“The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.”
–David Friedman

Joel Spolsky has an interesting article about the reasons the MS Office file formats are so complicated. It’s mostly stuff you could figure out on your own, but it’s good to read a reasoned explanation of why things are the way they are.

Photobasement.com has a roundup of 41 hilarious science fair experiments with pictures. Here are my favoites:

“Does exercising effect?”

I’m not sure that “The Ideal Pancreas” really merited a part 2:

Feel the excitement…

There’s really nothing to add to this: