Far Out

22 December 2008 | 3:20 PM

Back when I was but a young whippersnapper (read, through my mid-twenties), I was a pretty regular reader of The Far Side, Gary Larson’s oddball, non sequitur anti-comic. It always seemed to me the perfect blend of subversive geekery and bald-faced silliness, a sort of hipper and less-groan-worthy version of my father’s endless collection of puns. To be honest, I hadn’t given the comic much thought for the better part of a decade, but thankfully a Flickr pool of Far Side reenactments has sprung up, giving us a sort of post-modern homage to vaguely funny nerdishness.

I believe things like these might be the reason the digital camera and the internet were invented.

Posted by Andy in Nerdapalooza