Reminds me of this brilliant video in the "Look Around You" series. If you look at the periodic tables shown throughout the series, you'll see elements like "Hello" and "Red" and "Toronto" sprinkled in among the real ones.

B.M., I'm a gun enthusiast and owner, but I'm glad I don't live in your state. Or your neighborhood. Your attitude of "guns make me tough" is exactly why many people want to limit your right to them.

@oli: Note that the instructions say to rearrange the digits from highest to lowest and lowest to highest in each step.

Felix, take care that your jerking knee doesn't hit you in the chin.

Link won't load for me. Is it really supposed to go to an onlinedegreeprograms.org URL?

Oh yeah. Heh. I'm irony-proof today, it seems.

@felixthecat: I lived in Japan for two years in the mid-80s, and I never saw anything like what you describe.

This article really could have used some video. I'd sure like to try that.

It's kind of ridiculous how much I like this.

It's a little reminiscent of Henry Darger. Very neat.

"...seperately..."

*twitch*

About five of them made me laugh out loud. The rest were so-so, but I thought the good ones were great.

It's hard to get really upset about sitting through a bad movie when it's only five seconds long. Heck, I saw "Leonard Part 6" in the theater; there's two hours of my life I'll never get back.

That graph would be more helpful and less misleading if the X-axis were zero.

Reminds me of this guy: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_axwEeSXAOSk/SG1EMLV1V9I/AAAAAAAAAas/0LD0YQ5TU34/s400/krupp.jpg

I should have known that reading the comments to this post would only depress me.