Can You Guess What This Is?

Here's a clue: it's via APOD...

Don't know?  They're the mysterious hexagonal clouds around the north pole of Saturn...

Microsoft's New Game...

Ars Technica, of all sites, goes for the comedy.  The title and lead paragraph from the article:

Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game, Visual Studio 2010

Microsoft has jumped onto the free-to-play bandwagon with its latest game, a text-driven adventure called Visual Studio 2010. The innovative new game marries the traditional interactive fiction text adventure with its arcane commands and exploration with the free-form, open-ended gaming pioneered by the likes of SimCity.

If you're the geekly sort, and especially if you have any experience with Microsoft's development tools, then you definitely want to go read the whole thing!

Six Papers Rejected...

Here's a compilation of rejection notices for six scientific papers submitted for publication in science journals.  They sound real enough, but the reviewers and journals aren't identified, so I'm not sure if these are actually real or someone's comedic pennings.  But they are funny, as they concern famous papers by famous authors in computer science or related fields...