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Tuesday, 17th August 2010

Substandard journalism warning stickers.

Pasting warning labels over crappy newspapers

Great idea by geek comedian, Tom Scott.

Tags:
  • funny, newspaper, sticker
 
Tuesday, 17th August 2010

Caspar Milquetoast speaks softly and gets hit with a big stick.

A classic comic strip character from the 1920s by H. T. Webster

Because he’s weak, ineffectual, plain and unadventurous.

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  • classic, comic, milquetoast, wry
 
Monday, 16th August 2010

What a difference a decade makes.

Welcome to the new decade. Java is a restricted platform, Google is evil, Apple is a monopoly and Microsoft are the underdogs.

›› A little Twitter cleverness amidst all that noise

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  • apple, evil, google, java, microsoft, monopoly
 
Wednesday, 4th August 2010

A social media strategy, just for you.

Increase organic growth by exposing audiences to the brand through breakthrough viral communications

›› An indispensable social media strategy generator

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  • brand, bullshit, community, generator, social networking, viral
 
Tuesday, 3rd August 2010

Academic website analysis chart.

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  • architecture, chart, content, funny, university, Venn
 
Thursday, 3rd June 2010

Geeks and Nerds.

‘The definitions I grew up with were that a geek is someone unusually into something (so you could have computer geeks, baseball geeks, theater geeks, etc) and nerds are (often awkward) science, math, or computer geeks. But definitions vary.’

This Venn diagram comic may be a subset of this Venn diagram.

Tags:
  • diagram, discussion, geek, nerd, Venn, xkcd
 
Thursday, 13th May 2010

The secret of letterspacing.

The Bureau des affaires typographiques is a French type foundry with quirky (and occasionally lewd) sense of humour. Other than the Le Kerning video, there are two more – La Bonne idée and Le back office.

Tags:
  • font, foundry, french, funny, kerning, sex
 
Wednesday, 5th May 2010

Why the missus and I mostly disagree on the names of colours.

A funny, but all too true, graphic from xkcd, based on results from a colour survey

Based on a survey, it’s because she’s a girl and I’m a boy.

[Original graphic from DogHouse Diaries]

Tags:
  • colour, comic, men, name, women
 
Friday, 23rd April 2010

Spacebook.

Tags:
  • facebook, funny, future, star wars
 
Thursday, 15th April 2010

A funny Boey’s comic journal.

Fucking funny, I tell you… Click to see the punchline

Mr Boey is a Malaysian (presumably working in the US) with a talent for drawing on cups and for humour.

Tags:
  • comic, funny, life, malaysia
 
Tuesday, 6th April 2010

Real Fight Club soap.

The first rule of Fight Club should be to have a bath. The second rule would be to use real soap.

Watch the movie. Use the soap. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

Tags:
  • fight club, movie, soap
 
Monday, 22nd March 2010

A fake diamond ring for the real women.

A fake diamond ring!

Tags:
  • diamond, fake, jewellery, women
 
Thursday, 25th February 2010

Humour in computer manuals of old.

An old manual for the Franklin Ace 100 with a chapter heading titled “The Ancestral Territorial Imperatives of the Trumpeter Swan”. Got to love this brand of long-winded humour.

Tags:
  • computer, instruction, manual, retro
 
Monday, 1st February 2010

On the allure of Apple…

Apple excels at taking existing concepts – computers, MP3 players, conceit – and carefully streamlining them into glistening ergonomic chunks of concentrated aspiration.

›› Charlie Brooker ruminates over the iPad

Tags:
  • apple, charlie brooker, computer, device, iphone, marketing
 
Wednesday, 20th January 2010

Check out the hook… while my DJ revolves it.

Totally random picture, yo!

Seriously… WTF?

Tags:
  • dj, hook, musician, random, vanilla ice, weird
 
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