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➠ March 19, 2012
Chromium builders vs Chrome builders - Chromium-dev | Google Groups
Always check what’s on your clipboard before hitting send…
➠ March 14, 2012
➠ February 3, 2011
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: After a Thorough Battery of Tests We Can Now Recommend "The Newspaper" As the Best e-Reader On the Market.
“Engineers using The Newspaper typically did so 30 to 60 minutes a day. Afterward, they went outside, formed relationships, and took in what life had to offer. Those using Wi-Fi-enabled e-readers tended to stay on the couch, scanning video sites for cats; eventually, downloading recipes for artichoke cheese dip they’ll never use.”
➠ January 9, 2011
Exquisite Tweets from @RodBegbie, @junelin, @clizzin, @LaughAtlantis
or “Things to bear in mind when taking advice from a small, Asian girl”
➠ January 7, 2011
➠ January 1, 2011
New but Old Movies, with Anna and Bobbie: No. 1 – the Sound of Music
Anna livetweet’s her boyfriend’s reaction to seeing The Sound of Music for the first time. “This has been on for 52 minutes? Where are the Nazis?! YOU SAID THERE WERE NAZIS. This is all SINGING.”
➠ October 6, 2010
➠ October 1, 2010
➠ July 28, 2010
➠ July 7, 2010
Illusion Illusions - a set on Flickr
Cruel and brilliant. Optical illusions edited so they actually *do* display the behaviour commonly associated with the illusion.
➠ July 2, 2010
Commit Message Generator
For those times when you don’t know what to put in your commit message. “oops, forgot to add the file”
➠ June 15, 2010
McSweeney's: Short Imagined Monologues: I'm Comic Sans, Asshole.
“Need to soften the blow of a harsh message about restroom etiquette? SLAM. There I am.”
➠ May 9, 2010
➠ March 30, 2010
DILF The Movie
Excellent short film co-written by and co-starring Sarah Haskins, who used to do the Target Women segments on Current TV.
➠ March 25, 2010
Is Bella A Sympathetic Teenager Or A Weird Marble Fetishist?
The joy of watching two funny pop-culture writers “debate” Twilight: “Hold still, you know okra’s tricky.”
➠ March 2, 2010
Nose Achievements
Fabulous! Xbox-style achievements for your Python unit tests. “Heisenbug: Make a passing suite fail without changing anything.”
➠ February 6, 2010
Nancy Banks-Smith: classic TV reviews
A bunch of snippets of The Guardian’s fabulous TV reviewer, as she celebrates 40 years at the paper. Her description of the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest made me do two genuine LOLs.
➠ January 28, 2010
Charlie Brooker - How To Report The News
Brilliant clip of TV news clichés in action.
➠ January 27, 2010
tellywonk
The fabulous and funny Anna Pickard has launched a new TV blog, and it’s topnotch. She’s kicking off by watching all of Lost for the first time — all five seasons — over the course of one week, so she can be ready for the final series next Tuesday. Marvelous.
➠ January 18, 2010
What Would Martin Luther King Make of Twitter?: Baratunde Thurston
Thoughtful and funny piece by Baratunde Thurston.
➠ December 17, 2009
➠ December 9, 2009
Cassetteboy - The Web for Beginners
Another video slice-up by Cassetteboy. “The nice thing about the internet is that it is christmas all the time.”
➠ November 13, 2009
Choose Your Own Adventure with Hard Left: The Beginning
Wicked funny video series by “Hard Left Productions”, using YouTube’s annotations to branch.
➠ November 6, 2009
➠ October 22, 2009
Hosting Your Windows 7 Torrenting Party
Nicely done.
➠ October 4, 2009
➠ September 12, 2009
TechCrunch: Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk'd Us
Very satisfying. Facebook add a ridiculous feature, only visible to people who work at TechCrunch. A writer spots it, give FB a whole 24 minutes to respond to his questions, and in the TC way, rushes out a story so he can “scoop” competitors. Pwned!
➠ September 2, 2009
➠ August 6, 2009
➠ July 31, 2009
Apple Claims New iPhone Only Visible To Most Loyal Of Customers | The Onion
The packed auditorium, which had been listening to Jobs in hushed reverence for several minutes, then erupted into applause, with hundreds of men and women suddenly jumping to their feet and shouting, “I can see it!” “Look, there it is!” and “God, it’s so beautiful!”
➠ July 17, 2009
Janey Thomson's Marathon
Track & Field meets Desert Bus. Can you keep going for 26.2 miles?
➠ June 12, 2009
Radio Spiritworld (Inter-dimensional)
“The only station broadcasting from the afterlife to the living world.” 30 minute radio show from Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz.
➠ June 10, 2009
➠ May 28, 2009
Hitler tries a DMCA takedown
Brad Templeton makes a point about Fair Use of the Downfall clip… as subtitles on the Downfall clip. The first Downfall parody I’ve laughed at in a while.
➠ May 27, 2009
Nation's Girlfriends Unveil New Economic Plan: 'Let's Move In Together' | The Onion
An obvious and hackneyed joke, but beautifully played out by the Onion News Network.
➠ May 19, 2009
Everything Tracy Jordan Said
Every line delivered by Tracy Jordan in Season 3 of 30 Rock.
“Hi. I’m Tracy Jordan. My wife is throwing away some of our old towels. Do you want them cuz they’re out by the trash cans. Now that’s gots to be 30 seconds. Nine? OK, here comes the fun cooker.”
➠ May 14, 2009
➠ May 3, 2009
➠ April 26, 2009
What I think Born To Run sounds like
Amused me since that’s the entirety of my experience of “The Boss”.
➠ April 13, 2009
The Tweets Of Roland Hedley
“Proposal: World media mock N. Korea missile dud 24/7. Shamed Dear Leader shoots top scientists, crippling program for years. Flaws?”
➠ April 9, 2009
➠ April 5, 2009
Swinging with the Shermans
Brilliantly funny sample scenes of a film begging to be produced. Warning: Includes the word “burlap”.
➠ April 3, 2009
➠ April 2, 2009
➠ April 1, 2009
SaveIE6: Help us save the best browser around
“Developing websites for other browsers than IE6 is just pure pain! The tables just don’t display the way they do in IE6.”
➠ March 20, 2009
➠ March 12, 2009
➠ March 10, 2009
➠ March 6, 2009
"FOR SALE: THIS LAMPPOST."
Bizarre Ted L. Nancy-esque flyers. Made me smile.
➠ March 5, 2009
➠ February 27, 2009
Bizkit the Sleep Walking Dog
Funniest video I’ve seen on YouTube in a while — poor dog looks so confused at the end. Makes our pups look positively intelligent!
➠ February 17, 2009
➠ February 10, 2009
Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work | The Onion
Love the On-Screen Displays that this new goddamned cocksucking piece of crap produces.
➠ February 9, 2009
Awkward Valentines : Because Romance is SO Last Year
Joy will be getting a “Please never raise your self-esteem enough to leave me” card this year, I think.
➠ February 6, 2009
When Your Credit Card Signature Fun Backfires
Good to know: Credit card verification systems will NOT accept a sketch of cock & balls as your signature.
➠ February 3, 2009
➠ January 28, 2009
Zero Punctuation : Gears of War 2
Best Zero Punctuation in a while, not least for introducing me to the phrase “triple-cunted hooker”.
➠ January 16, 2009
superuseless superpowers
Oh, what I wouldn’t give to be “13th Bullet Bulletproof”…
➠ January 15, 2009
➠ January 14, 2009
The change we need | Comment is free | The Guardian
Good riddance to President Gore! “Of course, the biggest disappointment was Gore’s failure to handle Hurricane Katrina properly. Not only did the massive evacuation of New Orleans prove a costly and time-consuming overreaction, since the levees - fortified in 2003 - held up fine.”
➠ January 12, 2009
The Elements of Spam.
Form the possessive of nouns by adding ‘s, just an apostrophe, just an s, a semicolon, a w, an ampersand, a 9, or anything. “My wifesd*porcupine hot pix for u.”
➠ January 8, 2009
Amazon.com: Ari Brouillette's review of The Secret
I’ve often been sneery at the unmitigated hokum that is “The Secret”, but this review might have convinced me to open my mind to it.
➠ January 7, 2009
➠ January 4, 2009
➠ December 30, 2008
Dave Barry Year in Review: Bailing out of 2008
“Barack Obama, in a historic triumph, becomes the nation’s first black president since the second season of 24”
➠ December 13, 2008
➠ December 8, 2008
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Fifty Years of Popular Songs Condensed Into Single Sentences.
The Beatles, “I Want to Hold Your Hand”
I want to do it with you.
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Marvin Gaye, “Let’s Get It On”
I want to do it with you.
➠ December 7, 2008
➠ November 19, 2008
Shouts & Murmurs: The Plan
A *nearly* foolproof plan by Jack Handey. “The plan isn’t foolproof. For it to work, certain things must happen:”
➠ November 10, 2008
Get Your War On: New World Order
“America’s new flag is just a white flag, but there’s a picture of a burning American flag on it.”
➠ October 30, 2008
➠ October 19, 2008
The Bugle
WHY was I not aware of this sooner‽ A *THOROUGHLY* splendid satirical weekly podcast featuring John Oliver (off of The Daily Show) and the man who I described as his “erstwhile” UK comedy partner (until I discovered they were doing this podcast together), Andy Zaltzman. Absofuckinglutely fantastic.
➠ October 18, 2008
How to Get an Official Nintendo Seal of Quality
“Works extra good when blown-on”
➠ October 16, 2008
Everything your grandparents need to know about the analog/digital switchover
Courtesy of “Talkshow with Spike Feresten”, which is apparently still on the air. Who knew?
➠ October 14, 2008
Tarvuism - The official international internet website for the Tarvuist faith
Peter Serafinowicz and Robert Popper’s follow-up project to “Look Around You”, a religion and series of religious shows for Adult Swim. Say Hebbo to Tarvuism.
➠ October 6, 2008
➠ October 4, 2008
➠ October 1, 2008
Report: 60 Million People You'd Never Talk To Voting For Other Guy | The Onion
The US political “system” in a nutshell: “According to an eye-opening report released Tuesday, 60 million people whom you would never talk to, would never be in a position to talk to, and wouldn’t even be able to talk to if you tried will be voting for the other candidate in this year’s presidential election, and there is nothing you can do about it.”
➠ September 25, 2008
Sarah Palin as Disney
If the Sarah Palin story was a Disney movie… “An Alaskan hockey mom becomes Vice President in the wackiest family comedy of the year!”
➠ September 23, 2008
➠ September 11, 2008
LHC Webcams
If anyone you know is worried about the Large Hadron Collider, send them a link to these webcams. They should feel reassured.
➠ August 17, 2008
ERNEST BORGNINE - Secret to Old Age
Ernest Borgnine delivers a pitch-perfect stage whisper on Fox News.
➠ August 6, 2008
➠ July 31, 2008
Zero Punctuation : The E3 Trailer Park
Zero Punctuation is always worth watching — viciously funny videogame reviews — but this week’s is a great sampler if you haven’t watched before.
➠ July 25, 2008
GET YOUR WAR ON: the new animated series
The same Get Your War On you know and love, now with moving pictures and ringing telephones int he background. Hurrah!
➠ July 21, 2008
The Muppets Unleash More Viral Videos onto the Web
So great to see the Muppet company having fun with the medium of YouTube. Incredibly reminiscent of the old musical numbers on The Muppet Show.
➠ July 16, 2008
Dr. Horrible's Freeze Ray Will Stop the World
Summary of Joss Whedon’s new online musical miniseries. I plopped down the $4 for a “season pass” in iTunes, and loved the first episode. Looking forward to episode 2 arriving in iTunes tonight.
➠ July 8, 2008
Charlie Brooker: These days, I assume that everything I do is probed and examined by omnipotent corporations
“The way things are going, I half-expect to hear a quiet electric “peep” noise each time I flush the toilet; another bowel movement logged by Bumland Security.”
➠ June 25, 2008
➠ June 19, 2008
➠ June 18, 2008
Stewart Butterfield's bizarre resignation letter
That’s the way to do it. “Nary a sheet of tin has rolled of our own production lines in over 30 years!”
➠ June 13, 2008
Send Barack your baby
“Barack Obama travels a lot, but many babies live in places he hasn’t been. Send him your baby, and he’ll kiss it and send it back to you.”
➠ May 23, 2008
Owls - Weebl's Stuff
I try hard to resist linking to every single animation Weebl posts, but this one was too good not to share.
➠ May 16, 2008
➠ May 12, 2008
Things younger than John McCain
The state of Alaska, the polio vaccine, and both of Barack Obama’s parents are younger than John McCain.
➠ April 29, 2008
➠ April 25, 2008
➠ April 21, 2008
Boston News Net
Excellently funny blog from the folks behind ImprovBoston’s new weekly satirical show. If you’re in New England, it’ll be well worth following.
➠ April 14, 2008
San Francisco Giants Band Together To Score Run | The Onion
I really shouldn’t laugh at this, since I now work across the street from AT&T Park, but… heh.
➠ March 26, 2008
ImprovBoston's Bachelor and Bachelorette Auction
Attention Boston! The amassed hawtness that *is* ImprovBoston are holding a bachelor auction in May to raise money for their new theatre in Central Square. There’s some excellent videos already up to let you know just who you could be walking away with at the end of the night, whilst supporting a worthy non-profit.
➠ March 21, 2008
How to Make a Button
Miranda July’s searing behind-the-scenes exposé of the button manufacturing industry.
➠ March 19, 2008
Black Guy Asks Nation For Change | The Onion
Most gloriously offensive Onion headline in a while? Perhaps.
➠ March 18, 2008
ClassNamer
“Can’t think of a good class name? Try this” Also handy for filling in status reports. “This week, I optimized the WritableCommandVector.”
➠ March 9, 2008
Rock Band, Less Effective On The Street
Reddit’s Alexis’s Rock Band combo “breadpig” has their first public gig.
➠ March 6, 2008
➠ February 27, 2008
Trunk Monkey Compilation
A series of superb car dealership commercials. My next car had better have a Trunk Monkey.
➠ February 26, 2008
➠ February 19, 2008
Venture Capital Wear
T-shirts for VCs. “Not Even Powerpoint Can Save You Now”
➠ February 14, 2008
Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle
Collected facts about Barack Obama. This needs to be a Chumby app.
➠ February 12, 2008
YouTube - Rabbit Rescue
Amy Sedaris and some bunnies do some top-notch pimping for Microsoft Office.
Late Night: Behind the Brawl
Outtakes from last week’s Late Night where Conan O’Brien, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart killed time/entertained the nation (delete as appropriate) by brawling.
➠ February 11, 2008
Spongebob Voice-Overs
The actors who do the voices for Spongebob et al were worred about being typecast, so they made this film. Quality!
➠ February 3, 2008
➠ January 27, 2008
You Suck at Photoshop
Excellently silly melodrama under the guise of photoshop tutorials. Ace!
➠ January 22, 2008
Trailer: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and John Hodgman in 'Baby Mama'
Made me laugh. Several times.
➠ January 18, 2008
A Bit of Fry and Laurie - "Mystery" song
Classic bit of early Hugh Laurie musical brilliance. (Also worth seeking out on YouTube: his version of Hey Jude)
➠ January 13, 2008
I Got What America Needs Right Here | The Onion
Jimmy Carter op-ed piece from The Onion. “You better get down on your hands and knees and kiss Jimmy Carter’s rosy-red Georgia-peach-picking ass and beg me to run your fucking country again, because there’s no way I’m ever gonna come to you fuck-knobs and politely ask you if I might please be a presidential candidate in your precious fuckin’ election.”
➠ January 1, 2008
A Series of Letters to the First Girl I Ever Fingered | Cracked.com
by Michael Ian Black (The State, Stella, etc). “Hi! How are you? I hope this letter finds you well. I don’t know if you remember me or not, but I’m the guy who fingered you at sleepaway camp.”
➠ December 26, 2007
➠ December 14, 2007
YouTube - Authors@Google: Randall Munroe
Talk and Q&A given at Google by Randall Munroe, author of XKCD. Notable for a question from Donald Knuth about 22 minutes in!
➠ December 11, 2007
Apparently, America is over the whole race thing. at goodCRIMETHINK
“We’ve gone from a country that could not imagine having a black president, to one where people compete to prove their candidate is blacker than the other. Amazing.”
➠ December 5, 2007
➠ November 21, 2007
Beantown Blues: The world has no concept of Boston's pain
“You know, there are infants who were born 18 days ago who don’t know what it’s like to see a Boston team win a championship in their lifetime”
➠ November 20, 2007
STEWART LEE - Officially the 41st Best Stand Up Ever :: Previous Work
Stewart Lee’s uploaded high-quality versions of “Fist of Fun” and TMWRNJ to Google Video. Some of it hasn’t aged well, but there’s some great stuff in there. Definitely shaped my sense-of-humour.
➠ November 15, 2007
YouTube - Not The Daily Show, With Some Writer
Excellent (and lo-fi) video by some Daily Show writers on the current writers’ strike.
➠ November 14, 2007
➠ November 13, 2007
➠ November 6, 2007
➠ October 29, 2007
➠ October 27, 2007
The Superest
Cartoonists playing a fun game: Draw a super-hero who’s skills vanquish those of the previous super-hero.
➠ October 22, 2007
Drink Responsibly | The Daily Show
Classic Daily Show clip — Steve Carell gets shit-faced drunk in the name of science.
➠ October 21, 2007
➠ October 17, 2007
➠ October 16, 2007
This License Key Rated R for Strong Coarse Language
The problems with randomly creating strings… “It turns out that one day in the not-too-distant future, our random number generator gets filthy. On that day, one out of every 128 licenses generated will start with the F-bomb.”
➠ October 15, 2007
People Getting Punched Just Before Eating (SNL Digital Short)
I’m mildly ashamed of just how funny I found this. “BELIEVE IN YOUR DREAMS”
➠ October 10, 2007
➠ October 4, 2007
The Journal of Joe The Peacock. Yay.: An unordered list of thoughts I had during a conference call with a potential client today
“Oh man, I wonder how they’d take it if I unmuted this line for just a second to let them hear how loud I’m laughing at all of this…”
➠ September 30, 2007
➠ September 27, 2007
If the cable companies ran the internet...
It’s funny because it’s true.
➠ September 7, 2007
➠ August 28, 2007
➠ August 27, 2007
YouTube - Miss Teen USA 2007 - South Carolina answers a question
Impressive shattering of all stereotypes about beauty queens *and* South Carolina.
➠ August 26, 2007
The London Evening Standard Headline Generator
“QUEEN’S CHICKENS STABBED TO DEATH”, “TV CROCODILE AND CAMILLA TO WED” and other randomly generated news-stands.
➠ August 15, 2007
b3ta.com I'm beginning to regret accepting Pink Floyd as friends...
Top quality Facebook/Pink Floyd punnery ahoy!
➠ August 13, 2007
Real Life Comics - comic strip for August 10, 2007
I need to get myself a t-shirt with a traffic cone on it, clearly.
➠ August 4, 2007
➠ July 19, 2007
➠ July 18, 2007
People playing chess on roller coasters
Life (deliberately) imitating “art”.
➠ July 8, 2007
YouTube - Spinal Tap + Army of Bass Players - Live Earth
“Big Bottom” as it was meant to be played — by every bass player they could find. “On bass drums: Skippy Scuffleton - pray for him!”
➠ June 26, 2007
'Oh good, it's raining again' | Glastonbury 2007 | Guardian Unlimited Music
Quality grumpiness from Charlie Brooker. “The pop-up a tent was a joy. It comes flat, disc-shaped. You throw it in the air and it unfurls into a canvas shell. Within seconds I was the proud owner of a home fit for a tramp.”
➠ June 21, 2007
➠ June 20, 2007
Dramatic Chipmunk - CollegeHumor video
“Best five second video on the internet.”
alli: Miracle diet pill with teeny-tiny side effect
I saw a huge display of “alli” is CVS the other night, and most of these thoughts ran through my head. I remember when Xenical first came out, and I heard the phrase “fecal urgency” for the first time.
➠ June 19, 2007
Hammock District - Limited Editions (aka Now Or Never) - Glarkware
Another great relatively-obscure-Simpsons-reference shirt from Glarkware (I still love my “Perfectly Cromulent” one)
➠ June 14, 2007
Second Life in Real Life
If the world was the same as Second Life. Also, people would be walking round with cups of coffee stuck to their stomachs.
➠ June 2, 2007
Call Me Fishmeal.: NEWS FLASH! Adobe Hides Customer Information!
Sums up how I feel about the whole fucking stupid “email addresses stored in iTunesPlus files” storm in a teacup. I’m ashamed to be an EFF supporter sometimes.
➠ June 1, 2007
➠ May 28, 2007
➠ May 17, 2007
➠ May 16, 2007
➠ May 15, 2007
The VOCO Clock: Stephen Fry-voiced Alarm Clock
I’d seen this advertised in Private Eye, but this is the first time I’d looked at the website. An alarm clock that wakes you up gently with one of 50 recordings by Stephen Fry.
➠ May 14, 2007
ThinkGeek :: Will Return Clock
Heh. The idea of this made me chuckle. I’m sure there are days I’d fall for it.
➠ May 11, 2007
Acceptable.tv - Kosbees
Not to be confused in any way with the sued-by-Bill-Cosby animated shorts “House of Cosbys”. Obviously.
➠ May 9, 2007
Live Earth: Spinal Tap to Reunite for Live Earth Concert
New 15-minute Spinal Tap film to help promote the “Live Earth” concerts in July. “6%”
➠ May 8, 2007
Flickr: The Atrocious Apostrophe's Pool
Grocer’s apostrophe spotting’s.
SOX & Dawgs » Red Sox Love
Remy and Orsillo lose their shit in the announcers’ booth, as Manny pets Batshit Tavarez. “Sometimes, you just want to fix your friend’s hair.”
➠ May 3, 2007
YouTube - Pulp Muppets
Why have I not seen this until now? Beautifully-made pitch-perfect re-casting of Pulp Fiction with Muppets. Sam the Eagle *is* Christopher Walken.
➠ May 2, 2007
Four Short Crushes: Humor: The New Yorker
“Another restaurant dinner with my boring girlfriend, another lecture about how I never really listen to whatever she’s yammering on about.”
➠ April 26, 2007
➠ April 23, 2007
Coda 1.0 Release Notes
“But for now: let all just pretend for one moment that Coda is so 100% pefect that this page is literally useless.”
➠ April 16, 2007
The 2007 Lyttle Lytton Contest
Ah, these make me laugh every single year. The worst possible novel-starts, in 25-words-or-less. My favourite is “Ah, poetic Paris: with its pâtés and beaujolais, tiramisu and au jus.”
➠ April 12, 2007
➠ April 7, 2007
No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July
“OK, here I go, I’m going to make this whole website right now on this dry-erase board.”
➠ April 4, 2007
➠ March 23, 2007
Unusual software bug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“A Schroedinbug is a bug that manifests itself apparently only after the software is used in an unusual way or seemingly at the point in time that a programmer reading the source code notices that the program should never have worked in the first place, at which point the program stops working entirely until the mysteriously now non-functioning code is repaired.” I’ve coded a few of these in my time.
➠ March 20, 2007
Shouts & Murmurs: The Wisdom of Children: Humor: The New Yorker
“A Conversation at the Grownup Table, as Imagined at the Kids’ Table” “DAD: We just saw the PG-13 movie. It was so good. MOM: There was a big sex.”
➠ March 16, 2007
The Soxaholix: Ecce Homo
“Those who can do. And those who can’t create blogs criticizing the can do people for doing what it is they do.” “Yeah, and those that can’t do and can’t blog, well, they become blog comment trolls.”
➠ March 14, 2007
The Morning News - South by South-BEST!
If like me you’re not at SXSW, here’s what you’re missing. “Or hear a lively discussion about the rise of the “blogebrity,” moderated by a man named Kyle Bunch, the very person who coined the word “blogebrity” and then convinced the rest of us that blogebrity is actually a real thing rather than an excuse for Kyle to receive more links and get invited to blogger meet-ups.”
➠ February 27, 2007
code slate: you don't bury survivors
“What was your contribution to the team?” “Light both ends of fuse one and one end of fuse two. When fuse one burns out, light the other end of fuse two.”
➠ February 15, 2007
The Slumbering Lungfish: I'm Just a Cat...
Best lolcat EVAR!
➠ February 6, 2007
Useless Account
Sign up for an account and, erm, that’s it. Needs OpenID support, if you ask me.
➠ January 27, 2007
The Secret Diary of Hillary Clinton
Even funnier than “Fake Steve”. “Great. Liz Taylor is endorsing me. Can someone please find a way to shut this old bag up? I mean who’s next? Michael Jackson?”
➠ January 26, 2007
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➠ January 23, 2007
Life on Mars meets Camberwick Green
Viral clip promoting new series of Life on Mars. What would Windy Miller say?
➠ January 14, 2007
Lines From Alanis Morissette's "Ironic," Modified to Actually Make them Ironic
“An old man turned ninety-eight. He won the lottery and died the next day… of chronic emphysema from inhalation of the latex particles scratched off decades’ worth of lottery tickets.”
➠ December 22, 2006
Woot! PS3's...Oh Wait - Kotaku
Woot slam the PS3 in their promotional copy, and still sell out in 4.5 minutes! “In fact, we love the Wii so much, we want to give a Wii to everybody on our payroll. To fund this Wii-for-the-People program, we’re selling this Sony PlayStation 3.”
➠ December 21, 2006
YouTube - SNL - Digital Short - A Special Christmas Box *Uncensored Version*
How odd. When I saw this bleeped on SNL, I thought it was “Cock in a Box”, as did Joy. I’m not sure how I feel about “Dick in a Box”. Doesn’t seem as funny, somehow.
➠ December 19, 2006
➠ December 13, 2006
Are You Ready for Obama? - New York Times Blog
Barack Obama puts “all the doubts to rest” and makes his announcement.
➠ December 7, 2006
A Screenshot of God's Inbox (from Time Magazine) [PDF]
God uses a Mac, apparently. A funny list, made funnier by details like “Jesus Baby Pictures” on the desktop.
➠ December 5, 2006
➠ November 29, 2006
b3ta: Virgin Trains Customer Satisfaction Form
“How late was your train? [ ] Hours. [ ] Days [ ] In my day, all this was fields”
➠ November 22, 2006
The Onion Store: Gotchabox
New from The Onion: Elaborate boxes for really crappy-sounding gifts (“Salt of the Month Club”, anyone?), which you hide your real present inside. Genius!
➠ November 8, 2006
➠ November 7, 2006
➠ November 6, 2006
➠ November 4, 2006
YouTube - Torn
That mime-doing-Torn you may have seen before - extended remix with live Natalie Imbrooglywoogly.
➠ November 2, 2006
➠ October 23, 2006
➠ October 17, 2006
➠ October 8, 2006
Joe Mathlete Explains Today's Marmaduke
Because all too often, the subtle humour of Marmaduke requires explaining.
➠ October 7, 2006
Nobody's Watching offical site
As part of their development deal with NBC, the creators of the sitcom “Nobody’s Watching” got some cash to make online videos. This is their site, chock-full of amusing videos, as they wait to find out if they’re getting picked up for midseason.
➠ October 1, 2006
➠ September 29, 2006
➠ September 13, 2006
➠ September 11, 2006
➠ September 3, 2006
The Kransky Sisters: Overload
The Kransky Sisters’ show “We Don’t Have Husbands” was the best thing I caught at the Fringe. Here’s a small taster of their wonderful character-driven comedy — a cover of the Sugababes song “Overload”.
➠ August 24, 2006
➠ August 12, 2006
Technobabble and Social Engineering 101
Posting a nonsensical item on a company’s “For Sale” board, and watching the responses. I’ll have to try this on the RhymesWithNose message board!
➠ August 7, 2006
Concert Ticket Generator
Create real-looking ticket stubs for the shows you wish you’d been to (or wish existed)
➠ August 1, 2006
YouTube - Colbert Analyzes Wikipedia
Colbert defends Wikipedia as a great bastion of Truthiness — So long as a majority of people believe it, you can include it as “fact” in Wikipedia. Currently, about 20 elephant-related articles are locked down!
➠ July 31, 2006
Silk Marijuana Plants, Silk Hemp Plants & Silk Marijuana Buds - New Image Plants
Faux-weed for decorative purposes. The next friend of mine who gets admitted to hospital is getting some “medical” “marijuana” to spruce up their ward!
➠ July 30, 2006
Windows Vista Speech Recognition Demo Gone Awry - Google Video
“Dear aunt, let’s set so double the killer delete select all”
➠ July 26, 2006
YouTube - Pulp - Bad Cover Version
It’s a great song, but this video just made it even better. I’ll always have an especially soft spot for it after someone on a mailing-list I was on made it clear he didn’t get the joke, and wondered how Pulp had pulled it off.
➠ July 25, 2006
➠ July 24, 2006
UnNews:England shocked by occurrence of summer for 21st year in a row - Uncyclopedia
“We didn’t anticipate this level of heat this year — we never thought we’d get a twenty-first hot season in a row!” Extra marks to the authors for the Tribe of Toffs reference.
➠ July 21, 2006
The Editorial Cartoons of Clay Bennett: Security vs. Privacy
Excellent cartoon. From October 2001, but still as true today, sadly.
➠ July 20, 2006
➠ July 14, 2006
The Pig and the Box
A beautifully illustrated storybook fable explaining to ver kiddiewinkies why DRM is bad. Lollipop Jones!
➠ July 13, 2006
➠ July 12, 2006
Anti-MassPIRG T-Shirt
“I DO NOT HAVE FIFTEEN MINUTES FOR THE ENVIRONMENT”. Man, I freakin’ hate MassPIRG. Their streetteams are one of those things where they actively turn me against a cause I’d otherwise support.
➠ July 7, 2006
YouTube - Nobody's Watching Part 1
Breaking-the-third-wall-tastic sitcom pilot co-created by Bill Lawrence (creator of Scrubs). (Quick summary: Two sitcom-obsessed guys live on a sitcom set, and try to create their perfect sitcom) The WB turned it down last year, but since being posted to YouTube and gathering some acclaim, NBC are considering resurrecting it.
➠ July 4, 2006
The Tao of Mac - The Unswitch Saga: Get The T-Shirt
“I nearly switched to Ubuntu when Mark did…” hee.
➠ June 28, 2006
419 Eater: The Incredible Shrinking Artwork
“Derek Trotter” gets a Nigerian scammer to ship a wooden carving of a Commodore 64. Just fantastic!
➠ June 23, 2006
Guardian Unlimited | Supposing . . . It's OK to lie for the sheer hell of it
“Get angry if they don’t believe you. They will eventually. They always do.”
➠ June 21, 2006
beforethirty: managers job
Application for the position of Middlesborough Football Club, based on “vast experience (on Football Manager 2005)”. Gets an excellent response.
➠ June 16, 2006
Extortr: online blackmail for the masses
Genius! This is everything social software should be. User-generated content, bringing people together.
Swansea North Residents Association - NEWS
Tango do a nice spoof of that Sony bouncing-balls-in-SanFran advert. The rest of the astroturf site is pretty decent too.
➠ June 14, 2006
➠ June 10, 2006
Google Minesweeper Launches
The Windows app they *really* have to clone for the web if they want to create a GoogleOS.
➠ June 6, 2006
➠ June 5, 2006
cory doctorow visits a radio shack
“Is the source code available for this phone? Not that I plan to do anything personally right now with the source, but I’d like to see it. Now, if possible, my good man. Chop chop!”
➠ June 2, 2006
➠ May 25, 2006
Think Progress » Desperate for Supporters, DeLay Turns to Stephen Colbert
Tom DeLay’s legal fund uses a Colbert mock interview to “discredit” anti-Delay filmmaker.
➠ May 19, 2006
Jinjur: Welcome to Eltingville
Failed pilot for an animated series based on Evan Dorkin’s “Eltingville Comic Book, Science-Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Role-Playing Club”. Most of my Star Wars trivia knowledge comes from reading those strips.
➠ May 14, 2006
Fare comment! BBC interviews cabbie by mistake
This is just splendid in ways unimaginable. A cabdriver who was in the BBC’s reception area was rushed onto air by mistaken producers, thinking he was an internet expert to talk about the Apple vs. Apple case. Full marks to the bloke for struggling through the interview despite being clearly horrified!
➠ May 12, 2006
YouTube - O! News - Apple v Apple
Another round of quality impressions from Peter Serafinowicz. John Lennon invented the iPod, apparently.
➠ May 7, 2006
Monkey Fluids
Puerile re-captioning of 1950’s childrens book illustrations. Makes me laugh, not least because I loved all those dated Enid Blyton romps as a kid.
➠ May 1, 2006
Wired News: The Wikipedia FAQK
“Wikipedia is a new paradigm in human discourse. It’s a place where anyone with a browser can go, pick a subject that interests them, and without even logging in, start an argument.”
➠ April 30, 2006
Colbert Lampoons Bush at White House Correspondents Dinner-- President Not Amused?
Stephen Colbert performs a superbly scathing speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner. President? Not laughing. “When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday - no matter what happened Tuesday.”
➠ April 28, 2006
➠ April 10, 2006
➠ April 8, 2006
I Am The Lord of the Dance Settee - 50 Ways?
Fun thread on Sue’s LJ: What *are* the other 46 ways to leave your lover?
➠ April 6, 2006
➠ April 1, 2006
NBC.com > The Office > The More You Know
Some excellent Public Service Announcements from the cast of The Office. I fast forwarded right past the one in Thursday’s episode, because I figured it was a genuine “The More You Know” segment. Luckily, Joy got me to skip back.
FlickCentral: What's with all the CATS?!
Superb AprilFool from Flickr — The “interesting” photo pages are only showing kittens. Extra points for respecting users’ timezones, so the hack only goes into effect for the 24 hours that is April 1st for you!
➠ March 31, 2006
➠ March 30, 2006
➠ March 22, 2006
Franz Ferdinand Frontman Shot By Gavrilo Princip Bassist | The Onion
I know, I know, it’s the most obvious joke possible given the band name. The execution (sic) still made me laugh.
➠ March 21, 2006
➠ March 16, 2006
➠ March 10, 2006
➠ February 28, 2006
➠ February 20, 2006
Weebls Stuff - Ultimate Showdown
Excellent flash animation and tune. Not made by Weebl, just hosted by him.
➠ February 13, 2006
➠ February 5, 2006
Disappearing Civil Liberties Mug
“Simply pour in your coffee or any hot beverage and watch the painstaking work of the founding fathers vanish before your eyes.” Genius!
➠ January 18, 2006
➠ January 11, 2006
➠ January 10, 2006
➠ December 26, 2005
Blake Ross on Firefox » My predictions for the New Year
The *only* predictions list worth reading this year. “Citing a tip in a confidential e-mail dossier entitled “Fwd: Lol guyz check this out!1″, Rupert Murdoch will acquire acclaimed Internet inventor Al Gore.”
➠ November 4, 2005
Television Without Pity > The Apprentice > Recaps & Extras > Season 4 Episode 7
Recaplet of last night’s Apprentice, the boardroom of which was one of the finest, most superbly bizarre and duck-behind-a-cushionly cringemaking bits of television ever.
➠ September 17, 2005
50 Things That Out of Town College Students Must Know About Boston
Origin unknown, but it’s fucking hilarious. “Remember to say a little pray that you are fortunate enough to live somewhere that celebrates holidays by drinking Guinness and drinking Guinness while watching a Kenyan run.”
➠ September 14, 2005
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Social Networking Wars // Current
I hadn’t seen the “Super News” animations before starting working here, but they can be pretty good — and this one is excellently geeky.