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Given that I’ve spent the better part of the last month preparing for summer examinations for my Masters, I found myself in need of regular enlightenment and succumbed to severe bouts of distraction in the form of YouTube and other such sites. Here is my final installment:

I defy you not to laugh along, especially to this little fella who sounds like he smokes a couple of twenty-packs per day!

Check out this priceless episode of Pingu where he attempts to go fishing but is outsmarted by a very clever sea lion. It’s not only another brilliant piece of animation by the creators of this adorable Antarctic penguin but is also extremely clever and very, very funny. All this and not a word of any language spoken other than his own expressive (and transcontinental) utterances.

Whether you have children or not, this is well worth watching and will bring a smile to your face.

Ever needed to include some impressive financial figures or statistics in a presentation but weren’t sure quite how to pitch them?

Dilbert to the rescue…

Dilbert strikes again today … this time on the topic of new feature (or change) requests in the context of pretty much any engineering project you care to think of.

It beggars belief that in the current climate of international terrorism, someone could be so stupid that they would actually enter an International Airport wearing a circuit board with some wires and flashing lights on their T-Shirt.

We’ve all heard the not-so funny stories about the Irish guy who joked with the check-in attendant about the likely contents of his luggage and found himself in jail for several weeks as a result. But this one really does take the biscuit (or bread board to the techies out there).

I mean, what did she think they would say?

Source: SlashDot