Hilarious means of wasting time

OK, first of all... gah! Samyu, why didn't you get new batteries and send in your photos? They are really good. (I'm talking about photos like the one from the following link:

http://photobucket.com/albums/a20/taspum05/?action=view¤t=P7260137.jpg

which so would have gotten into the brochure). I don't know if it's too late, but in any case, original versions need to be sent because the webshots are compressed and worthless for printing purposes.

Moving on, has anybody heard of the IgNobel Prize? Are they a big thing in the States? My chemistry teacher told us about them yesterday, and I've discovered that browsing the website is an immensely fun way to procrastinate on schoolwork. They're prizes handed out every year in the same categories as the Nobel Prize, but for projects which "first make people LAUGH, then make them THINK". For example in 2004, the winning project in Biology showed that "herrings apparently communicate by farting". Another project that won the Medicine category caught my eye because it probably relates loosely to seminar work. "The effects of country music on suicide", by a researcher from Wayne State University in Detroit. Did anybody suddenly think of DeNora?

Quality entertainment, right there.

Bern, thanks for the turquoise armband idea. If only I could find mine...

Have fun and don't get too frustrated about life and stuff,
Jason