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Jim makes some outrageous pancakes.

Soon, he'll teach you how to make pancakes just like he does.

Click to view the full comic strip…

Enrique Bertran has created a role-playing game specifically designed to let gaming parents introduce their children to the genre. rpgKids is available from Enrique's site as a PDF download, and costs just $2.99.

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Neil Shurley explains that there are at least 11 Ways to Live Like Doctor Who:

Smile. Before the new series, the image most folks had of Doctor Who was the smiling man with the floppy hat and long scarf. And for good reason. This was a Doctor who disarmed folks with his good cheer. He confounds foes by offering them candy. He’s charming and brilliant and, for many people, he still is The Doctor.

Reddit has a epic thread on the fine art of April Fool's pranks. This one has promise:

The best April Fools joke I pulled was last year. I bought a small jar of mayo, emptied it out and washed it, then filled it with pudding. At a friend's house that evening, I casually pulled it out of my purse and started eating it.

Received as an intraoffice chain email…

HOW TO START A FIGHT

One year, I decided to buy my mother-in-law a cemetery plot as a Christmas gift. The next year, I didn't buy her a gift. When she asked me why, I replied, "Well, you still haven't used the gift I bought you last year!" And that's how the fight started…

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My wife and I were watching Who Wants To Be A Millionaire while we were in bed. I turned to her and said, 'Do you want to fool around?' 'No,' she answered. I then said, 'Is that your final answer?' She didn't even look at me this time, simply saying, 'Yes…' So I said, "Then I'd like to phone a friend." And that's when the fight started…

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I took my wife to a restaurant. The waiter, for some reason, took my order first. "I'll have the rump steak, rare, please." He said, "Aren't you worried about the mad cow?" "Nah, she can order for herself." And that's when the fight started…

The cult TV show Firefly was cancelled after less than a season, but lives on in comics. USA Today has just published an eight-page story called Serenity: Downtime.

(via Great Geek Manual)

Stressed out? Under pressure? Laughter truly is the best medicine, and Patrick Murphy Welage is among the top practitioners of laughter yoga in the world.

There are things you can do in email that will earn you the undying hatred of all decent, upstanding netizens. This is one…

And there are many many more.

You have been warned.

The world is just nuts… so sit back and laugh.

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James Galea performs his signature trick, 673 King Street…

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David Letterman's Late Show is showcasing close-up magic all this week. The first magician to appear was Jason Randal, on Monday. See below for links to the other performers.

• Tuesday 5/18: John Carney
• Wednesday 5/19: Johnny Ace Palmer
• Thursday 5/20: Steve Cohen
• Friday 5/21: Michael Ammar

This is extra crispy cool: DriveThruRPG, an online store that provides hundreds of role-playing games for download in digital form, is offering a coupon worth over $1400 for a $20 donation to Doctors Without Borders. The package includes the game Serenity, based on the popular Firefly TV series. If you enjoy RPGs, you should go and donate now.

(via Boing Boing)

"'Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python' is a free e-Book that teaches you how to program in the Python programming language. Each chapter gives you the complete source code for a new game, and then teaches the programming concepts from the example. 'Invent with Python' was written to be understandable by kids as young as 10 to 12 years old, although it is great for anyone of any age who has never programmed before."

(via Make: Online)

99 Free Games from 2009 – does what it says on the tin.

(via Red Ferret Journal)