On Bridges

It's time for your fifth lesson in stoopidity. This time, it's got nothing to do with the Internet. This is some local stoopidity that Mari found entirely too stoopid. With all the hullabaloo over the Minneapolis Bridge Collapse, there ...

Knife=OK, Pudding=Confiscated

For your fourth (should be fifth) lesson in stoopidity, who else could it be but the TSA. I was passing through Sacto airport security checkpoint. I sent my carry-on backpack through the Xray machine. The operator found something, and raised her ...

Internet Fighting

No Kung-Fu required. For your third lesson in Internet Stoopidity, we will observe the dynamics of Internet Fighting. You need know no kung fu, but you may need a profanity filter. Our first example of the classic Internet Fight ...

Random Is Funny

Mari knows it's not Saturday, but...Here's your second lesson in Internet stoopidity. Random is funny. Observe. Please read this Neatorama article called Barbershop of Horrors. Please view the next two LOLcat macros Please look at these from Engrish.com (What is Engrish?). God ...

I Can Has Cheezburger

In case you've been living under a rock, Mari will explain the Internet phenomenon of ICanHasCheezburger (ICHC) and LOLcats. Put simply: People like funny pictures of cats and other animals with funny captions. To get a bit more in-depth: People are obsessive ...