Scott Adams, the author of the Dilbert comic strip, recently published a book named, “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey-Brain!” He didn’t wait for some stuffy “professionals” to review it, though. Instead, he decided to run a contest for the funniest book reviews. Here are a some of my favorite submissions. You can also check out [...]
Consider, for a moment, how much time you spend using a mouse every day of your life. With all that practice, you probably think you’re pretty agile with that little cursor… Well, think again. Mouse avoider is a flash game designed to pit your manual dexterity against a sly little man hell bent on stealing [...]
All of us office workers have passive-aggressive fantasies about annoying office mates getting their just deserts from time to time. The person who doesn’t respect office coffee etiquette, the one who’s way too chatty, or the one who refuses to recycle even though it’d only take him a second… wouldn’t it be great if they [...]
I’ve always had a simple approach to winning at Monopoly: Buy everything. If you land on it, buy it, period. Mortgage other properties if you have to, but don’t pass up a chance to own more of the very limited real estate available. This is because, in my experience, the person with more board space [...]
Let it never be said that the software engineers over at Google don’t have a sense of humor. Just the other day, I was curious how far my friend Daniel Scocco over at Daily Blog Tips would have to travel if he wanted to attend BlogWorld Expo next week. For those who don’t know, Daniel [...]
Last year, Wired magazine ran a feature of six word stories written by various celebrities. Naturally, I didn’t hear about it until a friend mentioned it the other day (don’t tell anyone; I might lose Geek Points). Like a haiku, there’s real artistry in being able to say so much in so few words, and [...]
So, imagine you’re a curator at the Smithsonian Institute and some guy keeps sending you junk to put on display. His most recent submission is a barbie doll head. Not only does he openly admit to digging it up in his back yard, but he also insists that it has genuine scientific and historic value. [...]
To most people, search marketing is a pretty dry profession. Behind all the technical minutia and jargon, however, there’s humor that any web surfer can appreciate. For example, I came across this collection of unfortunate search ads over at SEOrefugee demonstrating how some online shopping sites reach a little too far in their ad targeting. [...]
My friend Adam is very fond of the expression, “WTF?” Yes, he literally says those three letters rather than the words they represent, and I’ve been developing the same habit from listening to him. It’s a bit more polite to use the acronym, I suppose, although most people still recognize (and might be offended by) [...]
As it turns out, downloading Linux for the first time takes awhile, especially when your internet connection keeps crapping out on you. So I’ve been playing a Flash game called Cubefield to pass the time while the progress bar fills up. Basically, you just dodge cubes as they come flying at you. That’s it. It’s [...]