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A little Monday morning humour.

An Australian man has gone on a rampage in inner Sydney, smashing over mobile phone towers, relay sheds and an electrical substation in a privately owned armoured personnel carrier. This is the funniest thing I have seen today.

I pose to you what is perhaps the ultimate geek litmus test - do you find the following quote funny?

"Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer." - Donald Knuth

I laughed out loud upon first reading this, but others have not. What do you think? 

Australia is to release a new set of road safety commercials which aims to shame speeding males into slowing down. The creators say that the previously used graphic content commercials have not worked, believing that modern media has desensitised males to such images.

Given the crash statistics of young men it would be hard to argue against the phallic mentality of male speeding. However, whether a psychological campaign attacking the manhood of young male drivers will have any effect is unclear. Breaking the ubiquitous mix of speed and sex put forward by cool-factor films like The Fast and the Furious, Need for Speed gaming titles, and car magazines will be difficult.

This clip crossed my desk a few minutes ago, I rate it "hilarious".

I laughed at this shirt.

Upon hearing the news that Google had changed the name of its shopping search engine from Froogle to Google Product Search, I headed over to check out the page. All seemed normal until I noticed this strange product search -

Explosion proof refrigerator, what the hell?! ... 

Last week the popular geek webcomic xckd published a rather humorous little strip which poked fun at the difference between a scientist and a normal person. Reading the strip I immediately thought of Karl Popper, one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century.

Popper proposed a brilliant and important theory, in essence: "no number of positive outcomes at the level of experimental testing can confirm a scientific theory, but a single counterexample is logically decisive" -wiki. This means that no scientific theorem developed by humankind can ever be proven true by scientific testing, rather it is only believed to be true, until it is proven false. Thus, the only thing that can be achieved by scientific testing is not verifiability, but falsification.

Put in a practical context, let's say I run an experiment which attempts to test the laws of gravity. I walk to the top of a building and drop a tennis ball off the roof. Logic tells us that the ball will fall to the ground (excluding other extraneous factors). I can go on testing this theorem, dropping ball after ball: ten, twenty, a thousand, ten thousand tennis balls; every ball should drop to the ground. However, this doesn't prove that the one trillion-trillionth ball will also drop to the ground; it may just hover there in space. Thus, the theory of gravity is believed true because we are yet to find a decisive case that proves it incorrect.

I found this clip to be absolutely hilarious, enjoy.

In this clip Stephen Colbert interviews Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple computers. I don't think Colbert knows quite what to make of the geek humour, but you can tell he loves it on the inside.

A couple months ago the Hungarian Government began a public Internet vote to choose a name for the new bridge they were building. It didn't take long for the voting URL to begin circulating around the Internet, shortly after which the name "Chuck Norris" rose to the top of the list. At some point the name got picked up by supporters of The Colbert Report, my favourite show on television, and on August 16 Stephen put out the call to his fans to win the bridge naming competition for him.

Well one month and two polls later, Stephen Colbert emerged victorious! In the first poll Stephen garnered over 17 million votes, 7 million more than there are people in Hungary. Check out this clip where Stephen has Hungary's ambassador to the United States come on his show to give him the official bridge documents. The naming comes with a few interesting caveats however, no doubt designed by the Hungarian Government in a brilliant PR/tourist advertising move.

I've been following this sage since I first read about the online voting form a month ago. I think The Colbert Report is one of the most brilliantly written shows on air today, and to have Stephen win the naming of a foreign bridge after him is just about the funniest thing I have ever seen on TV. It is also a nod of respect from international viewers, as even while clearly a prank that should have been disallowed by the Hungarian Government, Stephen's almost lone voice in his satirical criticism of the Bush administration is about the only truthful political news source to be found on US television today.

Like many young boys, I used to love racing my little RC car around the place. In honour of that I felt this was worth the share.

I was just watching the Chaser's War on Everything, as I like to do on the Friday nights I'm at home, and I found their closing statement to be rather hilarious: "you can now download all our shows as podcasts at abc.net.au/chaser or you can simply pirate them on bittorrent like you've been doing all year."

Did you know that Google reports 7 instances of the word "bitches" on requiem.net.au? Well now it's 8. A fact worth noting is that "bitches" is also one of the most popular search terms that brings image hunters to requiem. Don't I feel special.

J.D.: It's not fair. Wait, why are you eating in here?

Todd: [taunting] T-Man's afraid of Kelso.

Turk: I'm not afraid of Kelso! I just felt like eating in here.

J.D.: Go outside and stand up for yourself!

Turk: Hell, yeah!

*Turk Leaves*

Todd: Dude. You know what else stands up for itself?

J.D.: You know, Todd, I'm not sure, but I'm--I'm gonna guess that it's your penis.

Todd: It is

*Hi5* 

In other news, I'm currently working on a Scrubs feature for requiem.