Conservatives who threaten to move to Germany after the Obama win are just as childish and petulant as liberals who threatened to move to France after the Bush win. Stay in America and fix the country you claim to love.

— Me, Right Now.

These Trucks are full of Tubes which are full of In-for-ma-tion. Everybody Sing!!— Andra Whitt, in a fit of brilliance, describing the World Wide Web, just like Senator Ted Stevens .

In this case, the left hand knows exactly what the right hand is doing: they’re both giving you the finger.

— Mark Pilgrim on Owning the Music You Purchase

XKCD is a webcomic for nerds. And geeks. This means that I read it every M-W-F. Religiously. Usually the comics are one-off panels about something mathematical, or generally geeky. Randall Moore loves the beauty of mathematics (not arithmetic, but math) and hates velociraptors.

This week’s comics have bowed to the scourge of Dreaded Continuity, which culminates today in some important advice:

Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they will turn out.

You’re curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you are waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.

Thanks Randall.