Was reading a really old forum post about the Wayback Machine, and one of the pages linked from it was this worryingly contemporary-feeling "you can just make a website" page from 1997 http://web.archive.org/web/19970110164754/http://www.links.net/webpub/

Thinking about how fortunate it is that when Phil Katz invented the most ubiquitous compression format in history, he called it "Deflate". Easy to remember and apt. Meanwhile, every compression format created after it is some substring of LZWSSMA78265.

So you've run into that age-old problem: every time you mispronounce semicolon as "se-mico-lon" over and over, people quickly make you stop. But did you know that if you sneak into the wilderness during new moon, you can say that word incredibly wrong as many times as you want?

These oven gloves I've got are shedding a lot of their internal lining, thus upgrading them to "exciting gloves that make removing things from the oven an exciting experience".

You know hard drive prices are actually, seriously in trouble when a tweet about WizTree, the disk usage graphing freeware, gets 11K retweets

Alexander the Great trying increasingly harebrained schemes to trick his weary troops into letting him invade India, including Opposite Day, ventriloquism during a vote call, and publicly raising a signpost reading "←Macedon" then spinning it around in the dead of night

BRB renaming the links section of my site to "awesome list" and rehosting it on GitHub so people actually take it seriously

Just noticed that this packet of dental floss I've got here will allegedly expire in 2023. Is… that possible