bison’.

Link to the Wikipedia article.

Fans of the popular webcomic, xkcd, have reproduced one of Randall Munroe’s comics that shows someone playing chess on a rollercoaster.

Link to the photos.

Link to the original comic.

Update: This photo has now been LOLcated.  via Boing Boing

ChemicalBurn is a hypnotic screensaver for OS X, written by Michael Ash, that simulates a self-optimizing network. It randomly lays out nodes on the screen then has each attempt to route packages to the others. The more frequently routes are used by packages, the faster the connection becomes.

I lost several hours yesterday tweaking the various settings and seeing how they affected the network — if you want to procrastinate yourself into a trance, this is an excellent way to do it.

Download ChemicalBurn here.

Via freemacware.

Why you shouldn’t anthropomorphize inanimate objects.

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