68 items tagged “funny”
2008
Amazon.com: amazon oddities. Warning: reading the user reviews on these items has the potential to soak up hours.
Wikihistory (via) International Association of Time Travellers: Members’ Forum.
Weebl and Bob do CSI (via) Superb.
Javascript CSS Selector Engine Timeline. It’s not every day you see a piece of code you wrote compared to a Ford Pinto :)
2007
Is it Christmas? YES.
xkcd: Python. Just type “import antigravity”.
"The web is fundamentally better when it's social, and we're only just starting to see what's possible when you bring social information into different contexts on the web," said XXXX.
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.
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.”
Silly MS-DOS 5 Promo Video. I can’t decide if this is better or worse than the Windows 386 rap.
A study of the Galaxy Song by Eric Idle. More than twenty years later, the science of the Galaxy Song from Monty Python’s Meaning of Life mostly still holds.
The World Beard and Moustache Championships 2007. In Brighton on the 1st of September, tickets are a fiver. Unfortunately we’re moving that day so we probably can’t make it.
Introduction to Abject-Oriented Programming. The best part is the comments, where several people completely fail to get the joke.
3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference. “Registration is via a confidential money transfer.”
The Sarcastic Gamer: MS Surface. “Your next computer will be a big-ass table.”
The Truth About Wireless Devices. “After eating babies, the WiFi Routers will grow to enormous size and attack our cities.”
I'd like to ask readers of this site which you're more interested in, Sun's JavaFX or signing up for TissueWorld 2008, the Premiere Exhibition and Conference for the International Tissue Industry.
I just cut my thumb opening the clear plastic Fortress of Solitude in which you've packed the cordless presenter. [...] You forced me into stabbing your product with a carving knife. Is that really the sort of "initial user experience" you were hoping for?
i’m Home. “Every time you start a conversation using i’m, Microsoft shares a portion of the program’s advertising revenue with some of the world’s most effective organisations dedicated to social causes.” Microsoft are now getting their marketing ideas from spam e-mail forwards.
Les Orchard: “Web 3.0 will have Galactica-style angled corners.” (via) Here’s hoping.
Blanket Fort. xkcd on why you still want one.
Useless Account. “Change your password 1000 times a day... For Free!”
As ICD head analyst Walter Dickweed put it: "Releasing a new kernel on Superbowl Sunday means that the important 'pasty white nerd' constituency finally has something to do while the rest of the country sits comatose in front of their 65" plasma screens".
Linux Genuine Advantage. As with all the best parodies, this one ships with source code.
Microsoft confirms Vista Speech Recognition remote execution flaw. “I have verified that I can create a sound file that can wake Vista speech recognition, open Windows Explorer, delete the documents folder, and then empty the trash.”
Two hosts are considered equivalent if both host names can be resolved into the same IP addresses [...] Note: The defined behavior for equals is known to be inconsistent with virtual hosting in HTTP.
Wow! Fantastic photo.
Web 2.0 domain name generating shell script. ... sed “s/er$/r.com/g” ...
Web 2.0 Company Name Generator. I talked to a company recently who had actually used this to come up with a name for one of their products.