Improbable
Somewhere in the world, there are scientists researching the side-effects of Marmite or investigating whether Parmesan can remain pongy for 500 years.
Worryingly, these people are probably paid to do this. Improbable is a dossier of their work, tied in with the famous Ignobel awards that commend silly research.
The clues in the Ig bit of that title: this site will outrage those who think public money goes into funding ludicrous research, but tickle the rest of us.
www.improbable.com
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Those moments spent giggling at Sarah Palin are amongst this writer’s happiest. Imagine my joy when I found William Shatner performing the Vice Presidential candidate’s meaninglessly banal Twitter messages, backed by a smooth jazz band.
Shatner’s turned this into a bit of a hobby recently, reading various Tweets as if they were poems, but this was the first.
Although, I can’t help but point out that if you did the same for Obama’s “Yes We Can!” Tweets, it would have to sound like a Van Halen song.
