Category Archives: InstaMunger

I go and edit my link list to purge all the dead links, and before ya know it, Michael Bérubé is blogging again. Too bad I didn’t have a link to Calvin and Hobbes in my old links list.

Six words: Fire Paulson. Put Buffett in charge.

If you’re curious about whether the Large Hadron Collider has destroyed the world yet, just visit hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com. If you’d just like to follow the progress as the LHC ramps up, you might get just a bit more information here, where … Continue reading →

And can we just drop this bullshit about the military “defending our freedom?” Few of us were alive the last time our military went to war over anything even remotely related to the freedom of Americans. Okay, World War II … Continue reading →

In response to the question I asked the other day: Nope.

From our local newspaper, in an article about how there will be fewer school bus stops this year: Kiesha McGaughy, who lives off Sugar Creek Road north of uptown, said the bus picked her daughter up at the end of … Continue reading →

TurboTax melted down 24 hours before the deadline.

I’ve changed my email address to dsmunger–at–gmail–dot–com, so update your address books.

“They are all the same, and yet Milano is the best.”

Line Rider has been sold, and the site is down. Is this the end of free Kool-Aid?

… just asking your readers for the answer to a question is quicker and easier than Googling it.

Wow. If this is real, it’s really good. Even if it’s not, it’s a really good fake.

The National Spelling Bee is being liveblogged. (via Uncertain Principles)

This is cool. But 57 really could use some help. Is there nothing more special about 57 than this? = 111 in base 7. is a 20-gonal number. Update: actually the list goes up to 500! But they do skip … Continue reading →

Professors are worried about students plagiarizing essays about Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop for Death.” Here’s an idea: come up with an original paper topic and maybe your students will write original papers.

Look where I’ll be heading this summer: America’s Vacationland! Actually, I’m headed to a slightly nicer part of the state, Swans Island. But I appreciate the sentiment of that first site.