Archive for the ‘Fun’ Category
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Colin Farrell's excellent Corporal Punishment Research website has created a montage called "spank while you sell," which shows the use of corporal punishment in advertisements for consumer products.
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
I loved this image by lemasney of "the prevail whale."
to counter all the negative buzz Twitter is getting when its "fail whale" page is displayed.
Oh, Twitter. We know you can do better. And we're all rooting for you.
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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
Here's how it would look.
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
I wrote a piece of software that I called Checkout Candy, which does automatic upselling on the shopping cart and checkout pages of a Zen Cart, based on Better Together discounts.
I got an email last night (from someone who was obviously not a native English speaker) that said,
I have been ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Last weekend we saw the classic Bond film Dr. No at my favorite movie theatre in Tampa.
In one scene, Bond does a double take when he sees the recently stolen Goya portrait of the Duke of Wellington in Dr. No's lair. In 1962 when the film was ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
The RickRoll: a brief history.
Glengarry Glen Ross for the Circuit City crowd. "You drove here in a Hyundai. I drove here in a Hyundai with leather seats."
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
Thank a veteran that you can still rock in America!
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
"Because if that was wrong - I've gotta plead ignorance here."
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
On Monday, April 28, we spent several hours driving through the rain to Ottawa (to catch a plane and interview Tobias Lutke, but not in that order). I started singing Gary Allan's "Songs About Rain" (yep, I'm a sap), and a code frag appeared before my eyes:
void main(int argc, ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
What a wonderful voice. And such great subject matter. :)
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