Blogmarks tagged funny
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I’m Sorry I Bit You During My Job Interview. The way this 2011 McSweeney’s piece by Tom O’Donnell escalates is delightful. # 31st October 2023, 4:21 pm
Great Literature Retitled To Boost Website Traffic (via) “7 Awesome Ways Barnyard Animals Are Like Communism”. # 17th June 2010, 10:32 am
Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell To Make Us Miserable (via) I just don’t get it. How has no one managed to produce a printer that doesn’t suck yet? # 28th January 2010, 6:56 pm
Locations of Ancient Woolworths Stores follow Precise Geometrical Pattern. Excellent send-up of shoddy science reporting. # 18th January 2010, 2:51 pm
Self-Proclaimed Social Media Gurus on Twitter Multiplying Like Rabbits (via) 15,740 of them, including 2,091 social media consultants, 807 social media experts, 445 social media gurus and 68 social media stars. # 4th January 2010, 1:49 am
Another leak, the worst so far (via) “Arweena, a spokes-elf for Santa Claus, admitted a few hours ago that the database posted at WikiLeaks yesterday is indeed the comprehensive 2009 list of which kids have been naughty, and which were nice.” The first comment is great too. # 22nd December 2009, 10:42 am
Mobius Sliced Linked Bagel. “It is much more fun to put cream cheese on these bagels than on an ordinary bagel. In additional to the intellectual stimulation, you get more cream cheese, because there is slightly more surface area.” # 9th December 2009, 8:03 am
Awkward Suggestions (via) The Google search box “suggest” feature returns very different results depending on the quality of your grammar—“how 2” v.s. “how might one” is particularly illuminating. # 12th November 2009, 10:31 am
Exclusive: The Future of Facebook Usernames. I have to admit I was planning to just let Facebook get on with it, assuming that the OpenID provider part would show up of its own accord—but maybe I should write a thoughtful and persuasive essay about it after all. # 11th June 2009, 9:46 am
Lovecraftian School Board Member Wants Madness Added To Curriculum. “West says the school inadequately prepares students for the black seas of infinity.” # 7th March 2009, 11:11 am
Dollarshort: The Definition of a Slow News Day. How to deal with Valleyway. # 19th November 2008, 8:42 am
DRGBLZ. lolzeppelins? # 11th November 2008, 3:13 pm
The Flickr Panda. Reminds me of the prime number shitting bear. # 4th October 2008, 9:42 am
Goon City. Every internet meme ever, rendered in pixel art. See if you can find the Zeppelin. # 14th September 2008, 11:09 pm
Socks away! Roald Dahl’s wartime sex raids. That explains “My Uncle Oswald”. # 1st September 2008, 1:43 pm
Package Management Sudoku. “A package management system that can solve Sudoku based on package dependency rules is not something that I think would be useful or worth having”—like a red flag to a bull. # 21st August 2008, 7:09 pm
YouTube: Large Hadron Rap. The first time I saw this I thought it was incredibly dorky. By the third watch I realised I was actually learning things. # 2nd August 2008, 11:58 pm
Microformats and accessibility: the soap opera that never ends. “Be sure to tune in next week, when we’ll drown a leading accessibility expert to see if she’s a witch.” # 29th June 2008, 8:44 am
Comic Sans, the Film. “A documentary film coming soon” # 21st June 2008, 12:27 am
Classy Query. Beautifully implemented parody of class-based JavaScript and verbose namespacing as a jQuery extension, from John Resig. The source code has some neat tricks in it, in particular the buildClass() function. # 1st April 2008, 9:48 am
Idea: A new typography term (via) keming. noun. The result of improper kerning. # 22nd March 2008, 1:41 pm
Amazon.com: amazon oddities. Warning: reading the user reviews on these items has the potential to soak up hours. # 21st March 2008, 2:54 am
Wikihistory (via) International Association of Time Travellers: Members’ Forum. # 19th March 2008, 12:17 am
Weebl and Bob do CSI (via) Superb. # 14th January 2008, 10:42 pm
Javascript CSS Selector Engine Timeline. It’s not every day you see a piece of code you wrote compared to a Ford Pinto :) # 14th January 2008, 1:25 pm
Is it Christmas? YES. # 25th December 2007, 3 pm
xkcd: Python. Just type “import antigravity”. # 5th December 2007, 6:09 am
Roy Orbison in Cling-film, the novel. If you missed the original internet meme you might be a bit baffled by this one, but I picked up a copy of the novel today and it completely lives up to the standard set by the short stories. # 17th October 2007, 3:58 pm
Amazon guide to ripping your CDs. “Many of our customers have already figured out that one cheap way to get DRM-free MP3 files is to buy them on CD and rip them themselves.” # 21st September 2007, 11:20 pm
LOLTHULHU (via) Outstanding. # 20th September 2007, 8:42 pm