Friday Fun Stuff - Hostess with the Mostest

Ah, the Twinkie. Fabled snack cake with an indefinite shelf life. Also the subject of a thorough, and thoroughly amusing, group of rigorous science experiments. Here's an internet classic, brought out for your enjoyment.

The T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project

My favorite - The Turing Test.

April Fool's Day 2008

April Foolery is fun. I expect to see at least one notice that the ice moved on the Nenana River, as that seems to be a regular April Fool up here.

Shawn and Linux Journal seem to be having a good time

Google is always a source for laughs, on an international scale.

NPR is usually pretty sly, keep an open ear and skeptical mind.

Things that could be April Fools, but aren't: Darwin Awards, Annals of Improbable Research, and The Journal of Irreproducible Results

I have no plans this year, nothing clever or inspired. The only ideas I've had are mean and not that funny. I don't want to be a mean person for amusement. If I have to me be mean, it's because some ass needs whooping. Yeah! Um, that might be the beer talking.

I hope you all have something to chuckle over today. April Fool's Day has always seemed a rather offbeat celebration, so in closing I offer you a non-April Fool chuckle - The Surrealist Compliment Generator.

A busy week

I'll give an update and some blatheration later on in the week. Until then, I provide, for your entertainment, the following Alaskan oddities:

Redneck City, USA

Danger - Falling Moose!!

The Unalaska/Dutch Harbor Police Blotter - the best police blotter writing in Alaska