Tag: Humor
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iLoo: Joke, Blunder, or Both?
Business Week reports on the saga of iLoo, the Internet-enabled portable toilet announced last week by a British subsidiary of Microsoft. Microsoft is now claiming that this was just an April Fools’ joke, despite a body of evidence to the contrary. The ordinary custom is to announce April Fools’ jokes on April 1. This one…
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Why I Wike the Web
Evewy so often you discovew an onwine sewvice that you nevew knew you needed. My discovewy today is the Diawectizew, which twanswates any web page into one of eight mostwy humowous diawects. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit! To wead the west of Fweedom to Tinkew in Ewmew Fudd diawect, cwick hewe.
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My Worst Fears, Confirmed
Cory Doctorow points to a new tool, GetContentSize, that evaluates what portion of a Web site is content, as opposed to formatting and other junk. When applied to this site, here is GetContentSize’s report: http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com Total page size: 32939 bytes (not including images, attached scripts or style sheets) … [NO CONTENT] UPDATE (1:00 PM): Adrian…
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A Stroll Through the Logs
The website statistics program I use (webalizer) lets me see what search strings people are using when they find this site via the usual search engines. November’s report is amusing. The most common search string that led to the site is “tinker.” No surprise there. Number two, though, was “fart noises.” (That matches a Fritz’s…
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Have You Seen This Man?
Washington, DC police today intensified their search for missing news.com reporter and columnist Declan McCullagh, as evidence of his disappearance mounted. Police spokesman Harvey Hoax explained, “We believed initially that Declan was submitting his columns from an unknown location, but further examination of the columns revealed that they must have been written by someone else.”…