Selective censoring
I’ve always suspected that reality shows selectively censor what people are saying to make it seem much saucier than it actually is. If you’re skeptical, watch this clip from Sesame Street where some enterprising soul has selectively censored The Count. Watch it all the way through, and I dare you not to laugh:
Simplicity in software
Almost every person I know that has been involved with software design should find this comic about software simplicity funny.
4 Popped-Collars
I can’t help but laugh every time I see this picture. Seriously.
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(Via David Chartier’s I’ve Tumbled, and I can’t get up!)
Tormenting friends with postcards from abroad
This eBay auction is deliciously devious - what a perfect prank!
You are bidding on a rare chance to traumatize a treasured friend or relative with baffling, mind-numbing, mystery correspondence from abroad.
Here is the arrangement:
I will be spending the Christmas holiday in Poland in a tiny village that has one church with no bell because angry Germans stole it. Aside from vodka, there is not a lot for me to do.
During the course of my holiday I will send three postcards to one person of your choosing.
These postcards will be rant-ravingly insane, yet they will be peppered with unmistakable personal details about the addressee. Details you will provide me.
The postcards will not be coherently signed, leaving your mark confused, guessing wildly, crying out in anguish.
“How do I know this person? And how does he know I had a ferret named Goliath?”
Click the link to check out the rest of the description, and see a photo of the postcards. Priceless!
[Update] Also check out this Craigslist post, titled To the Drunk Hottie who fell off my motorcycle.
Even Billionaires have tantrums
This just struck me as funny. Apparently Richard Branson, the billionaire owner of Virgin Atlantic and a myriad of other businesses got so flustered during a taping of The Colbert Report that he actually threw his water on Stephen Colbert. It sounds like that episode will never air, and that Branson is scheduled to re-tape his segment at a later date.
