(reprinted from: Boing Boing)
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Archive for the ‘funny’ Category
The Periodic Table of Swearing
Friday, July 9th, 2010Portal’s Still Alive filmed in Lego
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008Wired Magazine on the resurrection of Futurama
Friday, November 30th, 2007Wired has a great series of articles on the new season of Futurama, and the story behind it.
Cohen has another reason to be happy. The segment he’s watching is from Futurama, the show that he codeveloped back in 1999 with Simpsons creator Matt Groening. (Cohen wrote and produced some of the animated sitcom’s most popular episodes.) With that pedigree, Futurama seemed like a can’t-fail proposition, but it was canceled five years ago. This footage, however, is new: Futurama is back in production, and the unexpected return is as curious as the story of its abrupt cancellation.
What the F***? Why we curse.
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker has written an interesting and amusing article on why swears carry such an impact.
But perhaps the greatest mystery is why politicians, editors, and much of the public care so much. Clearly, the fear and loathing are not triggered by the concepts themselves, because the organs and activities they name have hundreds of polite synonyms. Nor are they triggered by the words’ sounds, since many of them have respectable homonyms in names for animals, actions, and even people. Many people feel that profanity is self-evidently corrupting, especially to the young. This claim is made despite the fact that everyone is familiar with the words, including most children, and that no one has ever spelled out how the mere hearing of a word could corrupt one’s morals.
Laws of Software Development
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007This site has collected a large list of laws related to software development.
Inspired by Phil Haack’s article 19 Eponymous Laws of Software Development, I decided to collect laws, axioms and rules pertaining to mainstream software development and put them in a nice, easy-to-read table.
- Link (via Boing Boing)
Cylons. Why debugging matters.
Friday, June 15th, 2007
xkcd: Line Widths
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
Punish Your Microsoft Developer
Thursday, June 7th, 2007Rather than just sending back a memory dump, how would you like to be able to physically punish the developer that’s causing you so much anguish?
- Link (via Compiler – Wired Blogs)
The Social Norm of Leaving the Toilet Seat Down: A Game Theoretic Analysis
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007Will this settle the debate once and for all? Probably not, but an amusing read nonetheless.
All hope is not lost though. An important issue regarding social norms is whether they are created to increase welfare. Are they society’s response to market failures? One such norm is tipping for service quality. Azar (2003) has shown that the norm of tipping increases social welfare. In this paper, we show conclusively that the social norm of leaving the toilet seat down after use decreases welfare and by doing that we hope to convince the reader that social norms are not always welfare enhancing. Hence, there is a case for scientifically examining social norms and educating the masses about the fallacy of following social norms blindly.
What Would Happen if You Bought 25 Bottles of Nyquil?
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007A very entertaining story when the author’s curiosity gets the better of her.
I mean, what kind of nanny state am I living in right now? I can’t even buy cold medicine anymore without the government all up in my shit? Why is my right to privacy being invaded in favor of incompetent police officers who lack the ability to catch drug dealers without spying on the average law abiding citizen?
Then, out of nowhere, I thought, I wonder what would happen if I tried to buy all the Nyquil on the shelf?
Would they laugh? Would they get angry? Would they sell it to me? Would they call the cops? Would they interrogate me until I told them what it was for?
Poppy quarter led to U.S. spy warnings
Monday, May 7th, 2007Earlier this year, there were reports that U.S. Department of Defense contractors had been bugged with suspicious looking Canadian coins. Now we find out what the real culprit was.
The odd-looking — but harmless — “poppy coin” was so unfamiliar to suspicious U.S. Army contractors travelling in Canada that they filed confidential espionage accounts about them. The worried contractors described the coins as “anomalous” and “filled with something man-made that looked like nano-technology,” according to once-classified U.S. government reports and e-mails obtained by the AP.
xkcd: Code Talkers
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
Fast Food: Ads vs. Reality
Thursday, April 19th, 2007This site takes pictures of the fast food you actually get at the counter and compares them to the promotional images.
Each item was purchased, taken home, and photographed immediately. Nothing was tampered with, run over by a car, or anything of the sort. It is an accurate representation in every case. Shiny, neon-orange, liquefied pump-cheese, and all.
- Link (via Boing Boing)
Don’t Believe the Hype: The 21 Biggest Technology Flops
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007Read ComputerWorld’s list of over-hyped failures of the tech industry.
Hype is the coin of the realm in the technology business. If you listen to vendors and the media, it may sometimes seem as though every new product, service, concept or even security threat will be the Next Big Thing. Some live up to all the fuss, but many don’t — and some fail spectacularly.
The Original Human Space Invaders
Monday, April 2nd, 2007Space Invaders in stop-motion using humans as pixels. Brilliant!
- Link (via Boing Boing)
Was the Death Star Attack an Inside Job?
Monday, March 5th, 2007This is an amusing piece that claims that the destruction of the Death Star may have been part of a massive conspiracy!
Presented here are some of the results of my soul-searching regarding this painful event. Like many citizens, I have many questions that I would like answered: was the mighty Imperial government really too incompetent to prevent a handful of untrained nerf-herders from destroying one of their most prized assets? Or are they hiding something from us? Who was really behind the attack? Why did they want the Death Star destroyed? No matter what the answers, we have a problem.
Ridiculous Programming Request
Friday, March 2nd, 2007This is quite an outrageous project posting at GetACoder.com. The budget is $1000-$3000! Good luck.
Hi,
So I’m posting for a rather large project. I need someone to program me a new OS (Operasting System) that looks different than Ms Windows XP etc. but has the same style. It does not need to run on a mac but all the other PCs. It’s supposed to have a stylish look with clear edges etc. And ITS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE JUST A REDESIGNED WINDOWS as I’m going to sell that operating system later on. It’s going to be called BlueOrb.
These are some important points :
It should have ALL THE FEATURES that Windows Xp Professional has.
ALL the files that run on Windows XP ust also run on the BlueOrb OS.
It must have a very user-friendly interface (like MS WINDOWS XP)
When it gets Installed, the user needs to insert a serial number.
It HAS to be HACKER SAFE!
It must be quick and good looking.Note that I only accept quality work and do not want any quickly done BS.
greetz,
M.Reinhardt
Some of the followup comments are rather funny as well. allencolmes writes:
Hi. I can do this for you next week, when I plan on taking a break from a nonotech based / atomic fission driven search engine thats going to make larry page wet his pants. 6 days to code, 1 to rest. It will be written from scratch and completely original in design, so don’t worry about copyright bs. I plan to write the entire OS in C, and blindfolded, if its all the same to you. 100% secure will not be a problem either…In fact the OS will be designed to leverage jedi mind tricks to kill anyone that even thinks about breaking in. (i was thinking maybe make them chop off their feet and jump up and down until their empty would be fair). Anyways, I’m gonna smoke some more crack, maybe you should do the same. Thanks!
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Color Codes
Friday, February 23rd, 2007
Code Monkey
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007This is a great song by Jonathan Coulton.
Check out the video by spiffworld on YouTube:
- Thing a Week 29 – Code Monkey (via net@nite podcast)
- YouTube video