Tag: Humor

I don’t like to linkblog, but if I post it in more appropriate feeds, it’s not going to reach the people I want it to.

Check out this example of a true Chicago Super Fan.

My Purdue friends will enjoy this one.

I think Chris is going to have to change the name of his conference. My iPhone insists that Gnomedex is a misspelling of Gnomesex.

A note to the HD DVD folks: You can’t just pick up mercury with your fingers. It breaks into dozens of little pieces. Sort of like this:

Thanks to DB for pointing out a particularly funny post.

Josh Bancroft’s famous “think small” photo has been turned into a lolgeek, not to be confused with a lolcat.

Your results:
You are Iron Man

Iron Man 85% Superman 75% Spider-Man 65% Green Lantern 65% Hulk 65% Robin 50% The Flash 50% Supergirl 48% Batman 40% Wonder Woman 33% Catwoman 25%

Inventor. Businessman. Genius.

It must have been frightening for my neighbors to see this big guy running around, laughing into the cold night air.

I just couldn’t help myself. The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman (a.k.a. PC from the Apple commercials) is very funny. Download it for free (via Marusin) from iTunes while you can.

This daye, goode Jason Kottke dide poynte oute thatte Geoffrey Chaucer hath a moste intyrestinge blog.

Today’s Rocketboom is brilliant. I think Andrew is doing a great job of handling the transition from Amanda to Joanne.

After reading the comments, it’s clear that there are a lot people who don’t agree. They’re trying to find any reason to proclaim the death of Rocketboom. In this case, it’s the degraded audio and video quality of this episode. Never mind the fact that it was intentional. (I’m guessing these people wouldn’t think much of Guided by Voices or Sebadoh, either. Their loss.)

This reminds me of the howls of the bad old Mac users when OS X first arrived. If it were up to them, we’d still be using that old, decrepit OS rather than the powerful, dependable OS everyone has grown to love. (Let me take this opportunity to blow my own horn. I loved OS X from the beginning. I started using it as my primary OS the day it came out.)