The Chocolate Pie Chart is 70% milk, 20% dark, 10% white chocolate and 100% recommended for those whose investment portfolio charts don’t look as sweet in the current economic climate.

Apparently, rearranging the letters of ‘William Shakespeare’ gives us some real gems.

• I am a weakish speller.
• I’ll make a wise phrase.
• Hear me as I will speak.
• Alas! I’m shrew-like ape.
• Wise male: ah, I sparkle!
• I make Lear’s wish pale.
• I shape warlike males.
• A wee phrase? I am skill!
• Lame Swahili speaker.

[Via Anagram Genius]

A true case of being lost in translation. An error of this magnitude must be both laughable and infuriating.

[The] last time AC/DC made No 1 in Britain, the country was on the brink of recession. Back In Black, the album that marked their commercial breakthrough and went on to become the second biggest-selling of all time, was released in 1980, just as inflation had reached 20% and unemployment inched towards 2 million.

›› The Guardian analyses the timings of AC/DC’s chart successes

These are the same guys who were from that Budweiser television commercial eight years ago. Brilliant!

JULY 11, 2039: Bill Clinton, ninety-two, dies on the same day Chinese Democracy II is released.

›› Chuck Klosterman looks to the future on Esquire.com

So a couple days (or was it weeks) ago, I saw this comic from the ever excellent xkcd and thought it was pretty funny. Today, I find out that YouTube really implemented it!

The audio playback is pretty good (though it unsurprisingly muddles through lorem ipsum text). One can only hope users guilty of idiot comments will suffer unspeakable blows to their self-esteem from this new feature.

Given his age, John McCain is more likely to have invented the Phonograph or something.

Helvetica looked at Arial and remarked, “You’re ugly”.
Arial replied “Well, Aksidenz do happen”

What type of diabetes is a graphic designer most likely to get diagnosed with?
Type 1 →

A typographer’s favorite hotel in Las Vegas/casino in Singapore?
The Sans →

A font walks into a bar. The bartender says “Hey, we don’t serve your type here” and he called the Serif.

What typeface do fish fear most?
Gill Sans

Favourite Bob Marley song
“I Shot The Serif”

Favourite Madonna song
“Justify My Love”

Why did the graphic designer go see the psychic?
He wanted to see what was in his Futura.

Arial looked at Helvetica and remarked, “You’re ugly”.
Helvetica replied “Well, you’re no Ms Univers yourself!”

Oh, you should also check out the webcam feeds from the LHC.

If you’re a fan of Family Guy, you’ll bloody love the Seth McFarlane’s YouTube channel Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy. Despite the big name commercial sponsor (yeah, I am suspicious and cynical like that), the Cavalcade seems a promising and funny web series.

Sleevefacing is defined as ‘one or more persons obscuring or augmenting any part of their body or bodies with record sleeve(s) causing an illusion’. I saw some of these a few months ago but completely forgot about it, but on the interwebs, nothing remains forgotten for too long.

Uhmmm… can I have that in size 12 to go please? I’m loving it!