Overwrought narration pretentiously, yet also hilariously, states the obvious (“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to violence!”), and, just because the cool hip cats of the ’60s loved it so much, groovy jazz music plays loudly throughout.

They have created chap-hop, fusing the American urban musical genre with the imagined lifestyle of the British upper classes.

Never do business with a company offering ‘solutions’ as in 'ergonomic furniture solutions which minimise the postural strain associated with sitting’ (chairs) and 'Post Office mailing solutions’ (brown paper). The word suggests we have a problem, but since we are grown-ups, that is for us to decide

We had met in 1976 at Berkeley in CS111 – Computer Science System Simulation – and we lived together for a while before getting married. He noticed I beat him on the midterm, so he became interested.

Borel, then an unknown young man, discovered that his summation method gave the “right” answer for many classical divergent series. He decided to make a pilgrimage to Stockholm to see Mittag-Leffler, who was the recognized lord of complex analysis. Mittag-Leffler listened politely to what Borel had to say and then, placing his hand upon the complete works by Weierstrass, his teacher, he said in Latin, “The Master forbids it.”

Sometimes, you get attached to your beguilin’, time-dilatin’, flame-throwin’, photosynthesizin’, gunslingin’ cowboy-snake called Grassy Jones.

If America Online wants to shut down all of the Web sites lambasting its service, it will face a fairly daunting task — the phrase “AOL Sucks” drags up 440 pages in one Hotbot search alone.

I wrote this book in three months while simultaneously attempting seventeen other missions, including running a startup, launching a hit iPhone app, learning to write 3,000 new Chinese words, training to attempt a four-hour marathon from scratch, learning to skateboard, helping build a successful cognitive testing website, being best man at two weddings, increasing my bench press by sixty pounds, reading twenty books, going skydiving, helping to start the Human Hacker House, learning to throw knives, dropping my 5K time by five minutes, and learning to lucid dream. I planned to do all this while sleeping eight hours a night, sending 1,000 emails, hanging out with a hundred people, going on ten dates, buying groceries, cooking, cleaning, and trying to raise my average happiness from 6.3 to 7.3 out of 10.

More blackened flesh and less ear needed.

I’m a high-school student. What should I study to promote paradise-engineering?