This hilarious article comes from Slashdot. Truly, I had no idea there were so many selfless scientists out there. The job titles read like a table of contents from 120 Days of Sodom:
- Flatus odor judge
- Barnyard masturbator
- Fistula feeder
The list goes on and on, but my personal favourite, for the true masochist: metric system advocate:
The Metric Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology has a bold, if Napoleonic, motto: “Toward a Metric America.” That is, a fanciful future in which we’ll buy decagrams of hamburger and liters of gas. Problem is, the Metric Program employs just two evangelists—hail, ye lone voices in the wilderness!—to convert 281 million recalcitrant American imperial-unit holdouts.
DarrenBarefoot.com 