Advertising versus Reality
Monday, March 24th, 2008 Posted in Amusing | No Comments »I always love these sort of things, they never get old. Funtasticus recaps pundo3000.com's list of food advertising versus reality. Burgers are an old favourite for these sort of things, and of course the Whopper makes an early ...
Youtube comments are incredibly homogenous
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 Posted in Amusing, Web products | No Comments »You can basically pick a Youtube video at random and all the comments will follow a similar line. I was sent a clip to a nature video (kind of gruesome, but that's the way nature works), and I just ...
This Internet thing – it ain’t gonna last.
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 Posted in Amusing, Tech issues | No Comments »Hilariously off-the-mark article published by Newsweek in 1995 by Clifford Stoll. Some excerpts: After two decades online, I'm perplexed. It's not that I haven't had a gas of a good time on the Internet. I've met great people and even ...
Bay Area housing
Thursday, March 20th, 2008 Posted in Amusing, Bay Area | 2 Comments »Another sterling post from Burbed.com: WOW! Everything looks so much classier when you have columns! It’s like the whitehouse - it’s classy because it has columns! Man, this totally blows the last columned house on Burbed out of the water! If you ...
Clarke and Dawe explain the sub-prime meltdown
Thursday, March 20th, 2008 Posted in Amusing | No Comments »Aussie humour at its best.
Random amusing link of the day – Kasper Hauser
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in Amusing, Random link | 1 Comment »Was sent this by a work colleague. While there is some dross, there are some incredibly hilarious moments on the Kasper Hauser website. The SkyMaul and Wedding Announcements come highly recommended.
Valleywag post of the day – the many faces of Ballmer
Friday, March 7th, 2008 Posted in Amusing, Tech issues | No Comments »Dance, monkey boy, dance. Ahem. Steve Ballmer has got to be one of my favourite CEOs - and Valleywag has posted the "Top Ten Ballmer Goes Nuts" videos. My favourite is this one right here (a classic to be sure). [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc]
3D visualisations with Excel
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in Amusing | No Comments »This is not an Easter egg - these are filled in cells being dynamically updated within Excel. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vypETZbkU94]
Sand won’t save you this time.
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 Posted in Amusing, Miscellaneous | No Comments »No, it certainly won't. Holy crap that is some scary stuff. Ever felt like burning a bucket of sand? Just get yourself some chlorine trifluoride. Asbestos contaminating your house? This will burn it right up. There’s a report from the early 1950s ...
Improv Anywhere
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 Posted in Amusing | No Comments »I have been very impressed by these guys for a while - whether they're taking desktop PCs into Starbucks, going shirtless at Abercrombie & Fitch or all wearing blue shirts at Best Buy. The latest has been to do ...
