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Fantastic comic strip on the origin of the first programmer.

Attention Americans with senses of humour (sic): Hulu are now streaming the first series of top-notch British sitcom Peep Show. You should watch it, because it is bloody funny, and only mildly uncomfortably close to the bone.

I stare at this caption, and I can’t even begin to work out what they THOUGHT they were saying. Every time you think you work it out, you realise it’s still wrong.

Square CD-Rs, printed to look like 3.5” floppies. No sign if punching a hole in the top-left corner doubles their capacity.

Brad Templeton makes a point about Fair Use of the Downfall clip… as subtitles on the Downfall clip. The first Downfall parody I’ve laughed at in a while.

Some nice reslicing of Siralan and the numpties on The Apprentice.

Them Panic lads know how to make compelling advertising.

An obvious and hackneyed joke, but beautifully played out by the Onion News Network.

Neals Yard, purveyors of finest homeopathic placebos and quackery, offer to take questions from the Grauniad blog readers. The Bad Science crowd descends, and 24 hours later, no answers are forthcoming.

“I’ve been soaking a £20 note in a bathfull of water for the last few days, is it ok to pay for an order using my new homeopathic money? I now seem to have rather a lot of it.”

Ferrari 250 GT sold separately.

Mozilla Labs is launching a sort of Greasemonkey++ — in addition to tweaking web pages, you get some limited control over the browser chrome. Will be interesting to watch this grow

John Gruber’s expectations for what the next iPhone will hold. I’ve long said that I’d happily pay a premium for an iPhone with a decent camera, so that’s the only thing I’m hoping for.

A catalog of some of the beautiful, bizarre and hilarious items on sale at 826 storefronts nationwide. Amazon says it’s not out til August 1st, but 826 Valencia had them in stock today, and I picked up a copy.