Tag: humor
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Romance Novel Cover Art
Spotted on PC Magazine’s Backspace page. Mark Longmire pokes fun at romance novel cover art. In other news, I took the trolley today to drop in on a talk given by John Battelle at a conference at the Fairmont Hotel up on top of Nob Hill. It’s about a 30 minute walk but I was…
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Contagious Media Showdown
There’s lots of slick sites here, all looking to catch that hook that will bring the fame and fortune (ok, well mostly fame). Maybe my standards are more base as the execution is totally crude (think of a circa-1988 Geocities website) but my personal favorite features a lanky masked man as an unlikely hero dancing…
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Automatic Niceties
I’m behind an older gentleman in the supermarket checkout line and the boy bagging the groceries is clearly on auto-pilot, not really paying attention, just going through the motions. I don’t blame him, it’s the end of the day and this is probably the 350th bag he’s had to stuff. Gentleman is paying for his…
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Ship of Fools
In case you missed it, here’s a round up of some of the mischief making the rounds today (check back later as I’ll update this as the day goes on) A social networking site for social networking sites iPoo – the GPS-enabled toilet locator iCopulate – easily transfer files between two iPods Google Gulp –…
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The Great Debate
Had the great debate between George Bush and Saddam Hussein actually taken place in 2003 here’s how it would have gone down: Tuesday February 25, 2003 – The United Nations Tony Blair, moderator: Welcome to the first televised debate between George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein, live from United Nations headquarters in New York. We…
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Howard Stern on Blogs
Robin Quivers asks "What’s a blog?" and Howard Stern rails on. In typical New Yorker fashion, he cuts straight to the point and says: "If you’re not making money as a writer or an artist, it’s not a career, it’s a hobby"
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Naked Stowaway
I’ve never needed to catch a flight this badly. A Canadian man, angry that he was refused a plane ticket to Australia at Los Angeles International Airport, stripped naked, sprinted across the tarmac and climbed into the wheel well of a moving jumbo jet, officials said. Nude intruder hitches ride on moving jet at LAX
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Balloons
The presidential campaign is not even over but I think they’re right to say that this is the dumbest quote from the 2004 campaign: “Go, balloons. I don’t see anything happening. Go, balloons. Go, balloons. Go, balloons. Stand by, confetti. Keep coming, balloons. More balloons. Bring them. Balloons, balloons, balloons! More balloons. Tons of them.…
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Dancin’ in the Streets
Songwriter for The Grateful Dead and, more recently, The String Cheese Incident, cattle rancher and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is organizing spontaneous outbreaks of senseless dancing in and around the Republican National Convention. It’s become a movement We just had another brilliant expedition into elephant country. We encountered many of our quarry, converted…