Unnecessary Advertisments (SA)

Friday, June 20th, 2008 | humor | No Comments

Ah, this is brilliant: Something Awful’s Photoshop Friday brings you a collection of advertisments for things we take for granted. Like sand.

[Something Awful: Unnecessary Advertisments]

Tags: fun, funny, photoshop phriday, photoshopphriday, something awful, somethingawful

Expendable

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 | humor, movies & tv | 1 Comment

If you like the tackiness of James Bond clichés as much as I do, don’t miss Expendable - a really funny short film by David “Wondermark” Maki about the ordinary lives of henchmen.

[Link - YouTube video, 18min]

Spam Imitates Art

Thursday, January 10th, 2008 | art, humor, spam | 1 Comment

Sometimes (albeit very rarely), Spam can be entertaining. Even artistic. Check out the mail Splashman has receintly yesterday:

From: Virgil Adair <fielddoc03@hotmail.com>
Date: Jan 9, 2008 7:27 AM
Subject: God

Vacuum Triangle Horse Family

Doesn’t this have a dadaist quality to it? Especially since it doesn’t contain any links!

Tags: art, spam

Dumb Business Moments

Thursday, December 20th, 2007 | humor | No Comments

Fortune Magazine published a list of the 101 Dumbest Moments in Business 2007. Some of them are hilarious, while a few are undeserved and just mean (#21 should go to the Chicago police, #42 is a real shame, #59 is really innovative). If you don’t have time to check out all of them, here are my 11 favorites:

•  16. Microsoft’s PR firm gets an address wrong
• 22. Co-op Funaral Care recycles its clients
  
• 29. Swiss Newspaper Sonntagszeitung will publish anything
• 33. Oral B’s bad vibes
  
• 38. Google’s malware protection
  
• 46. J&J’s brand protection
• 49. German screw(ed) factory
• 51. Apple’s customer focus
• 70. Circuit City’s war on talent
• 78. Virginia Tourism’s gangbanger ads
• 85. Singapore Airlines’ Mile High Club

Link (via the Fake Steve Job blog)

Humor over the Decades

Thursday, November 15th, 2007 | blogs, culture, humor, movies & tv, pop culture | No Comments

I normally would have tagged the following as an “Interesting Reads” headline, but one of Scott Adam’s latest posts on the Dilbert Blog is too good for a sideline. In “Humor as a Seasoning“, he describes accurately how, over the decades, humor has changed from clever and nonsensical to being an ingredient for other content – a seasoning. Great (and surprisingly serious) post that speaks from my heart.

[Link: Humor as a Seasoning]

And I thought I’d never post a Lolcat

Friday, November 2nd, 2007 | humor | No Comments

…but when I saw our cat Belle today, I couldz no resist!

If Business Meetings Were Message Boards

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 | humor, web | No Comments

There are many differences between face-to-face meetings and their online equivalents. This video will show you some…

[YouTube: Internet Business Meeting]

(Thanks to Splashman!)