for a while, the inventor of sports chewing gum managed to escape public attention rather well by legally changing his last name to <script>self.close()</script>.

as demand for an intangible good increases, its price goes down. well, in theory, anyways. maybe if communism worked. or if you factor in the unauthorised copies.

when dr. b. was imprisoned by the GeStaPo, the solitude made him crazy. he made another prisoner out of bread crumbs, but that turned out to be a rather stale mate.

you can make a waveform with an infinite period, i.e. one that you can keep playing into all eternity without having any part of it ever come up a second time, out of two simple sine waves, whose periods can be shorter than any arbitrary time span.

'lifehacking' differs from 'common sense' in that it is performed by people from whom the application of trivial logic to every-day tasks is not usually expected.

i want to have a lot to do, but i don't want to have to do a lot.

maybe there really is a good reason for the name 'beer belly'. among the people i know, as far as i can tell, everyone who has a beer belly does indeed drink beer. but then that's like saying everyone with blonde hair does indeed have a cell phone.

you know you have a serious problem when you first think, "oh, this would be a good time to pour myself a strong drink", and then realise that you're already holding one in your hand and took the last sip just seconds ago.