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Corporate Ipsum, The Intelligent Text Generator
Blah blah blah corporate-ish speak for filler text!
webdev  funny 
5 hours ago by epersonae
Wondermark » Archive » #785; In which Medicine is necessary
This is kinda how I feel today.
funny  history  medicine 
january 2012 by epersonae
An Open Letter to Those Worried About a Secular War on Christmas — The League of Ordinary Gentlemen
"Look, in the future, here’s a good tip for stuff like this: If you are worried that we secularists are trying to destroy your way of life, come ask us."
religion  politics  funny 
november 2011 by epersonae
Wondermark » Archive » #770; Race to the Top
Includes absurd stickers for maximum awesome.
misctech  weird  funny 
november 2011 by epersonae
Status conscious? Check out this social media flowchart.
"consult this handy graphic to help make those hard choices among Google+, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter" amusing, and yet, that's basically the heuristic I use. (substitute restaurant for bar, and remove FB as an option.)
socialmedia  funny  personal  facebook  twitter 
november 2011 by epersonae
xkcd: File Transfer
"Every time you email a file to yourself so you can pull it up on your friend's laptop, Tim Berners-Lee sheds a single tear." seriously, there's still nothing simpler than sneakernet.
misctech  funny 
september 2011 by epersonae
The Last Psychiatrist: My name is NotMichaelBay, and I just fucked your girlfriend
"The article below is a fake interview intended as parody. I did not actually interview Michael Bay. The article is written entirely by me in the spirit of humor without any malice or ill-will towards any of the people or institutions named within." Also, ridiculously funny (and vulgar, obvs)
funny  arts 
august 2011 by epersonae
xkcd: Password Strength
In conclusion: "Through 20 years of effort, we've successfully trained everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember, but easy for computers to guess."
security  funny 
august 2011 by epersonae
The Cooper Journal: Subject: Error message when I try to save my PowerPoint
"When you work at a design company you are surrounded by designers. They are all intelligent, perceptive, have a great sense of humor, and they often indulge in good-natured ribbing. They also have Photoshop skills."
funny 
august 2011 by epersonae
What It’s Like to Have Me For a Dad « Whatever
"Yes, there are super-intelligent badgers. Yes, they are attacking, with their evil badger guns that shoot mini-badgers that have even smaller guns that shoot even smaller badgers. BUT THEY ARE NOT ZOMBIES, and that’s really the most important thing." a letter to camp.
funny  weird  writing 
july 2011 by epersonae
Postcards from Space
"In recognition of your [hard work / untimely death] on [Name of Recent Project], an Advanced Confectionery Positive Reinforcement Facilitative System has been placed in the Production Break Area."
funny  productivity  science 
july 2011 by epersonae
The Godfather vs. Arrested Development
kinda eerie, actually.
funny  arts 
july 2011 by epersonae
Define the Ratio of People to Cake - The Morning News
"The world’s oddest job-interview questions, from companies like Citigroup and Facebook, were recently revealed. Our writer decided to take all of them, to prove he’s hirable anywhere."
funny 
july 2011 by epersonae
xkcd: Fight Club
I heartily concur.
funny 
july 2011 by epersonae
IT'S BEEN 22 YEARS SINCE WILD THING WALTZED INTO OUR - 07.04.11 - SI Vault
"To commemorate the movie, SI reassembled the most memorable Indians team since the days of Bob Feller for a look back at the making of Major League." a favorite movie of the whole family's when I was in high school.
funny  personal 
july 2011 by epersonae
3quarksdaily: Tuesday Poem
Dorothy Parker. I LOL'd.
writing  funny 
june 2011 by epersonae
Fruit Cart - Television Tropes & Idioms
Or: my cabbages!
funny  tv 
june 2011 by epersonae
Welcome to HTML11 Labs
oh the silliness. wish I knew who actually created this.
funny  html5 
june 2011 by epersonae
"Free Rate Quote": The Three Dullest Words In Advertising (And Maybe The English Language) - Woot
for reference later?
marketing  creditunion  funny 
april 2011 by epersonae
Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development
funny  webdev 
march 2011 by epersonae
NYT: Timothy Ferriss - 'The 4-Hour
F'ing hilarious review. Ferriss has always annoyed me.
Writing  health  funny 
january 2011 by epersonae
Fourth Edition: the Phantom Menace of D&D - Woot
"Luke [...] saw the books on my desk and decided to intervene by explaining what a travesty 4E is in terms I could understand: Star Wars. More specifically, the worst Star Wars movie ever made..." pretty funny, and alas, fairly accurate, despite the fact that I'm currently enjoying playing in a 4E game. (WTF: I CAN'T DRINK A HEALING POTION IF I DON'T HAVE ANY SURGES LEFT?!)
gaming  funny 
december 2010 by epersonae
Sheldon® Comic Strip: Fantasy Football vs D&D
hahahahahaha!
gaming  funny 
december 2010 by epersonae
Weeks later, no one had heard from the family;...
:)
funny  home  design  cats 
december 2010 by epersonae
An Election: A Short Story Presented by Subterranean Press « Whatever
writing  politics  funny 
november 2010 by epersonae
Wondermark » Archive » #275; In which a Cat plays the Piano
:)
funny  cats 
october 2010 by epersonae
Rands In Repose: An Unexpected Connection
humor & trivial pursuit. (also: reincorporation.)
funny  psychology  philosophizing 
october 2010 by epersonae
The Great Geek Manual » The Ultimate D&D Gaming Cycle Flowchart
silliness!
gaming  funny  infographic 
october 2010 by epersonae
‘Proposed’ mix use castle/condo for Ballard » My Ballard
"To submit comments or to obtain additional information, contact Application Contact [Vlad Dracul] via pitchfork-carrying mob during any full moon." hilarity.
funny  seattle  local  weird 
october 2010 by epersonae
copperbadge: THE .DOC FILE OF J ALFRED PRUFROCK
"I have heard the servers singing, each to each." honestly? I like this better than the original. :)
arts  funny  blogosphere  ezrapound 
september 2010 by epersonae
xkcd: Inside Joke
check out the hover text too (as usual) - as I tweeted, that's one reason for my hate on Ezra Pound. All the obscure references, the inside jokeyness, etc., etc.: if I need footnotes to understand (much less enjoy!) your poem, then ur doin it rong. (actually, I think I said "u suck" but much the same sentiment.)
funny  history  ezrapound  writing 
september 2010 by epersonae
Jon Carroll - SFGate
"Unitarian Jihad will begin a series of terrorist-like actions. We will take over television studios, kidnap so-called commentators and broadcast calm, well-reasoned discussions of the issues of the day." think I've read this before. still awesome.
funny  religion  politics 
september 2010 by epersonae
XEN 1.0 profile
XFN, but for negative relationships: nemesis, evil-twin, rival, creep, etc. :)
funny  microformat 
august 2010 by epersonae
Hello, Alice - Welcome to Wonderland
this made me laugh probably more than is appropriate.
funny  tv 
august 2010 by epersonae
Hungover Owls
this is how I felt Saturday. (and no, I was not hungover. goddamn sinuses.)
funny  personal 
august 2010 by epersonae
Amazon.com: Boom's review of Terro 300 Pre-Filled Liquid Ant Killer II ...
freaking awesome review.
ants  funny 
july 2010 by epersonae
olga nunes - we love xkcd
OMG HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS SOONER?!
funny  webvideo  misctech 
july 2010 by epersonae
www: the origin of the <blink> tag
"We had a pretty good laugh at the thought of blinking text, and talked about blinking this and that and how absurd the whole thing would be." one too many drinks, or not yet enough drinks? hard to say.
funny  history  webdev 
july 2010 by epersonae
The 24 Types of Libertarian | Progressive Political Cartoon by Barry Deutsch
"briefly tempting" is, well, briefly tempting. the rest crack me up.
funny  politics 
june 2010 by epersonae
Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency: I'm Comic Sans, Asshole.
heh
funny  typography 
june 2010 by epersonae
DCKX: Directory of Curricular Knowledge in xkcd.com
"DCKX indexes science topics in xkcd, so that you can use them to illustrate your syllabi, assignments, etc." I'm just sad that it doesn't include the often awesome alt/title text.
funny  academia  science  misctech 
june 2010 by epersonae
FREE GRAR ON THE INTERNET IS LIKE FREE SH*T IN AN OUTHOUSE « The Whelk – John Leavitt
heh.
funny  weird  arts  blogosphere 
june 2010 by epersonae
GodlessGirl | When Should you use Comic Sans?
hahahahaha.
funny  design 
june 2010 by epersonae
Thomas Kinkade firm seeks bankruptcy protection - Los Angeles Times
"Kinkade's word is as worthless as his artwork." hahahaha. also: "Hazlewood and Spinello sued [...] alleging that he'd used his Christian faith as a tool to fraudulently induce them to invest"
funny  arts  weird  finance  religion 
june 2010 by epersonae
Street Giant » Leroy Stick – the man behind @BPGlobalPR
"The point of this story is that if someone is terrorizing your neighborhood, sometimes it’s alright to grab a stick and take a swing."
marketing  society  politics  blogosphere  funny 
june 2010 by epersonae
Like an oyster hiding a pearl, the simple shingled...
plywood palace! (sorry for the injoke.)
funny  home 
june 2010 by epersonae
30 Beautiful and Relaxing Bathroom Design Ideas
um, more like truly ridiculous? these are mostly begging to be mocked by the Unhappy Hipsters blog.
funny  home 
june 2010 by epersonae
Writing Flow Chart by Daniel Heath | Script Frenzy
in which all paths lead to "write." unless you are dead.
writing  funny  productivity 
april 2010 by epersonae
The 50 best author vs. author put-downs of all time
awesome.
writing  history  funny 
april 2010 by epersonae
altadenablog: "The Altadena thing"
"OK, fellow residents, we've made The Urban Dictionary, and it's not meant as a compliment!" I had no idea. That's hilarious.
funny  weird  personal  californication 
april 2010 by epersonae
Safety Sign Generator
funny  reference 
march 2010 by epersonae
Intranet Secrets
run by an intranet vendor, but still funny.
intranet  funny 
march 2010 by epersonae
LET’S OVERANALYZE! « Not All Bits
librarian stereotype in a D&D prestige class!
gaming  library  weird  funny 
march 2010 by epersonae
CSSquirrel : Comic: Kyle Weems
the inverse of Cartman's attempt to freeze himself until the Wii came out. (one of my fav episodes, btw.)
sxsw  funny 
march 2010 by epersonae
All Write #5 – Genre Boxes : I Should Be Writing
"It's not like Shakespeare ever wrote about *wizards* and *fairies*"
writing  history  funny 
march 2010 by epersonae
This new box looked nothing like the model.
funny  home  cats 
february 2010 by epersonae
venomous porridge - A conversation I have every month or so
"Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off."
mobileweb  funny  webdev 
february 2010 by epersonae
HuffPost Comedy's State Of The Union Drinking Game 2010
funny  politics 
january 2010 by epersonae
CSSquirrel : Comic #51: When I Die, Burn Me Viking Style
the squirrel and I both fixated on Dylan's Viking funeral slide. odd.
local  seattle  personal  weird  funny  webdev 
january 2010 by epersonae
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: How the Apocalypse Would Happen if Heaven Were a Small Non-Profit.
"Gabriel over hears a "private" phone call between JC and the Lord and immediately sends a scathing e-mail to all the angels (It is a small office which they all share after all)." heh.
nonprofit  funny 
january 2010 by epersonae
Flowchart Helps You Decide What Cereal to Eat | FlowingData
(semi-)mysteriously, I ended up with 3 of my favorite cereals, depending on whether I want chocolate milk or feel like eating (quasi-)healthy.
food  weird  funny  design 
december 2009 by epersonae
How To Use An Apostrophe - The Oatmeal
when in doubt, don't. (fun fact: I totally boosted my NaNoWriMo word count by expanding all contractions.)
writing  funny 
december 2009 by epersonae
design is mine : isn't it lovely?: thought of the day : you had me at...
funny  personal  politics  arts  health 
november 2009 by epersonae
You win...
one free internet!
funny  misctech 
october 2009 by epersonae
One Pissed Off Veteran: How to Choose Your Religion Scientifically
cute.
religion  funny 
october 2009 by epersonae
A Boy’s Own Genre, or Not « Whatever
"So the thing to do is to point and laugh." damn sharp takedown.
funny  writing  gender 
october 2009 by epersonae
How To Save Media | MetaFilter
jumped to awesome comment with big list of why generic OMG-save-the-newspaper! idea won't work.
funny  news  society  finance 
october 2009 by epersonae
This Modern World | Salon Comics
alas.
funny  politics 
october 2009 by epersonae
A Working Model of the Electro-Plasmic Hydrocephalic Genre-Fiction Generator 2000
an alternative method for developing my NaNoWriMo '09 story? :)
writing  weird  funny 
october 2009 by epersonae
Talk Like a Pirate Day, September 19, 2009 « Medium Large
no kidding.
funny  misctech 
september 2009 by epersonae
Spring semester: Advanced Underwater Basket Weaving | Ask Metafilter
also, from the wikipedia link: "Underwater Basket Weaving is a trademark of the US Scuba Center, Inc[22], which offers a specialty class designed to improve diving skills from which participants can "take home a memorable souvenir"." WTF?
weird  academia  funny  history 
september 2009 by epersonae
#547; In which the Species is bettered
mmmm, context.
society  history  funny  medicine 
august 2009 by epersonae
xkcd - A Webcomic - Tech Support Cheat Sheet
absolutely true. just sent to a bunch of co-workers. :)
funny  misctech 
august 2009 by epersonae
NCBI ROFL
funny-sounding articles from PubMed.
funny  weird  academia  science 
july 2009 by epersonae
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just awesomely silly meme-mashing.
history  funny 
july 2009 by epersonae
Michael Bay Finally Made An Art Movie - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - io9
"Since the days of Un Chien Andalou and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, filmmakers have reached beyond meaning. But with this summer's biggest, loudest movie, Michael Bay takes us all the way inside Caligari's cabinet. And once you enter, you can never emerge again." awesome, awesome review. I might actually get this movie when it comes to Netflix. ;)
funny  arts  weird 
july 2009 by epersonae
PHD Comics: Great Tweets of Science
"darwin1 [...] I'm on a boat! check out thz crazy turtles, yoooo" heh.
funny  science  history 
july 2009 by epersonae
Woot : 11 Undocumented Features Of Google Chrome OS
"Changes your icons daily, forcing you to look up which obscure scientific figure is having a birthday."
funny  google 
july 2009 by epersonae
Rules for Anchorites - Programming Languages Are To Literary Schools As...
"It began humbly, as [a] scripting language used by Solon to deliver the laws of Athens." mmmm, literary geek synthesis....
writing  funny  misctech  webdev 
july 2009 by epersonae
Debate over government-funded police protection heats up | Salon
"Our present crime prevention and punishment system is divided among 50 states with different rules and thousands of private crime insurance companies. And when you look at the mercenaries hired by the crime insurance companies, they come in all shapes and sizes -- commandos, samurai, Vikings, centurions and ninjas." heh. nice bit o' satire.
politics  funny 
june 2009 by epersonae
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