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Telegraph -- More funny complaint letters
Dear Sir/madam/automated telephone answering service,
funny  complaints  writing  :-) 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
NewsBiscuit -- Depressed Twitter addict fails to get suicide note down to 140 characters
"A man whose life had been ruined by the social networking craze Twitter failed to end it all yesterday after he found himself unable to write a farewell message sufficiently concise to explain his reasons. ... David lost his job due to his narcissistic obsession with reporting every single moment of his day... Gradually David found himself isolated, jobless, penniless and depressed. Before ending it all he attempted a final Tweet informing his last few contacts of his reasons for deciding to commit suicide. ‘But 140 characters is like, two short sentences’, he complained. ‘How the hell can you begin to say anything in that?’ He has now created a user group on Facebook called ‘People driven to suicide by social networking. The number of those signed up is falling every day.’"
twitter  spoof  funny  socialmedia  socialnetworking  statusupdates  suicide 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
Bank of Obama: Because Everyone Deserves a Bailout
"Bad mortgage, student loan, credit card debt, Vegas trip...you know someone who needs a personal bailout for it. Bank of Obama believes everyone should get their share of the stimulus package. We provide a novel way to bail out your friends. Just fill out the check below. Send it free via email or through the mail for a small fee. It's that easy!" -- #Error: Amount cannot be greater than 1,000,000,000,000 *sigh* You FAIL it. Your funny money is not enough.
economics  debt  funny  money  generator 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- gnooze: Stimulus Bill Deal!? (February 7, 2009)
"Lawmakers might have a deal on the economic recovery plan, Russia is opening up her borders to allow US military supplies through and China's economy isn't easy to gauge, but it doesn't look good." -- CHANGE!
economics  debt  fraud  politics  funny 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
Max Keiser Radio -- [995] “Don’t mention our currency!”
"We talk about the finite people; Mike Milken and his pardon; the currency problem - the US dollar and UK pound are unmentionables; becoming a bank to grab the TARP funds; when will the taxpayer say, ‘enough?’" -- "America is a special needs country"
economics  debt  fraud  junkbonds  funny  america  uk  MaxKeiser  podcasts 
november 2008 by adamcrowe
Alt Text -- Stash Cash in These Uniquely Geeky Investments
"#Online Money: American markets aren't looking so great, and the rest of the world is eyeing us like a hiker trying to discern a dead tree branch from a live wolverine. It's not inconceivable that all government currencies in the entire world could simultaneously devalue to the point where people are trying to figure out if $1,000 bills are compostable. However, there are plenty of other forms of money. The upcoming World of Warcraft expansion will no doubt energize the Azerothian gold piece. And no matter how bad things get, 500 Wii Points will buy a copy of Clu Clu Land. Just convert all your cash and holdings to electronic money and wait out the storm."
funny  money  virtualworlds  virtualgoods  virtuality 
october 2008 by adamcrowe
Gizmodo -- How Android Will Help Google Profile You
"... an imagined day in the life of a Google user, as recorded and perceived by the Googleplex itself:"
realitymining  identity  surveilence  google  funny  surveillance 
september 2008 by adamcrowe
foomandoonian -- Twitter Is Ruined
"I'm mouth fucking a turkey club right now."
twitter  funny  writing 
august 2008 by adamcrowe
Ship’s Biscuit -- Viral Marketing Review: Using and Identifying Design Patterns
Hilarious (and slightly obsessive). "Just need to stick your brand in there somehow." -- Hehe!
advertising  design  patterns  meta  storytelling  archetypes  memetics  funny  via:mirola  propagation 
july 2008 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Modular robot reassembles when kicked apart
"A robot developed by roboticists at the University of Pennsylvania is made of modules that can recognise each other." -- Be like the internet!
robots  robotics  damage  selforganisation  distributed  self  greygoo  sensors  proprioception  patternrecognition  funny 
may 2008 by adamcrowe
Gizmodo -- Microsoft Stay-At-Home Server
"When a mommy and a daddy love each other very much, the daddy wants to give mommy a special gift." -- Gotta love Microsoft for trying this.
microsoft  server  campaign  funny  vernacular 
april 2008 by adamcrowe
Charlie Brooker - The benefits of a good slagging off
"...there's a surplus of arrogant titheads around because we don't, as individuals, receive anything like enough negative feedback these days. Instead we're all led to believe we're somehow unique, that we have a destiny, that we matter in some way."
CharlieBrooker  funny  wrong 
april 2008 by adamcrowe
n+1 - Financial Meltdown: Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager Returns
"we were staring in awe instead of making money! I guess we got some entertainment out of it, which has some value. Now, we could have made money to buy entertainment; instead we just watched screens and got entertainment directly and that’s not taxed!"
*  interviews  brain  damage  finance  markets  confidence  banking  basel2  leverage  loans  risk  capital  credit  economics  subprime  funny 
april 2008 by adamcrowe
The Onion - Ad Campaign Appeals To Young, Hip, Influenced-By-Ad-Campaigns Demographic
"a multimillion dollar broadcast, radio, print, billboard, and online viral campaign tested "off the charts" among its target market of hip, urban 18- to 34-year-olds who base their actions and opinions entirely on the suggestions of ad campaigns."
advertising  funny  theadvertisedlife  youth  TheOnion  satire 
march 2008 by adamcrowe
CBS News - Texas Jail Is Small, But In The Pink, Sheriff Hopes Pink Jumpsuits, Walls, Sheets Encourage Inmates To Reform
"... the re-offense rate in the county is down 70 percent since he switched to pink jumpsuits for the inmates. He also said there have been no fights between inmates in the jail since it was painted. "
funny  people  colours  synaptics 
february 2008 by adamcrowe
Alt Text - More 'Filthy' Games to Drive Fox News Crazy
"Endless Ocean: This game is nothing less than a drug-trip simulator, immersing you in an "ocean" of pharmaceutical stimulation where you view such long-standing symbols of drug culture as dolphins, humpback whales and bowmouth guitarfish." Hehe. Yup.
gaming  drugs  sex  controversy  satire  funny  endlessocean  wii 
february 2008 by adamcrowe
HOLY MOLY'S CELEBRITY MASK
"I'll post them to every major agent and PR in London and LA. If you don't want to be photographed, wear one. If you don't wear one, well fuck you, you had a choice."
celebrity  photography  privacy  funny  pisstake  fame 
february 2008 by adamcrowe
More Stupid Than the Others - Networking
"Facebook - Andrea (No, I will not be your friend if I haven’t seen you in my life. Face=face, book=book, face+book=book of faces. Have I seen your face? No, then you can’t be on that)" -- LOL. Priceless!
facebook  socialnetworking  funny  rant  blogs 
january 2008 by adamcrowe
Charlie Brooker - I love complex gadgets. What I can't stand are idiots who don't know which buttons to press
"Hit the right buttons or get left behind, you medieval dunce. Do you want the robots to take over? Because that's what'll happen if we don't all keep up. How dare you jeopardise the human race like that. How dare you."
gadgets  technology  customisation  modding  tweaking  behaviours  funny  CharlieBrooker 
january 2008 by adamcrowe
The Onion - Half Of 26-Year-Old's Memories Nintendo-Related
"47pc of Jenkins' hippocampus is dedicated to storing video-game victories and last-minute defeats, while 32pc of his amygdala contains embedded neurological scripts pertaining to game strategies, character back stories, theme songs, and cheat codes."
*  gaming  research  psychology  brain  synaptics  memory  nintendo  technology  geeks  funny  TheOnion  lulz 
january 2008 by adamcrowe
DevTopics - 101 Great Computer Programming Quotes
“To iterate is human, to recurse divine.” (L. Peter Deutsch)
computers  programming  recursion  culture  funny  geeks  quotes  code 
january 2008 by adamcrowe
PSFK - Iain Tait of Poke on Ten Reasons Why Digital Is Better Than Advertising
"One day little digital children and little advertising children will play together”…
PSFK  video  funny  digital  advertising  web  IainTait 
january 2008 by adamcrowe
Boing Boing - Ministry of Reshelving puts 1984 in its proper place
'4. Discreetly move all copies of 1984 to a more suitable section, such as "Current Events", "Politics", "History", "True Crime", or "New Non-Fiction."' - Undo. Thoughtcrime. File Report. This Warn You.
1984  books  bookcrossing  gaming  extendedrealitygaming  alternativehistory  objects  narrativeobjects  narrativeenvironments  storytelling  narrativeactivism  taxonomy  folksonomy  categories  funny  weird 
january 2008 by adamcrowe
diesel sweeties - Elitism Diagram Shirt
Haha! Recommended to me because I like venn diagrams. I do! Fanx :P
design  diagrams  tshirts  funny  relationships  taste  consumering  shopping 
december 2007 by adamcrowe
Codeulate - F*cking programming
Haha! Google Code search reveals swearing in commented code. (We've all done it) /* 2,191 lines of complete and utter shit coming up… */
code  comments  google  search  funny 
december 2007 by adamcrowe
Wired - Apple Ultraportable Rumor Of The Month
"I think people just want an ultraportable Apple so badly that an order for glue or paint would somehow be contrived as evidence for it." Pffff-hahahahaha.
apple  mac  rumor  funny  fandom 
december 2007 by adamcrowe
sebastian mary - man dresses as own facebook profile
"So what else in ‘real life’ is being quietly reinvented by the structures, social patternings and aesthetics of the net?" Replace the word 'net' with 'books' or 'television' in that question. 'Same piss, different bottle.' (Jeremy Brown, Sense)
funny  culture  facebook  vernacular  popculture  web  behaviours  avatars  identity  storytelling  selfservers 
december 2007 by adamcrowe
Wired - 10 Reasons I'd Rather Marry a Robot
"I can easily see a person sobbing in a robot's arms, wondering why the marriage feels so ... empty."
sex  robots  relationships  evolution  transhumanism  geeks  funny  books 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
Japanese air guitar aid
Video: Air Guitar World Championships 2007 Winner
music  funny  simulation  acting 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
iain tait - Why Marketeers Are Too Excited About Facebook
"Iain Tait is a fan of Everything. He loves it all. He's friends with lots and lots of brands and he wants all of his friends to become friends with brands that he likes too. He enjoys being a word of mouth conduit and is happy for companies to use him.."
theadvertisedlife  facebook  funny  backlash  parody  socialads  beacon  socialgraph  fandom  criticism  worldvsplatform  advertising  marketing  attention  socialmedia  behaviours 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
Charlie Brooker - Nespresso
"Turns out that by buying a coffee machine, I'd inadvertently subscribed to a "lifestyle", and this magazine would regularly arrive to congratulate me." Hehe
CharlieBrooker  coffee  funny  marketing  theadvertisedlife  lifestyle  consumering 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
Small Talk - Social Ads
"Doc Searls: we want information when we are looking to buy. When I look for a camera, for instance, I want reviews and product specs - not images of the kind of "social scene" PR flaks want me to think will spontaneously arise because I have the camera."
theadvertisedlife  socialads  facebook  advertising  socialmedia  feedback  funny  marketing  verisimilitude  people 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
Read/WriteWeb - Is Facebook Really Ruining Christmas?
Matthew from New York: "I saw my gf bought an item I had been saying I wanted...so now part of my Christmas gift has been ruined. Facebook is ruining Christmas!"
facebook  beacon  advertising  privacy  marketing  socialgraph  news  funny  people  web  information  data  leaky 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
WoW - Movies
"I'm Mr T and I'm a Night Elf Mohawk - Fool."
worldofwarcraft  gaming  advertising  geeks  funny  games  popculture  culture 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
The Dangers of “World of Warcraft”
"What kind of social reject lives life online? Seriously, try going outside sometime!"
comic  worldofwarcraft  virtualworlds  funny 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
Rands In Repose - The Nerd Handbook
"Your nerd knows that people are interesting. Just because he can’t look your best friend straight in the eye doesn’t mean he doesn’t want to know what makes her tick, you need to be the social buffer - the translation layer." (Please understand us)
advice  nerds  geeks  personality  people  behaviours  funny  psychology  relationships  introversion 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
StupidFilter
"The solution we're creating is simple: an open-source filter software that can detect rampant stupidity in written English. "
funny  web  filters  text  words  etiquette  manners  language  tools 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
Heroine Sheik - ‘Portal’ Is for Lesbians
"3) We’ve talked before about how the guns in first-person shooters act as phallic avatars–that is, as penises. But in a world of women, this gun doesn’t shoot bullets. It shoots orifices. Openings. Fine, vaginas. Vaginas you, a female character, have to enter/exit to solve puzzles. I don’t say this often, and almost never with so much support and enthusiasm, but that is so gay." -- Hehe
portal  avatars  sexuality  gaming  trends  gender  politics  funny  extensionsofman  penis 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
CR Blog - The ever-blurring line between art and advertising
'Creative Review contacted Tim Noble & Sue Webster to ask what they thought about Lowe’s John Lewis campaign, and they offered this concise response: “We don’t like it.”'
vernacular  parody  funny  advertising  art 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
Rory Sutherland - Of course advertising is expensive. That's the bloddy point.
"To put it another way, there's no point in being a peacock with a moderately good tail. Go for great or don't bother at all. That's the principle that creatives understand and accountants don't."
advertising  funny  creativity  measurement 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
Rory Sutherland - When good Marketeers Turn Bad
Golden nuggets: "great brands are like great pubs." ... "If you don't mind, I'll discover my own USP." ... "The street finds its own uses for things, as someone once said. And isn't it interesting how many successful brands eschew user imagery."
funny  brands  advertising  tactics  commons  people  positioning 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
Pac-Txt - Pac-Man meets Zork
"Mixing the classic VIC-20* text-adventure games' style with the enthralling plot of Pac-Man for the ultimate in retro gaming action, we present Pac-txt."
pacman  funny  text  navigation  gamemechanics  games  design  retro  geeks 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
Buzzword Bingo
Where's "Platform"? Where's "Social Graph"?
geeks  funny  words  jargon  web  designwank 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
The Geek Hierarchy (Image)
LOL: "Erotic fan fiction writers who put themselves in the story." Geeeeeeeeeeeeks!
geeks  diagrams  culture  fanon  fandom  fanfiction  furries  funny  sciencefiction 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
JERRY JACKSON CART22NS OMG!
"OMG!!! DAVID FURTH OV FATPIE.COM HAS GIVVEN ME MY OWN PAGE ON HIS WEBSIGHTS LOL. BIG UP MAD PROPS 4 THAT MAN, DAT IZ DA COOLIST TING U CUD HAV DUN. HEAR IS WERE I WILL PUT ALL OV MY CART2NS SO DAT U CAN SEE DEM IN REAL TIMES! LOL. BRB."
animation  comedy  funny 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
Fat-Pie.com - Animation and stuff by David Firth
"Hello. My name is David Firth and I spend my life making stuff for you to watch, listen to and in some cases, smell."
animation  flash  funny  uk 
november 2007 by adamcrowe
YouTube - Pole Position Commercial! (Atari)
"Xbox and Playstation commercials have got nuthin' on this old classic. Even the theme song rocks!"
advertising  cars  funny  games  gaming  geeks  history  retro  atari 
october 2007 by adamcrowe
Charlie Brooker - My favourite pastime is pounding the city streets in a musical bubble - it feels as if I'm in a movie
"horror-movie music on heavy rotation... It was terrifying. I'd recommend it to thrill-junkies: just whack the Halloween soundtrack on to your iPod and listen to it while walking around your own house in the dead of night. Try it tonight. It's great."
audio  funny  mp3  movies  music  horror  do 
october 2007 by adamcrowe
Charlie Brooker - David Cameron's new physique is more PR than rowing machine
"instead of leaving the bathroom and theatrically wafting a hand under his nose and saying, "Pherrrrrgghh, I'd give it 10 minutes if I were you," he blames Gordon Brown for using it before him, then promises to reduce future emissions by a factor of 10.."
CharlieBrooker  funny  politics  branding 
october 2007 by adamcrowe
The Spectator - A final farewell to the dating game in New York (Amelia Torode)
"‘Pre-paid porn cards'.. this code then allowed you access to a network of pornographic sites, so that you would never have to enter in your credit-card details. As a marketing strategist, I found the idea quite ingenious."
funny  dating  business  ideas 
october 2007 by adamcrowe
Wired - Forget Net Stocks — Pimp Your Portfolio With Fantasy Funds
"Don't Tell Me Fund - seeks out companies that squeeze every last dime out of dubious ethical practices, exploitation of underprivileged people and ravenous depletion of natural resources, but withholds all details from you."
funny  stocks  money  markets  "capitalism" 
october 2007 by adamcrowe
Scamp - Reject Rejection
"8. It was a shit brief anyway. Now your work has been rejected they'll put another team on it. Great news! You're off the hook."
advice  creative  ideas  funny  failure  work 
september 2007 by adamcrowe
Observer - Blocking ads can be fun - and also downright dangerous
"the question of whether to use Adblock Plus may become one of principle. If lots of people begin to use it, then the prospects for Web-based innovation will grow dimmer... we'll be faced with a variation on the 'tragedy of the commons'"
advertising  adblock  backlash  digital  commons  businessmodels  funny 
september 2007 by adamcrowe
<nettime> - It looks like you're writing a letter: Microsoft Word
"It looks like you're writing a letter: Microsoft Word" an essay by Matthew Fuller
*  software  essay  criticism  office  work  funny  parody  technology  "capitalism" 
september 2007 by adamcrowe
<nettime> - The Macintosh Computer: Archetypal Capitalist Machine?
The Macintosh Computer: Archetypal Capitalist Machine? by William Bowles
*  apple  mac  essay  criticism  software  osx  funny  parody  "capitalism" 
september 2007 by adamcrowe
NEWSLOSE - Hillary Clinton says she is not lesbian but…
“I Am Not But I Am is a new type of thing we are trying in political marketing. Everybody was doing it, we are just making it more straight-forward and blunt ” said Hillary Clinton.
funny  politics  marketing  campaign  doublethink 
september 2007 by adamcrowe
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