Robodump. The name speaks volumes. The machine processes not-indispensable volumes.
(Thanks to Peter Langston for bringing this to our attention. He passes the word that this item is "Unsavory — and possibly offensive.")
The limerick competitions we run every month in mini-AIR somow always draw (in addition to some good and some bad limericks) a large number of entries that — technically — are not limericks. For good examples of limericks that are limericks, see the OEDILF. For concise pointers on writing limericks, see Peter Macinnis’s how-to essay.
(Thanks to Glenn Glazer for bringing this to our attention.)
LoCarb Woman magazine is presumably of great interest to physiologists and anatomists. The true test of a LoCarb woman’s beliefs about her carbohydrate composition, though, can be done only postmortem.
The Ig Nobel Tour of Tasmania happens over the course of the next week week, for Australia’s National Science Week. There will be a variety of events in Burnie, Lanceston, and Hobart. The two biggest will be in Burnie on Wednesday evening (the 17th), and in Hobart on Friday evening (the 19th).
We raise a salute to Ray Tomlinson (at BBN in Boston), who began the now-universal practice of using the symbol @ in email. He turned apparent blasphemy into simple communication.
(Thanks to Ig Nobel Prize winner Michael Turvey for bringing this to our attention.)
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