2008 Jun 30, 11:13"Scene: The History lesson in school. The teacher wearily calls Microsoft Boy to his desk to try to discover where his homework is."
humor business article microsoft satire marketing via:oldnewthing 2008 Jun 25, 11:59Cool hack but I'd be irritated if my photos we're messed up. "a camera-like device that implants messages in a sub-visible spectrum on its object. These messages are invisible to the naked eye, but
are clearly visible when photographed. "
video photography humor camera hack 2008 Jun 19, 11:24"Math is delicious" tshirt.
tshirt shirt purchase product math humor awesome 2008 Jun 18, 4:39A former coworker tried to cut an orange with a plastic knife from the cafe and the knife melted. This is the resulting email thread.
jeff-davis orange microsoft humor email 2008 Jun 17, 5:52More awesome t-shirts. I like the scientist rocking out, 'Moai (All Ears)', and 'I bought this on the internet!'. Also the FAQ is pretty hilarious.
art clothing humor geek science tshirts purchase shopping shirt 2008 Jun 17, 12:32Some of my favs: UFOs creating pyramids, a periodic table of elements consisting of 'Air', 'Water', 'Fire', etc., and satin in overalls burying fossils. I'm surprised by the lack of FSM.
humor via:boingboing satire religion science clothing shopping tshirts evolution intelligent-design 2008 Jun 17, 12:27"... you can see that even the mighty Google is not immune to getting tickets." Google steet view photo car talking with police officer. Were they speeding? =)
google humor photo map legal ticket cop prius hybrid via:boingboing 2008 Jun 16, 10:46Its intro to the old TV show Naked Gun redone using GTA4. Very nice!
humor gta gta4 video parody nakedgun game videogames tv 2008 Jun 13, 12:39Art done on the shells of snails in the city.
art graffiti snail humor photo streetart via:ethan_t_hein 2008 Jun 12, 2:33NPR show 'Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!' talks to Neil Tyson about Pluto, impending asteroid impact, and then quizes him on the "long-delayed Guns and Roses album, Chinese Democracy". Did you see him on
TDS or Colbert Report? He does fun interviews!
npr audio quiz guns-and-roses neil-degrasse-tyson astrophysicist pluto asteroid humor 2008 Jun 12, 2:06Like those other 'Which X are you?' quizes but done to estimate how long you'd survive the vacuum of space.
humor quiz space science scifi 2008 Jun 9, 4:23Humorous mistakes in newspaper headlines. Lots of funny stuff in here.
humor news newspaper headlines 2008 May 17, 7:58
Sarah and I saw the Kids in the Hall "Live As We'll Ever Be" Tour in the WaMu theater in Seattle this
past Thursday. I'd only ever seen their television show so it was cool to see them live. I thought that them being in a live format on stage would make the show significantly different, but other
than having a bad seat and not being able to see very well, and the Kids sometimes ad-libbing or breaking character, it was like watching their show. It consisted of mostly new material with some
returning characters like the Chicken Lady, Buddy Cole, the head crusher, etc. Their Facebook page has two videos that they played during the show.
I've been using the best Kids in the Hall fansite with an archive of searchable transcripts
since high school. But now days what with all the new fangled video websites I can link right to some of my favorite sketches from the show. Like the Inexperienced Cannibal.
And the meta-sketch The Raise.
kids in the hall humor seattle nontechnical 2008 May 16, 5:07'"Mankiw's 10 principles of economics, translated for the uninitiated", by Yoram Bauman'
via:swannman economics humor video youtube 2008 May 12, 5:05"It uses moisture sensors to detect your plant's well-being, then connects to Twitter via Ethernet jack to send surprisingly human-like messages about the excruciating minutiae of your plant's
boring, sedentary life. Tweets about how much water it just ha
humor gift plant twitter hardware 2008 May 12, 4:05
Sarah and I have finished playing through the games "Paper Mario", "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door", and "Super Paper Mario" last week (including the various Pits of 100 Trials). We played
them all on the Wii, because even though Super Paper Mario was the only one released explicitly for that platform, Wii maintains compatibility with Game Cube games such as Thousand-Year Door and
Paper Mario although originally released for the Nintendo 64 is now available as a pay for download game on the Wii's Virtual Console. So, yay for Nintendo!
I think my favorite of the three is Thousand-Year Door mostly because of the RPG attack system. In Thousand-Year Door and Paper Mario when you come into contact with an enemy you go into an RPG
style attack system where you take turns selecting actions. In Super Paper Mario you still have hit points and such, but you don't go into a turn based RPG style attack system, rather you do the
regular Mario jumping on bad guys thing (or hitting them with a mallet etc...). Thousand-Year Door and Paper Mario are very similar in terms of game play but Thousand-Year Door looks very pretty
and has made improvements to how your party-mates are handled in battle (they have HP and can fall as you would expect) and there's an audience that cheers you on during your battles.
Even if the gameplay sucked the humor throughout the series might be tempting enough. Mario's clothing and mustache are mocked throughout and standard RPG expectations are subverted. I hate to
describe any of these moments for fear of ruining anything but, for instance, an optional and very difficult enemy who may only be killed after hours of work only results in one experience point,
or a very intimidating enemy who you imagine you'll have to fight actually challenges you to a quiz.
Despite how I personally rank them, all the games are great and I'd recommend any of them.
mario videogame paper mario nontechnical 2008 May 5, 1:45Old Glory Robot Insurance. Now the video straight and legal from NBC. "And now, Sam Waterston for Old Glory Insurance."
snl humor video robot robots insurance 2008 May 5, 11:19The Baudboys, a Microsoft a cappella group sings 'Gonna Make You Happy Tonight' concerning video games very funny. Saw them perform a couple of years ago (in that same place) and I've been looking
for a video.
video videogame music microsoft xbox humor baudboys 2008 May 4, 9:13An explaination of the story behind Pac-Man.
via:ethan_t_hein videogame humor pacman art
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