From a BBC article:

The Science Learning Centre in London asked 11,000 pupils for their views on science and scientists.

Around 70% of the 11-15 year olds questioned said they did not picture scientists as “normal young and attractive men and women”.
They found around 80% of pupils thought scientists did “very important work” and 70% thought they worked “creatively and imaginatively”. Only 40% said they agreed that scientists did “boring and repetitive work”.
Over three quarters of the respondents thought scientists were “really brainy people”.

That’s all well and good, but the last quote is by far the best:

Among those who said they would not like to be scientists, reasons included: “Because you would constantly be depressed and tired and not have time for family”, and “because they all wear big glasses and white coats and I am female”.

Here’s a guy that decided to show his friends Goatse and photograph their reactions.

Here’s a page that randomly shows three unrelated panels of Garfield comic strips. No humor is lost.

Old and busted: airbrushed Scarface portraits
New hotness: Scarface posters containting the entire movie script

Who buys this shit?
Note that even though we have a category of “Art”, I didn’t use it.

Urban Outfitters has Charlie Brown’s pathetic Christmas tree.

Popular Science published their list of the 10 Worst Jobs in Science. Their number 3 was Kansas Biology Teacher. That’s 7 ranks worse than Orangutan-Pee Collector and 4 worse than Semen Washer.

First off, let me say that I found this while browsing podcasts in the iTunes Store. Honestly, I swear.

It’s called Media Nipple. Naturally, that caught my attention, so I checked it out.

Reading on, it quickly became disappointing. It becomes apparent that the real content is legitimate social commentary. They explain that its name is a metaphor for the “deceptive practices of news media, and how easily we’ve all succumed to it, now requiring it for our daily nourishment.” What a let down.

But then, I checked out the standalone site (NSFW) outside of the iTunes Store. Good decision, me!

Everyone’s seen those spams that say shit like “Hot young co-eds eager 4 your member” then the link brings you to some site selling time shares. Well this is like that, but it does a second bait-and-switch making it a happy day.

I posted a while back about Video Games Live, an orchestral concert of video game music. They’re calling it quits. From Slashdot:

Video Games Live (‘The first major North American concert tour featuring music from some of the biggest video games combined with video footage, lasers, lights, and live action’) announced today that they have cancelled all tour dates in their national tour except for two scheduled for this weekend in Seattle and Vancouver. Fans across the country who have paid for tickets to these events must now manually request refunds and suffer convenience charges. The event was cancelled ‘because ticket sales were slow and did not reflect the great interest expected.

Coulda just said, “I don’t know what the fuck we were thinking.”