Archive for the 'Humor' Category
RLP #3
Friday, February 20th, 2004- Respect Bootleggers via jcurious
- Your favorite band sucks via simon
- Terry Tate, Office Linebacker: Sensitivity Training
- Sample abstract for the 8th International Global Atmospheric Conference via schmack
- Caution: This sign has sharp edges via cait
- Error in Microsoft Frontpage ad
- How Harvey Mudd stole Caltech's cannon via schmack
- Firesomething extension. Mozilla Poweroyster!
- James Gosling: Moore's Law in two photos
- Hidden bird, a demonstration of visual grouping by motion
RLP #2
Saturday, January 31st, 2004- Amazing sidewalk-chalk drawings, 2, 3 (via schmack)
- Once upon a time, there was a SPC Schwarz stationed with the Army in the Balkans. SPC Schwarz was either very clever or very bored; but probably both, since he managed to attempt or be warned about 213 things he wasn't allowed to do. (via schmack)
- Vote for the next US president (via jcurious)
- Caitlin Silberman: Matholicism
- David Shrigley's signs and other interventions (via caitlin)
- mpt: customer service
- The great aluminum foil prank
- KoL forum: Traffic tickets are inherently sexist
- KoL: Top 45 Signs Your Workplace Productivity Could Improve (3 items are mine)
- KoL: Top 82 Rules Of Military Combat (6 items are mine)
The Devil’s Dictionary of the Internet
Saturday, January 10th, 2004From Greg Knauss' Devil's Dictionary (via Simon Willison):
- command line, noun
- The most efficient method available for accidentally deleting data.
- journalism, noun
- A form of information distribution widely acknowledge to be unethical, corrupt and amoral; also, what blogging is, God dammit!
- p2p, noun
- A class of computer network, designed to allow people to remain safely anonymous while they trade public domain documents and songs to which they own the copyright.
- Semantic Web, proper noun
- An attempt to apply the Dewey Decimal system to an orgy.
The original Devil's Dictionary (1911) by Ambrose Bierce is also available online.
1) Report bug. 2) ??? 3) Profit!
Wednesday, January 7th, 2004Track the popularity of the Busniess Plan meme over time by searching for Mozilla bug reports that say "3. Profit".
So far, 27 bugs have been reported with the phrase. The first report was in December 2001, and the meme's popularity seems to have peaked around March 2003. Its popularity is now declining slowly.
Fun with the English language
Saturday, November 22nd, 2003- Wouldn't the sentence "I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign" have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips? (Via Schmack.)
- Can you parse this English sentence? Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo. The answer. (Via Stephanie Harves.)
- "You shanked my jengaship!" I think it's interesting that "shank", a mispronounciation of the past tense of "sink", gained an extra past-tense marker to become "shanked".
- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. (Via Schmack.)
- Actual newspaper headlines (collected from several sources)
- Capitol Steps: Al-Jazeera [Alouette?]
- Capitol Steps: Look Away (Rush Limbaugh's statement) [Dixie]
- Capitol Steps: Lirty Dies: Kobe Bryant (spoonerisms)
- Mountain Liquor?! I hardly know 'er!
RLP
Monday, November 3rd, 2003- Those Crazy Dutch
"I haven't even mentioned the government subsidized open air prostitution zone. Open daily and guarded by policemen, you just drive in to pick up one of the waiting prostitutes and drive with her in between one of the provided man-sized plastic walls which constitute the so called 'afwerkplek' (meaning something like 'finish off spot'). There are even signs leading you to the spots and telling you what to do. Some people suggested charging clients to pay for the project, but this was rejected because it was argued that would make the city into a pimp."
- Ian Oeschger: My son is running his own online web journal!
- Blake Ross: Why you don't let smart people start athletic programs
- The impotence of proofreading
- Eric and the Gazebo
- Exam Stories
Usage Nazi
Monday, November 3rd, 2003Health Education Outreach flyer on tables at Platt dining hall:
Try this exercise to explore your relationships and how they are effected by alcohol.
At least it didn't go into detail about how alcohol effects babies.
