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37 Macrolog entries tagged with ‘humour’
Blogfodder Link Dump Part 7 Fri 29 Jul 2011
Last items from the 2006 file: Every Jeopardy! question ever Ten Thousand Statistically Grammar-Average Fake Band Names / Some of these must be real band names by now. Shiberu Ban’s paper house / A house made out of paper. For...
Blogfodder Link Dump Part 4 Tue 15 Feb 2011
The rest of 2005, condensed into hyperlink form: The Universal Packing List / Generates a custom packing list for any journey, based on a few simple inputs. Good work! A ridiculously large collection of fonts by Dieter Steffmann Baffling Cuteness...
Blogfodder Link Dump Part 2 Tue 01 Feb 2011
More links from the archives, this time 2004: Tufte Vs. Bloom / Paul Ford’s thoughts on Franco Moretti’s Graphs, Maps, Trees, which I never got around to finishing at the time; it’s about evaluating literature in context, the kind of...
The Coriolis Force Thu 24 Feb 2005
Antipixel’s Jeremy Hedley loves the vaguely comical natural phenomena: [S]now always makes me think of chicks leaving a nest. Those little whirlpools that form in creeks are funny, too, in a dog-chasing-its-tail way, and the coriolis force always reminds me...
Hand Car Washing Sun 13 Feb 2005
It was the last day of our flying visit to London in January when Benitha and I noticed this, just around the corner from our hotel (on Holland Road, from Kensington High Street): If you can't make out what the...
Kids Show Sun 02 Nov 2003
What do you get if you cross Sesame Street with Chris Morris' Jam? Why, you get Kids Show, a fourteen minute masterpiece of good ol' fashioned subversive sickness from some of the more damaged brains behind South Park and Late...
Pope Beautifies Mother Teresa Sun 19 Oct 2003
==== Oy! I know the Catholic Church is pretty fucked up, but giving makeovers to the dead? _Is nothing sacred!?!_...
Excerpt from a Conversation On Joining the Army Sat 02 Aug 2003
Him: So dude, when are you joining the medics with me? Me: I'm not. Him: Ahh why not? Me: I'm a pacifist. Him: But we're _medics!_ Me: Dude I know you wish we were like the guys in Scrubs but...
Remembering Mr. T Sat 12 Apr 2003
I have to admit that I did not know what a clerihew was, before I was educated by Jason Fush yesterday evening. The example he gave -- featuring everyone's second-favourite member of the A*Team (Murdoch, of course, simply _must_ come...
Get Your War On Thu 20 Mar 2003
So the attack on Iraq has begun. To be perfectly honest, despite my TV being tuned to news reports since 7am this morning, I still don't know what's going on. I think they want it that way. On a slightly...
Guardian Cricket Writer Comes Unstuck Fri 14 Mar 2003 | 1 Comments
The link for this piece might not be live for long, so I've copied the best bit for everyone to enjoy: Meanwhile, have you ever thought WHAT SORT OF LIFE IS THIS AND WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING BOARDING...
Death Rage Speed Freak Extreme Biker Killaz Thu 13 Mar 2003
With the recent Stateside release of Jet Li star vehicle Cradle 2 The Grave, The San Francisco Chronicle’s Mark Morford despairs at the state of the modern film industry (from the Morning Fix, 03/03/03): A new upcoming film, “Death Rage...
Who Could You Take in a Fight? Tue 18 Feb 2003 | 3 Comments
The Onion asked a veritable cornucopia of celebrities for their responses to one of life's unanswerable questions. Here are their responses. As for me, well, I could take Todd Solondz. I'd give him the beating he deserves for all the...
Super Demolition Christ Mon 27 Jan 2003
Is it just me, or has "Super Demolition Christ" got action figure potential written all over it?...
We Don't Have Mice That Big in Dublin Mon 09 Sep 2002
I'm almost 100% certain that I walked past this when I was on the Danforth....
I Always Smile When I Read This Sat 10 Aug 2002
I'm hoping it becomes fashionable to say something reasonably profound and then immediately launch into an inappropriate non sequitur. For example, a professor at MIT could deliver a lecture on Fermat's Last Theorem, and as he scribbles the final...
The Idiot Factor Strikes Again Thu 18 Jul 2002
This story seems like it should be in the Onion, not the Washington Post. The fact that so many people fell for this scam doesn't really surprise me though, since 90% of the world's population are idiots....
Funny Stuff Sun 16 Jun 2002
This just made me laugh out loud. But even so, it still doesn't do it for me like Pookiemon does....
Mind Your Sides Wed 05 Jun 2002
Careful if you watch this, your sides may well split. (Especially if you're a fan of Captain Lou.)...
From The Onion Wed 22 May 2002
From The Onion: Man Who's 1/16th Irish Proud Of His Heritage....
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