Fate.

"There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will."

-- Shakespeare (Hamlet)

Grammaculous.

Very occasionally I discover that something I have known - albeit intuitively - is true in a technical sense as well. Suffering the poor formal linguistic education quite typical of those in my genre, I have always regretified being left to my own devices to develop a crude intuitive comprehension using only teen schlock horror novels, comic books, and the subtitled complete works of Monty Python.

Returning to my original point, I am occasionally delighted to find strong technical support for a linguistic principle I had previously only understood intuitively. I present the Serial Comma.

Of course, before I get too enthusiastic, I must remind myself of my disdain for the respect and fixation by mere human beings on rule sets defined by other mere human beings. There's something belittling in being told to conform to a certain set of rules simply because "they" created them. But that's another topic.

On Comedy;

"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly."

-- GK Chesterton.

For the sake of balance,

I must also link to a ninja dog.

Hilarious.

Ninja Cat.

Seriously. Funniest cat-based video I've seen in ages.

Remeniscent of a particularly memorable (and genuinely unnerving) scene in El Orfanato.

"Rather than encouraging our children to study more math and science and become engineers, we're turning them into lawyers."

http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/dec2005/sb20051212_623922.htm

Couldn't have said it better myself.