Occam's Panda

It has come to my attention that the World Wide Web is littered with websites such as the neuron-apoptosingly stupid Yahoo! Answers, where you can ask strangers to answer questions like “Who was that guy that played Porkins in Star Wars?” and ”Is this a tumor?” If my parents ever used this website, their response to [...]

I’ve been unemployed for the last several months. It’s not a lot of fun. Mostly it’s boring and tedious, because looking for a new job is boring and tedious. There are also only so many times you can answer the question “So, how’s the job search going?” before you just want to strangle the well-meaning [...]

These days, it seems like everyone has plans for survival in the event of a zombie apocalypse. In fact, it’s hard to keep track of all the new zombie-centric movies, video games, comics, and old-fashioned books that focus on zombies, and a good number of these feature either explicit or implicit tips for survival (Max [...]