Posts tagged Humor
I will survive – Violin version
Feb 26th
The disco classic ‘I will survive’ performed by a violin and a piano.
It’s pretty funny too.
'Frightening' XP hack
Nov 16th
As I was listening to Dvorak’s 5 minute rant this morning (Tech5 at PodShow) he mentioned this article. He stabbed the life out of it and he was right too. It’s an amusing read, certainly if you keep one word in the back of your mind: FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt — as quoted by Michael Horowitz); utter gibberish spread to lure people away from XP in order to sell more Vista copies. I’m not saying moving to Vista isn’t a good thing (I, for one haven’t seen too many bad things about it, not more than I’ve experienced with XP), but it’s obvious they’re pulling the whole thing out of context here, as an advertising stunt.
First of all, running an XP machine with SP1 deserves death penalty. Second: who the heck doesn’t run any form of security app on this kind of machine?! This is beyond me, really. Nonetheless, it’s worth a read, even if it’s just for the sake of a good laugh.
From ZDNET.com:
… Connected a machine running Windows XP with Service Pack 1 to an unsecured wireless network. The machine was running no antivirus, firewall, or anti-spyware software …
“You can download attack tools from the Internet, and even script kiddies can use this one,” said Mick.
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And blah blah blah. Funny. Ignorant.
Fun Distraction: Hearts for Vista
Nov 8th
I’ve added the card-game ‘Hearts’ to my ‘fun distractions’ page.
Read all about it there.
Idealist
Oct 24th
IdeaList is a wacky website where average Joes – like you and me – can post prototype ideas or inventions. Of course there’s voting involved and I must say I’ve seen some remarkably smart ideas. Silly ones aren’t lacking either, but who doesn’t like a good laugh?
Are you a Yankee or a Rebel?
Oct 24th
I must’ve encountered this link before, because it struck me as very familiar, yet still made the effort to fill out the questionnaire in order to find out what kind of accent I have.
While filling out the questions, it makes you think about how you pronounce certain words and based on that it gives you an approximation of how Yankee or Rebel you may be. Makes you realize some people say some words in some pretty weird ways 
Vista Reliability Monitor
Oct 23rd
Click image above for a bigger view of my Reliability Monitor
A few days ago I remembered Paul Thurrott mentioning the Vista Reliability and Performance monitor and since I had purchased a new laptop a month earlier, I was curious to see how things we’re holding up.
The result in the image above is mainly a downhill graph, starting at 10 out of ten and dropped to as low as 1.82 on October 7th. Vista’s running on a new Dell XPS M1710, so it’s pretty astonishing. As of late, the graph has gone up again and is currently at 5.5.
Parodies on Ubuntu forks
Oct 14th
The ever growing list of Linux distributions is staggering, if not ridiculous. More and more distros are also based off OTHER distros. Linux has always been blamed for not being particularly original, if you haven’t found out why this is so, I recommend you to Google for “linux” or just throw a quick glance at the list below. Some of the following parodies are pretty funny too.
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Lost in Translation
Oct 10th
“What happens when an English phrase is translated (by computer) back and forth between 5 different languages? The authors of the Systran translation software probably never intended this application of their program. As of September 2007, translation software is almost good enough to turn grammatically correct, slang-free text from one language into grammatically incorrect, barely readable approximations in another. But the software is not equipped for 10 consecutive translations of the same piece of text. The resulting half-English, half-foreign, and totally non sequitur response bears almost no resemblance to the original.”
The principle is to feed a perfectly normal English sentence into the automated translation, which in turn will process it through ten languages and every time back to English. The result roughly corresponds to the aforementioned description. Some apt examples:
- ”When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s amore.”
becomes “If the moon fixes its eye like a great vector of Fleischpie of the vector of Pizzapie, is the lover. - “A cookie is just a cookie, but fig newtons are fruit and cake.”
becomes “Biskuit has expert of biskuit, but Newton von Fig is fruit and hardens.” [Hilarious!] - “This machine talks gibberish, more than I do!”
becomes “The word says more when queerer than this preoccupation in the unit of me.”
Wi-Fi Detector Shirt
Oct 9th
Now THIS would be the ultimate geek gift!
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