Humour
My last post was on IBM jumping into lightweight apps and wikis. This news story from CNN covers how IBM is releasing Lotus Notes for Linux. Who’s using Lotus Notes anymore? Just the poor suckers who bought in and kept it as the world’s most expensive Exchange replacement? Bizarre.
I am happy to see that Vancouver has come alive in a competitive frenzy to enjoy soccer. But thankfully it’s over. I have had to listen to honking horns of Italian fans for almost 12 hours now today as they drive up and down Denman Street hanging out of their cars and whooping and screaming [...]
This is brilliant. From the people over at Innovation Creators. Includes the ever popular reflection at the bottom too!
My friend Ross Waring coined a new word today. I was reading him some of the excellent poetry that I received in my spam and he said, “Spam Poetry? You mean SPOETRY?” I had to immediately post that to the world just in case he was the first to coin it. For your reading pleasure [...]
Okay, this is so true it’s getting painful. I am hearing all sorts of crazy valuations for web 2.0 type startups that are pretty silly. Thanks to Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert for this excellent series. Here is the most recent one in the set:
I LOVE this series. And it always kills me when Dogbert wags. Dilbert can be found here.
I hope the movie is half as funny as the trailers. Watch both Trailer 1 and Trailer 2. Brilliant.
I’m intrigued by stories such as this one in the ABC News about the plumbers union in Philadelphia who claim that no-flush green urinals are a health threat. I wonder if the union sees them more as a health threat to the UNION DUES than to the USERS. Does anybody have any information on negative [...]
Mark Morford strikes again. I have been having this very conversation with everybody I know. It seems that my entire circle of friends, colleagues, and acquaintances is in the midst of this overwhelming busy-ness right now. I have been questioning the value and the lack of stillness myself and then Mark, as usual, did it [...]
During my time as a computer consultant, working with clients to clarify their software goals (or their website development goals for that matter), I had this conversation more often than I care to remember. This is very funny (or painful) to any of us who have ever worked in the field.
In a stroke of brilliance, Yahoo is now buying companies before they are even founded. This definitely wins best parody of the month. Or is it even a parody?
The last time I remember Scott Adams doing VC comics was in the boom. This must mean we’re there again. Dilbert comics can be found here.
I swear I’m not making this up. The long tail is all the rage these days. (See chart). (courtesy of The Long Tail Blog) These are some of the long-tail searches that people used on various search engines to get to my site – bob the builder porn – where can I find Dilbert’s ultimate [...]
Thanks to John Zagula for his post about The Big Ad. I like John’s comments too. Lots of questions, few answers. And funny in any case.
Podcast + video iPod = Porncast. BRILLIANT. Mark Morford strikes again with a brilliant and very likely insanely lucrative idea. Apple definitely won’t take it on which means that somebody somewhere should. Some choice quotes: I am the first. At least, I am the first I know of to think of this idea at this [...]
Here is a very funny letter that Rick Segal posted to his blog about the 26 minute power outage that was “our tsunami” in trendy L.A.
Report to the home planet: Solar date: 4034583.9.20 The humans on this planet are very fond of their sports. One sport in particular which involves running around a field moving a round object from player to player seems to be popular across the many nations. It is so popular that the other day, despite the [...]
Thanks to Matthew for pointing out this brilliant little bit of technical documentation from Hitachi. If only all technical documentation could have dancing hard drives and disco balls.
After ten years of project management I laughed pretty hard at this. If anybody knows who created it, let me know in the comments section and I’ll attribute it properly.
Many of you know that one of my favourite columnists is Mark Morford, who writes for the San Francisco Gate news. This is this weeks rant on Canada’s policies versus those of his own government. It’s a fantastic read and nice to see that at least one American is aware of what is going on [...]
Below are some real true to life queries that were used at Google or other search engines that found my site. I love the ones that are written in plain English. I guess that really is the future of search so we should be congratulating the Googlers for being able to build systems that can [...]
Here are the top ten ranked searches at Overture courtesy of this article on Biz.Yahoo. I wonder how long it is before search engine top searches are used to, oh I don’t know, write catchy headlines for blogs. Oh, I guess I have already started that one. Well maybe Mark Burnett can build another reality [...]
I know a guy who knows one of the CGI animators who worked on this new Citroén advertisement. This is one of the best car ads I have ever seen.
From the Register: QUOTE Three “bored” German teenagers blew a staggering £80 million (₠130 million) in just two hours after they ran amok in an online spending spree. Using stolen credit card details the trio bought airplanes, works of art, designer clothes, restaurants, industrial machinery, patents and sound systems. They were arrested by police on [...]
Now your board members can’t say that the board meeting is stopping them from getting any exercise! Just have it while riding the Conference Bike! Although you would probably be well advised to make sure that the person steering doesn’t also have to chair or do secretarial tasks.
First came the Cluetrain Manifesto (the end of business as usual). And then the Hughtrain (the end of marketing as we knew it.) Then the Social Customer Manifesto (social software + angry customers = angry but social customers who talk to each other and hate your company together.) So I figure it’s time to bring [...]
“The vast majority of people are computer-generated. Some are very complicated and consume a whole Pentium by themselves. Some are so simple, you can run a few hundred on a computer.” - Bob Lucas, division Director, California’s Information Sciences Institute, talking about the game he helped port to Linux called “Urban Resolve” that is being [...]
I found that in some anonymous poster’s signature and couldn’t resist posting it.
