Posts filed under “Humor”
Best April Fools Hoaxes (via Breitbart.com and doggdot.us)
Breitbart.com has an article about the Top 10 April Fools hoaxes and it makes great reading. The hoaxes were ranked on numerous criteria including number of people duped, by the San Diego Museum of Hoaxes. One of my favorites: In 1996, American fast-food chain Taco Bell announced that it had bought Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell, a [...]
A great line in a great rant
I’m sure I’m not alone in this, but I appreciate a great rant where the author can really make me feel like I was there when things were going south. Here’s a great one on Vista. While¬† reading a section ‘complimenting’ the visual improvements in Vista, I came across this gem: “Sometimes prettier is shittier.” [...]
Spotted on the street
I enjoy spotting unusual bumper stickers and spotted this on a Mazda RX-8 parked outside my apartment this weekend. download sherlock holmes film in hd formats Awesome.
Marketing Innovation is Everywhere
This post on marketing innovation in the coffee market was sent to me and I had to share it: Sex sells. Usually, it sells things like beer, various liquors and – of course – fatty fast food hamburger, but some Seattle area businesses are using it to sell something else entirely: coffee. dinner for schmucks [...]
Funniest Bumper Sticker Ever
I’m not a fan of bumper stickers and generally mock them as I see them. On a walk to coffee last year however, I saw this one which had me in tears. If you have any favorites, add them in the comments. the switch characters
Biometrics to the rescue
There’s a hilarious post by Eric Sink about setting secure passwords and fingerprint sensors that you have to read. It’s very reminiscent of the old “I’ll put this in a safe place” at which point of course, you promptly proceed to forget it. downloadable films megamind
The Last Word on User Experience
I was pointed to Waterfall 2006 (a parody of the software development process) by an interesting post called “Process as a substitute for competence” on Kill the Meeting. The home page for Waterfall 2006 lists some great titles of research papers. My favorite was on user experience: “User Interaction: It Was Hard to Build, It [...]
“Dear Crazy-as-bat-shit-lady” or why Craigslist is awesome
If you’re not a regular reader of The Best of Craigslist, you’re missing out. Here’s a couple of my favorites: Dear Crazy as Bat Shit Lady I am not a fridge pimp. I don’t have any more fridges at that price. No, I don’t know where you can get another fridge at that price. Yes, [...]
A good excuse for being late for school (and why camera phones are cool)
I was walking with Macy to get a coffee this morning when I saw this school bus stuck in a roundabout with the driver on the phone calling his Dad to let him know that he would be on King 5 News. As I was chatting with him, I learned that it’s common for larger [...]
Better Bug Reports
Recently, one of our developers had a mini-rant about the new to properly document bugs in tickets. Apparently, writing “comments are broken” is incredibly unhelpful. Go figure. Of course, he’s dead right, without describing a problem completely it’s a hell of a lot harder to fix. An alternate approach is presented in this oldie but [...]