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Organic chemistry textbook: The rhinoceros is a hybrid of a unicorn and a dragon

Maggie Koerth-Baker at 7:42 am • •

Analogies are tricky things. One minute, you're trying to find a clever and memorable way to illustrate molecular bonding of hydrocarbons ... the next you're suddenly Napoleon Dynamite and all your zoologist friends are yelling at you.

This image, apparently taken from a real textbook, is part of an excellent Tumblr blog of textbook fails called "Thanks, Textbooks". You should check it out.

USPS Calendar Fail

Rob Beschizza at 10:46 am • •

On the 31st of November, the world ends.

IOS6 maps fail so hard, a Tumblr is born

Xeni Jardin at 7:29 am • •

You know you have an issue when someone brews up a Tumblr to mock you: theamazingios6maps.tumblr.com.

AppStore delivering corrupt updates —

Marco Arment reports a serious problem in the AppStore: corrupt updates crashing every time at launch, affecting many recently-updated apps: "If you’re a developer, and you have a non-critical update pending release, I suggest waiting a few days for this to presumably get sorted out before releasing it." — Rob •

Create a meeting tomorrow at teen anal

Rob Beschizza at 3:28 pm • •

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