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This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix - on xkcd (and a subjective best of)

Mon, 26 May 2008 15:54:46 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: The New York Times did an article on Randall Munroe, the mind behind xkcd, a geeky web-comic.

I clipped his best comics, but feel free to explore them further at his site http://xkcd.com.

I also added the talk he did at Authors@Google (see the bottom of this clip).

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix

FOR a certain subset of Internet users, “Sudo make me a sandwich” may as well be “Take my wife ... please.”

Perhaps some explanation is in order. Before giving up the goods, however, we should heed the warning of Randall Munroe, the 23-year-old creator of xkcd, a hugely popular online comic strip (at least among computer programmers) where the sandwich line appeared.

Clip Source: xkcd.com

Stove Ownership

Clip Source: xkcd.com

Techno

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Overqualified

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Venting

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Large Hadron Collider

Clip Source: xkcd.com

Morning

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Kilobyte

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Duty Calls

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Success

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Photoshops

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Turing Test

Clip Source: xkcd.com

Ballmer Peak

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Facebook

Clip Source: xkcd.com

Wikipedian Protester

Clip Source: xkcd.com

Regarding Mussolini

Clip Source: xkcd.com

Snopes

Clip Source: xkcd.com

The Difference

Clip Source: xkcd.com

Regular Expressions

Clip Source: xkcd.com

YouTube

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Automatic Doors

Clip Source: xkcd.com

String Theory

Clip Source: xkcd.com

Beliefs

Clip Source: xkcd.com

Grownups

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Sandwich

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Bored with the Internet

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: xkcd, comic, comics, cartoon, munroe, fun, humor, funny, geek

The Journal of Cartoon Over-analyzations

Sat, 10 May 2008 16:59:08 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: Looks like a wonderful blog

Clip Source: cartoonoveranalyzations.com

The Journal of Cartoon Over-analyzations

Clip Source: cartoonoveranalyzations.com

Are there existential dilemmas in Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends? Does Brad Bird’s oeuvre contain creepy Objectivist subtext? Is there a Lorenzo Music/Bill Murray Ghostbusters-Garfield conspiracy? Were Paw Paw Bears simply evolved Snorks with a totemic religion? Or maybe Scooby and Shaggy, like, totally smoked weed, man. These and other questions require more than careful analysis. They demand over-analyzation.

This site thrives on reader submissions.

we’re beseeching you, the audience: send us your half-baked theories and misguided essays! (They don’t even have to be long, that’s what Mini-Analyzations are for.)

from the archives

Tags: humor, society, cartoon, cartoons, analysis, funny, philosophy

Howto Respond to a Cease & Desist Letter (Monster vs Blue Jeans)

Sat, 03 May 2008 12:17:16 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes

Clip Source: www.ohgizmo.com

Monster Cable Threatens Blue Jeans Cable, Gets Ass Handed Back

Most recently, Monster Cable has sent a cease and desist letter to Blue Jeans Cable, claiming patent infringement on its RCA connectors.

Happily, the president of Blue Jeans Cable, Kurt Denke, spent 20 years as a lawyer and knows how to respond to what are apparently frivolous threats:

if, like me, you enjoy watching smart people stand up to gigantic companies arrogantly trying to muscle their way around, you’ll get a kick out of the whole thing.

Tags: howto, legal, letter, blue jeans, monster, cable, network, funny, humor

12 Key Characteristics of the Dynamic Optimist

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 12:19:54 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: Via wildcat's clip Dynamic Optimism

Clip Source: www.maxmore.com

DYNAMIC OPTIMISM

The twelve key characteristics of the dynamic optimist can be stated briefly but take practice and wisdom to implement consistently.

INTERPRETING EXPERIENCE POSITIVELY:

(1) Selective Focus:

(2) Refraining from Complaining:

(3) Questioning Limits:

A fundamental creative openness to possibilities.

(4) Sense of Abundance:

Recognizing the world to be full of opportunities.

(5) Humor:

INFLUENCING OUTCOMES POSITIVELY:

(6) Rational:

(7) Self-Improving:

Optimists see the self as a process and seek continual improvement.

(8) Experimental:

Frequently trying fresh approaches

(9) Self-Confident:

(10) Self-Worth:

(11) Personal Responsibility:

Being aware of how we determine our chances of success.

(12) Selecting Environment:

Being attracted to positive people and situations. Seeking out those who will support and inspire, not discourage, distract, and undermine.

Clip Source: clipmarks.com

DYNAMIC OPTIMISM

clipped by

wildcat

Tags: optimism, dynamic optimism, howto, life, psychology

Word Perhect : The Perfect Word processor

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:56:19 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: http://www.wordperhect.net/

Clip Source: www.donationcoder.com

As word processing software becomes ever more advanced, correcting syntax and spelling errors, these familiar programmes begin to impose a standardised corporate language onto our writing.

Takahashi has produced her own fully functioning online version which undermines this dehumanising process. Reclaiming the initiative back from the software...

http://www.wordperhect.net/

Tags: software, fun, humor, flash, word, word processor

Date Of Apple Backlash Set For March 21, 2008

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:18:35 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes

Clip Source: www.theonion.com

Date Of Apple Backlash Set For March 21, 2008

NEW YORK—In the face of Apple, Inc.'s 3- billionth iTunes sale and soaring stock price, some Wall Street forecasters are predicting that consumers will finally get fed up with the computer manufacturer's high retail prices and various product bugs sometime between March 20 and 22 of next year.

"At the current rate, we believe that at this time a sea change will occur in which people will look down at their glossy white or black devices and feel a sense of embarrassment and gullibility," Goldman Sachs analyst Steven Shore said. "They will realize that, despite all the sleek design, they got caught up in a wave of hype that made them shell out additional hundreds of dollars for options and features they didn't need. Until then, I would like to point out that my iPhone is awesome."

Tags: apple, humor, parody, business, ipod, iphone, hype

The Bastard Operator From Hell

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:44:02 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: See first or last link

Clip Source: members.iinet.com.au

The Bastard Operator From Hell
The Complete WWW Edition.

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

The Bastard Operator From Hell (BOFH), a fictional character created by Simon Travaglia, is a rogue system administrator who takes out his anger on users (his colleagues, bosses and anyone who gets in his way).

Clip Source: www.theregister.co.uk

BOFH

Tags: humor, fun, funny, computers, fiction, travaglia

List of Internet Phenomena / Memes

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:41:00 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Internet_memes
or
http://www.ultimatememedatabase.com/

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

List of Internet phenomena is a partial list of representative Internet memes (virally self-replicating content that spreads organically from person to person via the Internet).

Star Wars kid

Chuck Norris facts

The Bus Uncle

OK Go

Hurra Torpedo

Lemon Demon

JerryC

Jeong-Hyun Lim

Group X

All Your Base Are Belong To Us

Leeroy Jenkins

Line Rider

Giant Enemy Crab

"Do A Barrel Roll!"

Thriller performed by prison inmates in the Philipines

Impossible Is Nothing

Numa Numa

Evolution of Dance

Drama Prairie Dog

Chocolate Rain

Badger Badger Badger

Dancing baby

Hampster Dance

Loituma Girl

Peanut Butter Jelly Time

Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny

The Saugeen Stripper

Goatse.cx

The "O RLY?" Owl

lolcats

The Blair Witch Project

Snakes on a Plane

300

2channel

MySpace

Real Ultimate Power

YouTube

Mahir Çağrı

Randy Constan

You forgot Poland

External links

Memes on the Internet Article regarding the spread of Internet memes.

ultimatememedatabase Website about internet memes.

Tags: wiki, list, meme, internet, humor, fun, culture, internet meme

Baka RoboCup 2007 - A Comedy Cup for Robots

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 09:17:39 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes

Clip Source: www.pinktentacle.com

Bots play the fool at Baka RoboCup 2007

Baka RoboCup (baka means “foolish” or “stupid” in Japanese), a competition organized by entertainment giant Yoshimoto Kogyo, which is arguably Japan’s most influential comedy production company, will pit humorous robots against each other in a comedy throw-down this November. Organizers hope the contest will inspire roboticists to devote serious attention to the art of creating impractical (but entertaining) machines.

To qualify for the competition, aspiring baka-robo must satisfy 3 conditions: (1) they must be mechanical in nature (i.e. they must have moving parts), (2) they must serve no useful purpose (i.e. they must be as impractical and worthless as possible), and (3) they must make people laugh (with entertaining action, amusing features, systems that surprise or shock the audience, etc.).

Tags: comedy, humor, robots, robotics, technology, baka, japan, cup

SciTalks

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:49:09 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: SciTalks collects talks and lectures by scientists on a variety of topics.

Clip Source: www.scitalks.com

Clip Source: scitalks.wordpress.com

Scitalks is important and needed. In the general trend toward democratizing education, we hope that it can become an important tool for educators, home schoolers and those who are wanting to educate themselves.

Tags: science, podcast, video, resource, lecture, web 2.0

Newspapers are killing cartoonists

Mon, 14 May 2007 18:27:18 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes

Clip Source: www.cjrdaily.org

Newspapers are killing cartoonists

cartoonists have been silenced by "fearful editors" who avoid race, religion, corporate power, and other subjects that might offend. At the same time, they've been smothered by a play-nice media that "bends over backwards--and sometimes just bends over--to appease conservatives."

Since 1957 the number of full-time newspaper doodlers has fallen from 275 to eighty-four, with most cuts coming since 1980

less than one-tenth of American newspapers have staff cartoonists

newspapers increasingly opt to buy cartoons through syndication,

syndication tends to discourage controversial work and reward vanilla gags. The game is one of pleasing the greatest number of readers rather than distinguishing oneself through editorial fireworks

Cartoons excite readers in ways that editorial essays can't.

Tags: media, news, newspaper, cartoon, cartoons, humor, criticism, taboo

Jesus & Mo on Faith

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:20:45 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes

Clip Source: jesusandmo.net

Tags: jesus, muhammed, cartoon, humor, funny, faith, religion

Normal People vs. Scientists

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:39:24 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes

Clip Source: xkcd.com

Tags: science, xkcd, comic, cartoon, humor, funny

Climate skeptic on The Daily Show

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:21:48 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes

Clip Source: gristmill.grist.org

Climate skeptic Christopher Horner on The Daily Show

Christopher Horner, a fellow at the ~~American Enterprise Institute~~ [no, no! He works at the Competitive Enterprise Institute -- very different thing. Jon Stewart got it wrong too. My apologies. See comments.], has a book out called The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism. He appeared on The Daily Show last night. He seems like a genial guy, and he did OK as a guest, but were these really his leading talking points?

Tags: climate change, global warming, skeptic, climate change skeptic, denial, horner, christophe horner, daily show, jon stewart, fun, funny, humor, interview, hoax, conspiracy

Spam spam spam spam spam spam

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:31:07 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

Monty Python - Spam

508 ratings

Tags: spam, spam spam, monty python, flying circus, sketch, youtube, video, humor, funny