Fun Stuff Since It's Friday

From Unfogged--Apostropher gives us yet another skating video, this one simply outrageously fun, and Lizardbreath gives us pick up lines from Geoffrey Chaucer's blog, or, I should say, "GALFRIDUS CHAUCERES LYNES OF PICKE-VPPE": "-Yf thou were a latyn tretise ich wolde putte thee in the vernacular" and "Makstow a pilgrymage heere often?"

Chris Taylor, one of my editors at Business 2.0, cites a solution to the Fermi paradox that fascinates ToastyKen--the aliens haven't found us because they're too busy playing video games. Since about half of what I know about video games I've learned from ToastyKen, this amuses me greatly.

An interesting blogtale from the prolific indeterminacy. "Read it three times, carefully," the instructions said, "closing your eyes a few minutes after each reading, to impress the vivid language into your psyche. As time passes, the content will be indistinguishable from an authentic memory.

A fun picture of the Rock Bottom Remainders playing in LA from Dave Barry's blog.

And finally, Sam Javanrouh's magic eye in Toronto.