Posts tagged “comedy”

  • “If a boot becomes the standard choice among war correspondents, I’m thinking it’s gotta be pretty damn good.” And now there is something else I want to buy. (A vortex cannon would be cool, too.)
  • “Thousands of web designers make unforgivable spelling mistakes constantly.” Learning how to spell is actually quite easy. It’s amazing how many people think it’s perfectly acceptable to not know how to do it correctly.
  • Your App’s Website Sucks should be required reading for everyone that makes any website, not just for app sites.
  • The CEO of Woot! sent the world’s most awesome-packed email in the history of time to his employees to announce that Amazon had purchased them.
  • Regardless of what you think, login is not a verb.
  • TiPb has a stunningly complete list of every feature of the new iPhone.
  • EDSBS presents A Journey Through College Football Dickdom
2024-06-10: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

Hot Tub Time Machine

Kick some past.

  • Check out Slaughterhouse 90210, where erudite literary quotes meet TV screencaps!
  • “There are more possible chess games than the number of atoms in the universe.” — from a fascinating article by Garry Kasparov on the topic of playing chess with computers
  • If you’re addicted to Twitter, there are a bunch of tools you can use to monitor trends and (your own) statistics.
  • Terri Carlson is 45 and was born with a genetic immune disorder C-4 complement deficiency. She’s currently on COBRA health insurance but it runs out in a year, so she says she will marry you for your health insurance.
  • Probably Bad News is just like the Jay Leno “Headlines” bit. I saw a good one today: Homicide victims rarely talk to police.
  • Psssst! You can buy ten ampersands for $9.99 if you’re into that sort of thing.
2024-10-15: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

#FridayFive: Natural Causes

View the Friday Five from January 22nd, 2010

Happy Birthday, Moose and Squirrel!

On the anniversary of the birth of the greatest cartoon in television history

So a Frog Walks into a Bank …

Possibly my favorite joke ever

Star Wars Design Flaws

Star Wars Design Flaws

Note to the Emperor: Someone on your Death Star design staff is in the pay of Rebel forces. Oh, right, you can’t get the memo because someone threw you down a huge exposed shaft in your Death Star throne room. from John Scalzi’s Guide to the Most Epic FAILs in Star Wars Design

#FridayFive: Silly Spammers

View the Friday Five from July 31st, 2009

Born Standing Up

Born Standing Up

In which I review Steve Martin’s memoir

The Bats Are Coming

The Bats Are Coming

It’s when you can’t hear the bats, that’s when the bats are coming. That is what is printed on the front of the birthday card I received from my brother-in-law. On the inside it says, “Other than that, I have no birthday advice.”

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