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xkcd: University Website
a checklist for your next usability review of a .edu site. (if we had wanted the site to be usable, we'd have kept gopher)
comic  funny  university  usability  xkcd 
january 2011 by vielmetti
Thought of a Day
At any rate, now it's been linked by Gruber and Chart Porn and Huffington and Laughing Squid and probably other places but I'm tired of Google for a few seconds. Like I said, it's sad, and one reason is that the joke is funny but it fails to get at the real problem with this whole TSA nonsense, which is that it's nonsense. It serves no purpose except to make air travel slower and more uncomfortable.

But the true sadness is that this image isn't a Venn diagram, as you can easily see:
funny  ontology  tsa 
december 2010 by vielmetti
Groupon Thesaurus
hands = wrist-mitts, finger-docks, arm paddles, cheek slappers, open-faced knuckle sandwiches, Michigan silhouettes (only use in Midwest), turkey tracers/stencils, clapping utensils (good for events), knuckle wagons, 5-pronged pals, knuckle steaks, shake traps, high-five dispensers, nail farms, finger farms
language  groupon  michigan  funny 
december 2010 by vielmetti
Untitled 1 - Boing Boing
Untitled 1
Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, April 24, 2008 2:16 PM | permalink
internet  socialmedia  funny  boingboing  meta  so-meta-it-hurts 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Farberisms
David Farber, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Delaware, has been known to utter strange and wondrous remarks, which his students have dutifully recorded. Here is a sample.
funny  language  education  humor  quotes  farber  farber  david 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Paulson 419 | ebogjonson.com
I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you.
419  funny  ha-ha-only-serious 
september 2008 by vielmetti
Chillax - The Boston Globe
Funner. Impactful. Blowiest. Territorialism. Multifunctionality. Dialoguey. Dancey. Thrifting. Chillaxing. Anonymized. Interestinger. Wackaloon. Updatelette. Noirish. Huger. Domainless. Delegator. Photocentric. Relationshippy. Bestest. Zoomable.
chill+relax  chillax  writing  creativity  funny  language  words  english  via:bkerr  via:strudeau 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Bug 448604 – Can't get out of Whistler
bugzilla log from the firefox team trapped in Whistler BC because of a rock slide
funny  news  firefox  humor  canada  mozilla  vancouver  rocks  bugs  bears  buses  whistler  we-gave-you-these-rocks  we-gave-you-these-bears  moz08 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Whatever: How to Make a Schadenfreude Pie
I wondered to myself, "what would Schadenfreude Pie taste like?" / My guess: Dark. Rich. And oh so bittersweet.

Schadenfreude pie,
Schadenfreude pie,
I think that I will get some,
If someone else would die.

With apologies to Dennis Lee.
cooking  recipe  funny  recipes  sidebar  schadenfreude  pie  joy-in-the-misfortune-of-others  food  writing  desserts  scalzi 
july 2008 by vielmetti
Baby’s First Internet - The Morning News
It doesn’t matter what you say / just publish it twelve times per day.
comics  funny  humor  internet  toread  ha-ha-only-serious 
july 2008 by vielmetti
LOL together - right now - OMG
this is really quite awesome, in its own filk way - omgwtfbbq
beatles  funny  humor  lolcat  lolcats  music  filk  lol-together-right-now-omg 
june 2008 by vielmetti
One Laptop Per Child warning stickers
"Do not type with your feet"; "The laptop will not bring rain"
warning  olpc  funny  ha-ha-only-serious  via:gen 
june 2008 by vielmetti
'The Book of my Enemy Has Been Remaindered' - Clive James
The book of my enemy has been remaindered // And I am pleased.
free  funny  humor  poem  poetry  writing  books  publishing 
february 2008 by vielmetti
I Love You, but You Love Meat - New York Times
who, like her, is an adventurous and omnivorous eater. Now, she said, she could not be happier. “A relationship is about giving and receiving, and he loves what I cook, and I love to cook for him,” she said.
funny  nyt  food  recipes  diet  omnivores-make-better-lovers 
february 2008 by vielmetti
Calculated Risk: In Re Foreclosure Cases
“Fluidity of the market” — “X” dollars, “contractual arrangements between institutions and counsel” — “X” dollars, “purchasing mortgages in bulk and securitizing” — “X” dollars, “rush to file, slow to record after judgment
finance  funny  subprime  legal  law  securitization  credit-crunch  jurisprudence 
november 2007 by vielmetti
The world's first and only stand-up economist
Economics humor has a new home: the Miscellany section of Economic Inquiry!
economics  funny  humor 
november 2007 by vielmetti
Restaurant review: Divo, 12 Waterloo Place, London SW1 | Food and drink | Life and Health
There are many words I could use to describe the food served here, but this is a family newspaper and none of them should be available before the watershed. I can't deny my disappointment because the remaining candidates - awful, calamitous, the horror, t
funny  guardian  humor  restaurant  restaurants  review  reviews  foodie  uk 
november 2007 by vielmetti
corprewland :: LOLcat Wasteland
f teh river running, why not moving? / INVISIBLE WIND. / nymphoz gone. / river has trash no more.
lolcat  poetry  funny  sad  awesome  via:bkerr  t-s-eliot  lolpoetry 
october 2007 by vielmetti
184 - A Belgocentric Map of Europe « strange maps
The Netherlands has shrunk to a small, northern appendage that ‘speaks a dialect of Flemish’. France ‘speaks a dialect of Walloon’, and West Germany (‘speaks dialect of Luxembourgeois’) – which is all sort of true, come to think of it.
strangemaps  neogeography  geo  belgium  luxembourgeois  language  dialect  funny 
october 2007 by vielmetti
The Journal of Joe The Peacock. Yay.: An unordered list of thoughts I had during a conference call with a potential client today
Wait... First you wanted to clone Digg... Then you wanted to "add the social aspects of Facebook to it," and NOW you want it to be Wikipedia? Where the HELL did you spend your morning? In the "Web 2.0 Company Names to Memorize" symposium?
2007  backlash  comedy  consulting  design  facebook  funny  internet  bubble  party-like-its-1999 
october 2007 by vielmetti
Linguistic humor
decafalon the grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you
fun  funny  humor  language  wordie 
october 2007 by vielmetti
New Google Adwords Formula = Just Pay Us More
You gotta love the quality score, it’s mystery factor X, pretty much allowing us to get whatever number we want on the other end. It’s like simple algebra, and we googlers love maths. We could have just said “we’re going to take the most you are w
advertising  adwords  funny  ppc  seo  sem  google  quality-score 
august 2007 by vielmetti
Poet Takes Extra 5 Minutes To Vague Up Poem | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
ANN ARBOR, MI—After completing a poem originally titled "Last Dawnbreak," local poet Keith Taylor spent five additional minutes removing verbs and punctuation in order to give the piece a level of vagueness more suitable for publication.
annarbor  fun  funny  humor  poems  writing  poets  local  keith-taylor  orion-orion 
august 2007 by vielmetti
JON CARROLL: Unitarian Jihad
We will appear in public places and require people to shake hands with each other. (Sister Hand Grenade of Love suggested that we institute a terror regime of mandatory hugging, but her motion was not formally introduced because of lack of a quorum.)
fun  funny  via:whump  war  hugs  pineapple 
august 2007 by vielmetti
Detroit Sold For Scrap | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
Detroit, a former industrial metropolis in southeastern Michigan with a population of just under 1 million, was sold at auction Tuesday to bulk scrap dealers and smelting foundries across the United States.
awesome  funny  michigan  detroit  tiger-stadium 
july 2007 by vielmetti
LOL Feeds
every feed a lolfeed.
feeds  funny  humor  lolcats  news  rss  via:deusx 
june 2007 by vielmetti
SONGS TO WEAR PANTS TO
my favorite from this collection is "if the metro don't go there it don't exist" about the DC transportation system
funny  mp3  music 
april 2007 by vielmetti
Cats in Sinks - for all your cat and bathroom needs
What is Cats in Sinks? It's obvious. It's about cats. And kittens. Who like sinks. And basins.
via:shirky  cats  sinks  lolcats  funny  photos  wtf-mate 
april 2007 by vielmetti
The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel
As the 30th anniversary of the Alameda-Weehawken burrito tunnel approaches, it’s worth taking a look at the remarkable sequence of events that takes place between the time we click “deliver” on the burrito.nyc.us.gov website and the moment that our
burrito  eat  fiction  funny  tubes  via:deusx  via:revgeorge  mmm-burritos 
april 2007 by vielmetti
'Most E-Mailed' List Tearing New York Times' Newsroom Apart | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
A feature on the New York Times' website that lists the stories most e-mailed by readers is destroying morale and escalating tensions among the once-dignified and professional Times staff, sources within the newspaper of record said Tuesday.
attention  funny  informationarchitecture  journalism  newspapers  nytimes  analytics 
april 2007 by vielmetti
Fellowship of the Peep
some people have too much time on their hands. anyone for a Peeps of Warcraft?
peeps  funny  lotr 
april 2007 by vielmetti
www.imaleno.com - Those Chiseled Features
lots of people have the distinctive jay leno chin ?!
a2b3  jayleno  fun  funny  chin   
march 2007 by vielmetti
I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?
we has a myspace / pls be ar frenz!! add icanhascheezburger.
animals  blog  cats  funny  images  photoblog  photos  pictures  wtf-mate  via:bkerr 
march 2007 by vielmetti
Lance Steele | Oort-Cloud
Lieutenant Lance Steele of the Galactic Patrol scowled with grim determination. His airship’s engines didn’t behave like diesels, the weather was implausible, the sentence structure was a nightmare, and his characters wanted to pitch the obvious Russi
scifi  fiction  character  fun  funny 
march 2007 by vielmetti
Photos: cell phone charger
"macgyvering a cell phone charger" during a power outage
funny 
january 2007 by vielmetti
indexed
daily index card full of venn diagram humor.
analog  blog  cards  funny  indexcards  index  logic  paper  sketching  ui  visualization 
december 2006 by vielmetti
Cognitive Edge: They did not respect or sit still for the devotional sacrifice
Socrates: And the cause of this surprising change in fortune?

Glaucon: I did what you suggested. I listened to the women

Socrates: What did they tell you?

Glaucon: Many things. But in short they said to make boundaries, create attractors, stabili
planning  management  chaos  via:jimmcgee  funny  birthday  kids 
november 2006 by vielmetti
Frito-Lay Angrily Introduces Line Of Healthy Snacks
In January, Frito-Lay will launch a Flat Earth marketing campaign based on the slogan, "Bet You Can't Eat Even One."
health  humor  funny 
november 2006 by vielmetti
Beyond the Beyond: Overheard at IDEA 2006
Bruce Sterling's mashup of two days of talks at Idea. Did we really sound like this? Yup.
funny  futurism  ideas  quotes  conference  idea2006  language 
october 2006 by vielmetti
The Turbo-Encabulator in Industry
once retro turbo-encabulation becomes the new craze, watch for shortages of key raw materials
funny  technology  usability  via:hackers 
april 2006 by vielmetti
Wikipedia | Edward Vielmetti
Wikipedia generally frowns on self-promotion, but I'll try to make it longer, Brian.
wikipedia  funny 
september 2005 by vielmetti
I link therefore I am
the risks of being online too much; presumed satire
funny  online  community  virtual  weblog 
may 2005 by vielmetti
Institute for Backup Trauma
John Cleese in this 7 min anti-tape, pro-disk funny video ad
cleese  backups  tape  ihatetape  funny 
april 2005 by vielmetti

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