99 articles in this selection
| 2010/07/20 Go Away
Weird email conversations by a graphic designer.
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| 2010/06/24 Rent a White Guy
Not long ago I was offered work as a quality-control expert with an American company in China I’d never heard of. No experience necessary—which was good, because I had none. I’d be paid $1,000 for a week, put up in a fancy hotel, and wined and dined in Dongying, an industrial city in Shandong province I’d also never heard of. The only requirements were a fair complexion and a suit....
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| 2010/05/04 Nullsoft Beep
Nullsoft Beep is an application that makes your computer sound like computers sound in the movies. It requires Windows 95 or later with DirectX 3 or later.
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| 2010/03/21 Upside-Down-Ternet
My neighbours are stealing my wireless internet access. I could encrypt it or alternately I could have fun.
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| 2010/03/05 IE6 Funeral
Internet Explorer Six, resident of the interwebs for over 8 years, died the morning of March 1, 2010 in Mountain View, California, as a result of a workplace injury sustained at the headquarters of Google, Inc. Internet Explorer Six, known to friends and family as "IE6," is survived by son Internet Explorer Seven, and grand-daughter Internet Explorer Eight.
Thanks to all who came out last night, and thanks Microsoft for sending flowers!...
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| 2010/02/22 Greg Rutter's Definitive List
Greg Rutter's Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Unless You're a Loser or Old or Something
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| 2010/01/31 What is the Monkeysphere?
What do monkeys have to do with war, oppression, crime, racism and even e-mail spam? You'll see that all of the random ass-headed cruelty of the world will suddenly make perfect sense once we go Inside the Monkeysphere.
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| 2010/01/16 Snake-Oil Alert: Denon Sells ‘Audiophile’ Ethernet Cable for $500
Denon is hawking an ethernet cable for an astonishing $500. How can the company possibly justify this quite ludicrous markup on what is essentially a tube for shifting ones and noughts across the network? As you might have guessed, it’s because the “ultra premium Denon Link cable was designed for the audio enthusiast“....
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| 2009/12/29 Heinlein's fan-mail solution
Heinlein engineered his own nerdy solution to a problem common to famous authors: how to deal with fan mail. In the days before the internet, Heinlein's solution was fabulous. He created a one page FAQ answer sheet -- minus the questions. Then he, or rather his wife Ginny, checked off the appropriate answer and mailed it back. While getting a form letter back might be thought rude, it was much better than being ignored, and besides, the other questions you did not ask were also answered! Indeed, it is both remarkable and heartwarming that Heinlein replied at all to most mail. Can you imagine other great authors doing the same -- even with a form letter? Heinlein's form is very entertaining to read because you are forced to reconstruct the missing requests....
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| 2009/12/21 Rage Against The Machine Beat X Factor's Joe McElderry To Christmas Number One
Rage Against The Machine have sensationally outsold X Factor winner Joe McElderry to take the Christmas number one! Thanks to a Facebook led campaign, the Los Angeles band's 1992 anthem 'Killing In The Name' has secured the Yuletide top spot after shifting 502,000 downloads, according to the Official Charts Company....
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| 2009/12/15 How will psychologists describe the iPhone syndrome in the future?
When we examine the iPhone users’ arguments defending the iPhone, it reminds us of the famous Stockholm Syndrome - a term that was invented by psychologists after a hostage drama in Stockholm. Here hostages reacted to the psychological pressure they were experiencing, by defending the people that had held them hostage for 6 days....
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| 2009/11/07 What's in a name
In het Parool stond vroeger een onregelmatig verschijnende rubriek die het vooral moest hebben van lezersbijdragen. De rubriek heette Nomen est Omen, en de bundeling in boekvorm kreeg de titel Naam en Faam. Nadat we er een stukje aan gewijd hadden kregen we steeds vaker bijdragen van lezers binnen, die we sinds enige tijd hier bij elkaar zetten. Het gaat dan eigenlijk om achternamen, maar dan blijkt er ook een oud-onderwijzer te zijn die Dick Taat heet, en een bankdirecteur die Rijkman Groenink heet, een voornaam die zijn ouders hem misschien wel bewust hebben meegegeven met een bankcarriëre in het achterhoofd....
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| 2009/10/25 The World of Tomorrow (If The Internet Disappeared Today)
It's the not-to-distant future. They've turned off the Internet. After the riots have settled down and the withdrawal symptoms have faded, how would you cope? We asked you to Photoshop what life would be like in an Internet-addicted society learning to cope without it, and offered $50 to the winner. That winner is below, but first, the runners-up...
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| 2009/10/22 PAT CONDELL'S GODLESS COMEDY
Hi, I'm Pat Condell. I don't respect your beliefs and I don't care if you're offended. Cheers. Now that we’ve got the formalities out of the way, welcome to my website.
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| 2009/10/18 E-mails from an Asshole
This is a collection of e-mails I have sent to people who post classified ads. My goal is to mess with them, confuse them, and/or piss them off.
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| 2009/09/29 Microsoft's Windows 7 Launch 'Party': Pass the Cringe
Microsoft is back at it with another attempt at a campy viral campaign - this time to promote its Windows 7 operating system, due out on Oct. 22. But you just knew that once they put the Microsoft geeks in charge of the "party," that it wouldn't be a 10-kegger and before long, we'd all be putting lampshades over our heads. Microsoft rolled out a YouTube video to demonstrate what a Windows 7 "house party" might look like. It features a demographically-correct cast of actors: The hipster white guy, the athletic black guy, the hot blonde and the older woman. Standing around the kitchen, they smarmily chat about their own parties and offer tips for hosting a Windows 7 party. They toss their heads back and smugly laugh at each other's comments with that I-could-kill-you-with-this-cheese-knife look on their faces. You keep hoping, searching desperately in the 6-minute, 14-second clip for some relief: A joke. A mass murder. Porn. SOMETHING. But it never comes....
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| 2009/09/29 Microsoft's grinning robots or the Brotherhood of the Mac. Which is worse?
Microsoft, hellbent on tackling the conspicuous lack of word-of-mouth recommendation, is encouraging people - real people - to host "Windows 7 launch parties" to celebrate the 22 October release of, er, Windows 7. The idea is that you invite a group of friends - your real friends - to your home - your real home - and entertain them with a series of Windows 7 tutorials. To assist the party-hosting massive, they've also uploaded a series of spectacularly cringeworthy videos to YouTube, in which the four most desperate actors in the world stand around in a kitchen sharing tips on how best to indoctrinate guests in the wonder of Windows. If they were staring straight down the lens reading hints off a card it might be acceptable; instead they have been instructed to pretend to be friends. The result is the most nauseating display of artificial camaraderie since the horrific Doritos "Friendchips" TV campaign (which caused 50,000 people to kill themselves in 2003, or should have done)....
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| 2009/07/12 Maledicta Press
This Website specializes in uncensored language research protected by the First Amendment.
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| 2009/07/12 The Stand Up Comedian's Response to the Heckler
In performances by comedians in the USA it is not uncommon for a member of the audience to interrupt the performance by shouting a comment. The comedian must respond to this or lose face. This article discusses some of the responses that are currently in use,, and defines the main categories of insult that are used....
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| 2009/05/13 Upside Down Text Generator
If you have always wanted to write upside down, here is your chance! Upon request by fontmakers we have created an Upside Down Text Generator for you.
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| 2009/05/07 The Duke Nukem Forever List
Duke Nukem Forever was a computer game that had been under development by 3D Realms since its announcement on April 28th, 1997, originally slated to use the (then) state of the art Quake II 3D engine. A few months later, screen shots were published in PC Gamer magazine, along with an intended release date of mid-1998. Excitement grew in May of 1998 when a few short video clips of Duke Nukem Forever were shown at E3... Surely a final release of the game was right around the corner!...
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| 2009/05/06 Top 20 tracks remixed by Microsoft Songsmith
Below, here is our Top 20 tracks remixed by Songsmith. This post comes with a health warning. Listening to them all as I have just done might make you go a bit doolally. Please use the comments section to send in some of your favourites too.
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| 2009/04/30 The story of Mel
Maybe they do now, in this decadent era of Lite beer, hand calculators and "user-friendly" software but back in the Good Old Days, when the term "software" sounded funny and Real Computers were made out of drums and vacuum tubes, Real Programmers wrote in machine code. Not Fortran. Not RATFOR. Not, even, assembly language. Machine Code. Raw, unadorned, inscrutable hexadecimal numbers. Directly. Lest a whole new generation of programmers grow up in ignorance of this glorious past, I feel duty-bound to describe, as best I can through the generation gap, how a Real Programmer wrote code. I'll call him Mel, because that was his name....
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| 2009/03/25 Structured Procrastination
All procrastinators put off things they have to do. Structured procrastination is the art of making this bad trait work for you.
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| 2009/02/26 362 - Greek To Me: Mapping Mutual Incomprehension « Strange Maps
“When an English speaker doesn’t understand a word of what someone says, he or she states that it’s ‘Greek to me’. When a Hebrew speaker encounters this difficulty, it ’sounds like Chinese’. I’ve been told the Korean equivalent is ’sounds like Hebrew’,” says Yuval Pinter (here on the excellent Languagelog). Which begs the question: “Has there been a study of this phrase phenomenon, relating different languages on some kind of Directed Graph?” Well apparently there has, even if only perfunctorily, and the result is this cartogram....
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| 2009/02/19 BBC NEWS | UK | Northern Ireland | The mystery of Ireland's worst driver
It was discovered that the man every member of the Irish police's rank and file had been looking for - a Mr Prawo Jazdy - wasn't exactly the sort of prized villain whose apprehension leads to an officer winning an award. In fact he wasn't even human. "Prawo Jazdy is actually the Polish for driving licence and not the first and surname on the licence," read a letter from June 2007 from an officer working within the Garda's traffic division....
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| 2009/02/09 Heavy Metal Band Names Chart
According to this extensive chart, names of heavy metal bands fit into five main categories: death, deadly things, animals, religion, and badass misspellings
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| 2009/02/08 Architects Rule! : Real-life Dilbert manager quotes
A magazine recently ran a 'Dilbert Quotes' contest. They were looking for people to submit quotes from their real-life Dilbert-type managers. These were voted the top ten quotes in corporate America.
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| 2009/02/03 Crackpot index
A simple method for rating potentially revolutionary contributions to physics.
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| 2009/02/03 The Coolest Server Names - Stack Overflow
These days server naming is a bit of a lost art. Most large organizations don't allow for fanciful names and name their servers with jumbles of digits and letters. In the olden days just about every system administrator came up with a unique naming scheme, well, sometimes unique - many just settled for Star Trek characters.
To this day my favorite server name is Qantas - a Unix server that Joel Spolsky has or used to have. Why Qantas? You'd have to ask Rainman.
So my question is this - what is the coolest server name or naming convention that you encountered? Let the geekfest begin. This question is marked "community wiki", so I am not getting any "rep" from it....
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| 2009/01/10 BBC NEWS | World | Americas | The 'misunderestimated' president?
All politicians are prone to make slips of the tongue in the heat of the moment - and President George W Bush has made more than most.
The word "Bushism" has been coined to label his occasional verbal lapses during eight years in office, which come to an end on 20 January.
Here are some of his most memorable pronouncements....
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| 2008/12/25 SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator
SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. It uses a hand-written context-free grammar to form all elements of the papers. Our aim here is to maximize amusement, rather than coherence. One useful purpose for such a program is to auto-generate submissions to conferences that you suspect might have very low submission standards....
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| 2008/12/14 garfield minus garfield
Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb....
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| 2008/12/01 DirkJan Rulez!
Nou, hier is dan Neerlandsch eerste èchte DirkJan site genaamd: "DirkJan Rulez" (vrij vertaald betekend dit dat DirkJan errug goed is). Aangezien er op internet niet veel over DirkJan te vinden is, alleen wat losse pagina's of striprecenties, dacht ik dat het hoog tijd werd voor een dedicated DirkJan-site!...
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| 2008/11/30 Rory - Neopoleon : Excel as a database
As a developer, you've probably, at some unfortunate point in your life (possibly several points, actually), been handed an Excel file that has been crammed full of "data" by someone in marketing and told to "do something with it."
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| 2008/11/30 Computer Stupidities
The following is a large collection of stories and anecdotes about clueless computer users. It's a baffling phenomenon that in today's society an individual, who might in other circumstances be considered smart and wise, can sit down in front of a computer screen and instantly lose every last shred of common sense he ever possessed. Complicate this phenomenon with a case of "computerphobia," and you end up with tech support personnel having phone conversations that are funny in retrospect but seem like perfectly valid motives for wild machine gun shooting sprees at the time. You will read stories in this file that will convince you that among the human race are human-shaped artichokes futilely attempting to break the highly regarded social convention that vegetables should not operate electronic equipment. And yet, amidst the vast, surging quantities of stupidity are perfectly excusable technological mishaps -- but that are amusing nonetheless. After all, even the best of us engages in...
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| 2008/11/10 PhotoshopDisasters
Have you seen a truly awful piece of Photoshop work? Clumsy manipulation, senseless comping, lazy cloning and thoughtless retouching are our bread and butter. And yes, deep down, we love Photoshop.
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| 2008/10/15 Internet Anagram Server / I, Rearrangement Servant : anagram, anagram, software, anagramme, anagrama, wordplay, word play, anagram creator, anagram solver, anagram finder, anagram generator, anagram maker, anagram unscrambler, anagram machine, crossword,
Did you know that parliament is an anagram of partial men? Or, Clint Eastwood an anagram of Old West Action? Someone once said, "All the life's wisdom can be found in anagrams. Anagrams never lie." Here is your chance to discover the wisdom of anagrams.
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| 2008/10/14 Microsoft Excel: Revolutionary 3D Game Engine?
In this article I will demonstrate Excel's arithmetical facilities, the embedded rendering subsystems (there are two of them!) and the revolutionary approach which might just cause a paradigm shift. I hope you will discover that Excel effectively and efficiently incorporates practicality, tons of features, the multi-platform portability and the high performance with the unique and futuristic 3D engine features....
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| 2008/10/14 werkschuw.nl
Tips en trucs voor langharig, werkschuw tuig.
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| 2008/10/08 T.S.A. Communication
T.S.A. Communication is a project that alters the airport security experience and allows the government to learn more about you then just what's in your backpack. Thin 8.5 x 11 inch laser-cut sheets of stainless steel comfortably fit in your carry on bag, simultaneously obscuring the contents you don't want the TSA to see while highlighting ideas you do want them to see. Change your role as air traveler from passive to active....
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| 2008/10/03 Get a Life
Chris Elliott's Get a Life! You will either love or hate the surreal and bizarre antics of Elliott's alter-ego Chris Peterson, a 30 year old paperboy who still lives with his parents. I loved watching the show when it first aired and was very happy to find the complete two seasons on Youtube. You can watch every episode on this page, just click on the title of the episode to play. Enjoy!...
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| 2008/09/26 LOLFED
makin ur economy betters
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| 2008/09/21 » Apple declares: “OK, we’re evil” News of the News
After bricking unlocked iPhones, kicking applications off the iPhone store that might even slightly compete with iTunes in the far future and filing a wave of patents on basic well-known computer science, Apple Inc. today filed a Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission declaring that it was openly adopting Evil™ as a corporate policy....
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| 2008/09/12 GraphJam
Music and Pop Culture in Charts and Graphs. Let us explain them.
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| 2008/09/10 Conceptual Trends and Current Topics
Heinlein engineered his own nerdy solution to a problem common to famous authors: how to deal with fan mail. In the days before the internet, Heinlein's solution was fabulous. He created a one page FAQ answer sheet -- minus the questions. Then he, or rather his wife Ginny, checked off the appropriate answer and mailed it back. While getting a form letter back might be thought rude, it was much better than being ignored, and besides, the other questions you did not ask were also answered! Indeed, it is both remarkable and heartwarming that Heinlein replied at all to most mail. Can you imagine other great authors doing the same -- even with a form letter? Heinlein's form is very entertaining to read because you are forced to reconstruct the missing requests....
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| 2008/08/29 Top 10 Things That Annoy Programmers
Programmers all have their pet peeves. Whether it's scope creep, Hungarian notation, or smelly coworkers, we've come to accept that there are certain nuisances that come with our line of work. The following is a list of the top 10 things that annoy programmers, compiled from the results of my recent question on StackOverflow (you must be a closed beta tester to access the link) along with some of my own experiences as a programmer:...
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