Pinboard: bookmarks for mcchris tagged 'humor'

I would like to get one of these for my sister as a Christmas present, but I don't think they have US distribution. The titles they have lean toward the macho side, with Conrad and Hemmingway.

design humor print neato literature
november 2007 by McChris

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Get My FBI File

This free service apparently drafts FOIA requests for folks interested in knowing what's in their federal surveillance files.

surveillance lawenforcement humor neato
october 2007 by McChris

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Word of the day (that I made up)

Matt Haughey says that folks who collect clever t-shirts often face a clothundrum.

clothing humor t-shirt
september 2007 by McChris

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O'Reilly Radar: The Future of Web 2.0

I am a total nerd for laughing at this, but I'm linking to it anyway.

humor standards Web2.0
march 2007 by McChris

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Comic: 2.0 2.0

heh.

humor comics Web2.0
march 2007 by McChris

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7 Words You Can't Say in Kindergarten

An amusing video that has children re-enact part of George Carlin's "Seven Dirty Words."

video humor protest education censorship
march 2007 by McChris

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The Devil's Dictionary: True definitions of "vlog" and other terms

Following the lead of Ambrose Bierce, this list explains what Web 2.0 buzzwords really mean.

humor buzzword linkbait Web2.0
march 2007 by McChris

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A tour of Second Life's big empty

It doesn't surprise me that high-profile projects in Second Life are largely abandoned, but this first-person account is still pretty interesting.

SecondLife politics humor
february 2007 by McChris

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Scenes from a Snuff(leupagus) Film

Not even Big Bird was immune to the great Austin bird die-off of 2007.

austin humor silly
january 2007 by McChris

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Feed Store: Web 2.OH, YEAAHH!!

I think I may need this shirt before people start accusing me of "drinking the Kool-Aid."

Web2.0 clothing humor
january 2007 by McChris

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del.icio.us will eat itself
del.icio.us humor Web2.0 folksonomy
november 2006 by McChris

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Wikipedia Brown and the Case of the Captured Koala

This amusing spoof of "Encyclopedia Brown" actually contains a useful explanation of how to read Wikipedia critically.

wikipedia humor
november 2006 by McChris

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Valleywag: User-generated content embarrasses Michael Arrington

While giving a talk on "User Generated Content" the TechCrunch founder pulled up a Twitter page about his talk. The founder of Flickr said on the page, "Every time I hear "UGC", a little part of me -- and everything I've ever believed in -- dies."

humor Web2.0 Flickr UGC Twitter
november 2006 by McChris

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A New Graduate Student's Guide to Cultural Studies

I think I'd run across Ellen Strenski's glossary before, but it was nice to be reminded that a "semiotic" is "at least 50% of an otic."

academic humor cultural_studies
october 2006 by McChris

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Stay Free! Daily: Get Grandma on IM!

Stay Free! provides readers with instant-messenger initialisms for golden girls.

humor chat youth
october 2006 by McChris

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subversive cross stitch: Truthiness!

Here's a Stephen Colbert-themed cross-stitch pattern.

TV fandom DIY craft humor
october 2006 by McChris

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Central Scrutinizer: “Web 2.0 ‘exit strategy’” badges
Web2.0 business design humor
october 2006 by McChris

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Ask Skeptic’s Mom: “What’s Tagging?”

Dead 2.0: "Hm, how would you classify tagging? is it a service? a function?"

Web2.0 folksonomy del.icio.us Flickr humor
september 2006 by McChris

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Stay Free! Daily: Frappuccino and brimstone

An amusing image from an Evangelical Lutheran church in the Atlanta suburbs.

starbucks evangelical coffee humor
september 2006 by McChris

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David Rees: How to Look at People on a Roof

The creator of the comic "Get Your War On" remembers Hurricane Katrina with a creative interactive piece.

disaster politics race humor
august 2006 by McChris

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Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster in Lego
toys humor satire politics awesome
august 2006 by McChris

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The seven ways that people search the Web. By Paul Boutin

Via Slashdot, this story provides a humorous analysis of the search "data set" AOL leaked to the web. I have to confess that I sometimes make "Basket Case" style searches, then click on blog results, just to make people wonder.

searchengine privacy humor
august 2006 by McChris

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Rabbit's Eternal Truths of the Workplace

Scroll down for Heather Havrilesky's demystification of office culture. Take that Mary Tyler Moore!

labor humor blog
august 2006 by McChris

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Top 10 Overlooked Moments in MTV History

My friend Marjorie contributed to this list. I'd add Thurston Moore's interview with Beck on 120 Minutes. Beck responded to one of Moore's questions by taking off his boot and throwing it at a backdrop, producing an audible thud.

TV cable history music humor
august 2006 by McChris

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ihumpedyourhummer: Manifesto

This site is designed for sharing images and videos of direct action against Hummer trucks.

environmentalism transportation energy humor activism
august 2006 by McChris

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Behind The Typeface: Cooper Black

This Flash animation takes a humorous look at the underused Cooper Black typeface.

typography Flash history humor
august 2006 by McChris

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yh collab: redesign famous logos in web 2.0 format!

Yay Hooray! users submit logos of mostly old-economy companies rendered with lots of Web 2.0 gradient goodness. You have to dig through the forum, but there's some winners like the Wu 2.0 branding.

humor Web2.0 design
july 2006 by McChris

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Tuned In: Fake-News Synergy? You Can't Make This Stuff Up

Viacom maybe interested in purchasing The Onion to complement The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report.

business TV newspaper synergy humor
july 2006 by McChris

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Cat and Girl: Bohemians

"A bohemian is just someone waiting to hear back from grad school."

comics subculture humor
july 2006 by McChris

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Shell Game: Fun for command-line geeks

This must be the Unix geek equivalent to spelling words on an upside-down calculator screen.

geek humor OSX
june 2006 by McChris

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Eight Ways to Kill Someone by Using an iPod Nano

I just now saw this McSweeney's item.

iPod humor
june 2006 by McChris

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Kurt Cobain's Suicide Letter vs. Google AdSense

Cory Arcangel has created a page with Kurt Cobain's suicide note embedded with Google AdSense ads to see what the contextual algorithm will drop in the text. I had to whitelist AdSense in my Adblock extension for it to work.

music punk google hack advertising art humor
june 2006 by McChris

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Unhappy Hour - New York Times

The author has a negative response to hearing Brian Eno's "Thursday Afternoon" in a bar. Phillistines...

ambient drone music humor awesome
june 2006 by McChris

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Jon Udell: Earth to Google PR

I don't have the geek chops that Mr. Udell has, but stuff like this would happen all too frequently when I was writing for computer magazines.

journalism publicrelations google humor
june 2006 by McChris

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Digital Poetics: The X-Men Surrealists

"Sure the pace of X-Men is faster, and it's less pretentious, and less aggressively self-conscious, but on the sheer level of images, it's as striking as the Cremaster cycle."

film animation humor
june 2006 by McChris

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Reason: The Beast That Will Not Die

Hate cartoonist Peter Bagge outlines problems with the War on Drugs.

humor drugs publicpolicy comics
may 2006 by McChris

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Dear NSA

"Mining our collective wisdom since 2001 — we really listen to your problems!"

humor surveillance
may 2006 by McChris

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Cat and Girl: Prognostication

Cat and Girl discuss the utility of Web 2.0.

humor meme tasteless comics Web2.0
may 2006 by McChris

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Web 2.0 Startup - The Business Model
ajax humor business del.icio.us Web2.0
may 2006 by McChris

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Colbert Does the White House Correspondents' dinner

Crooks and Liars entry with video of Stephen Colbert's address to the president and press. It's hard to imagine anyone taking "re-arranging the deck chairs on the Hindenberg" in stride.

humor awesome politics video TVontheWeb satire
april 2006 by McChris

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LASIK@Home

Do-it-yourself LASIK vision correction kits.

DIY humor vision
april 2006 by McChris

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Arrested Development by Chase Black

Visual mashup of Star Wars and "Arrested Development."

humor TV film fandom
april 2006 by McChris

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Urban Legends Reference Pages: Giant Rabbit

Yeah, that 17lb bunny is furreal? I wonder why they breed bunnies that big. Do they eat them?

weird humor
april 2006 by McChris

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Gotta Ditch the Fanny Pack, Dude

Amusing WiReD column about bags for carrying around electronic gadgets. I do think people of my generation and younger don't view messenger bags or "satchels" as feminine. I certainly don't feel insecure about my silver-and-blue bag looking like a "man pu

geek gender humor
april 2006 by McChris

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AlterNet: Roomba Cockfight

Analee Newitz discusses hacking Roombas for "cockfighting." I'm not sure if the last graf is pure humor or if she did want to make the point that many companies do regard hardware hacking as dangerous.

hack power humor copyright
april 2006 by McChris

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Google Romance

Google's April Fool's prank this year is pretty funny, especially the line about "I'm feeling lucky."

google humor searchengine
april 2006 by McChris

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Wisconsin Wise Guys Plot TV Takeover

"Ex-Onion writers shake up A tired comedy landscape"

TV media humor
march 2006 by McChris

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Pre-pixelated clothes for Reality TV shows

Too bad they're junky Cafe Press items. Pixels are fun.

TV thereal geek humor
march 2006 by McChris

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Shadows acquires del.icio.us

A gag photo by Prentiss Riddle

del.icio.us Web2.0 folksonomy humor geek
march 2006 by McChris

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SXSW Guidelines redux

Austin advice for visitors by my former apartment manager.

austin sxsw humor localism
march 2006 by McChris

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Cerado's Web 2.0 or Star Wars Quiz

I'm not even going to try.

Web2.0 film humor hype
march 2006 by McChris

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Splasho - Firefox Screenshot

sweet sassy molassy, this guy has 100 Firefox extensions installed in his browser, and he says it's stable. I say it's a stable of extensions!

firefox opensource humor browser
march 2006 by McChris

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Mega Floppy 2006

oh my, a "USB Floppy Disk Striped RAID" now that's the kind of fault-tolerance I need.

geek humor oldmedia
march 2006 by McChris

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new South Dakota logo

tacky, yet apt

feminism politics humor
march 2006 by McChris

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Warning Signs for the Web

The last one is a little tasteless, but these signs are probably needed.

humor geek webdesign
march 2006 by McChris

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Kircher’s Cat Piano

I wrote a paper about Kircher for math class junior year, and I remember thinking the cat piano was funny. The paper was about computational music composition.

music math humor
february 2006 by McChris

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