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“Groovy Motherfucker”

Filed under 'funny'

February 3, 2011

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: After a Thorough Battery of Tests We Can Now Recommend "The Newspaper" As the Best e-Reader On the Market.

“Engineers using The Newspaper typically did so 30 to 60 minutes a day. Afterward, they went outside, formed relationships, and took in what life had to offer. Those using Wi-Fi-enabled e-readers tended to stay on the couch, scanning video sites for cats; eventually, downloading recipes for artichoke cheese dip they’ll never use.”

January 9, 2011

Exquisite Tweets from @RodBegbie, @junelin, @clizzin, @LaughAtlantis

or “Things to bear in mind when taking advice from a small, Asian girl”

January 7, 2011

Cwora

“Obviously not affiliated with Quora”

January 1, 2011

New but Old Movies, with Anna and Bobbie: No. 1 – the Sound of Music

Anna livetweet’s her boyfriend’s reaction to seeing The Sound of Music for the first time. “This has been on for 52 minutes? Where are the Nazis?! YOU SAID THERE WERE NAZIS. This is all SINGING.”

October 6, 2010

The Coffee Wars of San Francisco

If Ken Burns covered SF coffee…

October 1, 2010

YouTube - John Cage's 4'33"

Love this. “NOTICE This video contains an audio track that has not been authorized by WMG. The audio has been disabled.” Well played, YouTube.

July 28, 2010

venomous porridge - "MOM! BETHANY WON'T LET ME PLAY DOODLE JUMP!" ...

Appstore fanfic.

July 7, 2010

Illusion Illusions - a set on Flickr

Cruel and brilliant. Optical illusions edited so they actually *do* display the behaviour commonly associated with the illusion.

July 2, 2010

Commit Message Generator

For those times when you don’t know what to put in your commit message. “oops, forgot to add the file”

June 15, 2010

McSweeney's: Short Imagined Monologues: I'm Comic Sans, Asshole.

“Need to soften the blow of a harsh message about restroom etiquette? SLAM. There I am.”

May 9, 2010

Fake Science

“For when the facts are too confusing”. Subscribed!

March 30, 2010

DILF The Movie

Excellent short film co-written by and co-starring Sarah Haskins, who used to do the Target Women segments on Current TV.

March 25, 2010

Is Bella A Sympathetic Teenager Or A Weird Marble Fetishist?

The joy of watching two funny pop-culture writers “debate” Twilight: “Hold still, you know okra’s tricky.”

March 2, 2010

Nose Achievements

Fabulous! Xbox-style achievements for your Python unit tests. “Heisenbug: Make a passing suite fail without changing anything.”

February 6, 2010

Nancy Banks-Smith: classic TV reviews

A bunch of snippets of The Guardian’s fabulous TV reviewer, as she celebrates 40 years at the paper. Her description of the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest made me do two genuine LOLs.

January 28, 2010

Charlie Brooker - How To Report The News

Brilliant clip of TV news clichés in action.

January 27, 2010

tellywonk

The fabulous and funny Anna Pickard has launched a new TV blog, and it’s topnotch. She’s kicking off by watching all of Lost for the first time — all five seasons — over the course of one week, so she can be ready for the final series next Tuesday. Marvelous.

January 18, 2010

What Would Martin Luther King Make of Twitter?: Baratunde Thurston

Thoughtful and funny piece by Baratunde Thurston.

December 17, 2009

Let's Enhance

Every geek’s favourite TV Trope — “Zoom in and enchance that”

December 9, 2009

Cassetteboy - The Web for Beginners

Another video slice-up by Cassetteboy. “The nice thing about the internet is that it is christmas all the time.”

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