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Museum of Wi-Fi

The Museum of Wi-Fi exists to preserve these vestiges of our neighbourhood battlefields.

Some are brilliantly smart, some are just purely gross. They all belong in the museum.

Hacked On Classics - The Old Market

Seb is going to be closing out the Brighton Digital Festival with a bang.

Seb unravels all the geeky details about how your favourite retro gadgets work, including Nintendo light guns, Casio keyboards and the cathode ray tube televisions that once dominated our living rooms.

It’s going to be like Seb: The Musical …with lasers.

The Internet Should Be a Public Good | Jacobin

A gripping history lesson of the internet and the ARPANET before it, emphasising the role of government funding.

Silicon Valley often likes to pretend that innovation is the result of entrepreneurs tinkering in garages. But most of the innovation on which Silicon Valley depends comes from government research, for the simple reason that the public sector can afford to take risks that the private sector can’t.

It’s precisely the insulation from market forces that enables government to finance the long-term scientific labor that ends up producing many of the most profitable inventions.

Today we have an internet effectively controlled by a small number of private companies.

Instead of trying to escape the bigness of the Internet, we should embrace it — and bring it under democratic control. This means replacing private providers with public alternatives where it’s feasible, and regulating them where it’s not.

There is nothing in the pipes or protocols of the Internet that obliges it to produce immense concentrations of corporate power. This is a political choice, and we can choose differently.

SPACEPLAN

I thoroughly enjoyed playing this game. On the face of it, it seems like little more than a cow-clicker, but the way that the plot and the gameplay unfolds is really delightful.

This feels like the kind of game that would only work on the web—keep it in a browser tab in the background, revisiting occasionally throughout the day.

Why The Longplay Face | Collection

I giggled at quite of few of these mashups.

You Know What? Fuck Dropdowns

An entertaining presentation from South By Southwest on the UI element of last resort.

It’s funny because it’s true.

Making your JavaScript Pure · An A List Apart Article

I really like this piece by Jack. All the things he’s talking about—pure functions and referential transparency—are terms I was previously unfamiliar with …but the concepts smell familiar. It’s good to have terminology (and reasoning) to apply to the way I structure my JavaScript.

marmelab/universal.css: The only CSS you will ever need

Ensure that your class names never go out of sync with your style declarations with this one simple trick:

Take any CSS rule you want to apply, replace : by -, and dots by -dot-, and you get the name of the corresponding universal css classname.

The only thing missing is immutability, so I would suggest also putting !important after each declaration in the CSS. Voila! No more specificity battles.

To the Class of 2050 - The New Yorker

Remember: life is ten per cent what happens to you, ten per cent how you respond to it, and eighty per cent how good your reflexes are when the Tall Ones come at your throat with their pincers.

Explore New Horizons - StarBnB

Discover exotic places with local hosts in a galaxy far, far away.

Classic Programmer Paintings

Painters and Hackers: nothing in common whatsoever, but this are classical painters depictions of software engineering.

The Useless Web

The best of the web is just one click away.

Blandly. A Full-Service Integrated Digital Blanding Agency

Well, we might as well bin the Clearleft website rebranding project. Somebody has beaten us to it.

Progressive Enhancement Makes Me Sad | HeydonWorks

Well, I’m convinced.

THE WALK OF LIFE PROJECT

The thesis: any film is improved by playing Walk Of Life by Dire Straits over the ending.

The proof: this website.

(this is absorbing and brilliant)

Flexbox Defense

If Flexbox Froggy was too easy for you, take it to the next level with this tower defence game.

English as she is spoke

This is truly a book apart.

Static AMP page

Maciej has created a version the AMP Project homepage that’s faster, more performant, and more …um …straight-talkin’.

The Be Nice AMP Project

An alternate version of AMP HTML that works in more parsers and user agents.

The AMP project have “A new approach to web performance” making your website dependent on Google. The Be Nice AMP Project follow the old approach: Make your site fast following best practice guidelines and be independent of Google.

Cameron’s World

A wonderful collection of treasures excavated from GeoCities. Explore, enjoy, and remember what a crime it is that Yahoo wiped out so much creativity and expression.

Scribblit

This is so nifty! Mikey has made a site where you can order his interactive artwork.

Interactive? That’s right! Each framed picture comes with a pen so you can doodle over the picture (and wipe it clean again).

Check out The Fett and The Falcon!

2 Kinds of People

Dividing the world in two.

Amazon.com: Wilton Silver Color Mist: Kitchen & Dining

Oh, what a spray! What a lovely spray!

Here Comes the Airplane

Paradigm-busting disruption!

ConferenceCall.biz

This is just like a real conference call.

Trigger warning: this is just like a real conference call.

Infinite Adam Curtis « Tom Scott

Brilliant! Although it’s kind of like shooting fish in a barrel to make a Markov chain out of someone whose entire output is already one big Markov chain.

Adam Curtis: the Banksy of documentaries.

The Internet of Useless Things

Disruption!

Silicon Valley Job Title Generator

This could come in useful for updating the Clearleft website.

Hitler reacts to the HTML5 URL normative reference controversy

This is hilarious …for about two dozen people.

For everyone else, it’s as opaque as the rest of the standardisation process.

Marcel The Shell With Shoes On, Three - YouTube

Do you want to know what the truth is about shrimps? They’re the idiots of the sea! One time I saw a shrimp just swim right into a rock.

Science Hack Day: Serious Fun in the Making

It’s impossible to predict the creations that will spring forth when people gather in the spirit of participation, collaboration, and benign anarchy at the next Science Hack Day, but the results are certain to be inspired, and inspiring.

High Street Shops In Sci Fi Films

I’m not quite sure why this is funny, but I am quite sure that it is.

44 Medieval Beasts That Cannot Even Handle It Right Now

Look, I would never usually link to a “listicle” on Buzzfeed, but this is all kinds of cumulative mirth.

Pop Sonnets

Modern pop songs retold as Shakespearian sonnets.

A Brief History of Bloggering - The Morning News

An alternative history from a parallel timeline.

He started coding his own just weeks after Tim Berners-Lee, a tunnel engineer helping to build the STERN protein collider, discovered ancient scrolls buried in the Swiss soil that revealed the secrets of HTML.

Panorama Fail

The image-stitching algorithm is trying its best.

Unfinished Business special: Rumpus On The Planet Of The Apes with Brendan Dawes and Jeremy Keith on Huffduffer

This was a lot of fun for us. It might even be fun to listen to.

If you haven’t seen Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes, then listen ye not—this is a spoilerific podcast episode.

What a Misunderstanding!

A variation on “Christ, what an asshole!”

Confessions Of A CSS Expert

Funny because it’s true:

The thing I regret the most is how my class addiction affected my relationship with HTML.

Patatap

Fun!

xkcd: Syllable Planning

This is called expletive infixation.

I’ll always remember the “Phila-fucking-delphia” example from Steven Pinker’s The Language Instinct:

If you said “Philadel-fucking-phia”, you’d be laughed out of the pool hall.

Dinosaurs! WTF?

A blog covering the conservative dinosaur readiness movement.

Benedict Cumberbatch Name Generator

I bet you’re going to just keep clicking and clicking and clicking…

Tiny Games for Brighton

Look at the streets of Brighton for some games to play while you’re in town for dConstruct.

PRSM - The Sharing Network

Don’t ever worry about not sharing again.

They’re Using It At Coffee Shops

You can’t demo a digital product without a cup of coffee on a wooden table.

This charming charlie

In an extension of the “Christ, what an asshole!” theory of comics, here we see Peanuts captioned entirely with lyrics from The Smiths.

Textastrophe

These are mostly just mean …but kinda funny.

CRAPCHA: Completely Ridiculous And Phony Captcha that Hassles for Amusement

These seem just about as reasonable as any other CAPTCHA.

The Worst Things For Sale » The Internet’s most horrible items. A daily blog.

These are like chindogu, but they’re all available from Amazon with accompanying reviews.

How people sit in meetings and what it really means

Show me on the teddy bear where Nate Bolt touched you.

Instant artist statement: Arty Bollocks Generator

Don’t let James Bridle get a hold of this.

TEDxSummerisle

Oh, God!

Oh, Jesus Christ!

Thumbs and Ammo

Ay!

blech/cloud-to-moon on GitHub

Best. Chrome extension. EVER!

Paul’s Chrome extension replaces every instance of “the cloud” with “the moon” (something I do in my head anyway).

It’s forked from an extension that replaces every instance of “the cloud” with “the clown.”

Oh, and Ben has written a version for Safari …forked from code that converts every instance of “the cloud” to “my butt.”

Mailappapp by Visual Idiot

Revolutionising the way you revolutionise email.

The World Wide Web is moving to AOL! by Brian Bailey

Biting satire that hits its mark superbly. Ouch! Be careful — this is sharp …and funny.

Scarfolk Council

Dispatches from the disturbing town of Scarfolk, where it is permanently the 1970s:

Scarfolk is more than its famous sewage treatment works, it’s more than its high security mental facilities; it’s more than its world renowned covens; it’s more than its fine reputation which it rebuilt after a spate of grizzly serial killings…

It’s funny and creepy in equal measure. Actually, the creepiness may be the larger measure.

YOU HAD ONE JOB!

Funny and painful in equal measure.

What your Twitter bio says about you by Robert Stringer

The truth …it burns!

Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns by Steve Yegge

A classic of writing on the fundamental differences between programming languages.

Actual Facebook Graph Searches

Another Tom Scott project:

I had to take one more quick, cheap shot — and I think a Tumblr blog is the quickest, cheapest shot it’s possible to take.

UX Job Title Generator

Like @jeremysjob, but specifically for UX roles.

Soul Compare: Get the most for your soul.

The latest project from Tom Scott is like many Facebook-authenticated apps that ask you to sell your soul, but this one is literal. I think I might offer my soul (worth 56gigaMorgans) to Cthulhu.

Come at me!

A wonderful collection of misconceptions, often the result of being myzelled when young.

Bargain Bin Blasphemy

I think there might be some subliminal messages hidden in these album covers.

The Panasonic Toughpad Press Conference - LOOK, ROBOT

Now this is what I call tech reporting.

The women leave the stage, wet computer in hand, and a new man takes the stage. He plays a schmaltzy video where Portuguese children teach adults to use Windows 8 accompanied by a hyperloud xylophone soundtrack that slices through my hangover like cheesewire though lukewarm gouda.

Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz - Stuff

The biggest plot holes of World War Two.

Warning: contains spoilers.

Thorin sits down and starts singing about gold. - Slurtha

The best review of The Hobbit.

The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud

VC funding that actually makes sense, from the always-sensible Maciej Cegłowski.

Missed High Five

Schadenlulz.

The Useless Web

Don’t do it. Don’t click that button just one more time. Don’t.

Planning Notices in Brighton « Phil Lucas

I wish to cover the entire Brighton Pavilion in Bakelite for my own amusement.

Is it the Internet of Things?

Wondering whether that network-enabled device of yours is worthy of being considered part of the “internet of things?” Just answer these few short questions.

Guardian Truncation Team

Celebrating the work of the tireless men and women who shorten headlines so they’ll fit on your iPhone.

Programming, Motherfucker - Do you speak it?

Does Zed Shaw look like a bitch to you?

I said does Zed Shaw look like a bitch to you?

User Experience Euphemisms | 90 Percent of Everything

Funny because it’s true.

Help me raise money to buy Nikola Tesla’s old laboratory - The Oatmeal

This is so crazy, it just might work. Matt wants the internet to buy Wardenclyffe and turn it into a Tesla museum.

Twitter conversation with ftrain

Lance Arthur uses a tweet from Paul Ford as a starting point for a text adventure.

Where is STML?

Any sufficiently advanced Markov chain is indistinguishable from James Bridle.

HP “On That Cloud Thing That Everyone Else Is Talking About” | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source | Onion News Network

Pitch-perfect parody from The Onion:

HP announced they’re making a new push into cloud computing and that they totally know what that is.

In related news, I’ve ordered my “the cloud is a lie” T-shirt from James.

Olympic Defence: the Unofficial London 2012 Security Game « Tom Scott

Yet another piece of brilliance from Tom:

Click to make the Olympic Mascots fire their roof-mounted missiles! Aim for terrorists, protestors, and any illegal advertising!

That can be my next tweet

A fun bit of Markov chaining of your tweets. Some of mine:

Had a burrito in Barcelona. Thank you get the peacocks plumage.

Stand by to the most helpful. The Fuck Was That type shop and David Byrne walked into a Wikipedia entry?

Last Waltz again. This Is A demonstration of The office doors are they talk right now. Cool your plans.

Picking salad leaves from the people who own them. They’re just resting” at the communal testing lab is!

Heading out the standard option. Alas, there’s no signs of spending Bloomsday as constructive feedback?

Are we in the future yet?

It’s not enough to have the same Photoshopped image from Back To The Future trotted out every. single. year. …now you can pass this meme around every minute of every day of every month of every year. Thanks a lot, Seb.

Mick O’Pedia: Bejaysis, ye can look up all kinds o’ shite now

Sure, this is a bleedin’ one-to-one copy of feckin’ Wikipedia. Give it an aul’ spin.

New Internet Explorer 7 Tax :) -

Well, I guess this is one way of encouraging people to upgrade their browser.

Pointer Pointer by Moniker

Pointless fun.

Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury - Rachel Bloom - YouTube

In light of the recent death of Ray Bradbury, I think we should all honour his memory by revisiting this song (featuring some future-friendly headgear).

I’ll feed you grapes and Dandelion Wine and we’ll read a little Fahrenheit 69…

Quora eBooks

Markov-generated Quora questions …far more entertaining than actual Quora questions.

Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers - YouTube

A satirical parody of post-singularity existence by Tom Scott inspired by Jim Munroe’s Everyone in Silico and Rudy Rucker’s Postsingular.

CONSUME CONSUME

I’m sure there’s a theme connecting all of these pictures. I just haven’t figured out what it is yet.

Like A Rounded Corner (Bruce and The Standardettes) - YouTube

Bravo, Bruce, bravo.

I heard Glen Campbell’s “Like A Rhinestone Cowboy” on the radio and began absent-mindedly singing “Like a rounded corner” to it.

Every Mobile Social App Site, Ever · Visual Idiot

This is kinda funny (because it’s kinda true).

Context-Free Patent Art

This is wonderfully random: illustrations used to illustrate patent applications but without the context.

inspiring toilets

Inspired by the recent .net magazine article on “20 leading web designers’ desks for your inspiration”, here’s a blog dedicated to the place where the real web design magic happens: the designer’s poostation.

Internet! - Imgur

The Old Aesthetic.

The Daily Torygraph

There’s two years(!) of doctored headlines here. Yes, it’s puerile but it’s also very funny (to my puerile sensibilities).

THE MEW AESTHETIC

You can’t have a zeitgeisty internet meme without cats.

Maureen Johnson, THE ADVENTURE OF THE RANDOM HOUSE

There’s a chain of hotels, one of which is in Brighton, called “My Hotel.” I bet they have stories like this one.

Slow down Katniss by 25% and what do you get? Will… - Final Boss Form

Andy Baio pointed to this from Twitter a few hours ago and ever since, I’ve been playing it and giggling over and over.

What’s in a Name? | The Intercom Blog

The hitherto unnoticed connection between the names of Android phones and the names of condoms.

Screenshots of Despair

Existential ennui delivered through interface copy.

Red Scharlach Points At Interesting Things - Otters Who Look Like Benedict Cumberbatch: A Visual Examination.

Uncanny!

HTML5 nurse

Sometimes the good folk at HTML5doctor.com get asked questions that might be better suited for a real, medical doctor. These are those questions.

The Jason Scott Adventure | Glorious Trainwrecks

Download and play the Jason Scott Adventure — only you can help Jason save the internet!

scott_lynch: Against Big Bird, The Gods Themselves Contend In Vain

It turns out that Big Bird is a god-defying instantiation of Moorcock’s Eternal Champion. Magnificent!

Big Bird and Snuffy go with him to stand in the Hall of Two Truths at the gate to the afterlife. The gigantic foam balls on these guys! Sure, Elmo loves you, but when’s the last time Elmo held anyone’s hand on the threshold of eternal night?

At Twitter, The Future is You! - YouTube

A hackweek project from Twitter employees to create the best/worst recruitment video of all time.

Travis Schmeisser: We Used To Build Forts on Vimeo

I loved this talk from Travis at New Adventures in Web Design, especially when he talked of the importance of Geocities and MySpace in democratising creative expression on the web.

We may have later bonded over that Ze Frank quote while in the toilet at the after-party …there may have even been hugs.

One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

A genuinely amusing alternative history of programming languages.

Internet Archive Search: collection:”thesoundofyoungamerica”

Thanks to Jason Scott, every episode of The Sound Of Young America ever recorded is now stored on the Internet Archive. Get huffduffing!

“Girls like modern technology. Like telephones and apps. It isn’t rocket science.”

Ell oh ell.

Wat — Destroy All Software Talks

This cracked me up. There are two possibilities: either this is really is very funny or I am very nerdy.

MOUSTAIR

Funny but creepy. Freepy.

Where men meets moustaches meets hair meets moustaches meets hair meets MOUSTAIR.

College Misery: Henchminion Sends In the Tale of “The Magna Carta Essay!”

A trojan horse for plagiarised college papers, much like the fakery on maps (“Lie Close”, “Arlington”) and in dictionaries; traps to be sprung on the hapless copy’n’paster.

WORLDMOON

A masterplan for the moon as a global cemetery. Launch the ashes of your loved ones to the moon (leaving the buckyball container in lunarstationary orbit). Given enough ashes and enough buckyballs, the result is a fertile surface and a atmosphere-trapping layer of fullerine. Terraforming via recycled humans.

Or, if that’s too long-term for you, you can buy a scale-model moon jewel.

Douchey Account Guy

It’s funny and heartbreaking because it’s true.

The 20 Unhappiest People You Meet In The Comments Sections Of Year-End Lists : Monkey See : NPR

It’s funny because it’s true.

Yelping with Cormac

Because Yelp needs Cormac McCarthy.

pushing up daisies, So The Sims 3 might have the greatest patch notes ever

Sims who are on fire will no longer be forced to attend graduation before they can put themselves out.

The Super-Rich Super-Heroes Respond To

I got your 1% right here.

Blackboards in Porn

Celebrating pornographers who go the extra mile when set dressing classroom porn and actually write something on the blackboard. What do they write, and is it correct?

Louis vs. Rick

IM conversations between a cat and its so-called owner.

How to Barbeque a Man on Vimeo

Valuable advice from Slowtron on cooking perfect longpork.

best wedding pictures ever… scroll down - mlkshk

If you’re going to have a photo-shoot for your engagement, this is the way to do it.

Wait, what does your startup do?

Humour through noun permutations. The results are all-too believable.

photoshoplooter

I know this is probably inappropriate (comedy is tragedy plus time) but I am getting quiet a giggle out of this. I know, I know: too soon.

http://humanweb.ipq.co/

This is wonderful. A web server powered by people. Change the URL and a person will manually fetch the corresponding resource.

You can be part of the server team too.

shitty portmanteaux

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse than “webinar.”

xkcd: Standards

So true, it hurts.

Muff Diving Donegal Ireland Scuba Diving Ireland

Fnar, fnar, and indeed, fnar.

Why not become a lifetime member of the Muff Diving Club? Makes a perfect gift as you will get a Muff Diving Club membership card posted out to proove that you’re an official Muff diver.

YouTube - ‪The Loving Trap‬‏

Pitch-perfect parody of Adam Curtis’s particular style of documentary guff.

Fillerama: A Filler Text Generator

One more alternative to lorem ipsum.

Vegan Ipsum

A veggie alternative to bacon ipsum.

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: TripAdvisor.com Reviews for the Overlook Hotel.

I look forward to seeing Eyes Wide Shut as a series of Foursquare check-ins.

Camptown News Greasemonkey Script — doo-dah, doo-dah « Tom Scott

Tom’s Greasemonkey script turns any seven-syllable headline into a verse of Camptown Races.

Annoying.js: How to be an asshole • Javascript • Kilian Valkhof

All of the most irritating uses of JavaScript gathered together into one library.

Douché! ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto

when you have to concede that someone has made a good counterargument, but they’re being a jerk about it.

I have to remember this one.

Translation From MS-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Dean Hachamovitch’s “Native HTML5″ announcement [dive into mark]

Mark Pilgrim translates Dean Hachamovitch’s utterly bizarre and nonsensical announcement of IE10 that kept talking about “native HTML5.”

Job at Bandcamp | Bandcamp

I like this way of whittling down potential candidates for the job: “To apply, check the HTTP headers.”

Red Plaques

Even more historic significance than blue plaques.

Cute Roulette: Cutest videos on the web

Kittens, puppies, and other baby animals on continuous rotation.

kim jong-il looking at things

There appears to be an endless supply of subject matter for this.

Ten Sexy Ladies

I think that I too will begin rating all my experiences on a scale from one to ten sexy ladies.

This is genuinely hilarious stuff from the genius behind Fireland.

YouTube - Being a Google Autocompleter

Yeah, it’s an April Fool’s video (lamest day on the internet) but this is amusing.

text-align: centaur;

I am easily amused.

Cheese or Font

Clearly my knowledge of cheese and fonts is way worse than I realised.

Famous Objects from Classic Movies

Match the MacGuffin to the movie. Like Hangman for films.

JAMES FACE - OLI ALEX

Cruel in a subtle sort of way: re-posting slightly tweaked Facebook photos of one poor guy.

YouTube - Magnum v. Solo, sequence comparison

When you see Craig’s Han Solo PI side by side with the original title sequence of Magnum PI, the genius shines through.

YouTube - Harvard Humanists Stephen Fry 2 22 2011 Chapter 10 Molly Lewis

If I had the right biological equipment, I think I too might offer to bear Stephen Fry’s children …in a song.

Sad Star Trek

Life isn’t always happy and jolly in The Future.

Who Is Arcade Fire??!!?

Oh, dear. It seems that some people have not been notified.

The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero — Kickstarter

Frank Chimero is funding his book through Kickstarter. Definitely a worthwhile investment.

CHEESE PEOPLE

Cheeses Christ!

Damn You Auto Correct! - Funny iPhone Fails and Autocorrect Horror Stories

What a difference an autocorrect makes.

Once Upon a Title

Pervy little stories made entirely from children's book titles.

Gangsta Lorem ippzle dummy text generator

Spizzle up your tizzle.

Enterprise HTML - Provides proven high performance, enterprise-level and scalable HTML tips and best practices.

It's funny (and painful) because it's true (and painful).

Hello, want to kill some time?

This might just be the best bookmarklet ever created. Use it to turn any page into an asteroid-like game of destruction.

This is a news website article about a scientific finding | Martin Robbins | Science | guardian.co.uk

A perfect parody lampooning the shallow and cowardly reporting of most so-called science stories by the press (I'm looking at you, BBC).

An Event Apart News Archive

An Event Apart, The Musical!

Good Fucking Design Advice

This will be a useful resource to peruse after you've figured out what to have for fucking dinner.

hipster puppies

Oh yeah; hipster puppies: I remember seeing them before they sold out.

crap at my parents house

Giving nostalgia a good slap-down with a big ol' bucket of kitsch.

Yalta Conference, 4th-11th February 1945 | Lanyrd

My favourite page on Lanyrd.

Abyss & Apex : Fourth Quarter 2007: Wikihistory

An oldie but goldie: time travel in the age of the internet.

Hipster Dinosaurs - Imgur

Yeah, seen it. It's not as funny as the first meme.

Unicorn Being a Jerk : C. W. Moss

That unicorn is such a jerk.

CaptchArt - captchart's posterous

Captchas reinterpreted into art.

The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook

"Tuna Casserole Ingredients: 1 large casserole dish Place the casserole dish in a cold oven. Place a chair facing the oven and sit in it forever. Think about how hungry you are. When night falls, do not turn on the light."

What The Fuck Is My Social Media Strategy?

Making it up so you don't have to — somewhat like my New Media Company Name generator from a few years back.

http://www.last.fm/robots.txt

Best. Robots.txt file. Ever.

aM laboratory

A beautiful piece of musical mathematical poetry.

How to Access the Internet (A Guide from 2025)

An entertaining missive from the future.

Is CSS3 part of HTML5?

Just in case you forget.

"Nowhere in the Bible does Jesus have a sword fight."

A laugh-out-loud email exchange ...because if you didn't laugh, you'd cry.

ThinkGeek :: Blurgh! The ThinkGeek Blog - Officially our best-ever cease and desist

Sending a cease and desist letter to an obvious parody just makes the parody even funnier.

Body of Christ Tastes Like Ass of Christ!

A new take on an old classic: how to make communion wafers zingier.

Six Degrees of Black Sabbath #6dobs

An extremely addictive bit of fun with small world network theory as applied to music.

These Golden Books Are Not For Children - Humor - Kotaku

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin.

Long Snake City | booktwo.org

Snakes'n'ladders played on the streets of London. Fun!

Hyperbole and a Half: Things That Can Make You Feel Like an Idiot Almost Instantly

I'm going to have to start ticking things off this list.

Happy Magic Fun Time — HTML5 For Drunks

I wasted my time writing HTML5 For Web Designers when clearly, this is the best tutorial on HTML5 ever.

Fake Science

An excellent education resource.

Question Park | Captcha in the Rye

If you do insist on having a captcha, why not make it a bit more interesting? Also: best blog post title ever.

You what? Youtube comments quiz | Monkeon | Web Design Leeds

This little quiz is surprisingly addictive: match the inane comment to the YouTube video.

Christ, It Works for Everything

Collecting data on theory that all comics can use the punchline “Christ, what an asshole” without compromising their comedic value.

Hyperbole and a Half: The Alot is Better Than You at Everything

Coping mechanisms for grammar pedants. I can see myself using this alot.

Bananus Information

A public service announcement about the end bit of the banana.

KittehRoulette - refresh for random kittehs of the internet

When memes collide: chat roulette meets cats.

But, Sir…

A collection of the worst petitions sent to the prime minister.

How Annoyed Is Paul Robert Lloyd?

I wonder how much I need to wind up Paul at work in order to push him into the red...

Alien Versus Pooh - a set on Flickr

Wrong.

Douglas Crockford Facts

Screw Chuck Norris. Douglas Crockford is the true originator of awesomeness in the audience.

oooooooOOOOOOOooh!

Because sometimes a sad trombone just won't do.

Twitpic - Share photos on Twitter

This thread was supposed to be about dragons!

First-Person Tetris

It sounds like a gimmick but there's something very cool about this. In Soviet Russia, keyboard rotates you!

That's Not Art

Garret Murray turns the snark up to eleven. "People post ridiculous 'art' to Tumblr. These pieces frequently make it into Popular. I reblog them here and call them out for being stupid."

My Life as a Religious Parable | Workbench

The popesquatter reveals all.

Sketchy Santas

He sees you when you are sleeping. He knows when you are awake. Be afraid. Be very afraid. And be good ...for goodness sake.

How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell - The Oatmeal

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Continuity

A puzzle game with an extra dimension. Utterly compelling.

Audio Atrocities (TM)

"This site is intended to be a constantly growing and changing museum for the study and enjoyment of truly terrible video game voice acting in video games from the very first CD system, the Turbografx until the present day."

"It's like twitter. Except we charge people to use it."

This is just wonderful. "Please design a logo for me. With pie charts. For free."

TWOYOUTUBEVIDEOSANDAMOTHERFUCKINGCROSSFADER.COM

Best. Domain name. Ever.

Smell of Books

An aerosol e-book enhancer.

Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Uranium Ore

"I purchased this product 4.47 Billion Years ago and when I opened it today, it was half empty."

AverageCats- Your cat is average.

Debunking LOLcats.

BallDroppings

Brendan Dawes pointed me to this wonderfully playful creation. It's Flash-free, believe it or not.

This Is The Only Level | Armor Games

Fiendishly clever and joyful platform game ...and it only has only level.

Probably Bad News: News fails, because journalism isn't dying fast enough.

Enjoyable schadenfreude with journalistic boo-boos.

I HATE MY PARENTS

These kids hate what is being done to them ...and one day they will get their revenge.

Douchebag Name Generator

The results are astounding accurate.

HEY-IT - We want to get rid of IE6!

A poster campaign aimed at encouraging IT departments to upgrade company browser policy.

Table of Condiments

Table of Condiments That Periodically Go Bad

Easily Mused: Panels 66: Why Chicks Cry

What makes women cry, according to comic book panels.

FormFiftyFive - Design inspiration from around the world

Beyond the personal annual report; it's the personal brand identity guidelines.

YourLogoMakesMeBarf.com

The ugliest logos in history.

FAST GAMES - Little Wheel

A cute little game all about robots.

Crush the Castle | Armor Games

The game is simple, the physics are fun, the result is utterly addictive. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Allergic to "grilled cheese" - Love Letters - Relationships questions, advice and more

And the award for Best Euphemism In An Online Column goes to...

[Everyone] Testing testing...

Start here, click through to each next message, and enjoy. Pretend Office is like Spinal Tap for office workers. Funny in an uncomfortably real way.

Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat

Because everything goes better with keyboard cat.

Truthful TV Title Cards — Glark

If television were honest...

Star Wars WTF

Imponderables from a galaxy far, far away...

The Brads - a comic about web design » Blog Archive » The Brads - Diggbar

I think Scott McCloud would enjoy this.

NEW MATH by Craig Damrauer

Equations to live by.

Noah Stokes - Front End Developer and Other Crap

Best. Portfolio/resumé. Site. Ever.

Lyttony

Past winners of the Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest, "where WWW means Wretched Writers Welcome."

Emergency Trammell (dot com, lulz)

No substitute for the real Trammell.

passive-aggressive (and just plain aggressive) notes — no, your mother doesn’t work here

Dear internet, Please keep throwing up sites like this because no, I don't have anything better to do with my time than scroll and click through the entire archive. Thank you.

Яolcats

In Soviet Russia, cat LOLs you.

Champion of Guitars.z5 - Parchment

The text adventure version of Guitar Hero.

Austenbook

Pride and Prejudice told through Facebook.

Meow Reader

Cats. Reading. Once again, it's all about the cumulative effect.

Historical Tweets

Twitter through the ages.

How to Use Twitter for Marketing and PR

This site needs some promotion. Maybe on Twitter.

All Together Now!: 30GB Zunes Failing Everywhere, All At Once

Schadenfreude by software. Every singe Zune on the face of the planet froze at exactly the same moment.

jCquard: The Do Less, Punch More JavaScript Library

This is certainly the most backwards-compatible JavaScript library out there.

Platitude of the Day

A satirical parody of the BBC's "Thought for the Day". Slightly cruel, mostly funny and entirely brilliant.

Play Auditorium

A beautiful and enthralling physics-based puzzle game.

Twitter AWESOMENESS!!!

View source.

PHYSICS INVADER (nekogames)

A brilliant take on Space Invaders where gravity does its thing.

SUPER OBAMA WORLD

A completely addictive platform game tie-in with current affairs.

http://google.com/robots.txt

User-agent: zombies Disallow: /brains

Cursebird: What the f#@! is everyone swearing about?

Cursebird is a realtime feed of people swearing on Twitter. Fuck, yeah!

Sad Guys on Trading Floors

The cumalative effect of these captioned pictures will ease you through any financial crisis.

PalinAsPresident.com

Satire through mystery meat navigation in Flash: "Can you imagine? We can."

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Hamlet (Facebook News Feed Edition).

Oh McSweeney's, does your satisfyingly smug brand of dry wit know no bounds?

Twitter is Penis

Taking innocent tweets and replacing the nouns with the word "penis".

SHOUTS & MURMURS: My Gal: Humor: The New Yorker

This article by George Saunders had me giggling from start to finish.

Tetris with jQuery

A decent version of Tetris written using jQuery.

MoreCowbell.dj

Because you can never have too much cowbell.

Wiretap Follies

The latest project from by Joshua Green Allen aka Fireland.

Little Gordon – from Caterer.com

He's not big and he's not clever but Little Gordon is f*cking funny.

- web without sense

A useful collection of frustrations. Find an suitable one to send to a client today.

DIY Yahoo! Resignation Letter

Planning to quit Yahoo? This might come in handy.

Sorry I Missed Your Party

Worst. Parties. Ever.

Twitter / Simon Willison: javascript:(function(){var ...

Copy this bit of JavaScript code. Visit your website of choice in Safari. Paste said code into the address bar. Giggle with glee.

Facebook In Real Life is Today's BIG Thing - APR 30, 2008

This isn't just funny, it also encapsulates a lot of the ridiculousness of Facebook interactions.

Get Out And Play

The loading screen is the first game. Then there's a stop-motion video with the second game in the middle. Both games are clever variations on Breakout. Fun!

Play You Have To Burn The Rope, a free online game on Kongregate

Burn the rope, kill the baddies and save the entire planet. Well, not really. But it's worth winning this game (by burning the rope) to hear the song.

HTTP errors - a photoset on Flickr

Friendlier HTTP errors.

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

A new WOW hero class has been unveiled: the bard! "direct damage effects like "Epic Solo" that will rock foes into oblivion while powerful Indie debuffs such as "Tape Jam" and "Shoegazer" keep them in check."

MOO.com | Sneaky peak of MOO’s latest product: The MightyCard

The latest from Moo: the MightyCard.

New Initiative in Hyper-Localized Social Tagging - The Web Standards Project

The WaSP kicks it up a notch. Putting bookmarks in books was just the beginning. Now you can tag bad developers with the web standards equivalent of the scarlet letter.

John Resig - Classy Query

You have to be really, really geeky to find this funny. I find this funny.

Gmail: Google's approach to email

New from GMail: send email back in time. "Gmail utilizes an e-flux capacitor to resolve issues of causality." In all seriousness though, remember when GMail launched on April 1st, 2004 and everyone that it was a joke?

Pharyngula: EXPELLED!

The story of Professor Myers' foiled attempt to see the creationist propaganda movie, Expelled.

Viddler.com - Merlin Mann - Worst Website Ever - SXSW 2008 - Uploaded by rooreynolds

This was the best part of the best presentation at South by Southwest this year: Merlin Mann gives his spiel during Andy Baio's "Worst website ever."

John Resig - Most Bizarre IE Quirk

The title of "most bizarre IE quirk" is hotly contested, given just how many of them there are. But John has found a real humdinger here.

Is it a fucking irritating browser?

You'll probably want to visit this page in anything other than Internet Explorer.

Play Spin The Blac Circle, a free online game on Kongregate

Fiendishly frustrating Flash fun.

Typography with Potatoes Workshop : Ana Belén Ramón

This looks like so much fun: spudpress.

The FAIL Blog

Chronicling moments of FAIL and sometimes EPIC FAIL.

Do's and don'ts with babies :: Hilarious pics

Airtoons for parents.

Understanding art for geeks - a photoset on Flickr

Normally LOL is a throwaway little phatic interjection but I really did laugh out loud at some of the pictures in this photoset.

Ficlets | The Insurgenceez Haz Beginned

I can haz lolficlet?

O'Reilly Maker - Create a funny book cover!

Create your own O'Reilly book cover. Maybe you have to be a geek to find this amusing. I find this amusing.

Katemonkey.co.uk: X-UA-Lemur-Compatible

The timeline behind Microsoft's latest announcement.... as told by stuffed lemurs.

A Day in the Life of a Turret » The Leet World

Portal machinima.

The Hugh Grant Squid Test

A dictionary of all-sorts. An enpsychlo-blog. A compendium of ancient wisdom of modern usage. History, philosophy, and the world around you. A "Who's who?", a "How's when?" and "What on Earth is it?" A token nod in the direction of truth and a dip in the