I haven’t had time for a proper post for the past few days and I still don’t, but Leasey recommends that you explore the platypus genome by hovering your mouse pointer over the little image of a platypus on this page and reading the pop-up that appears. Genomics: an unrecognized mine of comedy gold.
24Aug06 — 1
Cute.
There are beings among us who disparage any attempt at enlivening academic, technical subjects with a touch of fun. Witness the criticisms of Larry Wall’s jokes in Programming Perl on amazon.co.uk.
There is enough tedious exposition out there to put most people to sleep. Make it lively and make it fun.