Darwin awards

I always find the Darwin Awards almost as sad as they are amusing.

They also have an entertaining page of perhaps even more enjoyable stupidity-related quotes, including this one:

Just think how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of them are stupider - George Carlin

Too bad George does not know the difference between the mean and the median (or maybe they left out the preceding sentence, which surely included the assumption of a symmetric distribution).

Coolidge effect

I have known the joke about Calvin Coolidge and his wife visiting a farm for a long time but did not know until dinner Tuesday night in DC after a Department of Education Technical Working Group meeting that a particular biological phenomenon had been named after Coolidge in a not-so-subtle reference to the famous (and apparently apochryphal) story.

Details on wikipedia here.