Category Archives: funny

The Most Obscene Letter

This is an absolutely hilarious post on the Dilbert blog. If you ask me, the most obscene letter in the alphabet is the asterisk. It appears in almost every naughty word you see in print, from f*ck to p*ss to … Continue reading

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Refactoring Shock Can Kill

This is a funny parody of an outdoor survival guide for programmers. WHEN STEVE DUMB STUMBLED ACROSS THE SPAGHETTI of a legacy code library sunk into the muck in the labyrinthine of Upper Management Cost Saving Schemes, the unease he … Continue reading

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Minesweeper in 38,240 PixelBlocks

Check out this gorgeous reproduction of Minesweeper using PixelBlocks. Completion of the minesweeper sub-project. 38,240 pixelblocks and over 6 feet tall. Bigger than the window! PixelProject set on flickr (via MAKE: Blog)

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Home Inspection Nightmares

Check out these photo galleries of frighteningly bad home improvement projects. Gallery 1 Gallery 2 (via Boing Boing)

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Poodle Exercise with Humans

I just had to post this. This is one of the oddest videos I’ve seen. Link (via Digg)

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Pointers

Link [xkcd.com]

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IRC transcript of world’s worst hacker

This is a hilarious transcript of a naive script-kiddie being baited into trashing their own machine. <Elch> You’re a real computer expert <bitchchecker> shut up i hack you <Elch> ok, i’m quiet, hope you don’t show us how good a … Continue reading

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Unix humour – Sandwich

Link [xkcd.com] (via reddit)

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Slo-Mo Home Depot

Improv Everywhere (the group that invaded Best Buy earlier this year, previously posted here) strikes again. This time they got over 200 people to shop in slow motion inside Home Depot, and captured some hilarious videos. After everyone had assembled … Continue reading

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First Person Shooter Glasses

These totally cracked me up. Now you can feel like you are playing a FPS all the time! Link (via Gizmodo)

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Tuscan Whole Milk getting mixed reviews

500+ reviews at Amazon.com and growing… Not good for roof leaks, August 4, 2006 I had a problem where my roof was leaking. I poured some Tuscan Whole Milk over it to seal it up and it just flowed right … Continue reading

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The Eye of Argon – the worst science fiction story ever written

Well this has been around for a while but somebody just posted it to reddit. If you haven’t had the pleasure of seeing what truly terrible writing is like…enjoy! The weather beaten trail wound ahead into the dust racked climes … Continue reading

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Top 10 Worst URL Flops

Some unfortunate choices for web addresses. Link

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Top 10 Coolest DIY Gadgets

TechBlog has posted a Top 10 list of some pretty crazy contraptions.  Anyone need a USB Floppy Disk Striped RAID? Link (via Digg)

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PC World’s 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time

PC World has posted their list of the worst tech products they have seen since they began publishing. Of course, most truly awful ideas never make it out of somebody’s garage. Our bottom 25 designees are all relatively well-known items, … Continue reading

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How To Write Unmaintainable Code

Roedy Green has written a hilarious essay on the worst programming transgressions imaginable. In the interests of creating employment opportunities in the Java programming field, I am passing on these tips from the masters on how to write code that … Continue reading

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Improv Everywhere pranks Best Buy

This is pretty funny. A group of around 80 people dressed in blue shirts and khaki pants infiltrated a Best Buy store and assisted customers…until the store employees noticed one of their hidden cameras, freaked out and called the cops. … Continue reading

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Amazing Rube Goldberg Machines

This is a video of some freakin’ brilliant Rube Goldberg machines. Brings back memories of The Incredible Machine. Link (via Metafilter)

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Mighty Optical Illusions

This blog has a great collection of optical illusions. Check out this fantastic piece of sidewalk chalk art: Link (via MAKE: Blog)

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To the Hexth Degree

Alex Papadimoulis has posted a truly stunning code excerpt to The Daily WTF. It was originally from a routine used to convert a byte array to hexadecimal. I guess if your boss insists on using Lines of Code as a … Continue reading

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