October 14, 2007
Kara Swisher being tricky and funny again
09:55 UTC » Games - Heckling - Humor
Kara Swisher is one of the smartest, funniest and sometimes cruelest journalists I know. She is a co-host of the Wall Street Journal All Things Digital conference with Walt Mossberg.
For a variety of reasons she’s having a hard time getting an interview with Jerry Yang. She discovered that “Lunch with Jerry Yang” is the prize from DonorsChoose.org Bloggers Challenge for the bloggers who inspire the most readers to give. To participate/give, just go to the AllThingsD page on the DonorsChoose site.
So… in addition to loving Kara, I also owe her for introducing me to cool people and letting me stay at her house and stuff. When she says, “i need you to flack this…it is for a good cause. also funny” I guess it means I should blog about it. ;-)
Good luck Kara. Sorry Jerry!
But it is a good cause. Really. I’m going to give right now.
For a more complete description of this whole thing, which is admittedly slightly difficult to understand, see Kara’s blog post about it.
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December 31, 2006
Gen Kanai on Viral Learning Center Video
When did Gen Kanai start working for the Viral Learning Center?
(First spotted as an ad on Boing Boing.)
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December 28, 2006
Powerpoint Karaoke
They have Powerpoint Karaoke at 23C3. Tim said they stole it from somewhere else, but I didn't catch the name.
You get up. They cue up a random presentation. You ad lib it.
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December 8, 2006
Reviving Bubble 1.0 jokes
I wonder when we'll start reviving all of the old Bubble 1.0 jokes?
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June 29, 2006
No Photos from Fortune Brainstorm 2006
They just announced that the conference is on the record (yay!) but there are no photos allowed (boo!). They cited security reasons. I have a feeling maybe this had something to do with it. (disclaimer: I had nothing to do with the "derivative work")
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May 6, 2006
A derivative work
12:52 UTC » Heckling - Humor - Video - World of Warcraft
I KNEW people would make creative use of the CC licensed video I uploaded.
The WoW section subtitled. By Kazpah our friendly neighborhood Warlock.
And NO. That's NOT what I said. ;-P
The video requires some quicktime stuff and won't run in many players. If anyone knows how to convert it to other formats, let us know. FWIW, it seems to work in Safari on my Mac, but not in Firefox... and it will take awhile to download.
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March 31, 2006
Veni's joke
For one of the last resolutions of the ICANN board meeting, Vint asked the board to show their support by swaying back and forth in their seat. He promised to explain it later, but wasn't able to. Therefore, I believe it is my role in the interest of transparency, to explain the reference.
Last night Veni told us a joke.
Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and Gorbachev are on a train heading towards communism.After the joke, we tried replacing communism with new gTLD's and discussed which board members were like which Russian leaders...Suddenly the conductor says, "Oh noes! There are no rails left. We can not move on."
Lenin says, "no problem, Saturday is Lenin day and we will all work for free and cut down trees and build the rails."
Then Stalin says, "no, we must find out whose fault this is and kill them."
Khrushchev disagrees and says, "no, we can plant corn in the fields, sell the corn to the American and we can buy the railroad."
Brezhnev says, "no, we must all sit in the train and sway back and forward so we have the appearance of forward motion towards communism."
Finally Gorbachev stands up and says, "Comrandes, you don't understand the modern times. There is a new spirit of glasnost and perestroika. We need more transparency. We need more openness." At this point, he opens the windows and starts shouting, "there are no rails! There are no rails!"
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March 30, 2006
Comment spam poetry
11:50 UTC » Blogging about Blogging - Humor
cleavage He stared at the clock in the dashboard instead <a href="http://www.backgamm0n.com">backgammon</a> [url=http://www.backgamm0n.com]backgammon[/url] Hi Marty!.Maybe I'm just punch from too many long meetings...
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January 16, 2006
Lighthouse vs USS Lincoln
The lighthouse station called Arctowski is probably the most southerly lighthouse in the world. Built at the Polish research station in Antarctica named after Henryk Arctowski, the famous 19th century Polish geographer and Antarctic explorer. Situated on King George Island in the South Shetlands group, its geographical position is 62o10'S, 58o28'W.via MichaelThe following is the transcript of the actual radio conversation of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland:
Canadians: Please divert your course 15 degrees the South to avoid a collision.
Americans: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees the North to avoid a collision.
Canadians: Negative. You will have to divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision.
Americans: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course.
Canadians: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course.
Americans: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LINCOLN, THE SECOND LARGEST SHIP IN THE UNITED STATES' ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH, I SAY AGAIN, THAT'S ONE FIVE DEGREES NORTH, OR COUNTER-MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP.
Canadians: This is a lighthouse, over...
No idea if this is really a true story, but very funny. Does anyone else have a source for this?
UPDATE: Snopes says it's false. (Here's the US Navy denial.) Thanks Six Picas. I broke the first rule of blogging. Check Snopes first. Shows how out of it I am these days. ;-)
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December 20, 2005
Silly sushi video
01:46 UTC » Humor - Japanese Culture
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November 17, 2005
Reporter's personal comments in Nikkei online edition
16:53 UTC » Humor - Media and Journalism
"Note: I couldn't identify the Russian firm. This is just a guess. KMD"? This sounds like a message from the reporter to the editor. Oops. ;-)The Nikkei10:31 13Sep2005 NIKKEI Hakuhodo Teams Up With Russian Ad AgencyNote: I couldn't identify the Russian firm. This is just a guess. KMD
TOKYO (Nikkei)--Hakuhodo Inc. formed a business partnership Monday with Russian advertising agency Prior Advertising, joining the growing ranks of Japanese automakers, consumer electronics firms and other businesses moving into the country to tap its developing economy.
Through its partnership with Prior, Hakuhodo aims to secure orders from
Japanese companies operating in Russia. The Russian firm, meanwhile, will handle accounts on Hakuhodo's introduction.Through this joint effort, the partners will aim for sales of 500 million yen over the next year.
Prior, an independent advertising company, recorded sales of about 65 million dollars, or roughly 7.1 billion yen, in the year ended December 2004.
Dentsu Inc. (4324) in August reopened its Moscow branch, which was temporarily closed. Through its collaboration with Prior, Hakuhodo aims to compete with Dentsu in the Russian market.
The Russian advertising market is continuing to show growth. In 2004, it was worth about 420 billion yen, up 30% from the previous year.
(The Nihon Keizai Shimbun Tuesday morning edition)
The Nikkei is one of the largest newspapers in Japan. I guess even they screw up sometimes... or maybe they're trying to make it sound a bit more "bloggy".
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October 16, 2005
Shining remix
Shining remix. Excellent. ;-)
via Nick
UPDATE: NYT article about this video from Matt in the comments.
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October 7, 2005
Ig Nobel Prizes streaming NOW
The Ig Nobel Prizes, the Nobel Prize of all things funny are streaming live now.
via Steve Crandall
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October 1, 2005
Warcraft video
Video of some people who like Warcraft. Funny. (At least to me.) Watch it to the end.
via Jason
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September 13, 2005
Yahoo! goes hard gay
19:18 UTC » Humor - Japanese Culture
Weird, very Japanese and funny. Yahoo! goes hard gay.
UPDATE: I talked a friend of mine who has some elementary school kids. He said Hard Gay is all the rage and that all the kids walk around constantly doing the funny pelvic thrust that Hard Gay does.
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August 30, 2005
Live on FOX: Man Says “None of Your Fucking Business” (VIDEO)
07:12 UTC » Humor - Media and Journalism
SHEPARD SMITH: You’re live on FOX News Channel, what are you doing?MAN: Walking my dogs.
SMITH: Why are you still here? I’m just curious.
MAN: None of your fucking business.
SMITH: Oh that was a good answer, wasn’t it? That was live on international television. Thanks so much for that. You know we apologize.
Xeni in IMCool. I love that SOME people in america are not media whores! Privacy before publicity.
UPDATE: Another funny TV moment. A CNN weatherman loses his cool while covering Hurricane Katrina... via Metafilter
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August 21, 2005
Honesty and tough questions
At FOO Camp they handed people a piece of paper asking three questions. 1) What do you make? 2) What is your favorite tool/toy? 3) Who are your technology heros?
These were posted on a board with people's photos. Everyone had very clever answers. When I was pondering the answers to mine, someone at my breakfast table mentioned that the REAL answer for most people was probably "me" for all three questions.
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July 25, 2005
The War on Terror - As viewed from the Bourne shell
15:03 UTC » Humor - Warblogging
The War on Terror - As viewed from the Bourne shell.
Some geeky fun for a serious issue.
via MetaFilter
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June 20, 2005
More Cowbell
12:07 UTC » Blogging about Blogging - Humor
Chris Anderson has an interesting article about the massive parallel culture on the Internet in the context of the Long Tail. He posted the picture Anil wearing the Goatse t-shirt in the New York Times interview as an example. I was looking at the list and one that I had somehow missed was "More Cowbell". (It's sort of the opposite of stealth disco.) Thanks to Google, I was able to find a video of the original skit. (The link to the mp3 on The Cowbell Project page was broken.)
The Contagious Media Showdown targets this genre, but I wonder what it is that ends up becoming a pandemic in its virality. I guess it's something that is sort of stupid, but gets funnier and funnier the more you repeat it.
I think that the "shared culture" aspect of it is important. It has to be simple (stupid) enough so that almost anyone will think it's funny or at least silly. I notice this with topics on blogs as well. Deep and well researched posts will often receive thoughtful comments, but it's the short 3-paragraph form that seems to consistently be the most read and linked. I don't think it's necessarily a good trend, but it's sort of the blog version of the TV sound-bite - the attention-span of the average blog reader.
I know that a lot of people sit around and think about memes a lot so I may be treading old ground, but I think it's interesting that non-geeks are getting sucked in and these shared ideas create some sort of community bonding that moves faster and at a larger scale than in the past, but still remains nichey and obscure...
UPDATE: Noticed the Wikipedia Cowbell entry has a reference to this skit.
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June 14, 2005
Daily video of a geeky dancer in his living room
Some day people will look back and try to understand.Cory Doctorow @ Boing Boing BlogDaily video of a geeky dancer in his living roomDaily Dancer is a site where a geek video-records himself dancing to a different song every day and posts it. Jamal recommends starting with the Fett's Vette boogie, on the basis of its laudable Star Wars Kid reference, and I concur.
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June 2, 2005
Anil GOATSE's the NYT
17:22 UTC » Heckling - Humor - Six Apart
This is excellent... Wait, does this guy work for Six Apart?Cory Doctorow @ Boing Boing BlogGOATSE t-shirt in the NYT
Anil Dash wore a subtle and arcane GOATSE t-shirt for a recent New York Times photoshoot, and they ran a pic of him wearing it. GOATSE is an Internet legend -- a repulsive photo that used to live at www.goatse.cx that Internet pranksters went to great lengths to trick others into seeing.
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May 22, 2005
Wikipedia Stealth Disco article
I just noticed the Stealth Disco article on Wikipedia recently had an {{explain-significance}} slapped on it. This means that if we can't explain why it is significant, it will be nominated for deletion. Stealth Disco reminds me of the fun we used to have and it would be a pity to see Stealth Disco disappear from Wikipedia. Anyone have any good Stealth Disco stories or developments we can use to expand the article?
UPDATE: Link to original Stealth Disco video from mhegge. (wmv) Must See.
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Autoblogger
10:51 UTC » Blogging about Blogging - Humor
You thought I had blog-block? Actually, my autoblogger was just broken.
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April 24, 2005
PR-Speak Translation of Adobe’s Acquisition of Macromedia ‘FAQ’
;-) Funny.
via Dvorak
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April 2, 2005
Launch of Sixfoo! 660°
21:17 UTC » Humor - Social Software
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March 2, 2005
"Happy Birthday" is owned by Time Warner
08:10 UTC » Humor - Intellectual Property - Music
I didn't realize I was engaging in copyright infringement when I sang Happy Birthday in public without paying. Better stop doing that and rat out anyone else who sings it without paying.Cory Doctorow @ Boing Boing BlogHelp rat on people who sing Happy Birthday!Mako sez, "Unhappy Birthday is a website/project commenting on the fact that the song "Happy Birthday To You" is under an actively enforced copyright held by Time Warner. The site offers tools and information to report unauthorized public performances of that work. If educating people and upholding the principle of copyright means risking a DoS of ASCAP's licensing enforcement infrastructure, that's a risk I'm willing to take."
(Thanks, Mako!)
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February 27, 2005
NYT on the Numa Numa guy
The New York Times has a story on the kid who made the video of himself singing and dancing along to Dragostea Din Tei that I blogged about earlier. He is Gary Brolsma, 19, from New Jersey.
via Mimi
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February 14, 2005
Kenji's revenge
23:33 UTC » Humor - Music - Podcasts
On my Japanese blog, I've been podcasting conversations with Kenji Eno, former game developer and now CEO of fyto. The last post was a silly remix of our conversations put to music. I didn't post it here because it was in Japanese, but he's fired back with podcasting.mp3, his revenge.
(Chat 1, Chat 2, Remix - On Archive.org, podcasting - Kenji's revenge 6.7MB mp3)
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Kittengate
01:14 UTC » Humor - Information and Media - Search
Sorry about the light blogging. Have been a bit swamped during my travels. For now I present to you... kittengate.
For some more serious comments on the issue, see the comments on this post.
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February 3, 2005
Jorge Lopez, MCSE slams Mac Mini
Mac Mini: The Emperor's New Computer
by Jorge Lopez, MCSE
...The Mini boots up into a stripped-down operating system which Apple calls OS X, similar to the stripped-down WindowsCE OS found on many handhelds.;-)...No serial ports, no way to connect a printer, no PS/2 ports, no floppy drive, no 5.25
via MetaFilter
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Help name the non-Media Player version of Windows
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January 27, 2005
Gesture lost in translation
10:07 UTC » Global Politics - Humor
The Houston Chronicle confirms that it was the University of Texas "Hook'em, Horns" but it appears to have offended some people in Norway.Xeni @ Boing BoingJenna Bush, Spawn of Satan
Is it me, or is Jenna Bush holding up the sign of Satan next to her father's face in this photo? Choose picture #7 in this MSNBC slide show.
Here's the original MSNBC Link, and here's a link to a copy of the photo I saved locally (it's now offline at MSNBC) (thanks Jeremy)Update: BB reader Charles Bestal says, "As a University of Texas student, we hear a good bit about the party animal around campus -- but it should be noted that she is most likely invoking the school's hand-sign (Hook 'em Horns, they say), rather than the devil, or her father."
This sounds like something from a Douglas Adams book. Luckily it didn't mean anything offensive to our future Alien Overlords.Houston ChronicleNorway reads something sinister in 'Hook 'em' sign..."Sjokkhilsen fra Bush datter," read an outraged headline on Norwegian news Web site Nettavisen. Translated: "Shock greeting from Bush daughter."
...The "Hook 'em, Horns" that Bush flashed when The Eyes of Texas was played at the Black Tie and Boots gala Wednesday was misconstrued by some in Norway as a sign of the devil used by a musical scene that terrorized the country in the late 1980s and early '90s.
...Death metal's history
In Norway the horns carried a greater menace. The country has long been a hotbed of death metal, a subgenre of music with a sordid history of church burnings, murder, inadvertant bludgeonings (with sheep skulls), pet sacrifices and sundry behavior best described as anti-Christian. There the gesture has little to do with sports rivalries....Needless to say, Norway's more prudish contingent was aghast upon seeing the daughter of the American president flashing a sign associated with such behavior.
It could be worse ...
..."I suppose it can mean different things to different people in different parts of the world," Clark says. "I guess the Norwegians and Italians should be happy that our mascot was a longhorn and not a unicorn."
Thanks to Glenn to the Houston Chronicle link
UPDATE: David Weinberger's "Forgive me" gesture and "The Shocker" via AG.
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January 24, 2005
It's the Wiki Wiki thing
15:12 UTC » Humor - Music - Podcasts - Wiki
What happens when you 1) were thinking about stupid songs that you can't get out of your head, 2) are listening to the audio of Jimmy Wales talking about Wikipedia in Boston (audio and text transcripts here), 3) are chatting to wikipedians on IRC and 4) happen to have Garage Band open? This (800K mp3 / 870K ogg).
PS I would like to add that many wikipedians contributed links, sounds and feedback in the creation of this piece. It's amazing what you can do as a community. ;-P Just kidding, I can not take credit for the entire work, but I have no one to blame but myself.
UPDATE: Eric Haller just cleaned it up for me and now it sounds much better. 963K mp3
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January 20, 2005
Jib Jab again
14:05 UTC » Flash - Humor - US Policy and Politics
In case you missed it - the new Jib Jab...
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January 18, 2005
O-Zone madness
12:46 UTC » Humor - Marketing - Music
There is song called Dragostea Din Tei on the Disco-Zone CD by O-Zone. O-Zone was a little known Euro-dance act from Romania... until someone in Japan syched some flash to it. Then someone else. Here is the original music video. Then someone made a video. Suddenly, this CD is a hit and many of my friends are ordering it from Amazon. I bet they don't know what hit them.
This reminds me of the badger badger/potter potter meme and the Yatta meme. There is some peculiar element of certain songs that gets people's creative juices going. I think they have to be 1) silly, 2) in a foreign language, 3) have that "can't get it out of my head" element. It's the tip of the long tail wagging. Maybe artists should make synching rights available to encourage more of this creative behavior in a mainstream way... or maybe not. ;-P
UPDATE: Seth was just infected by email...
UPDATE 2: More on O-Zone from Stefan. "The funny-looking name Numanuma is actually a repetition of two Romanian words, 'nu ma' (or, to be correct, 'nu mă') that are part of the lyrics of O-Zone's smash hit 'Dragostea din tei' ('Love in the lime-tree'). More precisely, they're part of 'nu mă iei', which translates into 'you don't take me [away with you]'... Think of all the paraphernalia you can, from ubiquitous (and annoying) ringtones onwards... The raw matter (that is, the original O-Zone music) is renown for its supremely dimwitted lyrics..." I want the ringtone... ;-P
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January 13, 2005
Potter Potter
And you won't get this unless you were part of the Badger Badger Badger infection awhile back.
via Eno
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January 6, 2005
New York Times people and their perception of blogs...
13:02 UTC » Blogging about Blogging - Humor
Ernie the AttorneyBlogs are 'unsourced rantings' says former NY Times editorFrom the 'Department of Supreme Irony' comes a statement by Howell Raines (the former Executive Editor of the New York Times) that blogging is 'unsourced ranting' (the link is to a News.com article that links to an Atlantic Monthly article that you have to subscribe to in order to view).
First of all, Raines' statement is so completely ludicrous as to be laughable. Weblogs have a lot of shortcomings, but lack of sourcing isn't one of them. In fact, if you want to criticize weblogs you would do better to complain about the excess of linking to other sources and the dearth of original material. But the more important point is the one filled with irony. Here is Howell Raines, who lost his job at the NYT because he was at the helm during the Jayson Blair scandal, complaining about problems with 'sourcing.' You remember the Jayson Blair scandal don't you? He was a young rising star reporter who was Raines' 'golden boy' at the Times. It turned that the way that he rose quickly was by not wasting time doing the usual investigative grunt work; instead he completely fabricated stories and sources.
We should have "funniest characterization of blogging by New York Times people" awards.Dvorak“Blogging is the Same as Stamp Collecting for the Semi-Retired”I still keep running into references to New York Times’ technology reporter John Markoff’s off-handed remarks that he does a blog, it’s called “Newyorktimes.com” In a recent conversation he told me that as far as he was concerned blogging is essentially the same as “stamp collecting” for the semi-retired.
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December 18, 2004
New Apple Signature iPods
05:24 UTC » Gadgets - Humor - Music
First the Special Edition U2 iPod. Now this. ;-)
via Michael
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November 21, 2004
Poor librarian immerses self in irony
14:59 UTC » Blogging about Blogging - Humor - Information and Media - Wiki
Funny anti-blog anti-Wikipedia article by a librarian Greg Hill who manages to mangle the spelling of Dan Gillmor and Dave Barry's name while trying to argue that "librarians abhor using reference sources that don't have established credibility editorial rigor..." ;-)
I don't usually like to link to stupid articles, but this one's too ironic to just ignore.
via Dan Gillmor
Truely unbelievable.Dan GillmorUPDATE: Trudy Schuett posted an extraordinary exchange of e-mails with the Alaska librarian, who has the nerve to say he knows of "no typos or mis-statements in that column, unless they are those of the sources I cite, and every point in my column stemmed from multiple sources. As a rule, there's not enough space in a 700-word column to list multiple sources, but I can readily produce them."No, he can't. He can't possibly produce a citation that explains misspelling my name and Dave Barry's. He might alibi getting the name of my book wrong, because he quotes an early working title that I used in blog postings here. But even there, a tiny amount of due diligence would have produced the correct title.
I worship librarians as a rule, but I'm going to make an exception in this case.
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November 20, 2004
Straight male seeks Bush supporter for fair, physical fight
10:01 UTC » Humor - US Policy and Politics
Found on Craigslist by Kelly Sue -- "Straight male seeks Bush supporter for fair, physical fight - m4m":
I would like to fight a Bush supporter to vent my anger. If you are one, have a fiery streek, please contact me so we can meet and physically fight. I would like to beat the shit out of you.
via die puny humans
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November 19, 2004
Ooops
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November 16, 2004
The AOLer Translator
02:42 UTC » Cool Web Sites - Humor
IM is sweeping the world but it's a whole new vocabulary. Feeling old and out of touch? Try the AOLer Translator.
via Sean
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November 9, 2004
The three big Jewish brands
22:38 UTC » Humor - Religion - Social Software
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November 4, 2004
Someone at CNN.com has a sense of humor...
18:18 UTC » Cool Web Sites - Humor - US Policy and Politics
The name of the image file is asshole.jpg. Nice catch Jonas.jluster.orgOK, this is so going to blow up...Go to CNN to find this page:
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/election2004.jsp?feature=ne_election5
once there, you'll find a page like the one below. Snapshot archived for posterity after CNN wises up.
now right-click, control-click or whatever on the Bush/Laura image. Select "Open Image" or the equivalent. And observe the image name.
Yes, this is not a fake. As of right now, November 3rd, 2004, 21:23 PST this is the frontpage. My world just got a little brighter. Pizza, Canadian beer, and watching "Strange Brew" contribute, too.
UPDATE Sean blogs that The Register ripped off the article without giving credit to Jonas. Schmucks.
UPDATE2 Now WorldNetDaily is writing as if they found it.
UPDATE3 derStandard.at has also just ripped off the images without attribution.
UPDATE4 Jonas had an attribution-ShareAlike license on his blog...
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Electing to Leave
09:57 UTC » Humor - US Policy and Politics
;-)Harper's MagazineElecting to Leave A reader’s guide to expatriating on November 3So the wrong candidate has won, and you want to leave the country. Let us consider your options.
Saw this in a few placing including metafilter