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Having a rough day? Skim through these outtakes from Whose Line Is It Anyway. I almost hurt myself laughing... warning, these are outtakes for a reason - a lot aren't even remotely suitable for mixed audiences...

452 points, so you achieved position 347 of 82048 on the ranking list
You type 562 characters per minute
You have 106 correct words and
you have 0 wrong words

I ran it through twice, improving the second time (from 95 up to 106). It takes a full minute of fast typing to make it work, and I feel silly chalking off my day in one minute increments just to get a higher ranking :)

The silly little "past this code!" thing is:

106 words

Typingtest

I think Lovely Listings is my new favorite blog. Someone is collecting awful pictures from real estate listings and posting them, with great commentary.

Chalk out an hour to get caught up. There's some doozies in there.

Updated to fix broken URL. Sorry!

Aww, what the hey. Here's my icon from MadMenYourself.com. Whadya think, accurate? My mom spent a long time fiddling with it to get it 'just right'.

What happens when there's a rampant conversation going on on a geek channel? It's time for Umbrella Metaphors.

"If a language were used to make an umbrella, what would it look like?"

Naturally, there were several suggestions for certain languages.

• PHP umbrella is made of ragged pieces of duct tape
• VB umbrella is old and kids-size
• C++ umbrella requires a 15-digit code to open
• Java umbrella is sold with the handle and material seperately, and you need to match them up, and you have to download it from github
• Ruby umbrella is shaped like a cube, but if you stand in just the right place, it keeps you try
• ASP umbrella is large, but has big holes cut into it
• Fortran umbrella is made of iron, and is rusted shut ;)
• haskell umbrella is inside-out.
• .net umbrellas are a range of colour-matching umbrellas, but they only work with certain types of rain.
• lisp umbrella is old, but still works, and all the new umbrellas coming out look like it more and more
• lisp umbrella is incomprehensible as a functional umbrella. but pushing a button appears to keep the water off you, just have no idea how.
• lisp umbrella is patterned with a bunch of images of other lisp umbrellas on it, which are in turn..

Thanks to Avatar-x, ojacobson, the_goat, Optic, elmood, and the other happy geeks at the Toronto Hacklab

When I was a kid I remember reading TV Guide in it's glossy mini-magazine format - it was like an up to date glimpse of the future at my fingertips. (Anyone reading this who was born after 1995 - this was before the Internet).

Occasionally their summaries of movies and shows would be completely off the wall. One I remember pretty clearly was:

Wizard of Oz - Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.

Fortunately, someone has written an entire page full of them.

Thanks to Ellen for the pointer.

ETA - Well hell. That wasn't TV guide. According to IMDB , it was written by Rick Polito of the Marin Independent Journal. Oh well. TV Guide was still pretty cool.