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Pasting warning labels over crappy newspapers

Great idea by geek comedian, Tom Scott.

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  • funny, newspaper, sticker

 
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  • classic, comic, milquetoast, wry

 

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

 

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

›› An indispensable social media strategy generator

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‘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.

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  • diagram, discussion, geek, nerd, Venn, xkcd

 

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.

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  • font, foundry, french, funny, kerning, sex

 

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]

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  • colour, comic, men, name, women

 

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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.

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  • comic, funny, life, malaysia

 

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.

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  • fight club, movie, soap

 

A fake diamond ring!

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  • diamond, fake, jewellery, women

 

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.

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  • computer, instruction, manual, retro

 

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

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  • apple, charlie brooker, computer, device, iphone, marketing

 

Totally random picture, yo!

Seriously… WTF?

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

 

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