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Blab Departments:

Cartoons
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The Casual Sportsman
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Fun Facts & Trivia
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Infrequently Answered Questions
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Odds & Ends
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Quotes & Sayings
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Talkin Bout Money
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Top Tens & Other Lists
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Word Definitions & Origins
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Blab Favorites:

How 'lb' and £ mean pound

Why there are 24 hours in a day and 60 minutes in an hour

Why dinosaurs are improbable and tiny men are supermen

Where UPPER and lower case come from

The entertainment curve

Where urban legends come from

Why there is no channel one on broadcast tv

What's up with 'up'?

How to turn vice into virtue

What a human body is worth

Lies, damned lies, statistics, and politics

Why it's so hard to change people's minds

Haste makes waste and he who hesitates is lost

A few Goldwynisms

New 'Heroes' characters

Why liberal and conservative aren't opposites

Fauxcabulary, or words I made up

The Sports File:

Explaining the Union Jack

World Cup 2010

What are the odds of a parlay?

Strange baseball plays

The greatest bike racer ever

Sports nicknames quiz

Improving soccer my way

Sports cliches and Berraisms



Links:

Laughing Stock illustration

Cool Quiz
Coyote Blog
Cracked
Electric Universe
Fun Trivia
Go To Quiz
How Things Work
List Universe
Museum of Hoaxes
Plastic
Peoples Cube
The Straight Dope
Suck.com
Zero hedge

Humor Features

How ESP Works  Mind Reading Diagramed and Explained

My First Car  How I Almost Ran Myself Over With a Jerry-rigged Jalopy

Money Blather  Your Guide to Economic Jargon, Lingo, and Gobbledegook

Lights, Camera, Reaction!  The Periodic Table of Hollywood Plot Elements

The Miracle Multiplier  How to Solve our Economic Woes with Government Math

Those Darn Cats Our deal with the devils

Government Machinery at Work  How the Wheels of the Bureaucracy Grind

American History 101 2.0  A fake but accurate account

Watt is it?  Musings on the Nature of Light

Space Warps and Wefts  What fabric is the fabric of space made of?

The Day the Universe Stopped Standing Still  How it all began explained for people who don't take reality seriously

Unnatural Empty Junkfood Words  Half-Baked Buzz Phrases and Overcooked Terms

Blogolicious!  Form Follows Function Follows Fun

Uranimals  Beastly Beasts

Find the Secret Message  A different kind of word search

Clever Silliness and Silly Cleverness  Tiny minds and tiny urls

Man is a Verb, Woman is an Adjective  Dirt is a noun between them

Star Dreck  Musings of a semi hemi demi trekker

Unreality TV  No shows

Dangerous Hot Air The truth about inconvenient global warming

Not-so-Special Winter Olympics  Olympic events you'll never see

Greetings, Earth-things  A blog from one step beyond the outer limits of the twilight zone

Don't Look Down  Everthing you never wanted to know about air travel

Happy New Year  2007 in review


From Reader's Digest

Venn Again, Maybe Not  Another Last Laugh

Quick and Easy Meals  For the Cooking Impaired


Cracked Archives

The Future Ain't What it Used to Be

Tanks, But No Tanks

Baseball Stadia for the 90s

Bizarre Business Cards We Hope We Never See

Complete Guide to Piercing

History's Least Successful Proto Humans

Just Plane Stupid

Landmark Remodeling

Personalized Remotes

Police Line-ups Around the World (and Beyond)

Roller Coaster Mania

Trojan Horse Designs That Didn't Quite Make it

Ye Olde Transport Catalogue


Suck.com Archives (off site)

Crash Course  Cartoon motorcycle accidents versus cartoonist motorcycle accidents

Suck School of Comic Art  How to Draw Funny

Suck School of Comic Art - Graduate Course  How to Draw Funnier


Other Features

Inflation and Deflation  Less Money and Inflation Equals Recession

Billiards Bits for Beginners  The Shape of Cheating the Pocket With Throw

Flying Made Simple  Understanding How Planes Can Fly Without all the Messy Details

How Planes Can Fly  The correct explanation of lift for non-engineers

Bernoulli, Coanda & Lift  What is What and What is and isn't Doing What

Paradox or Not?  Fashionable Fitness Foods and Futility

“Pass the Honey, Sugar”  The Processed Food Processed Food Haters Love

What is Money?  It Ain't Just Paper

Sure as Debt and Taxes  Phoney Profits and Phoney Prudence

Sell Low, Buy Low  When not to trade four houses for a hotel

Works for Me  Prosperity is as Energy Does

Changes that Changed Everything  The 10 Greatest Inventions of All Time?

Better Than Sliced Bread  Uncelebrated Inventions Great and Small

Science Legends  Things people know to be true that aren't

The Neutering Curve  How Neutering Tom is Different than Spaying Ally

Plausible Cause  How Many Zeros Must be Added up to Make Zero?

Quasi-Science  We See What We Want to Believe

There's More Than One Way to Skin a Cat  Three card monty math which may surprise you

Scaring Up Scary Statistics  The Numbers May Add up Though the Conclusion Doesn't

Consensus Cascade  How the Conventional Wisdom Can be Like a Pile of Oranges

Misleading Indicators  Statistics don't lie, but their interpretation and presentation can

How to Balance a Bike  One Man's Take on Stabilizing the Unstable

The Wheels That Don't Turn  How to Turn a Bicycle (Without Gyroscopes or Cones)

Evolutionary and Uncivil Wars  Was there really an American Revolution or Civil War?

The Russian who Killed the U.S.S.R.  It's not Gorbachev or Anyone You've Likely Ever Heard of

Romeo, Wherefor Art Thou Such an Idiot?  Star-crossed or starry-eyed fool?

Optical Illusions You Often Run Into  Don't worry, they don't hurt


Quizzes, Games, and Such

Terra Incognita  A Trick Tricky Geography Quiz

Superest Super Bowl League  What is the best pre-merger league at winning the big game?

Hollywhat?  A Movie Trivia Quiz of the Funny, the Obscure, and the Strange

99 & 44/100 % Pure Amusement  A Pop Quiz About Percentages and Probabilities

Internetelepathy  I Will Read Your Mind

What Was That Nym Again?  Some fun with words