Pinboard: bookmarks for jimray tagged 'satire'

"Now comes the part of the interview where we ask a question to test your creative thinking ability. Don’t think too hard about it, just apply everyday common sense, and describe your reasoning process."

brilliant microsoft satire
july 2006 by jimray

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The Online Photographer: Great Photographers on the Internet

"Bonjour Henri, assuming you are French, or at least understand it." Brilliant

satire photography brilliant
june 2006 by jimray

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Gay-Pride Parade Sets Mainstream Acceptance Of Gays Back 50 Years | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

"Next year, we're really going to give those breeders something to look at."

funny homosexuality sex satire
june 2006 by jimray

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The Morning News Gallery - Files Are Not for Sharing, by Matthew Baldwin & Goopymart

"That's what file sharing is like: taking a kitty away from a kitty."

brilliant satire filesharing
june 2006 by jimray

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Rupert Murdoch's MySpace

"There are many important benefits to fascism." Rad.

politics satire weblogs media
january 2006 by jimray

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The A.V. Club interviews Stephen Colbert

His bit about media and authority is right fucking on

comedy brilliant politics media satire
january 2006 by jimray

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Patriot Search - Our Search Syntax

"Please note that 'true' is the default value if you omit the "terrorist" operator – after all, everyone is a potential terrorist."

brilliant satire searchengines politics privacy government
january 2006 by jimray

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Letter to Warner Brothers: A Night in Casablanca -- Chilling Effects Clearinghouse

According to Wikipedia, this was a hoax perpetuated by Groucho -- Warner never actually sued -- but it's a great read all the same

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Web 2.0 means getting bought by Yahoo.

Finally, a definition that doesn't make me want to burn my eyes out

yahoo satire
december 2005 by jimray

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Activist Judge Cancels Christmas

A more subtle, and funnier, "Fuck Christmas" rant

christmas religion politics satire
december 2005 by jimray

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Fuck Christmas

"...fire and brimstone ain’t no deterrent for us. We’re not going to hell, assholes, we’re fucking in hell. We live with you." The "Fuck the South" guy finds religion - I, for one, am kinda surprised that domain was available.

christmas satire media politics religion
december 2005 by jimray

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Web 2.0 vs. Autofellatio: a comparison study

"Both will leave you with a bad taste in your mouth" "The Long Tails is vital to both"

brilliant satire
december 2005 by jimray

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Ajax Sucks Most of the Time

"When It's OK to Use Ajax - If you are working in a Web2.0 company that needs to provide evidence of their technical expertise in order to gain new clients." Pretty brilliant spoof.

webdev satire
december 2005 by jimray

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Creating Passionate Users: Have you updated your buzzwords?

"If I were a VC, the "elevator pitch" I'd ask for would be simply: 'Tell me how this thing helps the user kick ass?' If you can't answer that, don't bother launching your power point."

weblogs bizdev satire writing startup wingmanifesto
december 2005 by jimray

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Guide: How to tell if your office Secret Santa is really a Web 2.0 cultist

You receive a playstation 2 with a new pastel-colored paint job, and a number ‘3′ scribbled over the ‘2' with a sharpie. Also, it doesn’t work.

satire funny webdev
december 2005 by jimray

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Web 2.0 Checklist

The ultimate irony being that it uses that oh-so Web2.0 list manager, Ta-da list

funny satire
november 2005 by jimray

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Lie Girls

They'll tell you whatever you want to hear

brilliant satire funny politics
october 2005 by jimray

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Pastafarian pit preacher

That's pretty awesome. And who knew that Gary Birdson had a Wikipedia entry?

religion science satire awesome unc
october 2005 by jimray

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CronyJobs

Funny - if it weren't so damn sad

politics satire via:mathowie
october 2005 by jimray

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Katrina: The Gathering

Holy crap, that's a lot of effort. Also, this is funny.

gaming hurricanekatrina satire politics media
september 2005 by jimray

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Halliburton Gets Contract To Pry Gold Fillings From New Orleans Corpses' Teeth

"The gold we recover from the human rubble of Katrina can be used to make fighter-jet electronics, supercomputer chips, inflation-proof A-grade investments, and luxury yachting watches."

brilliant satire politics halliburton
september 2005 by jimray

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Boing Boing: Flying Spaghetti Monster bumper sticker, Version 1.1

Put this on a static sticker, I'd buy one in a heartbeat

education evolution satire science politics
august 2005 by jimray

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Open letter to Kansas City school board

The graph explaining global warming is worth the trip alone

via:maciej politics government science satire brilliant
august 2005 by jimray

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Where the white women at?

Absolutely brilliant satire