Category: Funny

US Gov’t Didn’t Think This One Through

The CIA has launched a taskforce to assess the impact of 250,000 leaked US diplomatic cables. Its name? WikiLeaks Task Force, or WTF for short.

Speaking of the WikiLeaks mess, this quote from EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow sums it up quite nicely:

We have reached a point in our history where lies are protected speech and the truth is criminal.

Could not have been said better.

The recent essay in The Atlantic entitled The Hazards of Nerd Supremacy: The Case of WikiLeaks is also worth a read.

December 22, 2010

Reading Material

The Vendor/Client Relationtionship in Real World Situations.
I didn’t know video game graphics could look this realistic.
The Background Dope on DHS Recent Seizure of Domains.
Five Lessons Netflix Learned withUsing AWS (I think the Chaos Monkey idea is a great one).
The Big Picture has their photos of the year series going: Part 1, 2 and 3.
Wiki’s should have an ignorance test.
Why one man rated the book as “very good”.
Booboo Kills Yogi.
22 Essential Resources for Android Owners.
Steam’s Holiday Sale has begun, and this Reddit thread will make it easier to follow.
For the serious geeks: vmail is a Vim interface to Gmail.
I don’t know where this hilarious image came from, but more parents should be given this in poster form.
The NYT geeks are smart folks: Using flat files so elections don’t break your server.
Those molesting pat-downs aren’t working: Man boards plane with loaded gun in carry-on.
Favimon is a RGB-style battle of Favicons.
I’m mostly book marking this for my future reference, but unRAID looks fairly interesting.
Nudity detection with JavaScript with nude.js.
Speaking of nudity, Accidental Penis (Safe for work, don’t worry).
Google Labs has debuted Books Ngram Viewer which allows you to type in a word or phrase in one of seven languages and see how its usage frequency has been changing throughout the past few centuries. Naturally, somebody tried it with “penis” and there was apparently a spike in the early 19th century that has a bit of a phallic shape to it.

December 20, 2010

I always try to check my office web cam in the morning, mostly to see if my cam has survived another night fully functional (it’s dying a slow death, so sometimes it won’t make it 24 hours without needing to be reconnected to the host PC). This morning, a co-worker who was going there to check out the Mt. Bachelor conditions saw this image on the Sunriver Lodge web cam (owned and operated by KGW in Portland). Warning, NSFW if crude drawings of a man’s ding-a-ling offends you or your co-workers:

They’ve since scratched out the phallic symbol, but I can’t help but wonder how long it’s been on there and who was responsible for it.

December 16, 2010

Mario’s A Jerk

He’s been picking on Yoshi since he was a baby:

December 14, 2010

Springfield Man Legally Changes Name To “Captain Awesome”

As a fan of Chuck, I’ve always thought Captain Awesome was one of the better characters on that show. A Springfield man is obviously a big fan, too, and had his named legally changed to Captain Awesome, though the guy hardly looks as awesome as his namesake.

December 7, 2010

Can’t Say I See This Working Out Well

Cookie Monster wants to host SNL:

November 30, 2010

Meanwhile, In Seattle…

We obviously have a huge pile of white stuff in Sunriver, but when Seattle gets just an inch of snow, things get stupid.

Great discussion on this mess on Reddit.

Everybody else surviving the weather/roads? I know it’s taken me a lot longer to get to/from work (took me an hour to get to Wal-Mart from Sunriver yesterday), and I’m still seeing a metric crapload of folks (mostly out-of-towners) flying down the road when they shouldn’t be. Saw several folks in the ditch this morning on the highway at angles and depths that would say they were going much too fast, and it’s hard for me to feel sorry for them (they weren’t hurt, just stuck out in the deep).

November 23, 2010