The amazing powers of CSS
Tricks like how to make empty links and images visible.

If you give monkeys time and typewriters, will they eventually produce Shakespeare? – Barking up the wrong tree
“The experiment’s most notable discovery was that Sulawesi crested macaques greatly prefer the letter s to all other letters in the alphabet”

BBC – Future – Health – Why are we so curious? [Anonymoused]
“In the world of artificial intelligence, computer scientists have explored how behaviour evolves when guided by different learning algorithms. An important result is that even the best learning algorithms fall down if they are not encouraged to explore a little. Without a little something to distract them from what they should be doing, these algorithms get stuck in a rut, relying on the same responses time and time again.”