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30

Aug

Debut

Posted by Viren  Published in Funny, One-Armed Bandits

From time to time, I’ll put up a comic I’ve created, in collaboration with others. Here’s the first in the series. For more info on Schicklgruber, look here.

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Tags: cartoon, Funny, One-Armed Bandits, webcomic

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27

Aug

Small Gods

Posted by Viren  Published in Book Excerpts, Book Reviews, Funny, Religion, Terry Pratchett

Here’s an excerpt from 1992′s Small Gods by Terry Pratchett, one of my favourite authors. It’s true that on topics of sheer lunacy, only comedians are brave enough to speak the truth, by mocking the lunacy in question. Where do gods come from? Where do they go? Some attempt to answer this was made by [...]

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Tags: british humour, Funny, satire, Small Gods, terry pratchett

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24

Aug

Worth a million lexemes

Posted by Viren  Published in Funny, Religion

Eat this, Ernie Pyle.

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16

Aug

Dual monitors in Gentoo

Posted by Viren  Published in The usual

I just bought a second monitor, a nice 24″ LCD that seems so much crisper than my ancient 19″ LCD.  Setting up the dual monitor setup in Gentoo isn’t hard at all. I know that X.org has a lot of issues but luckily, setting up dual monitors is straightforward and works out well. I have [...]

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Tags: dual monitor, Gentoo, howto, nvidia 6600 gt

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6

Aug

MBA

Posted by Viren  Published in Funny

A picture is worth a thousand…

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Tags: cartoon, demotivational poster, Funny, mba, pix

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5

Aug

Musings of a Killer

Posted by Viren  Published in The usual

Here are the writings of George Sodini, who opened fire in all-female gym yesterdy, becoming the most recent mass murderer in history. It reads like a Sexual Repression 101, complete with racial hate and oceans of bitterness. What  a sad little man. Legalizing prostitution might have prevented this tragedy. But who can say for sure, [...]

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Tags: diray, george sodini, massacre, suicide note

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