Tag: Humour
The Dead Senator Sketch
(With apologies to Monty Python and thanks to Gemini)
#oneaday Day 780: A Walk on the Common - The Text Adventure
Once upon a time, there was a website called Bitmob, whose users would get quite upset if you capitalised it "BitMob". On that site, the community could publish their own articles, and those which caught the attention of the site's staff would get featured on the front page. It was a great way for a...
If Your Log Is Still in the Bog
I have made a public service announcement for the modern age. I'm sure you'll be pleased to know that it's not about AI or about the collapse of Western civilization or the latest release of the iphone. No. This one concerns the ancient human problem of what happens when someone leaves the loo in a...
If I Could Turn Back Time
Somehow I meet myself back in the year 1990….
Steps to become a Bootblack
STEP 1 – learn how to do a shine STEP 2 – get the basics for your kit STEP 3 – Start bootblacking privately as part of kinky hookups. STEP 4 – Start bootblacking publicly in bars. STEP 5 – Get to know more bootblacks STEP 6 – Realise how much gender diversity and expression exists in the bootblack community. Realise how many bootblacks are trans or nonbinary. As you learn more about all the ways people can experience their gender identity and express gender, start to think deeply for the first time how you feel internally. Start to realise […]
The HTML Neck Tag — Where Should Broken Head Scripts Go?
Poking fun at the mythical HTML <neck> tag—where semantics meet silliness, standards collide with satire, and web nerds nod knowingly at a cheeky non-element.
The Gaz Pearce Award
Real life accessibility issue
I'm always thinking about accessibility when I'm building web sites. Quite often I come across situations off-line where a little thought about accessibility would have been helpful.
The gym towel saga
Very recently I decided that I should start going to the gym again as I was getting a little tubby here and there - and promptly got embroiled in a towel saga.
Google bares one at me!
I use Google Alerts quite a bit, a most excellent tool, but today I had reason to change one of them from 'as it happens' to 'daily report' - I was getting too many alerts on one particular subject.
Everest gets 6 inches higher, on average
It looks like researchers have discovered that the lack of oxygen suffered by climbers at altitude can be counteracted by Viagra - hence the cheeky headline.
How to self spot attention deficiency
Just did a Google on how to self spot attention deficiency because I am worried that I never concentrate on anything for very long normally.
A cliche gone up in smoke
England's dramatic defeat to France in the European Cup has put paid to the old and well worn football phrase 'it's a game of two halves'.
Rip off designer water and sex letters advertising cars
Two marketing mess-ups this week - Coca Cola using public tap water to produce its expensive designer label Dasani, and a car advert featuring subliminal content.
David Blaine is inane
When David Blaine hit our small screens I was fascinated and intrigued. Now he is trying to emulate Harry Houdini by living in a box above the Thames for 44 days.
Multibabel
Just come across a great site - Lost in Translation. It takes a word or phrase and uses Babelfish to translate from English into Japanese then back to English then Chinese then English and so on.
Adam and Joe to star in The Return of the King
British comedy sensations Adam and Joe are thought to have been secretly filming for Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movie trilogy.
Yobs set ferret alight
Local headlines sometimes just unintentionally make you laugh! Spotted on the Croydon Advertiser web site - Yobs set ferret alight.
Microsoft plans toilets with Web access
This is a description of my new short.
Digital blunders - Fraudster's mobile bungling gives him away
I find some solace in these stories about criminals who are stupid.