Category Posts for'humour'
Statue Molesters – Photos of People & Statues
Well there are high-brow websites and cultural ones but then you get something a little less intellectual like this one. The title may be a clue: statue molesters.
It’s a fairly easy concept to explain. Take a statue- the ruder or sillier the better, have somebody pose near it, maybe holding their hands or posture in a rude or naughty way. Take a photo… The gallery screen shot gives you a clue… there are a lot of pages of photos…
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Posted: August 6th, 2010 under art, humour, photos.
Tags: humour, people, photos, statues
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Threat Chart Generator
In this age of the “War on Terror” where it seems if you’re not part of the answer, you’re part of the problem, it is important to demonstrate levels of alertness. The Fear Chart generator makes this an oh so simple thing to do. Just enter five levels, pick a picture and voila as the French say.
By my reckoning we are at condition Puppy Kisses- ah bless.
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Posted: July 12th, 2010 under fun, generator, humour.
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Google New Year Easter Egg
Ah those wacky Google jokers. Click the “I’m feeling lucky” button and you get a countdown (in seconds) until the new year!
Calling it an Easter Egg at this time of year seems a bit odd and yet…
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Posted: July 10th, 2010 under humour, search, web.
Tags: easter egg, google, web
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Jester- Picking Jokes to Suit You
This is interesting. A research project to try and work out jokes that match your sense of humour. As they say “Jester uses a collaborative filtering algorithm called Eigentaste to recommend jokes to you based on your ratings of previous jokes.”
Of course I’m not sure quite how they classify humour or rate a joke for a match but the jokes provided I found above average so they must be doing something right.
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Posted: June 14th, 2010 under collaborative, computing, humour.
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Sorry From Gordon
The internet has made political protest much easier though you need to get a big crowd behind you with over 100 websites out there. A few months back this appeared.
Because Gordon Brown didn’t apologise to Congress when visiting the USA, so here’s your chance to email friends with an apology on his behalf! It’s nicelt done. It makes me think the the net is more powerful than the pen…(which is more powerful than the sword)…
Posted: August 16th, 2009 under 30 seconds, humour, politics.
Tags: apology, humour, political
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The Spoof – Made Up News
Sites like the Onion have been around for years but The Spoof is new to me. As something of a writer (not rich or award winning!) I am tempted to have a go myself
The site has a somewhat British flavour albeit with American spellings (e.g. humor) but that may just be the particular writer involved. Both Us and UK headlines get spoofed. And from what i’ve seen no target is immune. So if you’re witty and want to take a literary pot shot, get writing. I don’t think they pay though but at least you are guaranteed a good read.
Posted: September 25th, 2008 under humour, news, writing.
Tags: fake, humour, news, writing
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The Headington Shark
Now over 21 years old and still standing! This was erected in 1986 as a protest by American born Bill Heine who stayed in Oxford after his postgraduate degree at Balliol College. It’s 25 foot long and Bill successfully overcame the ire of local town planners to keep it up. You can read how on the linked site.
Bill is now a presenter for Radio Oxford. I think for this one act with the shark, never mind his cinema naming end-run around the planners (read that on the linked site as well) he should be made an honorary Englishman.
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Posted: January 26th, 2008 under art, humour, protest.
Tags: art, humour, protest, sculpture
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Superb Animation – Animator v Animation

This is very well done by artist Alan Becker. He draws a small figure in photoshop (I think) named Victim and proceeds to torment the little stick figure. Then the stick figure escapes and engages in a full battle onscreen, mostly within Photoshop against the animator using the features of Photoshop.
This is very nicely done and highly recommended to fill in a dull moment or two!
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Posted: January 21st, 2008 under animation, humour.
Tags: animation, animator, fight, humour
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Excellent and Different Online Product Store
Posted: January 19th, 2008 under 30 seconds, animation, flash, humour.
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It’s Silly but…
The name of this site says it all. IsItChristmas.com. All it has is a big fat No! I guess for one day a year it will say something different! I can see this starting a whole bandwagon. IsitEaster etc and then the protesters- IsWarOver … For all I know they might already exist!
Of course the really clever web gurus might be working on AreWeThereYet…
Posted: November 29th, 2007 under comment, humour.
Tags: Christmas, humour, xmas
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100 Cliches in Film and TV
I’d seen these kicking around the web for some years but this is an expanded list, up to 100 and I think they’re just great. Things like hackers being able to crack passwords in a few seconds (as if!) or chase scenes on foot in the road where a car screeches to a halt as people run in front and the driver leans out the window and shouts at them.
Film and TV cliches occur because Directors generally like to avoid the minutiae of real life. If the hero can’t park his car straight away (#17 in the list) it will detract from the plot or make it less action filled. It’s hard to avoid doing things the same way which is why we the film viewing public are starting to notice them.
Posted: October 26th, 2007 under film, humour, words.
Tags: cliches, film, humour, tv
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Cliche- Rotation Project
Occasionally in my travels across the 987 corners of the web I encounter something a bit different and this one comes under the title of sustainable cliches. Old cliches are overused, hackneyed, weary and just deserve their final moment in an electric box or car crusher.
The people at the defectiveyeti website decided to get new versions of old well loved cliches. So instead of “Made a mountain out of a molehill” they suggest “Saw a duck and shouted “dragon!”‘ (there is something ineffably lame about that I’m afraid… It sounds a bit newage to me). Whereas “Wore his heart on his sleeve” has been taken out and left in the wood and replaced by “Flew his feelings from a flagpole”. That’s much better.
So here’s one I just thought up “Out on a limb” now replaced by “No seat at Stalin’s table.” Well ok, its rubbish albeit true. If you were out of favour with Russia’s favourite man of steel then they’d arrange a meeting early and when you got there there was no seat for you. However the nice soldiers would take you out the back, stand you up against a wall and …
Posted: October 26th, 2007 under humour, words.
Tags: cliche, humour, new, old
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Pimp Your Credit Card
Given that this occurs on a student humour and pranks website (zug.com), it’s perhaps not meant to be taken too seriously but it certainly looks good.
The idea is that credit cards are boring so why not jazz yours up with a new look. It’s perhaps better to try it first on an expired one (assuming you have one that hasn’t been chopped up for safety). Certainly the examples given look very good, if a trifle NSFW.
Posted: October 22nd, 2007 under design, humour.
Tags: crediot card, humour, pimp
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Yaar- It be Talk Like a Pirate Day Again!
The link on the picture takes you to the UK Talk Like a Pirate Day website, while the bottom link goes to the US one. Maybe we’ll see other national sites some time e.g. “Parlez comme un Corsair?”
This annual event exhorts people to talk in the present tense, drop the gs off the end of words “endin” in ing and double up vowels- is ee gettin’ that?
Both sites are interesting though the UK one looks better. Yaar!
Posted: September 19th, 2007 under U.S., UK, fun, humour, pirate.
Tags: pirate
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QDB- Techy Quotes Database
This site consists of several thousand techy quotes, mainly i guess taken from Internet Relay chat so they’re shown as dialogues. As examples of idiocy and meanness but often very funny (and sometimes bad language) . For example, this is typical of programmers.
<k2xl> in 1998, i made a C++ program to calculate pi to a billion digits.
<k2xl> i coded it on my laptop (pentium 2 i think) and then ran the program.
<k2xl> the next day i got a new laptop but decided to keep the program running.
<k2xl> it’s been over seven years now since i ran it. and this morning it finished calculating.
<k2xl> the output:
<k2xl> “THE VALUE OF PI TO THE BILLIONTH DIGIT IS = ”
<k2xl> mindblowing eh?
<k2xl> i looked in the code of my program, and i found out that i forgot to output the value
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Comment: true story, i fixed the code and am running it again
Posted: August 28th, 2007 under fun, humour, words.
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