Archive for the ‘Humour’ Category

Browser choice and IQ

What a hoot reading the different ways a ‘study’ ‘finding’ that browser choice has been correlated to IQ has been (cough) ‘reported’… People with higher IQ are shunning Internet Explorer: study IE Users Have Lower IQ Than Users of Other Web Browsers [STUDY] Internet Explorer Users are More Stupid Than Others: Study Internet Explorer Users [...]

Tea Party leading the world off the cliff – The Economist

   

Genius

Watching paint dry with Steve Lambert

I have a collection of quirky 404 pages in an album ThePaepae’s Facebook page. Here’s a new one thanks to Marco Arment (Instapaper) retweeting Daniel Jalkut (MarsEdit) … it’s funny, dude. Do it: http://visitsteve.com/404.html

How I wish I had the talent to make a point like this so well

Via Tim Carmody’s Snarkmarket blog, this awesome argument with illustrations demonstrates the sexist double-standard operating in (sigh) comics … merely a microcosm/reflection of wider society. It’s an argument (discussion, really) that’s been running for a while … and is worth following if you care. But my point is the way Megan Rosalarian Gedris has pretty [...]

Juxtaposition

What is this advertising? Any idea?

Start spamming young…

Now, look, I know Twitter meant this image as a joke … … but the line “I’m a 7 year old SEO GURU!” just soooo reminded me of the Geekversity Instant Expert Shaun Stenning so breathlessly promoted by down-on-their-luck ‘property experts‘. I needed to visit Twitter’s how to respond to spammy mentions page after I [...]

OK, so this is different from Rep. Weiner … how?

This morning in the aftermath of Congressman Weiner’s disgrace (Self-inflicted wounds) for tweeting [what some saw as] sexually provocative pictures of his body to people following him on Twitter, I, your humble correspondent, received a tweet from a South African model-slash-actress-slash-internet marketer? (she used to say she ‘works in digital’, which is how I read [...]

Thinking can be overrated

‎’Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits…’ — Satchel Paige, US baseball player (1906 – 1982)

Caption competition: Obama in Ireland

“Is this how you do a terrorist fist-bump?” Put your suggestions in comments or at ThePaepae’s Facebook page.