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Humor

Miss Universe National Costumes

August 28, 2010 Humor

I had no idea that there was a National Costume portion of the Miss Universe pageant. I need to tune in next time. Excellent collection of snarky one-liners over at Tom & Lorenzo’s blog. Part One & Part Two.

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Google and Intergalatic Law

July 14, 2010 Browsers

What happens when you open Google in a non-standard browser like Opera Mini? You get the following snippet.
Sorry, but this browser does not support web word-processing.
Please see our system requirements page for a list of supported browsers.
If you are working to fix problems with a specific browser and would like to bypass this check, just [...]

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[Humor] Sponsored Conversations

May 19, 2010 Advertising

What do you get when you combine speech recognition, contextual advertising, text-to-speech software, and a disruptive business model? A phone that’s free as long as you are willing to listen to advertising.

New Google Phone Service Whispers Targeted Ads Directly Into Users’ Ears
Don’t laugh, the idea has been kicked around before. But why stop there? You could [...]

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Friendster Ruins Uncovered – The Onion

December 17, 2009 Humor

The Onion takes a crack at what future “internet archaeologists” from the “Friendster Excavation Project” discover when they run across the ruins of the ancient online civilization, Friendster.”
One day users were posting a seemingly endless stream of bulletins about “awesome parties” and “cool shows” and then, nothing. Total silence. . . Their lives come to a complete [...]

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Ringtone Symphony

October 23, 2009 Humor

Izumi pointed me this old video from the Improv Everywhere performance troupe in which they orchestrate the simultaneous ringing of a large number of cellphones stored in a normally quiet place.
Mayhem ensues.

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IKEA Heights

September 3, 2009 Humor

IKEA Heights is a mini-series shot entirely in the Burbank IKEA store without the store’s knowledge. I think we’re seeing the birth of a new genre.
Flash Concerts and Performance Art to name a few. The Finns pronounce it ee-ki-ya by the way.
- via Laughing Squid

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Fisher-Price Snuffs Out View-Master

August 12, 2009 Hardware

Fisher-Price, the toy company that used to market them, has just eliminated almost all the View-Master titles that have been a staple of young lives for almost 70 years.
- The Economist
Rumor has it that Microsoft will license the rights to the View-Master and use them as a new and innovative distribution channel for their PowerPoint [...]

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Best Code Comment Ever

April 28, 2009 Humor

Comments left by developers in the dead of the night are inside jokes left for others. Little winks of comic relief left for others that will be parsing through the sub-routines trying to wrangle software to get things working. Usually code comments are short but this one left by a frustrated programmer of a Photoshop [...]

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Certain Destruction

February 28, 2009 Humor

From brutal field tests we now turn to an entertaining ways to get rid of unnecessary documents. Presenting, The Unloader!

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Screenshot of MacBook Wheel Predictive Sentence Feature

January 6, 2009 Apple

In the absence of any real substantive announcement from today’s MacWorld, people are talking up a fictional device announced by The Onion, the MacBook Wheel. I’m assuming you’ve already seen the video but here’s a screenshot of the predictive sentence feature with some choice samples.

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