Danceth thou ye Hokey-Pokey?

If thou art feeling jaded in thine efforts at merriment and carousing, mayhap thou couldst try capering hither and yon in ye new dance sensation, Ye Hokey-Pokey.


Knowest thou not ye means by which thou shouldst moveth thine body? Then, cast thine eyes upon ye parchment below, and verily, thou shalt be educated henceforth:

Now, Mark maketh no claim to be an all-encompassing expert on ye rituals and customs of ye British populace. That particular fact notwithstanding, Mark possesseth a suffiency of pedantry enabling him to point out that, in ye land of Ye Bard, ye dance is named Ye Hokey-Cokey.


With that said, ye sonnet above pleaseth both he and his good lady in equal measure!




Thy humble scribes at Sense Deprivation giveth thanks to BoingBoing, who in turn sourced this from Neatorama, who located it at Geeks Are Sexy, who saw it on Shakespeare Tonight's Facebook page.

Teachers Dancing Behind Students

We were linked to this video by our awesome friend jessartisan - the teaching faculty of Abby Kelley Foster Charter Public School in Worcester, MA getting down and funky, during what appears to be the filming of a student documentary...

Our favorite is the bald-headed guy with the goatee - he really gets into it! Wish we had teachers like this at our schools when we were the kids' age...

TARDIS for sale or rent...

It's inevitable, when you have a talent contest, especially something like Britain's Got Talent, that there are going to be... unusual acts. For example, why haven't they buzzed off that snarky so-and-so who sits at the end of the panel each week?


Well, this is definitely unusual: Martyn Crofts appeared on BGT with a saucepan on his head, and - without any electronic wizardry - proceeded to parody "King of the Road" as a Dalek.

And, sure enough, that nasty man on the right-hand end of the desk still needs buzzing off...


Thanks to BoingBoing for sourcing that little nugget!

Post-apocalyptic bowling for charity!

There are many skills that you need in order to survive the Zombie Apocalypse: a strategic mindset; being handy with a shotgun; ten-pin bowling... Wut? Well, I guess it makes sense: You could knock down a few zombies and slow them down for a bit - plus those bowling balls are pretty damn heavy!


Anyway, in the latest round of The Nerdist's Celebrity All-Star Bowling, Chris Hardwick and his team of avid nerds take on the survivors of The Walking Dead's zombie horde: Lauren Cohan (Maggie), Scott Wilson (Hershel), Steven Yeun (Glenn), and Robert Kirkman (series creator and Executive Producer). The Nerdist team, in its various incarnations (the line-up changes weekly, except for Mr Hardwick), is undefeated - but will The Walking Dead's team put a stop to that?


Without wanting to give out any spoilers, I can tell you that the trash-talking, which is pretty rife in each show once the alcohol starts flowing, reaches new heights (or lows) in this particular episode...

If you like what you see, check out the other CASB videos at The Nerdist's YouTube channel... And next week, Geek & Sundry takes on The Nerdist! Oh no, talk about divided loyalties!

One simply must catch them all, what?

Our lovely friend Siobhan has quite the talent for drawing, and she's done an impressively dapper Pikachu:

That said, one is inclined to wonder just what happens to Pikachu when he's had too many glasses of bubbly, what?

Build Your Own Large Hadron Collider!

Why should those boffins over at CERN have all the fun in searching for the Higgs-Boson particle? Here are some IKEA-style instructions for making your own Large Hadron Collider!

As Maggie Koerth-Baker explains over at BoingBoing, this is (of course) a joke, and was plastered on one of the walls at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Oh, well... back to the drawing board...

You know what you can do with your tweets? (NSFW)

One of the authors of this blog (i.e. not the one typing this right now) just said, "Social media is a toilet". And nothing illustrates this better, perhaps, than the creation of Shitter, which takes a Twitter feed of your choosing, prints out the tweets onto four rolls of toilet paper, and then mails it to you.

The tagline for Shitter is "Social media has never been so disposable". Enough said, I think.


Original source: Laughing Squid.

Ain't that the truth...

(Source: https://plus.google.com/100801061924982065053/posts/K7Dts5zuuoD)