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14 April 2009 @ 9am

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Little-Known Facts: The First Programmer

It is generally believed that the first “programmer”, in the modern sense of the word, was Ada Lovelace, who wrote theoretical code for Charles Babbage’s never-built analytical engine. But this is untrue. The first programmer was, in fact, Mad Annie Splatterkill, born in 1562, a prolific and insane serial killer who, when she wasn’t roaming [...]


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9 April 2009 @ 10am

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Little-Known Facts: Intelligent Zombies

The problem with being an intelligent zombie is that you’re forever trying to eat your own brains. For just slightly intelligent zombies, this is only an occasionally debilitating issue — you’ll sometimes find them gnawing at their reflections in mirrors that they’ve had the misfortune to stumble upon in their shamblings. But eventually the mirror [...]


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7 April 2009 @ 8am

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Little-Known Facts: Columbus’ Fourth Ship

It is a little known fact that there were actually four ships that set off with Christopher Columbus on his historic journey to discover America: the NiƱa, the Pinta, the Santa Maria, and the Exploding Flower Turtle of Sparkle-Spam — this last containing a troupe of surrealist Prussian clowns who made it their life’s work [...]


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7 April 2009 @ 8am

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Little-Known Facts: Gravity

All of the popular theories that purport to explain the phenomenon of gravity are utterly wrong. The truth: each of us is attended by a troupe of invisible gravity fairies whose only job is to settle on our bodies and, using their collective weight, keep us from careening off the surface of the earth and [...]