There are even more updates than I linked in the last post. And those updates are here. The ones about China.
Archive of posts filed under the humor category.
Updates from Beijing
I’m not in China. But the Olympics are going on there, and you may be interested in these two articles with important updates directly from Beijing.
Lord of the Rings, D&D Style
I found this blog from a comment on Rock, Paper, Shotgun, and just started reading his webcomic. It gets pretty funny; you should check it out.
More Links
Get ready for the wave of the past: the Apple IIgs laptop! Tetris + arm wrestling = win! Can’t get your software to work? Try a clean install! And this one is less funny: stupidity + sensitive personal information = worse than failure.
What would you do if you lived life from a third-person perspective?
It’s kind of an interesting and silly question. And I find it pretty funny (and cool) that this guy went so far to find out the answer.
Some links from Dave Barry’s blog
This policy is certainly very… progressive. I wouldn’t really call it an “air freshener.” He isn’t just happy to see you. Let us observe a moment of silence. Or sexual harassment, your choice.
April 1
Next Generation has put up a list of the top 5 April Fool’s Day jokes they came across.
Quoth the Raven, “404.”
From the forums at Champions-Online.com, Black_Pagoda ran across their awesome 404 page. Check it out.
Link to a Story
Here’s a link to a story. I wonder how much of it is true?
Geek Humor
I found this page after reading the entry on Wikipedia for “geek humor.”
A Word Problem
Do you remember those math (or logic, and later physics) problems in school where there was a short paragraph of explanation and you had to figure out what the actual problem was before you completed it? And they always used to throw in some irrelevant information… well anyway, I’ve just thought of this one (the [...]
News: The Pot Makes a Statement
The CEO of McDonald’s UK, in an interview with the Times Online, linked rising trends of childhood obesity to video games. Technically, it’s an ad hominem fallacy to discount his conclusion; the kettle may actually be black (or, if not, maybe it is named “Black”). But that doesn’t mean we can’t laugh.
2007, in review
Here is possibly the best Year in Review write-up you will ever read today (if you read it today).
Danger: Avoid Death
You’ve gotten emails before about silly warning labels. Apparently there was a contest, and the above was the winner.
bak
Well, I got back Saturday night but obviously haven’t posted here since then. Until now. Anyway, the trip was really fun. We did almost everything we wanted to and the crowds weren’t too bad.
