Tag: HUMOR

Look out PayDay loan proprietors! The web has often been used to make a point (The Onion anyone?). But rarely has it been used as effectively as with the Predatory Lending Association. This site has it all: Loan calculators, discussion boards, racial profiling tools, and a Google maps based "poor finder" that makes suggestions for where you should open up your next PayDay loan store. The site is ...

Oh 1991. Things were so much simpler then. Computers measured memory in KB, not GB. And apparently a guy in a lab coat could "train" people to upgrade versions of DOS by "rapping." This promotional video seems to be aimed at businesses who would sell DOS 5.0 to their customers. It makes note of the fact that there are 60 million potential users, and that "it's going to be a cash machine for ...

A lot of folks out there complain that you can't trust anything you read on Wikipedia. Since the online encyclopedia is written, edited and maintained by volunteers, you can never be certain that the information you're reading has been rigorously fact-checked. Sometimes the articles that are mostly true can be the most frustrating, because you're getting just enough accurate information to believe ...

I just about laughed my butt off reading this. I'll warn you by saying that you need to be a programmer to even "get" the list of language jokes on this page. Of course you will identify with several different languages than I did most likely, but it is a very funny, very enjoyable site to peruse. My non-programmer wife even enjoyed a few of them because some of them are just funny to read aloud. ...

Amaze your friends! Confuse your family! Fun for all ages over 13, it's the Web Economy Bulls*** Generator. Have you got a great idea about how to drive next-generation supply-chains? What about a way to integrate synergistic content? I think its high time we synthesize rich portals, don't you? Yes, thanks to the Web Economy BS Generator, you too can sound like a desperate startup begging for VC ...

So Victor already hooked you up with today's Time Waster, but here's a little knowledge test to try on your lunch break: Web 2.0 or Star Wars Character? A couple examples: Oyogi? Meebo? Tarkin? I somehow managed a score of 39 out of 43 ("I recommend moving out your parents' basement.") despite my inferior Star Wars knowledge, but then I write about Web 2.0 all day, every day and found it ...