Pinboard: bookmarks for threedaymonk tagged 'humour'

Delightful reviews of the Mr Men books. ‘Are we about to bear witness to class war, Hargreaves-style? To see Mr Uppity brought to account by the revolutionary power of the proletariat?’

amazon reviews humour
may 2011 by threedaymonk

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Fail Cthulhu
art humour twitter
may 2011 by threedaymonk

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The Website is Down
humour video
march 2011 by threedaymonk

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Things Real People Don't Say About Your App
webdev internet humour
february 2011 by threedaymonk

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Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development

Very droll.

agile enterprise methodology humour
february 2011 by threedaymonk

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Gentleman's Dictionary and Usage: Breakfast

‘An Englishman's mother will offer him tea as first response medical aid even if his arm has been severed by a combine harvester.’

humour uk breakfast
january 2011 by threedaymonk

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The iPhone is the market’s Fisher Price smartphone: It’s time to reach beyond!

Entertaining and provocative: ‘being seen in public with an iPhone as your primary handset? No. That puts you in the Vicky Pollard demographic.’

humour mobile iphone
january 2011 by threedaymonk

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Normal in Shoreditch™

‘It all started when Alex couldn't find a nice, normal bath towel in Shoreditch.’

london humour local shoreditch
january 2011 by threedaymonk

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I F***ing Hate New Year’s Eve
humour culture uk
january 2011 by threedaymonk

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Cake Versus Pie: A Scientific Approach

‘When you compare the data, it is clear that pie is a better choice.’

humour food cake pie
july 2010 by threedaymonk

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Stuff

World War II is so unbelievable.

satire politics war history humour
july 2010 by threedaymonk

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What a moron...

A honeypot (well, tar pit, really) for junk callers. Some of them are remarkably persistent.

humour telephony
july 2010 by threedaymonk

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C Spangled

Brilliant satire.

programming satire humour
july 2010 by threedaymonk

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AT-AT DAY AFTERNOON
video humour
june 2010 by threedaymonk

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The Swinger

‘The Swinger is a bit of python code that takes any song and makes it swing.’ Yes: even Sweet Child O’ Mine.

audio music python humour
june 2010 by threedaymonk

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CSS sucks v2 Shirt
webdev css humour clothing
may 2010 by threedaymonk

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New Programming Jargon

I especially like ‘shrug report’.

programming language humour
may 2010 by threedaymonk

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Down with dogs. All dogs.

‘Dangerous dogs are a menace. But the rest of the species are bloody annoying too.’

dogs pets animals society humour
march 2010 by threedaymonk

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Homeopathy vs Science - a Metaphor

Hilarious, and a great use of the classic Shatter Resistant ruler.

homeopathy quackery humour science
february 2010 by threedaymonk

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The Internet? Bah!

Cynicism about the internet from 1995. Reads like satire from a 2010 perspective.

internet culture prediction humour
february 2010 by threedaymonk

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Android Bug Reports, Songs, Rovers « xkcd

‘Sometimes, when arranging home screen icons, you feel sad and you’re not sure why.’

android humour bug
february 2010 by threedaymonk

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lolcat scrabble
humour photography animals cats
january 2010 by threedaymonk

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11 Most Painfully Obvious Newspaper Articles Ever
humour news journalism newspapers
january 2010 by threedaymonk

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Sleep Talkin’ Man

This woman writes down the things her husband says in his sleep. Very strange and hilarious.

humour weird sleeptalking
january 2010 by threedaymonk

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John Resig: JavaScript's Chuck Norris

‘John Resig doesn’t query the DOM, he just glances at it and gets all the elements he was expecting.’

javascript programming humour
december 2009 by threedaymonk

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Why on earth has Accenture ditched Tiger Woods?

‘Surely Tiger’s decision to outsouce sexual services to a range of competing providers is in line with Management Consultancy’s established best practice?’ Hilarious.

humour sport management advertising
december 2009 by threedaymonk

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a Roman thought: Ten tips for driving in Italy

Hilarious and terrifying.

culture driving transport cars italy humour
november 2009 by threedaymonk

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Palabras Textuales - Educando al soberano

People saying dumb stuff about computers/design/etc. In Spanish.

humour español spanish computers design
august 2009 by threedaymonk

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How 31 Year Olds Consume Media

‘We have no idea why a lad who should be wanking, drinking Merrydown cider in a graveyard and listening to Radiohead is writing plausible memos for an evil merchant bank.’ Glorious.

humour internet media twitter sociology
july 2009 by threedaymonk

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Palin's Resignation: The Edited Version

‘Just how poorly constructed was the governor’s holiday-weekend address? We asked [Vanity Fair]’s red-pencil-wielding executive literary editor, Wayne Lawson, together with representatives from the research and copy departments, to whip it into publishable shape. Here is the colorful result.’

politics us journalism grammar writing palin humour
july 2009 by threedaymonk

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Most expensive javascript ever?

If you’re trying to sell to Opera, make sure that you don't have a line of JavaScript specifically to deny their browser access to your admin screen.

javascript browser business opera humour
july 2009 by threedaymonk

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Gary: Landlord of the Flies
humour housing blogs
july 2009 by threedaymonk

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NSFW Map

Have a puerile laugh at rude place names. Brilliant.

humour maps
july 2009 by threedaymonk

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All-purpose tanuki testicles (prints by Kuniyoshi)
tanuki weird japan art ukiyoe humour kuniyoshi
july 2009 by threedaymonk

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Chimney Sweep's Scrotum: 10 Bizarre Job-Related Illnesses
humour health work
june 2009 by threedaymonk

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Louis Vuitton bin bag
humour fashion design
june 2009 by threedaymonk

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Ugliest Tattoos

Lots of fun to be had here.

humour tattoos
june 2009 by threedaymonk

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YouTube - Snatch Wars (Snatch Vs Star Wars)
humour video starwars mashup
june 2009 by threedaymonk

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Obama Drastically Scales Back Goals For America After Visiting Denny's

New goals include ‘not leaving the house in sweatpants’.

humour us obama theonion
june 2009 by threedaymonk

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MY MILK TOOF

Cutest thing ever.

humour cute photography
june 2009 by threedaymonk

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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
humour programming
may 2009 by threedaymonk

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The Biology of B-Movie Monsters
weird science physics biology humour
may 2009 by threedaymonk

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Keeping Abreast of Pornographic Research in Computer Science

‘It is evident from his web page that he has a sense of humour, which explains the superbly descriptive title for his 1996 paper, Finding Naked People.’

weird compsci humour porn algorithms research
april 2009 by threedaymonk

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Racial Awareness

‘This is a new low from the PR industry, surely?’

pr humour
april 2009 by threedaymonk

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Tracking UK Liberal Indecency

Graph of swearing in the Guardian over time. Fear not, though, because ‘even a liberal rag like the Grauniad seems to be pretty resistant to the tidal wave of filth [...]’

humour language statistics visualisation journalism
april 2009 by threedaymonk

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RAT TRADERS

‘This following text and pictures illustrate an experiment I undertook that involved training laboratory standard rats in trading in the Foreign Exchange and Commodity Futures markets with the effect that I managed to outperform some of the world' s leading Human Fund managers.’ If this isn’t genius, I don’t know what is.

weird science economics finance humour
march 2009 by threedaymonk

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Chinese fight internet censors with "Grass Mud Horse" cuddly toy
china censorship humour
march 2009 by threedaymonk

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Carlsberg in Irish - Commercial

Explained in the comments.

humour gaeilge
march 2009 by threedaymonk

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Rail fares: we've gone from passengers to customers to mugs

Lovely rant.

transport uk trains humour
february 2009 by threedaymonk

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Japan Pledges To Halt Production Of Weirdo Porn That Makes People Puke

Timely humour from the Onion.

japan humour
february 2009 by threedaymonk

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Essential Life Lesson #1: Over is Right, Under is Wrong

Science explains the One True Way to install toilet roll.

humour science toilet
february 2009 by threedaymonk

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Barack Obama is tired of your motherfucking shit
humour audio mp3 obama profanity
february 2009 by threedaymonk

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Email From America

‘We [...] would like to apologize for our 2001-2008 interruption in service.’

humour us politics
january 2009 by threedaymonk

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Benny Hillifier

Takes a video, speeds it up, and replaces the soundtrack with that music.

humour video music
january 2009 by threedaymonk

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Letter to Russia with krokozyabry

‘This letter was sent to a Russian student by her French friend, who manually wrote the address that he received by e-mail. His e-mail client, unfortunately, was not set up correctly to display Cyrillic characters, so they were substituted with diacritic symbols from the Western charset (ISO-8859-1).’ The Russian postal service nonetheless deciphered and delivered the package.

mojibake russian humour
january 2009 by threedaymonk

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Look Around You - Calcium (pilot episode) Part 1

Entertainingly misinformational parody of 80s scientific educational TV programmes.

humour science tv education uk
december 2008 by threedaymonk

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UK TO BOYCOTT ALL GERMAN GOODS, EXCEPT CARS, BEER, KITCHEN APPLIANCES, ADIDAS AND KINDER SURPRISE

‘Meanwhile, the British “economy” seems to be based on selling each other money so that we can buy high quality German goods.’ Satire that’s close to the bone.

humour satire economy uk germany
december 2008 by threedaymonk

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The 7 Dumbest Things Ever Done by Airport Security

Funny. And sad.

humour travel airline security
december 2008 by threedaymonk

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Burlesque Matinée at the Max Planck Gesellschaft

Highbrow German publication publishes lewd invitation on its cover instead of the intended classical Chinese poem. Their excuse is unconvincing.

chinese germany humour hanzi commented
december 2008 by threedaymonk

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Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective

The best thing I’ve read this week.