Letters Remain

Category: humour

  • Band Names That are Really Hard to Search For

    This list of band names that make online searches nigh-on impossible reminds me of McSweeney’s list of inaudible email addresses (via Link Banana). !!! A The And The The The Music

  • Godwin’s Law

    Godwin’s Law is an adage formulated by American attorney and author Mike Godwin in 1990. The law states: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. The rule does not make any statement whether any particular reference or comparison to Hitler or the Nazis might be…

  • Busy? Movies and Books in a Minute

    Don’t have the time to watch that new film or read that classic book? Got a minute? Movie-a-Minute Citizen Kane, directed by Orson Welles (1941) Orson Welles: Rosebud. (dies) Reporter: What does it mean? Everybody Else: We don’t know. THE END Book-a-Minute The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald Gatsby: Daisy, I made all this…

  • Barackbook

    Republican site Barackbook mocks Obama’s Facebook support. With ‘his’ status set as “Barack is hoping to settle on an Iraq policy before November”, Barackbook attempts to highlight some of Obama’s “more controversial real life ‘friends,’ while cheerfully mocking his much-hailed online sheen”. In all, the site is a shockingly clever 21st century twist on the…

  • Viral Videos: Analysis and Classification

    Mike Laurie analyses and classifies classic viral videos. There are exactly one hundred million billion new viral marketing campaigns seeded every 10 minutes – the vast majority are completely dire and destined to fail. So what separates success from failure? Well, the best appear to exhibit similar patterns and by using these patterns in your…

  • The State of the Web – Summer 2008

    A beautifully designed collage of stuff that’s happening on the web. Right now. It’s a more graphic follow-up of last year’s State of the Web, also by Matthew Inman.

  • Feynman on the Bongos (and Orange Juice)

    We all know that the eminent physicist Richard Feynman was an extremely talented man. But who knew his talents stretched to that of the bongos? Here are some videos: His skills in his prime An amusing bongo-rant about orange juice from his later years

  • Let’s Do the Whitest Thing Imaginable

    I think I’ve found my favourite eCard website/service: someecards This one in particular made me laugh, and also reminded me of the comedy blog of yore, Stuff White People Like.

  • Dr Mezmer’s Dictionary of Bad Psychology

    For an amusing take on the A-Z of psychology, Dr Mezmer’s Dictionary of Bad Psychology is close at hand. Meme: The idea that since ideas reproduce metaphorically like genes, that they must reproduce actually like genes. Thus because ideas spread like the plague, tunes are infectious, and advertising phrases are catchy, this must mean that…

  • Bill Gates on Windows Usability

    The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has been scouring Microsoft’s internal emails (released through various law suits) looking for an insight into Gates’ personality and to get a picture of his role at the top of Microsoft. From this epic email rant, it is obvious that even Gates himself isn’t immune. I am quite disappointed at how Windows…