Look who's working for Cole Parmer

I was looking for a PDF manual for one of our tube furnaces when I came across the newest employee of Cole Parmer:



I'm sorry to hear he's looking for a new line of employment; perhaps Bruce Wayne isn't paying him quite enough?

science jokes ahoy!

Boingboing is having an open thread for science jokes, and there are some awesome groaners already:

A malacologist was chilling at home drinking a beer and watching Adventure Time. There was a knock at his door & he irritatedly stood to answer it.

On his porch was a haplotrema vancouverense. "Can I borrow your phone?" Piped up the snail.

"Fuck no." Said the scientist, kicking the snail off his porch.

TWO YEARS later the scientist was at home chilling out, drinking a beer and watching Regular Show. There was a knock at his door.

It was the very same haplotrema."What the fuck was that about?"

natural peppermint flavour

I know what I'm using for my next column... I've been tired of the fruity odor of ethyl acetate, it's time for some "natural peppermint" flavour!

(spied in the health section of a grocery store in Edmonton)

Scigen

This is complete genius:

Some folks at MIT have whipped up a bit of code and a database of computer science topics, phrases, and graphs, and developed a quick paper generator. The paper will make no sense at all, of course, but it is quick. And what they’ve found is that making no sense isn’t as much of a handicap as you might think when it comes to some conferences and some journals.

The database, which focuses on computing science literature, called Scigen, gave me a really nice article entitled "Evaluating Spreadsheets and 802.11B Using FetisGrame".

The creators have successfully submitted these nonsense papers to conferences and journals. hah!

(via In The Pipeline)