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This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.

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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…

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March 14, 2012

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Hipster Logic Problems

I saw this link before you did.

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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.”

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January 9, 2011

Exquisite Tweets from @RodBegbie, @junelin, @clizzin, @LaughAtlantis

or “Things to bear in mind when taking advice from a small, Asian girl”

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January 7, 2011

Cwora

“Obviously not affiliated with Quora”

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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

The Coffee Wars of San Francisco

If Ken Burns covered SF coffee…

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October 1, 2010

YouTube - John Cage's 4'33"

Love this. “NOTICE This video contains an audio track that has not been authorized by WMG. The audio has been disabled.” Well played, YouTube.

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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.

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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.”

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May 9, 2010

Fake Science

“For when the facts are too confusing”. Subscribed!

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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January 28, 2010

Charlie Brooker - How To Report The News

Brilliant clip of TV news clichés in action.

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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.

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December 17, 2009

Let's Enhance

Every geek’s favourite TV Trope — “Zoom in and enchance that”

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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.”

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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

Tina Fey's 10 Favorite 30 Rock Moments

30 Rock isn’t the most consistent show, but by god, every episode includes at least one amazing moment that catches me off guard so I need to pause the DVR to laugh and enjoy it.

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October 22, 2009

October 4, 2009

PCalc Prevents iPhone Profanity

Thank gawd at least ONE iPhone developer is Thinking Of The Children!

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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!

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September 2, 2009

PHD Comics: Peak Productivity

This? Is me.

(note: posted to blog at 1.39am)

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August 6, 2009

This Decade in Tech

“There are three stories in IT journalism”

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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!”

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July 17, 2009

Janey Thomson's Marathon

Track & Field meets Desert Bus. Can you keep going for 26.2 miles?

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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

Exclusive: The Future of Facebook Usernames - Anil Dash

Anil Dash predicts the future of Facebook vanity URLs. Who’s going to be the first to register “mikearrington”, I wonder.

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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.

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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.”

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May 14, 2009

Peter Serafinowicz: 50 Impressions, 2 Mins

The uncanniness is incredible.

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May 3, 2009

party cat

“Let’s party and find out.” Start on the bottom strip and work your way up.

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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?”

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April 9, 2009

Close Range Game

Ultra-violent game demo, from The Onion.

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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

How a programmer reads your résumé

“Took certification course in a technology: -7” Yep, that’s about right.

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April 2, 2009

“…and Pawtucket Red Sox”

“…and Pawtucket Red Sox”

My wife is funny.

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April 1, 2009

Pixar vs. Dreamworks

“There are talking animals. And they all make this face.” Yep, sums it up.

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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.”

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March 20, 2009

Hugs For Monsters :: Overly Judgemental IE6 Splash Pages

Save on development costs by telling IE6 users to go fuck themselves.

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March 12, 2009

The Official Creebobby Comics Archetype Times Table

Tell your Zombie/Lincoln from your Ninja/T-Rex

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March 10, 2009

Yahoo! Answers Makes Baby Jebus Cry

“How is Babby Formed?”, the blog.

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March 6, 2009

"FOR SALE: THIS LAMPPOST."

Bizarre Ted L. Nancy-esque flyers. Made me smile.

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March 5, 2009

Saturday Morning Watchmen

No worse than “The Real Ghostbusters”, I suppose.

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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!

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February 17, 2009

Яolcats

Has someone already done the “In Soviet Russia, cats caption YOU!” joke?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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February 3, 2009

5 Secrets To Ninja Writing

Or “Every webcock blogpost ever”

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YouTube - David After Dentist

A tripping 7-year-old. “Is this gonna be forever?”

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I LEGO N.Y.

Surprisingly funny Lego constructions of New York sights.

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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”…

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PEE - App Store Popularity EnhancEr

Tweetie, my preferred iPhone Twitter app, now has everything it needs to top the iTunes App Store charts: Fart sounds and a flashlight.

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January 15, 2009

jQuery SWFObject Plugin

Quite handy in its own right, but make sure and hit play to hear the “JQuery SWFObject Plugin” theme song.

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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.”

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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.”

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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.

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January 7, 2009

"The Noises Rest"

The YouLookNiceToday boys investigate the art of silent film foley.

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January 4, 2009

xkcd - Converting to Metric

I’m not sure why Americans think this is so hard…

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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”

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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.

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December 7, 2008

Watchmen: The condensed version

“goin to Mars. BRB”

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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:”

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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.”

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October 30, 2008

Kids Halloween Candy Code

A hobo code for trick-or-treaters.

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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”

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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?

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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

YouTube - Take On Me: Literal Video Version

“Ever wish songs just sang what was happening in the music video? Well now they do.”

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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.”

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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!”

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September 23, 2008

Wario Land - Shake It! YouTube ad

Brilliantly-done ad for the new Wario game for Wii. Seems dull to start, but worth continuing with!

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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.

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August 6, 2008

Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad

“See you at the debates, bitches”

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!

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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.”

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June 25, 2008

Sorry I Missed Your Party

Found photos of dreadful-looking celebrations, with appropriately snarky commentary. Ace!

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June 19, 2008

Lit 101 Class in Three Lines or Less

“Ah! Kill it, lion Jesus!”

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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!”

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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.

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May 16, 2008

Irn-Bru: If

Excellent advert from Irn-Bru: A staggeringly accurate glimpse into the Scottish psyche.

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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.

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April 29, 2008

YouTube - batting stances: red sox

Accurate and entertaining impressions of Red Sox players’ batting stances. His “Youk getting a third strike” is uncanny.

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April 25, 2008

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.

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.

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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.

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March 21, 2008

How to Make a Button

Miranda July’s searing behind-the-scenes exposé of the button manufacturing industry.

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March 19, 2008

Black Guy Asks Nation For Change | The Onion

Most gloriously offensive Onion headline in a while? Perhaps.

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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.”

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March 9, 2008

Rock Band, Less Effective On The Street

Reddit’s Alexis’s Rock Band combo “breadpig” has their first public gig.

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March 6, 2008

David Sedaris delivers a pizza

Pitch-perfect parody. One for the NPR listeners in the crowd.

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February 27, 2008

Trunk Monkey Compilation

A series of superb car dealership commercials. My next car had better have a Trunk Monkey.

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February 26, 2008

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 08 Election

The Onion News Network is getting better and better.

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February 19, 2008

Venture Capital Wear

T-shirts for VCs. “Not Even Powerpoint Can Save You Now”

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February 14, 2008

Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle

Collected facts about Barack Obama. This needs to be a Chumby app.

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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!

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February 3, 2008

Kitteh pop ups

Cannot be blocked

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January 27, 2008

You Suck at Photoshop

Excellently silly melodrama under the guise of photoshop tutorials. Ace!

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January 22, 2008

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)

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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.”

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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.”

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December 26, 2007

Mario knockoff is the most evil game ever - Nintendo Wii Fanboy

Videos of four levels of hilariously evil gameplay.

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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!

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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.”

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December 5, 2007

xkcd - Python

“You’re flying! How?” “Python!”

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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”

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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.

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November 14, 2007

Cowbell Hero

Exactly what you expect it to be.

November 13, 2007

Top 10 Random Quotes from Twitter

“An aggregation of humorous, weird, inspiring, newsworthy or just plain cool random status updates from Twitter.”

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November 6, 2007

Facebook News Network - CollegeHumor video

“All the News Feed that’s fit to print.’ (And features my chum Jill Bernard’s status in the crawl — clearly I’m a friend-in-law to the video’s makers.)

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October 29, 2007

Weebl and Bob: Cube

Weebl and Bob do Portal. “Have you been eating cake?”

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October 27, 2007

The Superest

Cartoonists playing a fun game: Draw a super-hero who’s skills vanquish those of the previous super-hero.

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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

Eddie Izzard / Lego mashups

A handful of Eddie Izzard routines illustrated with Lego. Quality.

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October 17, 2007

Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters | The Onion

“For a majority of likely voters, meaningless bullshit will be the most important factor in deciding who they will vote for in 2008.”

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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.”

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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

xkcd - Exploits of a Mom

“Did you really name your son “Robert’); DROP TABLE Students;—” ?”

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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

jwz - PSA: backups

“The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don’t push it.”

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September 27, 2007

If the cable companies ran the internet...

It’s funny because it’s true.

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September 7, 2007

Jennifer: Some Of My Lost Loves

I was squawking laughs at this like an idiot. Beautifully done.

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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.

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August 15, 2007

b3ta.com I'm beginning to regret accepting Pink Floyd as friends...

Top quality Facebook/Pink Floyd punnery ahoy!

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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.

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August 4, 2007

Digg circa 1995

All it needs is a few “Cool Site of the Day” banners, and it’d be perfect.

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July 19, 2007

LOL Bibble

Invisible Man say, “I can has light.” Gots light.

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July 18, 2007

People playing chess on roller coasters

Life (deliberately) imitating “art”.

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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

Apple's New iPhone | The Onion

“When moved from hand to ear, makes Lightsaber sound effects”

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June 20, 2007

Dramatic Chipmunk - CollegeHumor video

“Best five second video on the internet.”

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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)

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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.

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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.

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June 1, 2007

Log4Twitter

log4j logger which posts to Twitter. Inevitable, perhaps, but still funny.

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May 28, 2007

LOLCODE

“Programming the LOL way.” I CAN HAS TURING COMPLEET?

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May 17, 2007

YouTube - Ghostride the Volvo

If this doesn’t keep the A’s in Oakland, I don’t know what will. Pisses all over nonviolent direct action as a protest tactic.

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May 16, 2007

xkcd - IN UR REALITY

“Oh, Hi; I’m here from the internet.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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%”

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May 8, 2007

Flickr: The Atrocious Apostrophe's Pool

Grocer’s apostrophe spotting’s.

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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.

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LOLTrek

Long form Lolcats — Star Trek as told through Lolcat. “There be having too many tribbles”

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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.”

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April 26, 2007

eBay Member Profile for tryork5ifp

Some excellent feedback given to eBay sellers. “Good Seller; reliable, fast, neat, but table manners are horrendous!” “What the..? What THE HELL is this stuff? How the HELL do you get it off? HELP!!”

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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.”

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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.”

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April 12, 2007

Will Ferrell Movie Generator

I’ve seen some of these, I think.

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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.”

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April 4, 2007

Internet Access CAPTCHAs

CAPTCHAs to keep the internet looser(sic)-free. I would fully support this project.

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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.

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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February 15, 2007

February 6, 2007

Useless Account

Sign up for an account and, erm, that’s it. Needs OpenID support, if you ask me.

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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?”

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Kawaii Not: "I'm a blank piece of paper..."

“… and you’re on a deadline”

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January 26, 2007

YouTube - Kitty Washing Machine

Automatic “spa” for pets. I’d pay good money to see Bacon and Clyde take a run through one of these things.

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January 24, 2007

xkcd - The Problem with Wikipedia

[Three Hours of Fascinated Clicking]

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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?

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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.”

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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.”

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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

Twitter / condi

What’s the Twitter equivalent of a “Fakester”?

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December 13, 2006

Are You Ready for Obama? - New York Times Blog

Barack Obama puts “all the doubts to rest” and makes his announcement.

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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.

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December 5, 2006

Wii Safety: The Missing Pages - a photoset on Flickr

Do not taunt Happy Fun Wii.

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November 29, 2006

b3ta: Virgin Trains Customer Satisfaction Form

“How late was your train? [ ] Hours. [ ] Days [ ] In my day, all this was fields”

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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!

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November 8, 2006

Office Space Re-Cut

Office Space as psychological thriller.

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November 7, 2006

Politicians Sweep Midterm Elections | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

“The American people have spoken, and they have unanimously declared: ‘We want elected officials to lead this nation.’”

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YouTube - Grand Theft Mario

Quality clip from Robot Chicken.

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November 6, 2006

TEH INTERNETS - a photoset on Flickr

A “teh awesomes” field guide to internet forums.

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November 4, 2006

YouTube - Torn

That mime-doing-Torn you may have seen before - extended remix with live Natalie Imbrooglywoogly.

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November 2, 2006

Snubbed

Snubbed

Apparently, I'm not P!O!P! enough to join Popjustice's last.fm group.

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October 23, 2006

YouTube - Borat -The first 4 minutes of his Movie

Can’t wait for this to come out!

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October 17, 2006

BBspot - Teen Using MySpace to Lure Bands to Los Angeles

“Ashley Morgan, 13, has used her ‘sonymusicexec’ MySpace profile to lure several bands to her Los Angeles home. Ashley was grounded so she couldn’t talk to us on the phone for this report.”

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October 8, 2006

Joe Mathlete Explains Today's Marmaduke

Because all too often, the subtle humour of Marmaduke requires explaining.

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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.

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October 1, 2006

New Air-Travel Guidelines | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

“The ban was a necessary precaution. We have to be willing to make these kinds of sacrifices if we’re going to prevent scientifically impossible terrorist attacks.”

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September 29, 2006

indexed

Venn diagram humour. Pretty good.

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September 13, 2006

Economist.com: Welcome aboard

What an honest in-flight announcement would sound like.

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September 11, 2006

YouTube - MySpace seminar

Funny SNL sketch. “I used to look like Ashley Parker Angel”

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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

TIM VINE…

TIM VINE…

"IS NOT APPEARING AT THIS YEAR'S EDINBURGH FESTIVAL"

Possibly the funniest thing in Edinburgh, from someone who hasn't even bothered to head up north.

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!

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August 7, 2006

Concert Ticket Generator

Create real-looking ticket stubs for the shows you wish you’d been to (or wish existed)

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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!

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July 30, 2006

Windows Vista Speech Recognition Demo Gone Awry - Google Video

“Dear aunt, let’s set so double the killer delete select all”

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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.

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Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence | The Onion

“Little did such founding fathers as George Washington, George Jefferson, and ***ERIC IS A FAG***…”

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July 25, 2006

Pug Bowling

Can of Pledge + Bowling Pins + Laser Pointer + Pug Dog == Pug Bowling!

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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.

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July 20, 2006

YouTube - Daily Show 7/19/06 - Net Neutrality

Another great John Hodgman “Resident Expert” segment.

July 14, 2006

The Pig and the Box

A beautifully illustrated storybook fable explaining to ver kiddiewinkies why DRM is bad. Lollipop Jones!

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July 13, 2006

NBC.com > The Office > Webisodes

The first two “webisodes” of The Office are up now.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.”

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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.

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June 16, 2006

Extortr: online blackmail for the masses

Genius! This is everything social software should be. User-generated content, bringing people together.

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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.

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June 14, 2006

Video Player - 30 Rock

NBC have posted a preview of Tina Fey’s new sitcom, 30 Rock. Tracy Morgan, Rachel Dratch and, oh yes, Alec Baldwin co-star. Looks good based on the three minute highlights reel.

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June 10, 2006

Google Minesweeper Launches

The Windows app they *really* have to clone for the web if they want to create a GoogleOS.

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June 6, 2006

Gallows humor from inside Enron

When Enrorn was investigated, the contents of their Exchange server was made public. Here’s some of the more amusing things found inside.

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June 5, 2006

Animator vs. Animation

Flash objects fight back.

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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!”

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June 2, 2006

Vimeo / really expensive cat toy video clip

You can be damned sure that if I had a MacBook, Bacon wouldn’t be getting within 10 feet of it, no matter how cute he is.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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May 12, 2006

YouTube - O! News - Apple v Apple

Another round of quality impressions from Peter Serafinowicz. John Lennon invented the iPod, apparently.

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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.

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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.”

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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.”

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April 28, 2006

April 10, 2006

b3ta.com: If 24 was real...

Without the Whatever Technology, 24 would be a lot slower…

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1986 World Series Game 6 Re-Enacted in RBI Baseball

“It gets through Buckner” in an 8-bit NES stylee.

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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?

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April 6, 2006

bunnystealingacookiehasaposse on Flickr

Ha! Best “has a posse” I’ve seen in a while.

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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.

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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!

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TeeVeePedia

TeeVee.org’s April Fools site is superb. There’s a lot of love gone into this.

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March 31, 2006

nanocolo iPod Linux colocation

April 1st has come early this year, it seems.

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March 30, 2006

iGoatse. the new skin for your iPod

Bad, wrong, and awesome.

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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.

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March 21, 2006

rrrrthats5rs.com » Don’t Shoot the Puppy

The funniest flashgame I’ve played in ages. Can you work out the secret to not shooting the puppy?

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March 16, 2006

Call Me Fishmeal.: This Post is Microsoft Enhanced (TM)

Awesome post about the brokenness of “MIcrosoft Enhanced” cable company PVRs.

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March 10, 2006

Zazzle.com - 'Architecture Help Dark T-Shirt' T-Shirt

Spotted at ETech. Made me chuckle.

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February 28, 2006

If Microsoft designed the iPod packaging

Pretty much spot-on.

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The Superbrowser

What happens if you take the lightweight Firefox browser and load 100 extensions into it? (Short answer: You lose about a square foot of screen real-estate)

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February 20, 2006

Weebls Stuff - Ultimate Showdown

Excellent flash animation and tune. Not made by Weebl, just hosted by him.

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February 13, 2006

andom($foo): F34R TEH NS4

hee. Bush visits the NSA, but they don’t have anything 24-looking enough to put on the display in the photo-ops, so they load up http://securitywizardry.com/radar.htm which does the job just fine.

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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!

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January 18, 2006

defective yeti: Xyzzy

GWBush as Infocom.

“Oval Office
You are standing inside a White House, having just been elected to the presidency of the United States.”

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January 11, 2006

The Prejudice Map

“According to Google, people in the world are known for…”

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January 10, 2006

Weebls Stuff - 100

The awesomely inexplicable Weeble & Bob makes it to 100 episodes. Hooray.

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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.”

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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.”

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September 14, 2005

The Jolly Wacky Executionist (video)

Found whilst rummaging through folders on my webserver: A (crappily-encoded) video of a sketch I wrote and performed in at the Improv Asylum in 2001.

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About This Site

This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.