Items tagged funny in 2008
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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
As duplicitous and sad as “fake following” sounds—and let’s be honest: the whole idea’s pathetic on a number of levels—for a certain kind of user, I can see why there’s a desire for this functionality. Especially on a site like FriendFeed, which has quickly become the platform of choice for the web’s least interesting narcissists—and the slow-witted woodland creatures who enjoy grooming their fur—this is a major breakthrough in the makebelieve friendship space. Yes, primate culture may be primitive, but it is not without its evolving needs.
— Merlin Mann # 26th August 2008, 10:28 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
Using the patent application as a guide, Apple appears to be making room on the iPhone for flash memory, which means an end to Apple’s standoff with Adobe (ADBE) that’s kept iPhones from easily viewing a plethora of Internet videos.
— Ben Charny # 6th June 2008, 9:08 pm
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