All 63 entries tagged Humour

Gates & Seinfeld: Together at last again

Follow-up to Gates & Seinfeld: Together at last! from Autology: John Dale's blog

It’s not really about anything, nor is it overtly trying to sell anything. I can’t decide whether it’s brilliantly clever or pointlessly stupid.

John Dale : 12 Sep 2008 13:15 |  Tags: Advert Humour Video |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Gates & Seinfeld: Together at last!

Writing about web page http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM_72QXCtN4

John Dale : 05 Sep 2008 09:26 |  Tags: Advert Humour Video |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Aggressive parking

Writing about web page http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7472490.stm

Now I see the advantage of SUVs in the supermarket car park.

John Dale : 25 Jun 2008 09:53 |  Tags: Humour |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Font haikus

Writing about web page http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/05/15/font-haiku.html

Love these font haikus. They’re all good, but if I had to pick a favourite or two, it’d be:-

Arial, the clone
But not of helvetica.
Grotesque is its sire.

or

Trebuchet MS,
Web designers sick of want
use you, but still weep.

John Dale : 16 May 2008 14:10 |  Tags: Humour |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Gallardo trailer

Writing about web page http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/-lamborghini-gallardo-chopper-trailer-ar57413.html

Who buys a Lamborghini Gallardo and then hitches a trailer up to it?

Although, that said, if you really are going to haul a trailer around, matching the alloys of the Gallardo and having a matching paint job on the bike, is pretty cool.

John Dale : 16 May 2008 11:05 |  Tags: Humour |  Comments (2) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Most annoyed cat ever

Writing about web page http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SWApWkEiIc

By some margin, the world’s most annoyed cat:-

John Dale : 08 May 2008 16:55 |  Tags: Humour Video |  Comments (2) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

High security area

Good to know.

John Dale : 18 Apr 2008 15:55 |  Tags: Humour |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Mario madness

Writing about web page http://www.snotr.com/video/774

This Mario game clone is remarkable for its breath-taking, capricious unfairness. Watch in awe as over the course of seven painful minutes, the player dies time and time and time again through completely unguessable, hilarious obstacles. Awesome.

John Dale : 31 Jan 2008 15:26 |  Tags: Games Humour |  Comments (3) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Worst trademarks ever

Writing about web page http://www.trademork.com/worst-word-mashup-trademarks/

I love this: trademarking ordinary words in common use is difficult, so companies make new words for their trademarks by combining two existing words. So far, so reasonable, except that they often aren’t very good at it:-

Collaboneering – what you do if you’re an engineer who collaborates, presumably.

Blingkini – a bikini with gaudy, tasteless bits of metal glued to it.

And many more.

John Dale : 11 Dec 2007 16:00 |  Tags: Humour |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Synopses

Writing about web page http://i.thefairest.info/funniest_thumbs/QaDdYu.jpeg

John Dale : 18 Oct 2007 09:52 |  Tags: Humour |  Comments (4) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Darth Vader being a jerk

Writing about web page http://youtube.com/watch?v=7YwLQSTo_ow

John Dale : 12 Oct 2007 15:02 |  Tags: Humour Video |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Best eBay deal ever

Writing about web page http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/6903433.stm

From the BBC news web site:-

Police are trying to trace the owner of £44,000 mistakenly sent to a 16-year-old boy who bought a Playstation Two for £95 on eBay.

Hilariously, the BBC report, straight-faced, that the package arrived with the PS2, but “minus two games”. You’d think that forty grand in crisp blue notes would pretty much make up for that, but sadly for the boy, the police are holding on to the money under the Proceeds of Crime Act. However, if the money remains unclaimed and/or unproven to be the proceeds of a crime, then the boy and his family may be allowed to keep it. Bargain! (But also, lamest, most incompetent criminals ever. I like to think that it went like this:

Quick! The coppers are closing in – they’ll be here any second now. We’ve got to dump the loot, right now. What should we do?

Don’t panic; I’ve got a plan. You know that PS2 I was getting rid of? If I can just get to the Post Office before they nick us…

John Dale : 19 Jul 2007 10:31 |  Tags: Humour |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

An advert for…

See how long before the end you can guess what this is a commercial for.

John Dale : 05 Jul 2007 09:00 |  Tags: Humour TV Video |  Comments (2) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Dr Who, Lolcats, SlashFic: Together at last!

Writing about web page http://nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com/1336208.html#cutid1

If you watched the penultimate episode of Dr Who last week, and all the words in the title of this entry mean something to you, then you’ll probably like this. If not, then there’s every chance it’ll seem tasteless, humourless and inexplicable.

John Dale : 01 Jul 2007 22:53 |  Tags: Humour TV |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Rejected Wii Play games

Writing about web page http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnsfcB1m3lk

John Dale : 22 Jun 2007 12:38 |  Tags: Games Humour |  Comments (4) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Mirosoft Surface: The truth

Writing about web page http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZrr7AZ9nCY

John Dale : 21 Jun 2007 10:15 |  Tags: Humour Video |  Comments (2) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

The tortoise and the… camera

Writing about web page http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/10/technology/10basics.html

Browsing the New York Times this morning, I noticed this image in the sidebar of the article I was reading. Based on the image, what do you think the article was about?

• The photographic memory of the tortoise?
• Cameras which work by actually sucking their subjects inside their body?
• Animal-technology hybridization (the bionic turtle, if you will)?
• Deadly camera-destroying amphibians which like to chew their way through consumer electronics?

Disappointingly, it’s none of the above; it’s shutter lag in digital cameras. It makes sense once you know, and on the page itself, it’s a whimsical but not absurd illustration of the topic. But it’s an amusing example of the icon problem; most modern interfaces use icons to represent actions and objects. So the home icon in your web browser means “Go to your home page”, and the left arrow icon means “Go back to the previous page”. But how do you know what an icon means?

• Sometimes the implication of the icon is so obvious that even if you’ve never seen this icon used before you can guess what it will do.
• Some icons are universally used to mean something, so even though the icon doesn’t imply its meaning in isolation, you learn its meaning once and can then re-use your knowledge everywhere else. The cut/copy/paste icons are like this; they aren’t intuitive, but since every application which supports CCP (which is almost all applications) uses them, you end up knowing what they stand for even though they don’t visually represent themselves clearly.

The problem is that most icons aren’t like this. Most actions aren’t easy to convey with a single static image. Most applications have a bunch of actions and objects which are specific to that application, and therefore the designer can’t rely on users having seen and learned the iconography elsewhere. Example: how many of these icons (from PowerPoint) can you confidently predict the meaning of?

John Dale : 11 May 2007 09:28 |  Tags: Humour Musings |  Comments (6) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

When Bjork met P Diddy

Writing about web page http://www.milkfat.com/diddybj.htm

The highly plausible story of what happened when P Diddy called Bjork on the phone: Part 1, Part 2. Still wiping up the spilt water from laughing too much.

John Dale : 21 Feb 2007 16:39 |  Tags: Humour |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Kodak go digital

Writing about web page http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz6XjXu-oT8

And when I say “digital”, I mean “insane”. But in a good way. Kind of.

John Dale : 06 Feb 2007 12:55 |  Tags: Humour Video |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Cancel or allow?

Windows Vista includes User Account controls which purport to warn the user whenever anything happens which could theoretically be dangerous. This feature has been widely reported as being, shall we say, over-zealous, to the point where many users are likely to switch it off because it’s too intrusive. But then, how would you be warned if bad things really were happening? Apple have gleefully seized on this dilemma and made a new one of their Get a Mac adverts about it:-

John Dale : 06 Feb 2007 11:08 |  Tags: Humour Tech Video |  Comments (6) |  Close comments |  Report a problem