“Literally Unbelievable” is one of those soul crushing websites that document the gullibility of the average person.

Which is why I both love and hate it. Most of the time it’s highly amusing, but then I stop and realize these people can vote. In fairness, The Onion can sound convincingly real and, at times, oddly prescient, but a lot of these news items are so ridiculous that you’d have to have the . . . → Read More: “Literally Unbelievable” is one of those soul crushing websites that document the gullibility of the average person.

Part 2 of Literally Unbelievable’s Top Ten Facebook Reactions to The Onion in 2011.

Part 2 of Literally Unbelievable’s Top Ten Facebook Reactions to The Onion in 2011.

In case the first half of the list wasn’t soul crushing enough.

Top Ten Facebook Reactions to the Onion of 2011, Part II

5. “Would the Queen of Paris act like this??”

4. Gained a sun, lost a mind

3. “Of . . . → Read More: Part 2 of Literally Unbelievable’s Top Ten Facebook Reactions to The Onion in 2011.

I wonder how long it’ll be before there’s a whole section of the criminal code devoted to Patriotism Crimes.

Only a Republican would try to pass patriotism laws dictating what is an isn’t unacceptable displays of patriotism. First up: How to properly sing the Star Spangled Banner. Next: Banning of dissent.

Indiana Senator Wants To Fine People For Messing Up The Star Spangled Banner

Submitted by James Morgan

Indiana Republican State Senator Vaneta Becker . . . → Read More: I wonder how long it’ll be before there’s a whole section of the criminal code devoted to Patriotism Crimes.

If you have an affected HP printer you’re going to want to apply this firmware update.

If you have an affected HP printer you’re going to want to apply this firmware update.

Sounds like it won’t be too long before we start seeing this exploit show up in the wild. I wonder if anti-virus programs could be made to detect the malicious documents? #google+ #computing #security #HP

Printer malware: print a . . . → Read More: If you have an affected HP printer you’re going to want to apply this firmware update.

Young girl on the marketing of kid’s toys.

Consider this an antidote to the faith-in-humanity-destroying collection of tweets I posted the other day. Young Riley wants to know why marketing people think girls are only interested in pink princesses:

Damn good question indeed. Perhaps she’ll grow up to make some changes in how toys are marketed some day.

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A collection of post-Christmas tweets that will leave you despairing for the human race.

Click to embiggen if you can handle whiny, entitled morons.

There are some folks in this would that you just can’t make happy no matter what you do for them or what you give them. Take, for example, this bunch of numbnuts bitching about not getting an iPhone, iPad, or car for Christmas:

Click to embiggen if you can handle whiny, entitled morons.

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A very Merry SEB Christmas to you and yours.

Pic of Melvin in a Santa hat.

It’s been a busy weekend with the family so we’re going with our annual message from the Official SEB Cat, Melvin, who says:

The quest for Absolute Zero temperature comes a step closer to reality.

Sometimes I can’t help but be awed at what physicists are accomplishing in the lab.

How cold is cold enough? Eliminating entropy picokelvins from absolute zero

When you think about the temperatures associated with “cold,” you probably imagine a cold winter day, or a block of ice (32 °F, 0 °C, or 273.15 K). This . . . → Read More: The quest for Absolute Zero temperature comes a step closer to reality.

What do you get when you combine cute puppies and Christmas?

You get the following dangerously cute video clip:

Almost makes me want to get a puppy. Almost.

Via ***Dave Does The Blog.

And now “The Nutcracker” as sung by disembodied flying heads.

Never say we aren’t a classy joint around here: