New Post: Elon Musk announces ClipX

This is my first-ever attempt at satire.
If it made you laugh, let me know! I'd love to turn this into an on-going series!

https://lzon.ca/posts/satire/clipx/

#indieweb #smallweb #rss #blogging #personalweb
#news #satire #elon #musk #paperclips

Reminder: students can be a source of joy!

#PaperClipCollection #paperclips #CatsOfMastodon #catodon

#paperclips #resistance

https://thepaperclipresistance.com/

Musical biography of John von Neumann #filk #filkmusic #vonneumann #paperclips #universalpaperclips #mathematicians

Tune: Chuck Berry, "Johnny B. Goode" (https://youtu.be/Y-9Y4CCIWnM)

(guitar solo)

Deep down in Central Europe where the Danube flows,
In the basin where the Magyar kingdoms rose,
Of all the math and science nerds, he was the best,
At the Lutheran gymnasium of Budapest.
He was Neumann János Lajos in his land of birth,
And Johnny von Neumann on the rest of Earth.

Go go, go Johnny go, go,
Go Johnny go go go,
Johnny v. N.

The theory of sets he handled with aplomb,
Then quantum mechanics and the atom bomb,
And in Philly, Pennsylvania, he came to hack
On an early computer called the ENIAC.
Then self-replicating interstellar ships,
To turn the universe into paper clips.

Go go, go Johnny go, go,
Go Johnny go go go,
Johnny v. N.

Life is a box of paperclips
__________________________

Not all of us will be the paperclip
taken from the box
and used to keep things together.
Most us will be bent out of shape
and used to fix a problem
used as a bored person's distraction
and then tossed in the trash.

-- W. O. Henry

#poetry #paperclips

The operation to fly German scientists to America after the second world war to ensure that their expertise didn’t fall into the hands of the Soviet Union, was called Operation Paperclip.

10 things you might not know about paperclips.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/05/29-may-paper-clips.html

#NationalPaperclipDay #Paperclips #Stationery