Watch Stephen Colbert’s Defense of Planned Parenthood. So damn good. America, you crazy!
Business Insider has all of the Super Bowl 2012 Commercials arranged for you. Sadly no indication of if they’re good or not, but there are 59 of them to go through :)
Apple Scotland is having a wee bit of trouble with Siri. Hilarious.
Don’t Link This asks: Describe your sex live with a movie title and the comments are awesome.
Home Alone.
If I Were CEO. Yup, that’s about accurate.
Great article on Visual Studio 2010 from Ars, relating it to a text adventure game.
Play starts with the spell game. The game has three difficulty modes. In the two easiest modes Visual Studio questers must cast spells to appease a malevolent gatekeeper known only as "the compiler," combining the text adventuring of Zork with the wizardy and magic of Loom. If the player's spell contains even a single faulty incantation, the compiler will respond with a torrent of abuse and spells of its own; the player must piece together clues contained within compiler's response to determine how they went wrong.
Don't lie, if you were a Jedi you'd be like this too.
Great video of Jimmy Carr destroying some hecklers on his various specials. Absolutely awesome stuff.
This is why you don't mess with a proper comedian :)
Ever wanted to relive the glory of restarting your windows 95 computer? Or MacOS 7? Or NEXT? Or Windows XP? Well now you can with The Restart Page!
When you see the title: And now a video of a kid getting hit in the face with an iPad for being a douche it sort of gives the video away. Still, this is a use of the iPad that I completely endorse under these circumstances.
Was passed on this video from Canada to the US on the year of their election.
Not that I'm bitter, I got my Christmas bonus, but still, the Dilbert comic strip for 12/21/2011 hit my heartstrings somehow.
Marco has done it again with an amusing Amazon Kindle Fire vs. iPad 2 comparison chart.
Anyway, the main attraction of Amazon's Kindle Fire vs. iPad 2 page is the big comparison table. Other people's feature-comparison checklists always leave out factors that are important to me, so I made my own additions that Amazon is welcome to include on their page[...]
This is obviously a "fanboy" response to the Kindle, done in (mostly) jest, but demonstrating just how silly feature lists really are, because they really will never show you the real story, but just what whoever is selling you wants the story to be (though, that's basically what marketing is all about).
Best Fails of 2011 has some spectacular examples of bad decision making and bad luck. I especially like the tractor at 1:44.
Some in here I hadn't seen before: 12 Funniest Beer Commercials from Oddee.com.
Kids Receiving Intentionally Crappy Christmas Presents Is The Funniest Thing You'll See Today. Pretty much exactly what the title says. Via friends on Facebook and the comedy of Jimmy Kimmel :)
New to me anyway: Simon's Cat in Fowl Play. Another excellent entry into the Simon's Cat compendium.
To celebrate The 10th Anniversary of Ultraman is Airwolf is Now A Free Download. This is the spoken word album by Ernie Cline (currently of Ready Player One fame) that introduced me to him in 2003. Hilarious stuff. Definitely something to download ASAP!
Posted on my birthday: For all those born in 80′s.
Appropriate.
Wow, I thought that some of the auto-generated SQL from the depths of wordpress were bad... that's before I saw The Query of Despair over at The Daily WTF.
Aryk sent me this: Instant Elevator Music Automatically Plays Whenever You Move Files Around. How is this not the most needed windows utility in history?
Hilarious (and true?) Rant worth listening to over on youtube. Via a coworker. Note there is strong language, so wear headphones or if your ears are sensitive, don't listen :)
The Top 6 Alternatives To The Kindle Fire, because a device that's not released yet needs alternatives (and lets be honest, the group of contenders there is more a list of "what isn't the iPad").
As a side note, hows this for the definition of "damning with faint praise":
It's hard to love the Playbook, but if you're a diehard BlackBerry addict and you like a tablet with a smooth OS and great screen, this may be the one for you. Despite Playbook's sad storyline - released too soon, email and calendaring apps that didn't work right, a wonky syncing system - it's a solid device for BlackBerry users.
"Well, this car will explode about a tenth of the time that you drive it you'll find yourself on fire, the tires will sometimes randomly deflate while on the highway, and you can't drive more than 30, but for a Canadian it's fine."
Guy chokes a kid after being made fun of in Black Ops, we're ... upset is the title of this Joystiq post. Be sure you read it all, and in no way endorsed by us here at UFies.org.
A coworker brought this comic from The Oatmeal of A visual comparison of hammer pants VS hipsters to my attention. Not sure what he's trying to say to me though.
[I truly wish I had a picture of myself in either hammer pants or hipster garb to insert here, but sadly I'm way too cool to wear either.]
I'll assume he was simply mentioning it because The Oatmeal is awesome.
In a shocking turn of events, it turns out that the FTC says the AcneApp won't work to cute acne. That said, anyone who paid for it deserves to lose the $0.99 (or whatever it was) for believing that putting your iPhone on your acne for a few minutes a day will cure it.
Someone over on Google+ pointed me to this long list of tech jokes, none of which I have anything to do with.
[...] @spikelynch The problem with mutex jokes is that they're race-ist. #protolol @OhMeadhbh: the SYN flood attack #protolol: "knock knock. who's there? knock knock. who's there? knock knock. who's there? ..." @toastido ASCII jokes need no ANSI. #protolol @yoshicool NTP jokes are always on time #protolol @RichGibson Everyone gets snmp jokes but only some people understand them #protolol [... etc ... ]
If you're not geeky though, you can skip this post completely :)
This 5-Second Films on Planking should be required watching.
Pretty funny Live Blog of the MTV Video Music Awards from someone unfamiliar with the current music scene. I can only imagine that I'd be even worse.
Nicki Minaj is wearing a nice outfit. This is the future.Not sure who this rock band is. They look like douchebags, though.
[...]
Here's a Jersey Shore thing. In guess you forgot that MTV is responsible for Jersey Shore.
Joy of Tech has a great funny look at Steve Jobs' Calendar Now He's No Longer CEO.
I laughed at this Extralife cartoon: Hoarders: Digital Storage Edition, but only to hide the growing fear that they were talking about me.
So again the title pretty much says it all. watch the video where Anderson Cooper makes fun of french actor Gerad Depardieu for (allegedly) urinating in the isle of an aircraft after being told he wasn't allowed to get up to go to the bathroom while they were taxiing and (rightfully so) cracks himself up. Pretty damn funny.
'Jersey Shore' Audition Tapes For People You'd Actually Want To Watch!
Fans of the unwatchable abomination that is MTV's (inexplicably) hit show, Jersey Shore, might not know this, but there were plenty of others who sent in audition tapes to be part of the show.
Sorry about the stupid pre-roll ad in the video. Worth the wait though.
Nice set of pics on flickr of Team Fortress 2 done in Lego.
Just for fun.... where would they be: Text Editors in The Lord of the Rings. Mostly just a dis against TextMate, but the vi and emacs ones are pretty funny too :)
Awesome mashup of Game of Thrones as a buddy comedy. Pretty amazing the power of editing, a different musical score and a voiceover and the entire tone of the show changes 180 degrees.
Forgetfoo gets another one: War Between Developers.
Companion Cube Soap for those not lucky enough to get your own knitted companion cube...
Strobist points to a pretty cool use of a "few" cameras with on camera flash. Just a few mind you.
Created obviously to get plays at it's ridiculousness.... Microsoft's latest Google-compete weapon: The Gmail man via daring fireball.
Spock Is Not Impressed. Presented without comment.
Mark Malkoff finds out What CAN'T you do in the Apple Store?
Thanks to my buddy Gavin for pasing on this great Lady Gaga parody (no, not turning into a gagablog I promise!): X-MEN BORN THIS WAY.
Another awesome comic from The Oatmeal on How commercial airplanes SHOULD be laid out. Props for the child kennel area.
Darren pointed me to what is quite possibly the most awesome 404 page on the net, and also the most awkward.
I think that this comment is pretty much the end of discussion on the "PC vs. Mac" "war".
Via twitter found the movie Plot Device on Vimeo. Pretty awesome and inventive storytelling!
(PS: Make sure you stay for after the credits!)
Pretty awesome display of musical prowess as UK comedian Bill Bailey Sends A Message To Metallica:
British comedian and multi-instrumentalist Bill Bailey has posted a video online in which he demonstrates why he and his band are more than ready to take Metallica's place at this weekend's edition of the Sonisphere Festival in the United Kingdom.
My twitter friend @awphotographs (Amy Willard) posted this great notebook cover with the simple title of "need". Damn straight.
Hilarious: Spoof Video Pokes Fun at DSLR Rigs. My video making friends will want to rush out and order this new rig.
He does a great job too. Stephen Colbert Sings "Friday" If you're in the US the Hulu link is far easier to find. However, for us .ca folks, this one is good.
Wow, the second video of Scottish Comedian Frankie Boyle is freakin' hilarious. Must find more copies of this "Rush Hour" show.
Another great video: Simon's Cat in Hidden Treasure
I'm pretty sure that the user comments are more funny than the code commit itself. Definitely a brown-bag error for whatever this Bumblebee thing is.
I, and the rest of the guys at the office, had a good laugh at this craigslist post. Non-hockey/Vancouver people can ignore it. Text below in case it disappears:
Looking to Trade my Game 7 Tickets. - $1 (Surrey)Date: 2011-06-14, 2:25PM PDT
I'm look to trade my tickets for Game 7 with anyone who can bring me Tim Thomas Alive, preferably bound. Not looking to harm him in any way just looking to hold him captive during Game 7. Will release him once the Canucks evidently hold the Stanley Cup.
Tim Arrives in British Columbia today, theres many opportunities to subdue him, I am aware that he likes Japadogs and Archie Comics. Please do not mistake Tim Thomas for Drew Carrie, I have put a picture below to distinquish the two. I do not have any use for Drew Carrie, I don't think anyone does.
Will also include a free Canucks Jersey and Henrik Sedin Bobble Head.
Thank You.
Great book, and now you can Download Samuel L. Jackson's audiobook version of Go The Fuck To Sleep for free. All you need is a free audible account.
LOL at the Emacs user at work. Thanks Aryk!
I loved this Daily WTF so much that I shared it with some of my web designer friends. Twenty-Four Bits Per Intern.
I haven't really gotten into the Hypercritial podcast, but after reading some of the gems at Siracusa said so, I think it's time to re-subscribe.
"I've written enough PHP in anger to know about the language" (ep. 17, min. 35)
That one, as a new PHP programmer, is my favorite.
This fan trailer of George Lucas Strikes Back is quite possibly the greatest thing I've ever seen.
Hat tip @samspratt.
The video here is so full of win I don't know what to say. In 3 minutes 36 seconds Leonard Nimoy has completely re-invigorated his career. At least in my eyes.
My god it's awesome.
Fantastic Quora question and answer: Superheroes: Given our current technology and with the proper training, would it be possible for someone to become Batman?
The genius of Batman is that it pretends to be realistic, it lets us convince ourselves that with enough money and training, we could become Batman, too. But it's still fantasy, it's just a fantasy that is more compelling and convincing and thus more fun.
Hat tip to Shawn Blanc.
Great list of The 100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time. Thanks to my buddy Jim for passing it on. NSFW language obviously :)
When they say that this is possibly the most useful video you'll ever watch in terms of saving you time in your life, they're not kidding. The shirt removal video alone is worth the price of admission.
The 'bonus' video of the greatest proposal ever though, don't let your girlfriend, wife or fiance watch that lest they be very jealous and ask "why didn't you do something like that for me? Don't you love me as much as he does her?" (might be just me projecting though).
The Day The Routers Died.... Funny song :)
Another great clip from the Daily Show where Jon Stewart lambastes Fox News. Always fun stuff.
The greatest RL troll of all time. Great video, keep on watching past the time you think "this guy is just an ass" though, it's pretty cool to see just how often and in what awesome ways he was a complete and total ass :) Thanks cthulhu for the link.
Hacker Typer. For when you need to hack, and fast.
Great idea. Kudos to JTStrocel.
An image like this makes me stop complaining about my job....
Possibly the most depressing thing I've seen all day. Thank god I still fit in the chart (barely).
Maniacal Rage pretty much perfectly describes my feelings about Tiny Wings, and why you should buy this evil, hateful game right away.
And speaking of setbacks, why can't this stupid fucking bird follow the laws of physics? Why does he sometimes smoothly navigate slopes while other times smacking his fat chest on the crest of hills that seem perfectly shaped? Why is island 4 full of curves that seem designed to be impossible to smoothly traverse as if Andreas Illiger--that rotten bastard, that complete asshole--has purposefully designed them to spite me?
I have to admit that this'Thor' TV Spot that Aryk sent me surprised me and gave me a LOL. Great stuff.
One again the Oatmeal comes through with a concise guide on How to fix any computer. As someone who knows about these things, this is 100% true.
I must also link to this XKCD which is related.
Aryk sent me this cartoon which pretty much illustrates the problem with the batches of "iPhone Killers" out there.
Great video on making Combat Coffee by some Canucks in Afganistan. Posted if for nothing more than the "not a fucking timmies in sight" comment :)
Via this reddit story (with awesome comments as usual).
Fugly Android is a tumblr site to showcase Android customizations that have just gone too far...
Actually some of them are kinda cool, but I really don't know if I'd want to use them day to day. I'd like a bit more customization than iOS allows, but the curse of unlimited customization is.... well, just look at the link to see. Sometimes there is something to be said for "just leave it close to how it came" ya know? Via Daring Fireball (from a few days ago... I'm still catching up).
I have no words. Well, other than I'd love to see this for real.
Found Regretsy via @loydcase on twitter. Awesome site showing lists of things that you wish you hadn't bought.
Katamari Hack is a bookmarket that turns any page into a Katamari Damacy. Completely pointless, but awesome nonetheless!
Today's Penny Arcade cartoon The Land Before Time.... all I can say is "very true".
Aryk pointed me to these interesting Amazon reviews of the book A Million Random Digits.
New Simon's Cat! Sticky Tape.
Too awesome for words: Tonight I'm Frakking You. Thanks to Halkeye for sharing.
I have a feeling I'm the last one in the world to find this out, but according to GraphJam, you can use Google Translate for beatboxing. Try it by using their example, or hit this link (may or may not work depending on your location). The fact that they detect beatbox-like input and replace the "Listen" button with a "beatbox" one is pretty awesome.
That cute VW commercial from the other day with the mini Darth Vader has the deleted scenes and bloopers video released.
For the geeks out there feeling out of place on Sunday when there was some sort of game or something on, don't worry, you are not alone.
I'm sure everyone's seen the new The Force VW commercial, but if you haven't, it's good, and embedded below
Kevin Smith, of Smodcast, Clerks, and QuickStop fame is going to head out to join the Westboro Baptist Church in protesting Red State at the Sundance Film festival.
Fans of Smith will remember he did something similar back in '99 protesting Dogma. One can hope that they get way more turn out. He also tells a great story about how it all came to be and his disappointment in the protest turnout at Dogma.
Argh, my mistake, looks like he's joining the counter-protest, not the protest. Bummer. Course, the Westboro people are some messed up folks who don't need any more encouragement than they have from their current endeavors.
Just a funny pic of the guy who jailbroke the Windows 7 Phone.
Funny little video of Michael Caine doing Michael Caine.
Great funny answer on Why is Dropbox more popular than other tools with similar functionality?
Why is Dropbox more popular than other tools with similar functionality? E.g. Windows Live Sync, etc, which are free.
Via reddit. Of particular note is this comment which parodied the "made of meat" classic funny story.
OK, this Viral Chinese time travel commercial has to be the funniest thing I've seen all day. Combined with the XKCD time travel joke it's great. Kudos to JTStrocel for the link.
Pretty damn funny video sketch comedy from the BBC show The One Ronnie - My Blackberry Is Not Working! Man BBC has some good stuff.
Ok, it's a bit late for the real start of the new year, but watching this Burnout FAIL over on failblog gave me the first chuckle of the day. Still getting used to this whole "waking up in the morning" thing, so stay tuned for more link goodness.
My buddy Deesa pointed me to this list of the Top 50 Programming Quotes of All Time (via reddit). Reminds me a bit of the Stack overflow programming quote list.
My favorite:
24. "PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil, perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals."
- Jon Ribbens
Cracked.com has a nice list of The 10 Most Irreplaceable Performances in Comedy Films. I was going to pass it by and not post, until I cam across #6, Alan RIckman in SpaceQuest:
Alan Rickman can pack so much tragedy, rage, injustice and disgust into a single line that you'd swear it was a McRib.
I'd have to give it to him for his performance as Marvin in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... every time Marvin said anything with Rickman's voice I burst out laughing.
A nice blast from the past.... anyone else remember the great song Every OS Sucks?
This Panasonic Lumix Camera TV Commercial was thrown into Reddit under the title of A Newb Meets The /r/photography forum. Both funny and a good commentary on photography.
Not an endorsement for Lumix, though I've had a couple of their cameras and they are quite nice, though their "intelligent" system is still no substitute for knowing what your f-stop and aperture are set at.
And the most original use of google translate goes to..... the Web beat box tool via 9-5 mac.
Hopefully my friends in the US had time to sit, relax, and be thankful they weren't killed or maimed by the crazies shown in the video embedded below.
Seriously, I know stuff's on sale, but this is why the world thinks you're crazy you know?
Happy (slightly late) Thanksgiving!
Also as noted in the reddit comments not all the video is from American stores.... but it's more interesting to say it is :)
Great video find over at the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs - In case you are traveling this week.
Related is this article in case you were thinking that the body scanners weren't all that bad. Glad I live in Canada and right now can't afford to fly anywhere, much less in or out of the US.
Great video of Adam Savage (of MythBusters' fame) at Wootstock Seattle saying "WTF, TSA?"
Thanks to Tim from the FV.rb group for passing on this stackoverflow page of What is the best commit message you have ever encountered? Some real gems in there.
Also http://whatthecommit.com/
OMG the latest oatmeal cartoon - Why I don't cook at home - could not be more true. This is the exact reason (well, mostly anyway) why I describe to people that I didn't learn to cook.
Wow, this is awesome.... a Fake Arnold sings in 'Commando, the Musical'. I'd watch that.
Not much to say really.... this page details the implementation of the auto-buy script described in this XKCD cartoon. Reddit, as usual, has the comments here.
While the iPhone auto-correct is pretty good most of the time, the site of Funny iPhone Fails and Autocorrect Horror Stories illustrates the times when it fails. Hard.
Kudos to Grizzled for sending this great video (well, audio) of AC/DC's Thunderstruck on the bagpipes:
Awesome compilation of Don Draper Saying "What?" over and over again. Only truly awesome if you're a Mad Men fan.
Reminds me a bit of the fuck fuck fuck scene from The Wire (NSFW language obviously).
This image says all that needs to be said. Hat tip reddit.
At least according to this Cracked.com article.
Filed under "funny cause it's true".
Too funny not to share was this SMBC Theater that a coworker shared out on FB today. Thanks @halkeye.
Just a reminder that your feeble attempts to deal with squirrels probably won't work. I just hope they never get opposable thumbs....
Minecraft is Just Awesome is a great parody of the Discovery Channel's "boomdiada" song for, of course, the Minecraft crowd.
I'm sure the sadists among my audience will appreciate a video of 100 Funny Falls. SIckos. :P
Online Communities 2 is the new most awesome thing from XKCD. For your enjoyment, note that there's a huge size version, and you may want to look at the original comic and since my birthday is coming up, I'll just leave this link to order a poster here.... just in case ;) (though who am I kidding, no one actually reads this site...)
If you've been using the net for a few years you'll recognize this ie6 effect that's been ported to HTML5. Ironically doesn't work in IE (at least 8).
If a comic can get my blood boiling and the tears starting from the horrible memories of bad email interaction, then it's doing something right. The Oatmeal - If you do this in an email, I hate you.
Not sure how I missed this, but @OhDoctah (sometimes guest on TWiT did a great pardody of the Old Spice commercial.
Ha! Funny review of a hands on look at RIM's Playbook Prototype*. Important to note the '*' here though. :)
Awesome machinema video of Team Fortress 2, called Dance Fortress 2. Great stuff, you almost have to watch it several times to see what each of the characters are done.
If you're into TDD and use Autotest with graphical notifications (through growl or the like), you'll be interested in this autotest-growl icon set put up on github. Thanks to the reddit post.
YouTube - Sesame Street: True Mud is a great True Blood parody. Thanks to K at work for pointing me to this.
Some pretty amazing photoshop work in this Photoshop Extreme Makeover video. Thanks forgetfoo.
Sure it's all for an ad / viral marketing for a pillow store, but the Backwards Music Video Featuring 2 Guys & 600 Pillows is pretty cool, especially when you grok the "backwards" part. Also make sure you watch the forwards "making of" version as well.
The luckiest bastards alive is a video of a bunch of very close calls involving people in/on/around cars, trains, and automobiles. More than a few pucker moments in there.
This took me by surprise, and I actually LOL'd for real - Penny Arcade! - The Wager. Though I'd still say I'll believe it when I hold the game in my hand.
Two quick comics to start your day. First is a Virtual Shackles one looking at Duke Nukem' (via reddit), and the second is this hand and penis washing logic from SMBC-comics.
Some twitter accounts are just awesome... for example, rabble's tweet points to @English50Cent which is a translation of @50cent's tweets into the queen's English. Thanks to @dkubb for the pointer.
No, the "DOS" in DOS on Dope isn't funny or ironic :) I'm not saying that this is useful or practical in any way, but it is pretty cool.
Old but good - Mary Roach: 10 things you didn't know about orgasm. Maybe a bit slow to start, but quite amusing.
Link to sysinternals' awesome BlueScreen screensaver. Via this story on DailyWTF.
No, I don't know what to think either, or if I ever imagined all these words together and connected.
Speedsolving A Rubik's Cube While Skydiving In A Rubber Boat
Presenting Howfuckedismydatabase.com without further comment. Other than it's awesome.
The awesomeness of the Discussion with a Java switcher over at Merbist isn't about the Java/Ruby/etc world, but this image showing the hierarchy of what type of programmers consider themselves superior to. Also I think that Ruby (damn young kids!) should be lower than Perl programmers. Just sayin'.
After seeing this on reddit: The most sadistic thing ever invented, but I haven't over-snoozed in 2 weeks now it may be something to influence me to run an Android phone. Pic.
Cool video of a Street Performer playing with his balls.
Awesome looking trailer: INEBRIATION (Inception Parody/Spoof):
Via @milesforrest.
At least in this Email from a prospective client they were honest.... :)
Great gizmodo post on How to Make Justin Bieber Sound Incredible: Slow Him Down 800 Percent. As Aryk said when he send me this, "it's true". Definitely sounds like an epic video game or movie soundtrack. Love the first comment regarding BSG too.
Update - Or not.
Great infographic on the stats of slacking at work. Sent to me by a coworker, who found it no doubt while slacking at work.
Awesome twist on the Action Movie Phone Call from CollegeHumor. Thanks Aryk.
The Ballad of Steven Slater, by the same guy who did the iPhone antenna song. Note: NSFW lyrics (swearing, and lots of it).
Fantastic song: Ballad of Steven Slater. See the DF entry for some context.
Not helping the "the Japanese are crazy" feeling here in the west, here comes Japanese Binocular Soccer.
Another great Daring Fireball Linked List link to a Statistical Analysis of the Attractiveness of User Profile Pictures, asserting, among other things, that iPhone users have more sex (presumably with other people that is).
As an iPhone user, I must agree with this.
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Some other interesting stuff as well, including analysis of sexiness by camera make, class, flash or no flash, etc.
Not my cats luckily, thanks to Fred for passing on this story of crazy German cat antics.
A cat home alone in Germany apparently turned on the vacuum cleaner, frightened itself half to death and wound up being attended to by emergency services.
Great video for all you WOW addicts: Jace Hall - I Play W.O.W Music Video.
If this story linked from DF is true, that flight attendant is either a huge jerk, or the biggest bad ass I've heard of.
I never knew that The McGangBang existed, or there was this much information about it.
If you want to get anything done today, definitely don't go and read the Post the funniest thing you've ever seen on the internet thread on Reddit. Seriously, don't.
Ever asked yourself What The Fuck Is My Social Media Strategy? If so, click the link and continue on your road to a social media success!
I remember hearing the non-illustrated version of this joke ages ago. I've always wondered if I could use it (telling the joke that is) to get out of a speeding ticket (as in "come on officer, tell you what, if I can make you laugh at a joke, you let me off with just a warning").
Awesome video of a Big Fan Asks Joss Whedon Who His Favorite Actor Is. From my buddy @jtstrocel.
Humorous and amusing post about the deconstruction of an In-N-Out Double-Double.
Awesome robots.txt from Last.fm. Hat tip reddit.
This article on the Daily WTF called The 0th Month is a picture perfect of a) programmer rage and b) a case study on refactoring :)
Kevin S. works on websites for a living.Well, actually, "work" might not be an adequate description considering that part of Kevin's job requires that he is half clarvoyant and half mountain sherpa when it comes to digging through the several huge codebases globbed together abominations of open source, third-party components that he is expected to support.
Also possibly the greatest intro paragraph ever :)
Start Monday off with The History of LOLcats.
Great image over at The Celler of a Cow Wash. Pretty much the happiest cow picture you're going to see all day today.
Also, happy Friday! TGIF :)
Great video of a LOLParrot doing 20 Parrot Tricks in 2 Minutes. My favorite is the "bang" playing dead trick about 1:00 in.
Whatever you wanted to know about The History of Lolcats is available in info graphic form.
So you know that "I'm on a horse" old spice commercial? It, plus the various levels of web 2.0 and social networky stuff has generated the Old Spice Voicemail Generator. Pretty damn awesome, and I have my new voice-mail message.
Awesome new Improv Everywhere with the Star Wars Subway Car.
Great news..... Guild Season 4 Premieres!
A few things. If you'll notice, the episode looks a bit different than usual. We shot this season on a different camera, the Canon Mark 5D, which I NEVER EVER WILL TRUST BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE A STILL CAMERA SO HOW IS IT TAKING VIDEO?!
Wil Wheaton has The Guild: Season 4 Teaser up on his site. If you had forgotten what happened in Season 3, there's a Auto-tuned recap of Season 3 for your enjoyment. Also huge props for the phrase "naughty monkey sex".
OMG awesome, thanks Len for this video of Yoda Recording His Lines For The Star Wars TomTom Voices. I'll harken you back to the Darth Vader version. Wonder if you'll be able to download these into the iPhone version of the TomTom app?
Metafilter has a great one on Firefly: the '80s Edition where they link to a great 80's style intro video inspired by an io9 article.
This Talk Show Guest FAIL also represents my reaction when I saw that Germany had lost their World Cup game.
Another good Hitler video, this one is Hitler Finds Out About Opera 10.60.
If everyone hasn't had enough of making fun of Twilight yet, Cracked.com had another go.
Stephanie Meyer's exemplary writing style is demonstrated in this conversation between Edward and our narrator Bella:"Aren't you hungry?" he asked, distracted.
"No." I didn't feel like mentioning that my stomach was already full - full of butterflies.
Not all of it, but she reveals a lot of her self in a Get Mortified interview involving some embarrassing bits from her past.
Very NSFW language, but these iPhone vs. HTC EVO & HTC EVO vs iPhone4 video fairly well illustrates both sides of the "apple fanboy" and "not apple fanboy" extreme nicely.
And speaking as a Canadian fanboy: Damn you all. I have a feeling that things like this are happening commonly around those countries today... :)
"yeah thats not what I was looking for at all."
Just read it, it's funny as hell. You'll want to read through the rest of the site as well.
Want to relive the glory days of Lost in your own home? You can now own your own Dharma Initiative Alarm Clock thanks to Thinkgeek. Check out the video. Via Daring Fireball.
Slashfilm has some great BP-Inspired Finding Nemo 2 Posters.
An older post that I just saw... The Six Stages of Debugging. So so true.
I read Clients From Hell daily to keep up to date on what not to do and to see how my own contract clients compare to the worst of the worls. Reading A Cautionary Tale I was reminded just how lucky I am and how I have nothing to complain about compared to some people. Long, but well worth the read.
Via @dkubb on IRC: Chatroulette Plans Penis-Recognition Algorithm to Block Pervy Users. I really don't know what else to say. They had me at "penis recognition" :)
You know, it's only Tuesday, so it's nice to start the day with a smile. Check out this super-happy duck and think about how great it would be if your day could be given so much joy. Course, your brain would be the size of a pea, but still, that's a happy duck!
The accuracy of this demotivational poster is scarily accurate. Might be time to look at programming as a second option and being a painter first.
Someone with way too much time on their hands got an ultralight into orbit (in Flight Sim X).
Lesbians Who Look Like Justin Bieber.tumblr.com. Presented without comment.
Brilliant.... the Star Wars iPad Briefing.
Great cartoon about What your email address says about your computer skills via The Oatmeal.
Lost Alternative Endings and Unanswered Questions - great video... hilarious stuff (but only if you're a Lost fan of course).
In light of the recent Google Chrome speed tests, Opera has put out their own speed test, using their own... "unique" metrics :)
After being in more than a couple of corporate meetings myself, I can say that this video of The Process (a.k.a. Designing The Stop Sign Video) video.
Title pretty much says it all: Rid The Internet of All Mentions of Justin Bieber, With A Firefox Add-On. If you already have this, you won't see this entry.
To celebrate Friday before the long weekend (for us .ca folks anyway) I present you the Fail-a-thon. Try not to laugh if you're watching this at work.
Another email exchange between (Fake) Steve Jobs and a user. Funny thing is I didn't realize this wasn't a real exchange right away, and saw it as completely legit :)
Peejay threw me over this great Apple Keynote Bloopers video with the comment "Lotta people died for that video".
All said, that's not bad for 10 years of doing live demos in keynotes, and The Steve is pretty good at shaking it off or making a joke about it. Some good stuff in there though.
Just when I was pretty sure I'd seen the weirdest, sickest, and most depraved things on the internet, I see that Laughing Squid uncovered He-Man Covering 4 Non Blondes' "What's Up?". Yea, it's that. I'm still not sure what mix of "awesome" and "disturbing" it is :)
One Div Zero has a hilarious Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages.
1842 - Ada Lovelace writes the first program. She is hampered in her efforts by the minor inconvenience that she doesn't have any actual computers to run her code. Enterprise architects will later relearn her techniques in order to program in UML.
One Div Zero has a hilarious Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages.
1842 - Ada Lovelace writes the first program. She is hampered in her efforts by the minor inconvenience that she doesn't have any actual computers to run her code. Enterprise architects will later relearn her techniques in order to program in UML.
Kotaku has a great graphic of If Super Mario Bros. Was Made in 2010.
Aryx sent me this fun video of Darth Vader recording for TomTom GPS.
Found via @brianleroux is the Status Code Drinking Game. Don't expect too much, and just reload :)
Interesting results from the Color Survey that XKCD did a while back, with some interesting (but obvious) results that basically say that if you're a girl, you know a lot more color names than if you're a guy :)
Confused by the whole "gizmodo iphone ethics, journalism police-raid" thing? Run through The Gizmodo iPhone saga flowchart and pretty much everything will be explained (or at least, flowcharted out).
I know it's late, but this video from MossPuppet.com of Steve Jobs responding to Gizmodo on the subject of the iPhone 4G was pretty awesome.
They weren't put up on the main site, but Scott Adams did two great comics on That Lost 4G Phone. Hilarious stuff :)
Great funny view of what R2D2 hacking the imperial network might have looked like.
Another great one in the meme, where Hitler Finds Out That The Hitler Downfall Remix Videos Have Been Removed.
Great graphic over on F1.0 on the evolution of a photographer, in graph form.
A great wrap up of LO(L)ST: Season 1 using LOLCats. I just finished watching Lost Season 5, so I heartily approve this message.
If programming languages were religions...
Perl would be Voodoo - An incomprehensible series of arcane incantations that involve the blood of goats and permanently corrupt your soul. Often used when your boss requires you to do an urgent task at 21:00 on friday night.
So so true...
Hey America, I know you are jelous of Canadian money and all, but I think that your new 100 dollar bill redesign is kinda..... well lets just say you're not getting it, k? :)
Great blip of an interview with Bill Gates where he's asked about the iPad, and shares how the huge success of tablet PCs is a windows innovation. Yup.
The Google maps blog shows that you can now See what's inside a store, bringing us one step closer to Google Home View (video) :)
Awesome cheezburger video of the happiest hamsters ever. Play this if you need a late-afternoon-and-oh-god-how-long-till-I-get-to-go-home moment.
Just discovered Virtual Shackles through their hilarious comic Depth Perception, all about the lost iPhone 4th gen. Funny as hell. Started going through the comic archives too, looks like a great comic for geeks/gamers :)
Great video of Axis Of Awesome doing their "4 chord song" routine
This is the most odd video of someone after their wisdom teeth were removed you'll see all morning. Thanks to Mike for this link.
First up is the Travis Pastrana Backflip Big Wheel that I got from Darren after I sent him the Double Skateboard FAIL. Both painful to watch. Both funny as hell.
Pretty much guarenteed to be the cutest cat investigates an ipad you'll see today.
A bit extreme, but I have to say that this Bacon cooker is pretty effective.
To prove I'm not all about the apple fanboyness, I give you a video of a Standing Cat. I'm not sure if it freaks me out or makes me laugh. Awesome either way :)
Hijinks Ensue has another great Edward Olmos T-Shirt that I want. Team Edward forever!
I'm sure I've linked this before, but hey, one more time cause it's great stuff :)
Gizmodo has a list of 8 Cruel But Completely Justified iPad Wallpaper Pranks which I'd love to do if I knew anyone who had an iPad. Only cause I'm jealous of course.
Two great posts over at Stack Overflow:
For those xkcd fans out there, you'll be hapy to know that the game from the last comic, 'flatland' is
real. If you don't get any of this stuff, check out this video of Carl Sagan explaining it for us mere mortals. Bonus: or this.
An awesome explanation of elementary resource-locking strategy. Hilarious.
I don't care if you're a gamer, love or hate Portal, but this video of kids singing Portals "Still Alive" will make your Monday just that slight bit better (crappy camera work non-withstanding).
Christopher Blizzard blogged a beautiful expression of frustration, a really great song about the frustration of web devs and IE :) Funny and catchy.
This bubbles perv video is probably NSFW, but it's also pretty funny. And pervy. But really funny.
WELCOME TO INTERNET! (warning auto playing sound) is cheesy and awful, but is totally going to be my new home page. From reddit.
Awesome sketch from College Humor on Internet Trolls. Best 2 comments are the "usenet flame war of '99" and the Steve Jobs one. Great stuff as always.
Snuzzy has a video of an Alpaca on a surfboard.
Sometimes the world really just doesn't make sense.
John Gruber points to the "No Dashes Or Spaces" Hall of Shame, showing off stupid sites that can't figure out how to parse CC numbers with spaces or dashes in them.
Boingboing has a horrifying story about a Happy Meal that shows no decay in a year on a shelf. Either it's terrifying that that stuff is eaten (cause it's so damn good) or good to know it'll survive the apocalypse and sustain the survivors....
Another great find from Aryk - Top 10 Things That Annoy Programmers over at Kevin Pang's site. I agree with all of these.
Oddee.com has a good list of 10 Funniest Wedding Fails.
Kudos to James Strocel for pointing me to the Death Star vs Force comparison chart.
College Humor has a great Chat Roulette Piano video. The guy doing the piano has got some good skillz too!
Kevin Rose has video of Leo Laporte crowd surfing during the Diggnation filming. I anticipate more of this when the Diggnation episode comes out on Tuesday.
Aryk sent over a comic on The Difference Between Firefox, Opera, Explorer & Safari via The Next Web.com
Found the Top 20 5 Second Films where you get 2 seconds for title, 1 for end titles, and 5 for content. Some stinkers in there, and some NSFW language/content, but more gems than stinkers.
My favorite is the guy waking up late... FUUUUUUUUU.....
This image is great, the day in the life of a programmer. I'm somewhere just past the "coffee++" at this point.
Pretty damn funny skit from Jimmy Kimmel: Handsome Men's Club. 10 minutes long, but worth it. Thanks S for the link.
The perfect gift for your wife, husband or loved one is this picturetweeting bathroom scale, assuming of course, you want to be killed. Thanks boingboing.
Sometimes you get the chips, sometimes the chips get you.
Just met Ralph on IRC (freenode #fv.rb if you care) and found this great picture from the IE6 funeral. Glad there were at least some protesters :)
Photo Basement has a pretty accurate Chat Roulette analysis up on their site. If you don't know what Chat Roulette is, it basically turns on your camera and connects you to another random person. Hilarity ensues. And by hilarity, I mean "mostly you see a big picture of a penis".
As usual, Jon Stewart takes on big media coverage and Use Chatroulette on The Daily Show. Hilarious and JS at his best.
Kudos to Nicolesy for this great find: Judge Joe Brown & Cheap Wedding Photographers. I'm not sure if His Honor Brown really knows his camera gear or is just repeating what his staff has researched for him, but it's entertaining and surprisingly not dumbed down camera lingo. Well worth the 10 minutes to watch the segment, regardless of your opinion of stupid shows like the "Judge [name]" and it's ilk.
Yet another reason I'm terrified to become a wedding photographer :)
Found via reddit is a list of 31 Really Bad Ideas if you're all alone and feeling amorous....
They slammed together and the magnetic force was so tremendous I couldn't remove them without tools. I took two pairs of pliers and pulled like hell.
SFW in that it's text only.
They say that no scandel is complete until someone makes a T-Shirt out of it (well, they might say that), and the "school spying on kids with school issued laptops" is no exception.
Thanks to Aryk for sending me this.
It's a bit of a slow morning for me, so here's a great article called Mundane Magic shared by an ex-coworker. Great story that makes you think a bit (maybe, depends on how much coffee you have in you I guess).
What you get when you buy a £25 iPhone down the pub reveals something else I've suspected.... that it's probably not a real iPhone :) Love the bit about it feeling like something out of an alternate history timeline...!
Pretty funny cell phone prank to pull.
If the name Tom Mabe sounds familiar to you, that's probably from his Telemarketer abuse clips from Back In The Day.
Please Rob Me is a prime example of why you shouldn't tell foursquare to tweet out that you're somewhere other than your house :)
Aryk just pointed me to the Clients From Hell Tumblog.... this story - Client: "[Indian outsourcer] says he can do this... gave me a big "OMG" deep down in the chest. Wow. Just.... wow.
I really don't know what to make of this video of The Purple Helmets. They are either brilliant or crazy. Or both.
Thanks to Len for passing me on the Guitar Kitteh video. Looks like a perfectly logical use of a guitar for a cat to me. Might even be less annoying than my cats using my fingers while typing to scritch themselves on.
I never saw the original ad called "Man's Last Stand" from the superbowl ad, but after seeing it, I thought it was great. It has however now been remixed into woman's last stand where the women hit back a bit against the guys.
"S" sent me over a link to this A Sane Response . . . story from emails from crazy people. Well worth the read.
OK, this is just awesome. Check out a few Reddit.com clones written in a variety of languages. Also note the comment to code ratio in the Perl example! ;)
I just found Crying Wife.com via SmodCast. It's basically a guy who video tapes his wife who cries easily, after watching movies. Before you flame the guy for being an insensitive prick though, read his FAQ and then flame him :)
Dear Internet. I have no words to explain this: Japanese Star Wars Tuna Ad.
Via @coderpath and @srbaker comes this git commit log for the Rails 3.0 code to "deOMGify" the code. Great read and great comments.
Remember the excellent 70 minute Episode 1 review? Well, that dude has come back and given the goods to Avatar.
Via Aryk: The true "size" of a gadget can be calculated now through the Full Gadget Ratio. This looks correct to me.
My buddy Jason forwarded me this South Park Mac vs. PC which really boils the Mac vs. PC debate down nicely.
I've never seen such an odd looking, nor Groovin' Owl in my life.
A hidden gem in the slashdot comments from the Tales from a BBS Junkie book.
Hit the link for the rest of the (uplifting) story :)
I remember back in the mid 90's running a BBS. There was this one guy who would type 1 letter every 10 seconds or so. I would watch him play LORD each day and the minutes would expire before he was done with his turns. One day I saw him online and broke into game chat [SYSOP HAS BROKEN IN FOR CHAT]. [...]
Oh man, how awesome is this video on How To Report The News. Overlay this on pretty much any news broadcast you see on TV and it's a pretty much dead on.
Having done my time in customer support, I can attest that this story from Not Always Right never happens.
Gawker has a great list of The Rules for Calling In Sick.
Passed on from Aryk is How You Live Is Your Choice To Make which has this and other related gems:
Q: Doctor, I've heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life. Is this true?
A: Your heart only good for so many beats, and that it...don't waste on exercise. Everything wear out eventually. Speeding up heart not make you live longer; it like saying you extend life of car by driving faster. Want to live longer? Take nap.
Via forgetfoo is the link to The 5 Signs You're Talking To A Social Media Douchebag. Or as I like to think, 90% of the people on twitter (no, not you, you're a cool person on twitter, I'm talking about the other people).
Finally found a "legal" version of the Pants On The Ground parody played on Jimmy Fallon the other night. Story has back story if you're not like me and haven't been hearing about this on the Stern show all morning :)
I have no idea if this is "real", but the The Problem with Young People Today Is... blog is freakin' hilarious:
Q1: Are you demonstrating poor judgment?Sure, I watched an episode of "Dancing with the Stars" once but only because I assumed it was a Fred Astaire special and not some collection of motley has-beens lumbering around like injured circus bears.
It was a mistake but I've forgiven myself.
And it's nowhere near as questionable as young people tattooing their scrotums and posting videos of themselves dancing around with lightsabres on youtube. Now that's a demonstration of damned poor judgment. And stupid as Hell, too.
Read it for more. *subscribes*
Random link found on the net of the 2006 Emmys Opening. Never saw it, glad I watched it now, it's pretty damn awesome.
Reddit asks the excellent question of What happens to your porn after you die? Some users have different ideas than others:
From Acewrap:
I just have a deadman switch at my computer which needs to be pressed every eight hours, if it isn't pressed, a turtle is released from it's cage, the turtle walks over to a carrot hanging from a shelf, it pulls the carrot, which causes a bearing to roll down a plank and then[...]
Note also the excellent video linked in the comments on porn buddies. Anyone know what show that's from? The intro note says something about "The Flavors Unlimited" but I don't see any references to that as a TV show. Ah, from "Coupled" (UK version).
Of this list of The Top 10 Worst Attempts At Cutting Down A Tree my favorite has to be the first one simply due to the not-so-happy wife's commentary after the excruciating wait for what you know is going to happen....
Vintage Ad Browser. Great stuff. I can only imagine at how stupid the "cool" ads we have no will look in 100 years....
The epic JWZ is right on my wavelength with his Tivo vs Torrenting thoughts. Pretty much my thoughts.
Great post regarding Smirnov's Theorem on Binary Probability, expounding on the probability of things happening or not.
Let us consider example A: Will you be shot in the face by some guy with a sniper rifle hiding in a bell tower today?
Funny, silly stuff.
Oddee's list for today is 10 Craziest Plastic Surgeries Made to Look Like Someone Else. Looking at the results, I can safely say that there's not much upside in plastic surgery, these people all seem to come out looking like they got hit in the face with a small Volkswagen.
This came up today in conversation with someone, and I had to post THE classic Unix horror story, originally posted in 1986 regarding what to do if you accidentally rm -rf / on your unix system. Great classic story.
Took me a while to find it, I ended up using keywords of ksh, rm -rf, and echo to find it :)
If you follow pop culture at all you'll probably already know the story about Conan, Leno and the Late Show, but you can be amused by the video where he does seem a bit miffed....
So the stormtrooper pic in JWZ's Star Wars Burlesque post is hot, the C3PO I'm really not sure how I feel about....
Classic Johnny Carson with the Dom DeLuise Egg Trick.
Assuming that this story is real, the My Date with Amanda post over at LameBook describes what is essentially every guys worst nightmare or hell on earth, whichever is worse. Keep with it till the end, it's LOL funny (only because it's someone else of course).
Hilarious.... 38 Snowmen Nightmares: Calvin and Hobbes In Real Life.
Bruce Schneier isn't the biggest fan of the farce that is (ever increasing) airport security and is having a TSA Logo Contest.
Winner receives copies of my books, copies of Patrick Smith's book, an empty 12-ounce bottle labeled "saline" that you can refill and get through any TSA security checkpoint, and a fake boarding pass on any flight for any date.
The graph for Movie popcorn vs. Time perfectly illustrates why I have my movie popcorn the way I do.... go in, get seats, then 5 minutes before the previews start leave, get popcorn, and unless the lines are insane chances are you're sitting back in your seat with fresh warm popcorn as the previews start (missing the pre-preview ads if you time it perfectly).
Fantastic video / song / parody / tribute called Battlestar Rhapsody. Just watch and enjoy.
The People of Public Transit blog posted a video of a guy who is very Horny For Pole. Very odd. Probably from Japan based on the bystanders. NSFW if you're offended by intense man on (literal) pole snuggling action.
This There, I Fixed It is the best kludge I've seen in a while.
Hilarious old Kids in the Hall with Dave Foley talking about the USA and Canada. Probably not as funny to non-Canadians though.
Aryk sent over a great gizmodo linked video of If Only Cats Hunted Computer Viruses Instead of Small Innocent Mammals. Sure it's only posted for the kitteh cuteness, but what a cuteness!
Scruffy the Elf is about as festive as I get at Christmas.
Great T-Shirt of "Zombie Food". When food goes bad.... hehee. Thanks S for the link.
Anyone who has been following the Artie Lange saga lately on the Howard Stern Show will know he's been on and off drugs, and was off last week as he was told to take a break (the audience wasn't really let in on what was going on). The clip below however is a great use of the "Hitler subtitling" meme for just this occasion :)
Note that if you're not into the show most of the references in the video won't make much sense to you.
My ex-boss John discovered what does indeed look like the Best unsubscribe page ever.
Simon's Cat: Snow Business is the latest in the series of simple yet cute and accurate cartoons about a cat. Awesome as usual.
A long, but completely worth the read story of quite possibly the most horrific date you could imagine... ever. I've been on the internet a while so I can imagine some pretty horrific things, but this tops even that. Yes it's from 2005, but I hadn't seen it until now (thanks reddit) so you get to share in my discovery!
Ode To Joy video. I gotta say, Beaker is awesome :)
I honestly don't know exactly what Alan's Rock Video is, but it's catchy and funky looking.
2009 in Autotune. Let the recaps begin!
Why I'd rather be punched in the testicles than call customer service is a fantastic graphical journey into the reasons why tech support (for the most part anyway these days) sucks. I feel the same way.
Today's UserFriendly Strip harkens back to the days when I had these conversations with SilverStr, Fozbaca, Solas and Engel on the exact same subject. Those tended to go to a bit more of an extreme though, I recall getting to "I flipped the ones and zeros with the magnetic pull of the earth and had to wait a year to flip the next bit" more than once.
Funny comic of reading Darth Vader's diary.
If you've ever been confused about some of the web service protocols and how they're different, you'll enjoy this Geek and Poke of Service Calling Made Easy defining the difference between REST and SOAP :)
This is an awesome statistic about swearing results by language on Google Code.
Via reddit is a great post listing the back and forth emails between a designer and "client". Well, sort of client. Just please go and read it now. An excerpt :
If I did have a working time machine, the first thing I would do is go back four days and tell myself to read the warning on the hair removal cream packaging where it recommends not using on sensitive areas.
While it doesn't have anything to do with logos and pie charts, it's a nice sample of the humor in the emails. Just go and read it ok? :)
No amount of wrong and fail can describe these horrible cosplay costumes.
CollegeHumor again does a great job with their spoof of the new Twighlight movie with a fake trailer for Twilight: Three Wolf Moon. If you don't get the whole 3 Wolf Moon thing, check out the wikipedia page for the history of the meme.
Another win in the form of "5 Star Wars Status Updates" by Brian Murphy on CollegeHumor via @curtismchale.
Ok, this is not only a lesson in why you never have a game delivered to your friend's house, but in how to keep a straight face successfully for more than 5 minutes while your buddy tries to figure out that he's being Rick-Rolled. Awesome.
Now this is an incredible beard, from a 1991 competition. You really want to wait for the second guy though.
Some of the stuff on Not Always Right is kinda meh, but the Faux-bi-Wan Kenobi story had me LOL at work this morning.
If you need a little room in your relationship, you can't go wrong with these superhero themed breakup cards. No really, what could possibly go wrong?
The Onion has a great and hilarious news piece on how the next Ultra-Realistic Modern Warfare Game Features Awaiting Orders, Repairing Trucks etc. Looking forward to getting my hands on the PC version of this, the first Modern Warfare last year blew my mind.
This skytrain and transit map of Vancouver with station names changed to anagrams is epically awesome!
Oh I'm sure it's photoshoped or fake, but damn, this Highway Sign is damn funny. I wonder if I'd have the balls to do something like that if I were fired from a similar situation?
So his plan is like this... First I dress up like a bat, than I scare the hell out of people. I'm not sure if this is brilliant or insane. Great video though.
When you give the Perfect gift for one polar bear - two tons of ice cubes covered in maple syrup, you get a damn happy polar bear!
Oh come on, it's Monday, and it's a funny video!
The latest Penny Arcade cartoon, In The Seventh House seems to sum up the reactions to Windows 7 I've seen and had myself.
Yea, I know that A Day at the Office is a repeat and it's been around, but what the hell, it's Friday and it's something that will make you smile.
Microsoft bails on sponsored comedy, specifically the deal for the "Windows 7 episode" of Family Guy.
A Microsoft spokeswoman said: 'After reviewing an early version of the variety show, it became clear that the content was not a fit with the Windows brand.'
The obvious question of course is WTF were they thinking they were getting? Did they not bother to watch any Family Guy episodes before making the deal? Guess the $100 million Seinfeld deal is looking better now. I think a new shoe store ad sounds more their speed....
Seriously, if they were to go with the Family Guy episode and show the world that they're OK with laughing at themselves and taking the penis/fart/puke/etc jokes associated with their flagship product, they'd show that the borg actually has a sense of humor about themselves. Unless of course the brilliant marketing department planned this all along and figured they'd get "buzz" by pulling out of the deal.
All the pseudo-scientists talking about the end of the world and 2012 as if it had any science in there may be 8 years early, turns out that "2012" a Miscalculation; Actual Calendar Ends 2220. At least we now have 8 210 more years before we need to start panicking.
Awesome co-worker send me a link on Building a Robotic Dalek Pumpkin. Seriously, how f-n cool is that!?
Nice catch by Joey about how pet stores are Going After the Dungeons and Dragons Market :)
OK, so it's not the real Walt Mossberg, but Walt Mossberg: "I Have Sabotaged Microsoft" (via Fake Steve Jobs) is a good listen... though he sounds like he might have been drinking a bit :)
Host Your Windows 7 Party Today is another great parody from Funny or Die. Not as good as the 'censored' version, but still pretty damn funny.
Daring Fireball points out that in Welcome to the Microsoft Store it really is a carbon copy of the Apple Store. I think that even the Microsofties will agree that this is a pretty blatant rip off of the Apple store experience. It'll be interesting to see how these evolve and change (or die) in the coming months.
It's almost Friday, here's a video titled The Best Cat Video You'll Ever See, and it's pretty damn good.
Remember that Droid teaser that came out the other day with the bunch of "iDon't" things that the iPhone doesn't do? If not, here it is. Anyway, someone has a very cool response video worth watching: iDon't Care.
Merlin Mann shows us 5 Surprising House Hacks. Stuff you didn't know....
As a unicorn chaser to the crazy people, check out this ultra-cute Beagle Puppy vs Rottweiler video over on Snuzzy.
Heard Seregon O'Dassey on the Stern show this morning talking about how there are "Real Vampires". I love the nuts. So basically vampires don't do anything that movie vampires do, other than drink blood or "suck energy", but neither of which is needed to live. Sounds like just a normal person to me, with a side order of attention-whore. Good for an amusing read though.
Via Aryk comes a great College Humor clip of The Sordid Story of the Pixar Lamp over on Gizmodo.
Shared via Facebook from a coworker of mine is this tweet which seems to sum up Google Wave quite nicely :)
According to Geeks of Doom, this ThinkGeek Tauntaun Sleeping Bag was actually an April Fool's Joke, but now exists for reals!
Today's Dilbert comic strip is how I imagine people (my parents, non-geeky friends) think that things will happen if they just randomly hit buttons on the computer.
In our (geeks) defense, here's a cheat sheet on how we figure stuff out.
You haven't read the Bible until you have read it in The Brick Testament, where Lego makes everything more awesome.
A very well done spoof of Survivor / countless reality TV mixed with FPS characters called Top FPS appeared on YouTube. Very awesomely done.
I had no idea WTF was going on in this Greatest Story Ever Told Video, but let it finish, it's pretty awesome.
IO9 has a fantastic collection of 14 Reasons Why TV And Superheroes Don't Mix. Somehow the bad CGI in say, Spiderman 3 don't seem too bad compared to the 1977 version :)
Know those videos of random people attacking strangers and getting their asses handed to them? Well here's another... Thugs attack two men in dresses... who turn out to be cage fighters. Now I'm not sure why the cage fighters were in dresses, but based on the fun (starting about 1:10 in), they really will be careful who they start fights with in the future.
You still need $$ and gear, but Wired has a nice look at The Making of a Mind-Blowing Space Photos, with some great examples.
Photo Basement has another reminder that your employer is checking up on you on facebook and (no doubt) other social networks. So if you're going to play hooky, make sure your tweets and status updates put up the same facade :)
You probably saw the Ralph Lauren Photoshop Disaster a bit ago which was so crazily out of reality that I almost thought it was a farce of itself at first. Turns out Ralph Lauren was serious and serious enough they sent a DCMA takedown notice to the ISP. The article reports:
One of the things that makes Priority Colo so awesome is that they don't automatically act on DMCA takedowns. Instead, they pass them on to us and we talk about whether they pass the giggle-test. This one doesn't.
The Boing Boing article lets it all hang out, DCMA takedown notice and all.
ForgetFoo has a nice web designer decision tree.
Maybe it's the lack of sleep or over-caffination, but this comic really tickled my funny bone this morning. Thanks Aryk!
My friend Sarah sent over a video of a Rare Bird Humping a Photographer's Head. Absolutely hilarious to watch! Also note that the non-photographer is the famous and awesome Stephen Fry.
Emails From Crazy People. Pretty much what it says.
From Aryk comes a lin kto the Power Loader Exoskeleton which I totally need. The assholes who walk down the sidewalk four abreast while I'm trying to get to my train would move aside if I had a set of those badboys.... :)
Twits: Dramatic Readings of Celebrity Twitter Updates is possibly the most awesome thing ever.
An actual good use for auto-tune... check out Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking.
If you're an Apple Fanboy you may have been invited to a Windows 7 release party.... either to be converted by your Windows loving friends, or just for the heck of it to laugh at the fact that Microsoft has to bribe people to have parties for Windows 7 (lets be honest, no normal person would think of having a Windows release party on their own). Either way, here's a cool Windows 7 Party decision tree for Mac users.
I have a sneaking suspicion that I'm this guy.
I have loved Gaping Void for a while, but the latest comic, shit creek consulting tickles my consultant heart (with the nagging question of if these are the guys someone call after they deal with me! But I doubt it... ) :)
This It's Party Time! video, with light editing in just the right places, I think is far superior to the original. If you don't know what this is, this is a video that Microsoft and House Party put out to help promote people having their own Windows 7 launch parties. Via reddit.
Surviving the World - Lesson 41 - Pedestrians. It's like he reached into my brain and could see what I was thinking.... I come across this every day walking to the train from work.
Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. Sometimes you're the bull, and sometimes you're the victim of an epic bull WIN that gets your junk displayed to everyone. I like it when the bull wins.
Ha ha, silly technology, don't you know that you get older as time passes? That's what makes this The Screen Savers "Ultimate Gaming Machine" 1998 pretty amusing. Also Leo LePorte looks like a young whippersnapper.
Dr. Horrible is awesome, as is Neil Patrick Harris, so this video of Neil Patrick Harris Mocking the Internet at the Emmys 2009 is great.
If you've ever had the question of what happens when you put an OLPC in a microwave, well, now you have your answer.
While I sympathize with the store having to deal with crazies, banning a Jedi Knight is a bad thing to do....
Stack Overflow asks What is your best programmer joke?
Is it wrong for me to feel like this C&H cartoon whenever I pull out my iPhone?
"4 Awkward Moments in Facebook "Likes"" by Brian Murphy on CollegeHumor. Presented only with the comment that number 3 is my favorite :)
XKCD's book, xkcd: volume 0 is now available.
S pointed me to the Geekologie bacon flowchart.
On the Secret Diary of Fake Steve Jobs he has Mosspuppet discovering Auto-Tune. Funny.
Techcrunch describes how Facebook pwned them with the 'Fix this picture' joke the other day. I saw it pass by the news feeds but mostly ignored it. TC took the joke in good stride at least :)
This needs some attention..... the Fly Gabe Newell campaign, with more details at http://flygabenewell.blogspot.com, is raising money to get Gabe and Erik, of Valve Software fame, flown to Australia.
Basically Valve are flying people who are bitching about the new Left 4 Dead game and boycotting it out to play, someone complained they weren't being flown out, and Gabe responded that he was being boycotted. Just read the site, makes much more sense there :)
Once again Yahtzee has proven that he is brilliant as he reviews Wolfenstein. Must watch. Now.
I don't normally post to the great stuff on The Daily WTF because I expect anyone who reads UFies.org regularly to already be subscribed there too, but this post about The Ultimate State Selector struck me (as amazingly bad). Anyone who has done any web programming has seen this problem more than once, but I'm sure that most everyone has figured some way to avoid the solution that this particular user found.
Wow, that's all I can say...
Well, they're sort of lampooning themselves, but the gaming industry has released a 'Don't Copy That Floppy' Sequel which Warns of Piracy; Includes id Software Cameo, and Klingons. Also with the same rapper DP. Seems to concentrate more on people selling software and music, instead of the original which was more talking about trading. Interesting shift, sadly not nearly as cool as the original, though the "you'll get raped in prison for copying music online" was a nice twist.
A great story over at the daily WTF about a coder on a doomed game back in the day. Some great and funny stuff in there, like this:
Another fun bug caused the enemy AI to do your work for you. A rogue enemy plane would suddenly reject his mother country and start shooting down his own teammates. That is, until his wings fell off the plane since he was firing his guns. Then he'd kamikaze his plane into the ground, which would launch the plane into outer space that the MicroProse executives probably didn't find nearly as funny as I do.
Felicia Day points that the Premier of The Guild Season 3 is up. Sadly still an "exclusive" MSN Video thing. Bleah.
OMG Funny as hell... Dana passed on me "Puke In My Mouth" a response to Jizz In My Pants. That's just awesome.
Bonus: My Box in a Box, a response to "Dick in a Box".
OMFG I have just wasted the last 20 minutes looking through the latest twitter meme #songsincode. Epically awesome. Don't think of it as wasting time, think of it as increasing your coding skills by learning to parse other people's code.
Also I hear that the new facebook 3.0 iPhone app is available, but it's not showing up for me yet.
forgetfoo picks out a test of some great plot summaries. IE:
STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE: Religious extremist terrorists destroy government installation, killing thousands.
Former Ku Klux Klan leader Johnny Lee Clary tells some stories about his days in the KKK. Pretty damn funny actually. The black preacher they're talking about also sounds like an amazing example of tolerance, and defeated the entire clan.
I recently discovered the 'not always right' blog, and it's posts like this that makes it a completely awesome repository of stupid customer quotes :)
I don't personally believe that the poo trap is an actual product.
Normally I wouldn't post something as simple as the Flickr Blog's post on Research in Antarctica if not for the last few images :) Those wacky researchers know how to have fun :)
Len passed on this bit from the Register, and a Zombie plague was analysed by Canadian maths prof and they determined that violence was indeed, the only option. Now where's my shovel?
Highs and lows. Ha! It's funny cause it's true.
YouTube video of Global New's YRandene Neill Accosted by a Dog. I'm sure you've already seen this, but I link to it for a few reasons, partly for the transition from "this is a well mannered dog" to the utter sarcasm of "oh we've sold these two haven't we?". I haven't seen as much dog on woman action since... well, I can't really say least I incriminate myself :) Thanks to Sarah for sending this over to me!
Girls In Bikini Reading Star Wars. Not much more to say really. It's sexist, and probably best to listen to with the sound off.
Merry Friday.
Conan had this slightly amusing comment on the Microsoft Word injunction thing. Thanks Aryk.
The Onion News Network has a great piece on how thew New Google Opt Out Feature Protects Users' Privacy By Moving Them To A Remote Village. For all you security concerned out there, this is something I recommend you do immediately....
For the lack of humor impaired, this is humor. Though I'm wondering if Google got any calls or emails about this.
Cracked.com proves once again how (some) people are absolutely insane with their expose of a set of 5 Incredibly Impractical Sexual Fetishes. The most revealing thing is the "typical quote" section from the associated fan sites. Makes me scared to leave the house....
I love it when a good idea comes to life. In this case, the Dilbert cartoon where Wally programs his IM to randomly send messages to his boss.... well, someone built it using python and dbus. That is super-awesome.
It's people rolling tires down a ski hill... what could be more fun. You probably want to skip towards the 7:00 mark to see the big tire going down :)
Ha! N00b Boyfriend video from the folks at College Humor.
Great question over at StackOverflow.... How did you get your first programming job? The top story includes this gem:
Luckily I didn't have any quizzes or tests the next day, so I hopped into my P.O.S. Nissan Sentra and drove 3 1/2 hours home. When I got there, I realized that the only suit I had was a tan corduroy leisure suit I last wore in 9th grade. The mall was closed, so I had to make due. Fortunately I was the same height as I was in 9th grade, but the trousers were a tight squeeze.
I really am not sure what this is, but IO9 collected some Star Wars standup videos. Some painful, some funny in their painfulness ;)
If you're a mac lover, you definitely don't want to watch IceT and his Mac Repair.
I know, I know, all these Downfall Hitler mashups get tiring. I do like this new tirade against iTunes though.
A picture of a man with a cat on his head. This is how I go to sleep at night actually, except I'm lying down, and the cat is horizontal on my head, not vertical.
An oldie but a goodie: True Porn Clerk Stories. Other links to this sort of thing (classic internet lore) over at the reddit article.
Sometimes it takes something like this to truly show one of the major faults in the Linux world. I'm as big a fan as the next guy (well, unless the next guy isn't a Linux fan), but sometimes the.... "focus" of the community isn't quite where I think it should be :) I want my John Stewart smooth too!
The most awesome XKCD is going to be released in book form, so sayeth Slashdot.
GI Joe Movie Battles, Destruction And Torture Reenacted In Toy Form. That about says it all :)
Aryk pointed to this Crude But True, T-shirt.
forgetfoo remembered better than I did that today is sysadmin appreciation day, and notes some of the things that a sysadmin has to deal with each day. Hopefully you hugged your sysadmin today. No one hugged me :(
Kudos to forgetfoo for the adminspotting poster, I wonder if anyone got their t-shirts yet... (old internet meme/joke from the 90's, you probably won't get it unless your an old curmudgeon like me).
Via reddit comes an awesome picture to start your morning with.
I'm sure you've seen this before, so I post it only for completeness. Here's how William Shatner Makes Palin's Speech Into Poetry over on the late show. Personally I think this is brilliant.
Aside: Sucky pre-roll ad crap.
Via reddit. Some of the the year 2000 - from 1900 predictions aren't all that far off actually. Consider that personal airships could be considered small planes (and these days it's not unreasonable for someone to own a little Cessna), undersea tourist boats are part of Disneyland and IIRC West Edmonton Mall, and I've seen them move houses by train on the discovery channel. Hell, the moving pavement is in pretty much all major airports! Of course, the weather control and personal flying machines (assuming these are taken separately from personal airships) were still off. Interesting to see how their ideas were heavily influenced by what was currently "modern". I can only imagine just how completely off our current predictions for the year 2100 will be..
A Washing Machine emulator. Depressingly accurate.
Ok, google is pretty awesome sometimes. Feel free to try the search yourself :)
An ex-coworker of mine just sent me a collection of the 15 Most Literal Photos Ever.
An amusing look at what would happen news wise If Man Walked on the Moon Today.
Not sure if I missed the month and it's really April 1 today, but it looks like The Onion has been sold to the People's Republic of China. Via ForgetFoo().
Penny Arcade has their own look at the announcement that Microsoft will open retail stores near Apple Stores. As you may expect, this RETAIL OBLIVION gets the usual treatment :)
Via one of my flickr groups comes a craiglist ad for someone wanting to get a Nikon D40 any way he can!
It's stupid, immature, probably photoshopped, but I still giggled a bit at this.
Now it all makes sense! this cartoon which matches cartoon characters with medical afflictions explains it all!
Someone on the Valve (the Half Life guys) created a handy Valve Time to actual time chart to help people decipher what phrases like "today" or "this q1" actually mean.
Gizmodo points to what happens if you Auto-Tune the News. This is the same auto-tune that singers use to hide the fact that they can't sing (you know who I'm talking about)...
"Roommate Confessions", some of the most disturbing acts of revenge you'll read today...
The Daily WTF has a great SQL String entry. Best part for me is the final 'added clarity' comment :)
Disturbing but cool Star Wars classic art mash-ups over at Sci-Fi Wire. The page you really want to go to though is the worth 1000 page.
Am I the only one who thinks that this "there I fixed it" isn't such a bad idea?
Even the Microsofties will enjoy the latest Joy of Tech cartoon, entitled The secret behind Apple rumors!. One of those great "possibly bordering on reality" cartoons... :)
I know this is supposed to make me feel guilty about eating bad food, but some of the stuff on This is why you're fat looks sooooo good!
Great video over at Boing Boing of the unboxing of a Chinese iPhone knock-off that looks just like an iPhone, and barely works.
IO9 looks at the question of Are We In A Villain Recession?
Don't Copy That Floppy 2 is COMING SOON!
Not for those into naturopathy without a sense of humor.... Homeopathic A&E.
Aryk pointed me to this one on shipment of fail: Suggest a caption as I’m speechless. I LOL'd. I'm speechless too.
OK, this just made me giggle. Short story, 23 year old got drunk, had a knife, figured it'd be a good idea to break into a house and threaten the owner. Turns out the owner was 72. Oh, and a former boxer. The pictures tell the story of what happened. Damn kids get off my lawn!
Funny little deleted scene in Terminator 3 Explains Why The Terminators Look Like Arnold. I understand why they cut it, but really glad it surfaced! Via /Film.
Forgetfoo has an awesome New iPhone 3Gs parody ad from College Humor. Hilarious.
A Man and His… Squirrel? via Snuzzy.com. Very cute, especially the shower scene. And this is a real squirrel I'm talking about, not some innuendo :)
Just a series of pictures, cause I've had a long day and need the amusement :)
Link from digg via my friend SS.... What Your Facial Hair Really Says About You. I have to object, I'd totally take my socks off!
Great addition to the PHP manual page for goto with a bit of XKCD...
Some great Workout Videos to make you feel a bit better about not going to the gym. The exercise ball one is my favorite!
Macenstein points to an honest “laptop hunters” commercial, with a real guy, finding a real laptop, for real things. NSFW audio though.
Jack Russell terrier puppies, live on ustream. Currently the puppies are feeding, and mom is looking very tired.
Here's your laugh for the day... check out Microsoft's Windows Internet Explorer 8: Get the facts comparison page. Don't you love mindless marketing propaganda. The only way that I can see these comparisions being complete and outright lies are some minor wordings put in the comments to explain how Chrome and Firefox don't have security, privacy, web tools, reliability (ha!) and manageability.
This reminds me of talking to someone who has just quit smoking and saying how wonderful they are now, ignoring the legacy of the 2 pack a day habit they left behind (in this case, we call it Internet Explorer 6, still a plague to the web). Ah well, I'm pretty sure that most people reading this site don't use IE8 for anything other than doing Windows Update on their parents and in-laws computers anyway....
Original story and comments on reddit.
Weird Al does Craigslist, Doors style via Boing Boing. Awesome.
If you're a TopGear fan, you'll really enjoy Jeremy's Extreme Ford Fiesta road test. Give it a few minutes to go from funny-serious to serious surreal, and to awesome.
Funny little video on If Google Were Your Roommate...
The Flickr blog has some examples of when You think you’re so funny.
I hear it's the latest craze with the teenagers, so parents beware! Do not let your children near the baby pathers or they could be drawn into the dangerous world of panther huffing!
35 Tip Jars Designed to Make You Give More. First is my favorite I think, Om nom nom...
Someone has gone out and compiled a list of the 25 Best Programmer WebComic Strips. Lots of XKCD and Dilbert in there. I've got about 1/3rd of them ready to be printed out and hung on the wall of my next office.
Wasted Talent has a great cartoon about how your job is like a Japanese RPG.
Speaking as someone who has been on both sides of this relationship, I find The Vendor Client relationship - in real world situations hilarious. Thanks Darren.
Zero Punctuation's review of Duke Nukem Forever has got to be his most brilliant so far. Lots of little stuff in there (as usual) that the hardcore gamers (especially those of us around from the DN3D and who know who John Romero are) will love :)
Star Wars ABC is a set on Flickr. Who wouldn't want to print these out and make flashcards for your little nerdlings?
Batteries Feel Included has an easy solution on how to get the girl. Most hilarious while not 100% far fetched :) Also a nice tie in with Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day.
The Geek “Must Do Before You Die” Checklist. Via a share from Len on Google Reader.
Title basically says it all... A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages. Awesomely accurate :) To quote:
1972 - Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix.
The Duke Nukem Forever List. Celebrating what's taken less time to come out than Duke Nukem' Forever.
Post-It inventor watching viral internet post-it-tricks video. Also has a link to the post-it ticks videos. I recommend clicking through to the vimeo site and watching it in high def. Very cool.
Stack Overflow asks What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? and the masses respond with some absolute gems. IE:
//When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was doing
//Now, God only knows
Thankfully my favorite ("drunk, fix later") is in there too.
Dork Yearbook is a tumble blog of old pictures of nerds and geeks (and dorks) in their youth. Some of these are horrifyingly familiar.
OK, it took me a bit to get this, but when I did, it was the damn funniest thing ever. Check out Pulp Browsers. I won't give you any hints if you don't get it though :) (unless you ask really nicely).
Well, it's not the full new ISS module, but Colbert will get NASA Treadmill Named After Him. For US people you can watch the segment over here.
Via Darren, a not-quite-official entry into the list of Microsoft "Laptop Hunters" series of ads: Homeless Frank.
Oh go on, laugh, it's funny :P
Via Aryk.... Man Builds Chair That Tweets His Farts, Single-Handedly Justifying Twitter's Existence. Not much more to say, other than I want my couch to do this. It would certainly make my twitter stream more interesting!
Funniest LOLCat evah? I haz found it! Has awesomeness on many levels.
Funny or Not? April Fools' Day Pranks Roundup. Have I mentioned I can't wait for this day to be over?
Also a 2009 roundup.
Here's an animated gif of an awesome baby trick. Totally going to teach my kids this (if I were to have any)!
Via Daring Fireball: E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone. Use one of these to guarantee that you don't get an email back :)
Reddit is right, this is the the coolest resume ever.
In other words, feel free to check out this awesome site:
Funny introduction to twitter in the video twouble with twitters. Thanks for the link Len (who doesn't get it either).
While Failblog shows this as a Baby Name Fail, I say it's a complete and udder win! In other news, I've found the name for my first-born.
Shuttle-Riding Bat Dies The Most Glorious Death Imaginable.
Really not much more to say, other than thanks Len for the link.
Oops, dupe! Sorry about that :)
I'm so glad that I'm not the only one that this happens to. Another brilliant XKCD cartoon.
Great video of a presentation from MythBusters Co-Host Adam Savage on Obsession. Via @gatewayy.
Macenstein asks: What the hell is Best Buy selling? I'm pretty sure that when Apple released the new Mac Mini they didn't stretch it out like that. Really, I have no idea what they were thinking, other than maybe people expect a 2.0 product to be bigger?
The title of OH… MY… GOD should tell you something about how Woz looked on DWTS last night. Still, I must say that the geek troops should rally to keep our man in!
Nunchuck Fail on Fail Blog. Hilarious, even though you know exactly how it will end, and it does, badly.
This brought back memories of spending most of highschool watching endless reruns of Red Dwarf. Smeg.
Great find via RSS.... a flickr account where the owner has a pet AT-AT. Well, picture of one as it if were a pet anyway :)
This change poster is truly awesome. I must have it on my wall!
Random cool story about how @THE_REAL_SHAQ on twitter is indeed, the Real Shaq: Finally, A Use for Twitter.
Random comic about how Puttering can get old on Indexed. Great stuff, and speaking as someone with lots of holidays this year, and no idea where to go, it's very true!
Hilarious link passed on from Danni. Deaf Karaoke Live is fairly indescribable..... just watch and enjoy!
Random link - F*** My Life - FML : Your everyday life stories. Looks like a hangout for angst-ridden teens :)
OK, this one is definitely not for the faint of ear. The Sopranos, Uncensored via /Film is every single swear word from the Sopranos (I presume all 6(?) seasons) into one 27 minute video. Truly awesome in not only scale but execution!
I'm so glad that someone finally brought this up. I've long wondered how to do this and I agree, there's really no good way (outside of adding some random words after the emoticon to pad things out :) like this).
The Geek Social Aptitude Test 2.0 by Jason Hummel, Web Developer in Fargo
Google Helps You Find a Robot Lady Companion on Mars. Coolest use of an AI, whole compilation of knowledge, and 3D mapping program ever :) Link explains all.
Editor Comparison graphs of learning curves for different editors. Love the vi one :)
This is pretty awesome, a note from @rainmakertom posting about how Stephen Fry posts Twitter updates while trapped in lift.
"Your brilliant comments are keeping us all (hysterically) cheerful. Last a heard engineers still on their way," he Tweeted.
Cool story about the use of this new "twitter" technology. *cough*@arcterex*cough*
Crackulous Allows for App Store Piracy. From Darren. Presented without comment (as it was sent to me).
I know it's old, but this Tropic Thunder promo video was passed on to me today. Hilarious.
Top 10 Funny Answers from Desperate Students. Most amusing. Gracias Mike from work.
Memorable Superbowl Commercials.
Daring Fireball has awesome links to Adobe UI Gripes.
Damn, they caught me!
BEST GOOGLE STREET VIEW EVER | FilmDrunk: The movie blog that hates Colin Hanks
Microsoft Learning spoofs “I love the whole world” via IStartedSomething. Truly awesome.
Collection of totally offensive jokes, not for the faint hearted. They are not kidding.... you're going to hell just for clicking that link.
Another review from the most awesome.. I mean thebestpageintheuniverse for Quantum of Solace. It's first line, declaring it "a shitpile" sets the tone :)
Darren threw me superuseless superpowers this morning. Awesome.
I LMAO this morning at the Office Poop survival guide via best of craigslist.
Ninja Kitty has some serious overhang rock climbing skills!
I'm not sure I totally understand this image, but it is clear that teddy will understand whatever your mood is...
Laughing Squid has some Essential Target Practice templates for the target shooters among you.
A truer chart was never made.... graphing When my cat sleeps on me.
Apparently a lot (hundreds? thousands? All of them?) of 1st Gen 30G Zunes are failing all at once. Gizmodo has the story with updates. No resolution from Microsoft at this time though.
ObSarcasm - there are "hundreds" of people with Zunes? Seriously?
Update: fix?
Update2: Seems the real fix is to wait till midnight.
Voice Activated, Interactive Dancing R2-D2 Astromech Droids. I'm not sure what else to day. It's awesome!
This video from JWZ brings up the question of "why are you morons driving?" Seriously, just stay at home....
Jizz In My Pants was passed on from Peejay, and it is epically awesome. The latest from the SNL guys that brought you "Dick in a box". Looks great in HD too, especially the hottie :)
End Of Days: Man Rams Woman's Car At 100 MPH, Claims "God" Told Him To Do it
Cracked.com has a great "how to write your own version of House" in their Every Episode of 'House' Ever page. Awesome cause it's true of course :)
Clips: Iron Man Children's Costume Modded to Be Deadly-Cute
Another awesome MythBusters YouTube Live paintball event. Super-cool, they do have the best job in the world don't they?
I've seen the Daily WTF story of DOLLARS and SENSE all over the social news sites and it is epically awesomely bad, especially if you know anything about programming or assembler code. It occurs to me that this is the opposite of The Story of Mel, a classic story from Usenet from '83 and a task of Herculean awesome programming, about the opposite of the WTF story.
Darren passed me a great video of the Kids in The Hall's Scott Thompson as he passes a Portal challenge. Barely. Much hilarity ensues.
Truth: Harsh Reality Behind the Gizmodo/Reader Symbiosis Revealed by Dilbert
I read I can haz cheeseburger, failblog, hot dogs, etc and enjoy the heck out of them, but I had to share this Security Fail. My first LOL moment of the morning :)
Ha! Via fozbaca on the Twitter comes a great article on how Tables are The Next Evolution in CSS Layout. Very similar to the 'just give up and use tables' link I posted last week :)
Adorable: Kitty Cat Hitches Ride on Back of a Roomba
My buddy Len threw over a link to a youtube video of a "Real Transformer". Pretty cool.
Mars Phoenix: 30 Mars Phoenix Discoveries NASA Will Never Show the World
It's long been held that the old jokes are the best jokes... Dead Parrot sketch is 1,600 years old - Telegraph
It takes a bit to get to it, but this Dance Fail over at fail blog is epic.... you just gotta wait for it....
Pretty sound advice (from my experience anyway) regarding CSS and Table layouts..... Give Up and Use Tables
We've scientifically determined the maximum amount of time that you should need to make a layout work in CSS[...]
I'm not exactly sure what the download they have is (I'm on a linux box here and it doesn't seem to run under WINE, but it maybe a local copy of the flash timer they have).
Ha! Check out this flickr post: I'm actually Knuth's homeboy. Kinda jelous...
From my friend Rob comes this little tutorial on How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You. I'm not sure about you, but I see all these in my cats, and am now fearful for my life. Please protect me. My results from the accompanying quiz are below:
So I just had to post this link for a couple of reasons. First, the story of a guy with a wolf as a pet is pretty cool, as I used to know a guy like that and played with wolves when I was a lad and they are awesome. Secondly, the comments to the reddit story are awesome, from the internet rule comment by floydiannyc and then the narwals comments, down to a conversation about owning cats and how they are good at hiding evidence of their killings.... and then it gets interesting :)
Brian found this on gizmodo: Photoshop Contest: 23 Personal HUDs That Would Make All of Our Lives Easier. Ones like this one make me agree that we all need a personal HUD (and gig-eee direct to the brain, but that's another thing).
I did also just LOL at the message in the bottom right of this entry.
Laughing Squid has an ad described as: Giant Kitten Headed Humanoid Cat Fight In Toyota Corolla Ad. Bet you didn't think you'd ever see those words all together did you?
Via /film I found a post called The Land of the Free which is a set of pictures of dressed up Star Wars fanboys at home. Very odd/interesting/bizarre :)
Darren pointed me to a great youtube of A Mercedes was traveling on 3 wheels. So that's what that funny noise was!
Part of the marketing for the new Kevin Smith movie is that you can get you own Zack and Miri Star I.D.. You can now call me "Snowball Adams" or "Two-Pump Chump" if you like.
No, not really.
Khensu threw me a link to The Manga Guide to Databases.
I have no idea what to say.
OK, it's just a comic, but Miscellanea seems to have a good grasp of The Behavior Modification Loop of Epic Fail. :)
Matthew Inman has a funny look at The 8 Phases of Dating (and others below, including 10 reasons why it would rule to date a unicorn).
Nice list on networkworld of 23 things I wish would just go away. Apple, Microsoft.... no on is spared.
Some very amusing (and inventive) solutions to the FizzBuzz programming challenge in the Humor in code question. Take special note of some of the non-standard language solutions that are in there.
Not that type of balls you sicko! No, this is Beware of The Orbs! passed on from a coworker and particularly funny to me. Darren says this spawned Face Ball.org.
I'm quite sure doing this in real life would be somewhat of an HR issue, however the Diet Coke Mentos Booby Trap video looks damn funny!
This is too cute not to share, check out this I Kissed A Dog mashup song.
Posted so I don't lose them again, two great best-of craigslist posts:
- WARNING!!! - why not to shave your ass
- Do not eat fat free potato chips - another warning
Hilarious video shared with me this morning. Simply titled No Jackie Chan Bollocks it came up during a conversation about martial arts. Very funny, sorry if I'm the last person to see this :)
Remember the made-for-internet comedy videos to be done by Family Guy's creator Seth MacFarlane? Yup, they're here in all their burger king corporate whoring glory! :) I'll be watching these on the train to work this morning to see how they are.
So I finally understand it.... in a video pointed to by Darren the FCC Okays Nudity On TV If It's Alyson Hannigan.
And really, what's wrong with that?
Mmmm..... Alyson Hannigan.....
Cute story from snuzzy.com about a Vancouver police officer saving ducklings. Definitely one for the cute files....
I know I say this ever time, but Zero Punctuation's review of Eve Online is the best Zero Punctuation ever :)
Accordion guy has a link with The “Things to Say During Sex” Chart. Absolutely hilarious.
Darren pointed me to the Bigfoot press release. Most amusing.
OMFG how did I miss this the first time I heard about it! Temp Fortress 2. TF Machina at it's best.
Pointed to me by a coworker is the Twenty Sided Tale blog, with the top article on The End of Piracy! being an excellent article.
I so want a poster of these Internet Safety Guidelines (via reddit). Truer words I haven't seen for ages.
I always enjoy watching video of people failing amazingly and hurting themselves... what can I say, it amuses me. Therefor check this out on Break.com: X-Games My Ass! Check Out The Y-Games!
I love Triumph.... here the always awesome is Triumph the Insult Comic Dog at Comic Con.
Great collection of the Best Star Wars Costumes from Comic-Con.
A great and classic story somehow I managed to miss.... The Graphing Calculator Story is the story of a guy working inside Apple and building an app while not actually employed.
We looked at each other, took a deep breath, and launched the application. The monitor burst into flames. We calmly carried it outside to avoid setting off smoke detectors, plugged in another monitor, and tried again.
[...]
[My friend's] contract in another division at Apple had just ended, so he told his manager that he would start reporting to me. She didn't ask who I was and let him keep his office and badge. In turn, I told people that I was reporting to him. Since that left no managers in the loop, we had no meetings and could be extremely productive.
Great read, classic net lore stuff.
Awesome little geek comic this morning on deep packet inspection">: Geek And Poke: DPI Is Not Too Bad.
io9 asks: How Does Your Hero Measure Up On Our Wish-Fulfillment Checklist?
Another morning /Film video link: Star Wars vs. Rush Hour.
OK, so this is the funniest thing I've read in a while: Fifth Avenue Gazette: The Taint Grooming Issue (by Tommy Lee Jones). To quote $coworker "I laughed so hard I pooped a little bit."
I used to think that hard core wrestling fans were kinda dumb-asses, and after seeing a video where Wrestlers need a chair and fans deliver I'm both amused and assured my original assessment was correct!
Hilarious site I can't believe that I have never seen before: The Official Ninja Webpage:REAL Ultimate Power!!!!. OMFG that is funny.
Described as "when 1-10 isn't enough", the The Area Code Rating System is truly innovative! Who said that everything to be invented has already been invented!? Bah! I say.
Okay, here is how it works. Every human being on the planet can be adequately described using a three-digit number (i.e. area code).
See the website for details and examples.
Almost guarenteed to be the oddest Shaolin Soccer Japanese Matrix Style video you'll see today. Thanks Brian for passing it on.
Amusing story sent to me from a guy at work who knows what line of business I used to do tech support for :) Last Line Says It All.
I now have this image as my wallpaper at work. All hail hypnotoad!
Funny as hell, though if you're at work you probably want to use headphones.... Teletubbies: Shake That Ass Bitch. Thanks B!
Someone introduced me to fail blog, and my introduction was this Skateboarding Fail. Ouch.
OMG, /film points to Dance Off with the Star Wars Stars, a hilarious take on Dancing with the [whatever] type TV shows. Chewie dancing with a Jawa, that's all I'm going to say! :)
From the Onion, Steven Seagal’s CockPuncher Movie Trailer.... finally a role I can get behind Steven Segal in!
Toys for the Disturbed. Very.... disturbing.
So scary it's funny.... check out Overdue Retirement on The Daily WTF. A sampling:
"Backups: not a chance! When I started I asked about the backup procedures. I was told that all the software was stored on the 'software notebook.' Yes, a notebook.
*brain explodes*
I'm not a huge weezer fan (except for one song), but when Darren pointed me to the video of Pork and Beans and told me it was epically awesome, I have to agree. The Digg page has links to all the memes and internet superstars that are featured. Numa Numa guy!!!!
Hilarious video passed on from Darren - Hitler Plans Burning Man.
Couple of quick Indy links for ya'll
Just a little bit of naughty language, however hilarious is this "Piracy PSA" with McLovin, the geeky guy from Superbad.
Via Reddit.com comes this old (judging by the computer pictured) news article (assuming it didn't come from the National Inquirer) about how Hackers can turn your computer into a BOMB (emphasis mine). Nothing better on a monday morning than funny old propaganda!
Check out this LeaveMeAloneBox Video. This is a box with a switch on it that when turned on it does nothing but turn the switch off. For some reason I find this hilarious. Hit the main page for more info and pics, specs, etc.
An Engineer's Guide to Cats. Hilarious. Especially if you're a cat owner.
Oh I'm sure it's old but found a video of what to do if you find Naked Pictures of Your Buddy's Girlfriend via digg. SFW and very funny.
Sent by Mike at work with the title of not amused :)
Remember a while back a senator in the states quoted, or joined, or had something to do with the flat earth society, which caused a bit of a hubbubb. I read through the main page (don't remember what it is) and was amazed at the wackyness of it all.
Anyway, the latest nutso theory is the Time Cube. It has something to do with a four sided day, or 4 days, one day of a good god and one day of an evil one, or something like that....
Time Cube's ineffable Truth. 'Cubeless Word' is not Truth. Word justifies all human evil. Time Cube is a test for Truth. Circle measure is slop bucket. God belief 50% god disbelief. Truth is 100%, belief is 50%. Time Cube is Truth creation.
WTF?
As with all wacky websites, it's unreadable, a mix of fonts, large font size, lots of colors and italics and is pages and pages long. Don't these people know anything about public relations and how to attract people to actually read their sites? The site that is denounced on the main time cube site is even worse, with a far more vomit inducing color scheme.
LOL Together--a lolcat filk of the Beatles' "Come Together". I'm really not sure if there's anything else to say.... it's hilarious and surreal at the same time.
Ten Reasons Why I Need A Girlfriend at Duane Storey.
The Escapist : Zero Punctuation: Turok is out today.... awesome review as usual.
Found via reddit is a video of a live rickroll pulled off by rocketboom.
Bad Movie Physics: A Report Card - nice view of how good or bad space movies are :)
Valleywag is right, this Flowchart needs no explanation. Well, other than how to get it poster sized to hang over me while I play D&D on the internets with the google.
Hilarious rant from Rob Paravonian on how all music is all the same... funny, and with examples.
Rejected Cartoons, passed on from a coworker.
Very cool project from Make is a Serial-mouse-driven Etch-a-Sketch, via Boing-Boing.
Cooking up a Poor Man's RAID-Z with ZFS, USB Memory Sticks, Solaris, and VMware Fusion from over at the VMWare Fusion Blog.
Heheheheh, pic of what you need in case of Headcrab Infestation. Half Life understanding required :)
BankWest Singing Kittens. Just watch it....
Jimmy Kimmels F@cking Ben Affleck Response to Matt and Sarah. Not as funny or catchy (IMHO) as the original, though still pretty funny! Wish it was uncensored :)
Great video pointed to by Veronica Belmont of Jonathan Coulton performs "Still Alive" in Rock Band with a couple of special guests.
I found my next must-have knitting project (as I got a Dalek)... the R2D2 Beanie!!
OMG, this is the best idea ever!!! You have to of course have watched a bit of Fawlty Towers to really understand it.
The Escapist : Zero Punctuation: Yahtzee Goes to GDC. Not much more need said.... absolutely hilarious, anyone who doesn't watch Zero Punctuation, really needs to subscribe IMMEDIATELY! :)
Darren threw me a link to a Leaked RIAA Training Video: Find Pirates, Find Crack-Dealing Terrorist Murderers Too!. Apparently people who are music pirates are also generally buying crack with their downloads, while burning the flag with flamethrowers aimed at YOUR UNBORN CHILDREN.
God bless the USA!
What an awesome ad via WinExtra.
I resisted watching the video She's F-n Matt Damon, a hilarious video from Sara Silverman to her boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel... very funny (though not as good a song IMHO as Matt Damon's other great song "Scotty Doesn't Know" from Eurotrip). Not bad, not bad at all.
Conjugal Harmony has to be the best site ever... they should send the guys from DatingIsHell over there. I love that they list the convictions there too..... bwahahahahaha
Classic video everyone should see..... Red Dwarf: Smeg Ups by BBC Worldwide Sci-Fi.
My buddy Robert sent me a video of this interview, which I admit, took me a bit to determine if it was from a sitcom or a legitimate news show. Honestly it's a bit more sane that some of the news interviews I've seen these days!
It's stories like Do not run this script, ever! from Daily WTF that makes me think that we as sysadmins, will never, ever win. Also that the stupid people in the world are getting smarter, without actually getting.... smarter.
I asked what he thought when the script printed "DO NOT EVER RUN THIS SCRIPT" and exited without doing anything. The newbie said he saw that, but really wanted to see what it did, so he commented out the "exit 1" and ran it again.
Ugh.
I'm pretty sure this singer didn't see it coming, but luckily the music (and impeccable lyrics) kept on going without a hitch. What skill!
Cracked.com has the list of 5 Douchebag Behaviors Explained by Science.
Aperture Science Rocks: The Top 12 'Still Alive' Cover Versions. That pretty much says it all.... some very bizarre renditions of JoCo's "Still Alive".
Wil Wheaton points to a fantastic version of "Still Alive" (the Portal song): Alive . . . in Joust. Yes, joust, as in that Joust. Pretty awesome!
A Day in the Life of Two Portal Turrets via ShackBlog. Hilarious, though you have to have played portal to really "get it" all.
The Internet Party: What Happens When Google's Parents Leave Town for the Weekend?
Moderately amusing video with the personalities of the various websites around. I found the "flickr" guy particularly funny for the 2 seconds he was shown :)
Found a video of Mintys Comedian Of The Month May 2007 - Jim Jeffries and decided that Jim Jeffries is possibly the funniest person on the planet, regardless of his crudity. If you're sensitive to nasty words, keep on going, if not, this guy is hilarious, I was practically bent over and in pain from laughter for the entire ten minutes. More of his YouTube vids here.
One of my favorite Windows Blogs has a wonderfully cutting and delicious smackdown to the Windows Ultimate Extras team, around their inactivity of late. Just head over and read Hi Ultimate Extras, we noticed you’ve been inactive…
The latest Zero Punctuation on Silent Hill Origins is the funniest thing I've seen this year, I can pretty much assure you of that. And I've never played any Silent Hill game or watched any Silent Hill movie, so I'm sure it'll be even better for people who actually know what he's talking about!
I know it's not funny, but check out these World's Most Amazing Videos: Volume 1 over on youtube. Lots of smashes, crashes and explosions.
Inappropriate Children's Book Titles... hilarious.
I love cute things and sites like cuteoverload.com, and I do try not to post every cute link I see there, cause it'd be damn annoying and you guys can use the interwebs to find the tube that connects you to that site anyway. However, this video of a snoring cat made me LOL and LMAO, which is fairly unusual. So enjoy.
Mini Me Does World of Warcraft... not as good as the Mr. T one IMHO, still funny though.
The creator of XKCD Randall Munroe giving a talk at Google. Long (58 minutes), and very amusing.
Via reddit: chalain: Computers Fear Me.
I forgot Pascal 15 years ago. This is not the same as never having learned it. For one thing, you mutter under your breath a lot more.
Reminds me of some of the ugly hacks and screen scrapers I've done in my time.... :)
How To Spot a Cylon. We all need one.
Funny look at how Windows XP is a great upgrade to Vista.
Just for shits and giggles, check out the original Tripping the Rift animation.
Looks like the Daily WTF also sees stupid people in the post for plz email me teh codez. Same situation as I have with complete idiots posting follow up questions again, and again, and again (over 2000 comments so far BTW).
Darren pointed me over to Here Comes Another Bubble - The Richter Scales a great song/video on YouTube. Very catchy.
Another Laughing Squid Find is a set of videos of Daniel Chesterfield, Magic That Defies The Ordinary. Last video is my favorite, but you need to see the other ones to set up the vibe as it were :)
I present to you Italian Spiderman Trailer with no further comment.
Amusing.... 10 Reasons Why Johnny Cash Owns Chuck Norris.
1 - Only one man who has ever lived has been bad enough to be called “The Man In Black” and it wasn’t Chuck Norris
Hit the link for the rest.
Eight Classic Cinematic Verbal Beatdowns.... fantastic clips to watch, especially if you're in a murderous rage :)
New WoW Ads Recruit Mr. T and Shatner. Hilarious, thanks Darren.
Amusing, what happens when an iPhone Equipped Passenger Takes On Flight Crew Over Weather. Turns out that your iPhone telling you it's sunny when you're delayed on the tarmac isn't the definitive answer that you're smarter than the pilot or air traffic controller :)
Coding horror reminds you: Don't Forget To Lock Your Computer.
A similar method to what we use at work, which is one of:
- Search for disgusting pictures on the internet
- Set as wallpaper
- Lock computer
Or sending emails to staff email lists confessing to "unnatural" urges, or taking a screenshot of the desktop, setting it as the wallpaper, and then hiding all the users icons :)
Top Gear is a british show that I really love, and hardly ever watch. However, Cute Overload posted this clip of the smallest car ever which is hilarious. Not only is the car small, it's tiny. So small you can drive it to your work front door, then pull it into the office with you, up the elevator, and sit it beside your desk. Just watch it.
Scottish star trek. Hilarious (and completely incomprehensible).
Funny costumes for Halloween next year.... almost like a Home Zoo!
Sorry for the more Portal news, but JoCo posted a link to a video of Cute Virtual Idol Sings Portal Song.
Sorry for the lack of news..... been a couple of LONG days here at work.
I haven't read more than the headline, but when you see that GAP was caught using child labor to make GAP kids clothing you have to chuckle, then look up "ironic" in the dictionary again.
The JoCo Primer - Listening Suggestions is a great selection of music from Jonathan Coulton, whose work you'll be familiar with if you have a) finished Portal or b) are familiar with this troubador of John Hodgman (from the Daily Show and The PC Guy from the Apple ads).
Thanks Darren for pointing me out this guy existed.
As with the last awesome picture I posted, it's hard to describe just how awesome this is.
So, when did Luke, Vader and Chewie have a band?
The oops list is an amusing collection of "oops" pictures, comics, etc. Lots of aviation related stuff, and you know how bad it is when you combine "oops" with "huge chunk of flying steel".
I think I posted about this guy's review of The Orange Box a bit ago, well, here's a list of all his reviews, of which all that I've watched so far, are hilarious.
Press The Spacebar 2000, a flash game. So simple, and yet, so fun! (and potentially keyboard destroying :)
Wake Up! - the essence of catness. Spoken as the owner of three of the little buggers, I can attest this has happened more than once :)
Thanks Darren!
I thought it'd end up being a joke, but check out how this guy Played Through Episode Two Holding A Goddamn Gnome (note: some spoilers) to get the 'gnome achievement'. Absolutely hilarious, and skillful. Note that the gnome also has his own blog about the whole thing!
Some of The Best of Maury Povich, including such classics as the pickle girl, 11 paternity tests, and so on.
Amusing little thing: 25 Reasons You Might Be A Hardcore Graphic/Web Designer. Of note for me is:
* You’ve kept a ragged concert ticket just so you could scan it.
I still have the concert tickets from when I got into the second row at a Garth Brooks concert back in the mid-90's (and got to hug Garth Brooks's Mom as well, but that's another story :)
I wish someone had explained things like this back when I was younger :)
No idea where this is from, but this 2.5 minute video on What TOP GUN is really about by Quentin Tarantino is absolutely hilarious (and makes total sense :)
Readers of XKCD will be happy to see that wetriffs is live.
Comic from Joy of Tech to help you rationalize your piracy.
Cool look at where the best websites of 2001 are now: Internet Allstars ‘01: Where are they now? Interesting... most of the sites I didn't use, with the exception of a couple. I do miss the unadulterated music that was AudioGalaxy though, a lot of uhmm.... a friends mp3 collection was created with help from AG.
Dear Scott Adams, please get out of my head.
Perez is the best in celeb gossip, according to him. However, Britney’s New Nickname is hilarious. "Unfitney". Ha!
Wow, lots of interesting stuff in The 7 Strangest Post-Sitcom Careers (where are they now). Via Digg.
furries vs klingons.... a greater nerd-fest I cannot imagine.
For the Birds, video of shoplifting seagull.
Sent to me by a coworker with the simple comment of "so very wrong". Hilarious Man / Woman Dog Diet. Starring the big guy from Hot Fuzz / Shaun of the Dead. Darren tells me it's days old though. Bah. Still funny though.
Forgetfoo pointed to Daily WTF's collection of Best Budweiser Advertisements. Nice find!
Hilarious picture of Opera vs. Firefox vs. Internet Explorer on the Opera Watch website via Digg.
Much as I'd love to use Opera, I've grown a bit too dependent on a few of the plugins to let it go.
Quote #809280 is the funniest BASH.org quote I've seen all day today.... sort of an IRC version of rock paper scissors.
Hilarious video on YouTube called If YouTube Comments Met Real Life Situations. Great way to start the morning out!
Doing a little research on how well the Roomba works on cat hair for my place, and found a set of cute videos with pets and the roomba.
Via Darren comes a monday morning really funny cat video. Horribly cute.
Somehow this picture reminds me of my relationship with my boss....
Hilarious Internet Safety Tips. The carebear one made me giggle.
TorrentFreak has a great article on how a bunch of MediaDefender Internal Emails Go Public. Basically a .torrent with 700mb of raw mail files from Media Defender about how they are setting up a site for the purpose of getting people to upload copyrighted material, and bust them. Great read.
Ha! Sure, Fight for Kisses is a razor ad, but wow, holy crap it's funny and good.
Cute comic on how to quit caffeine. I tend to go into the 'cold turkey' phase now and then....
Someone came up with the idea of Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day. Definite potential to mess with people's minds and have fun (or look like a total idiot) :) Great comments if you keep reading down the thread.
You could also pretend to be from the very recent future (a la "7 Days"), maybe even only a few hours.Wear normal clothes, covered in dust. Stagger up to people, grab them and say, "you need to get out of the city now!" then run off.
Your dose of cuteness can be found here. You may now return to your normal programming.
Found via Wil Harris and TWiT is a video of Old School Dvorak, way back in the day, reviewing an IBM system in the early 80s.
Wow, a) computers get old fast and b) Dvorak hasn't changed a bit :)
Funny pie chart of a Time breakdown of modern web design, showing what percentage of time is spent on what. A fantastic illustration on why I don't do web design :)
Speaking of which, anyone bored and want to design a new design for UFies.org? :)
OMG. I challenge you to watch this Top That! Video (horrible 80s cheese) in it's entirety. Really. Bonus points if you're a child of the 80s.
If you don't know what "dumber than a sack of hammers happy" means now, watch Miss Teen USA 2007 - South Carolina answers a question and then come back to me. I'll wait.
To be fair, I'm sure she was flustered, but really, come on, can't people string a sentence together? One that, like, has an ending that has something to do with the beginning that has something to do with the question asked, like, okay?
The sad thing is, I'm sure she'll do ok in the world, for some reason society these days seems to reward the bim-tards.
Forget foo has The Net in 12 Minutes, an amusing and horrific montage of the best and worst moments in those little video clips you see passed around.
Anyone else find this picture that JWZ posted strangely and almost disturbingly hot? Or is that just me? Please say it isn't just me...
Great guide from Stanford on how to prepare for parenting.
Funny: 10 Good Reasons You May not Want to Have Kids:
If they are ugly or stupid, you will have to endure them for a long time to come.
Top 10 Halo Pick-Up Lines. Yet another reason to get an XBox 360....
I'm so getting a Level 1 Human baby shirt when I have a kid!
A hilarious look (note the 'what would have happened in real life' sections) of 5 of the Most Absurd Superhero Origins.
Unfortunate (Sexual) Things About Being a Man. As if the world needed to beat us down more!
Much More Than Meets the Eye - hilarious comic, another one I'll have to subscribe to.
It takes a bit to get going, but hang in there, this Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie Intro is actually really good!
Hehehe, nice tips on How to Prepare for a Date.
Under no circumstances should these phrases ever leave your mouth on date:1 - "…and that's why the courts ordered that I be castrated."
Read the full thing for the funny.
I've seen this Internet Chatroom Parody a while back, but hey, I'll post it again. Basically what an internet chat would look like in real life.... and based on my own trolling experience, it's pretty accurate :)
Funny list of B10 things i hate about star trek:
Between Scotty's poor lubrication habits and Geordi's damned polarity reversing trick, it's a wonder the Enterprise doesn't just spontaneously explode whenever they put the juice to it.
It is said that Real Men Love the Fifth Element... and if so, I am a real man.
Not everyone is an iphone fanboy, some even think that The iPhone is a piece of shit, and so is your face. Caution, bad words present in the webpage. And the blink tag. Heathens!
LOL - the New Yorker's article on what I used to think people were saying about me.
Yup, another this-is-true kinda moment.
Fozbaca posted a link to a video Perl in a Nutshell, the song.
... Easy to write
Not always easy to reeeeeeeaaaaadddd.....
Classic :)
Great video of when Kids Ignite A Matchstick Bomb consisting of 30,000 matchstick heads. Booya!
Great video about how people smuggled thousands of electronics into the superbowl and spelled out a secret terrorist funny message.... check out The Super Stunt.
Hilarious video about the transformer Soundwave and his life after the original 1986 movie entitled: Soundwave - The Touch.
Got an IM from my super-windows and super-security dude main man Dana with a link to Porn and it's Relation to Your Social Life which had me rolling.
I of course, fall on the far left side of the graph.
No, really!
On a related note this came while I was reading up on why techs steal your porn when you bring your computer in for repair.
Found a funny list of 25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years from Dave Barry. Nice mix of funny and serious....
If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of its glories, and He decides to deliver a message to humanity, He will not use, as His messenger, a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle.
StupidiPhoneLady.com is a site with just a video of, you guessed it, a Stupid iPhone Lady. Watch the full story for all the goodness :)
Without comment I present Sugar Bush Squirrel-The Superstar Squirrel.
Cute nuts....
If anyone can explain this to me, I'm waiting...
Title says it all..... TOP 20 RIDICULOUS ACTION MOVIE MOMENTS.
Mika Brzezinski of MNSBC rips Paris report to shreds on live TV, refusing to follow the rest of the so-called news stations showing 24/7 Paris Hilton news. The best part of this is the look of utter frustration and hatred as her producer refuses to change the teleprompter and as the other reporters around her continue to talk about it.
Not sure if it was journalistic integrity or simple frustration with the absolutely inane media circus surrounding the blond celebutard, I'm hoping a little of both.
BTW, Paris is looking fabulous, I heard she had a coffee ordered in, yes, a coffee, not sure what brand, let me get you some stock live video footage of the coffee van pulling up to her mansion, and we'll show it over, and over, and over, and over until you want to nuke her and the "entertainment news" from orbit (it's the only way to be sure).
Coding Horror asks the question of Does Anyone Actually Read Software EULAs? Also a nice run through of why EULAs suck.
Video of Josh Blue's performance on Last Comic Standing. You'll recognize Josh as the comedian with cerebral palsy, and a damn funny guy. Note in particular his responses to the judges after his quick set. Via Reddit.
Thinkgeek, thinking fast (and cashing in) has got something for the Meme Cat lovers out there.... the IM In UR Blank T-shirt, with washable marker included so you can change your message as needed.
I'm in UR Internets, sending UR websites for example :)
Found via digg is a video and pictures of how to set up a first person shooter view in real life... the original site is down, but here's a mirror. That'd be really trippy to watch yourself as you move around.
Over on the Dilbert Blog Scott Adams of Dilbert fame shows us all How to Make a Comic Strip.
I found scans of The most amazing book ever!
It's horses ("Latawnya" in particular) showing why drinking and drugging is bad.
Oh my.
Thanks to my buddy Brian for the Prarie Dog... but remixed! Here's Baron von Prairie by Nitro.
Via Craigslist is A Friendly Reminder from your IT Department:
2. If you are going to use my stuff, then use it properly. This means LEARN ABOUT FUCKING SPYWARE. If you absolutely HAVE to go to some site during work hours (and we’ll talk about this in a minute), then make sure, when the popups start showing up, you click the little black X in the upper right hand corner. Don’t click the big flashing “OK” in the middle. Don’t. Whatever it is you think you should do – if it’s not that little grey X in the uppermost right corner, don’t do it. Don’t. Just. Fucking. Don’t.
Much more IT love in there....
Found on Micheal Bay's blog, a Transforms shirt: Giant Fucking Robots are Coming. Hilarious, regardless of the suckage of the movie (which I'll be seeing opening weekend regardless). I'll take one of those please :)
Oh wow, this is hilarious..... check out this article on the Miracle diet pill with teeny-tiny side effect. Basically the cure is way worse than the symptom it's curing I think. Read for yourself though.
“You may feel an urgent need to go to the bathroom. Until you have a sense of any treatment effects, it’s probably a smart idea to wear dark pants, and bring a change of clothes with you to work.”
Fantastically funny conversations Overheard in New York.
Fairly amusing / cute / clever / meh-ok Linux commercial is out.
Hilarious article on The Onion entitled After 5 Years In U.S., Terrorist Cell Too Complacent To Carry Out Attack.
"We remain wholly committed to the destruction of America, the Great Satan," al-Sharif said. "But now is not a good time for us. The season finale of Lost was such a cliff- hanger that we have to at least catch the first episode of the new season. After that, though, death to the infidels."
I'm sure this is obvious, but this video on how To Catch a Predator (perverted justice) doesn't work.
Shockingly enough, the motives of Reality TV / Entertainment news / the utter shit that passes for "news" don't mix with actual law, law enforcement, or people actually interested in catching predators not for "good entertainment". Worth a watch for sure, even more so if you're a fan of this tv program (for real or for laughing at).
Dad at Comedy Barn is 100% proof (IMHO) that laughter breeds laughter, and someone with a funny laugh breeds even more laughter. Check from about 1:45 into the video above when they get to the guy in the middle.... keeps on going and going and going and is the funniest damn thing I've seen in ages!
Two words any man will cringe just reading..... "testicle attack".
Confessions of a Samurai Coder.... familiar to anyone who has said "you know, I could do this better with a little refactoring...." :)
Thanks to cuteoverload I have the coolest video of rats on a wheel you'll see all day.
Funny set of images with some Matrix themed images called The Microtrix.
JWZ throws out a cool thing... Wikigroaning.
So you get an MSN message from Valve saying they need to confirm your account details.... what do you do? Apparently, this. Absolutely hilarious, thanks for the link Darren!
I have to give stopmyspacing props for being a great myspace page :)