Category: Humour
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RTFM: The Next Generation
Back in the day—and probably still, in certain dark corners of the Internet—curious n00bs spouting often-asked-and-answered “obvious questions” (at least to those being asked) were quickly booted in the posterior and sent reeling from Usenet newsgroups, IRC, and (later) discussion forums with the phrase “RTFM!” left ringing in their ears for good measure. Nowadays it’s a much…
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Product #FAIL: Koodo Phone Case
Here’s a few questions it might be useful to ask before designing a mobile phone case, or alternately, before buying a warehouse full of some other manufacturer’s mobile phone cases: (1.) Should we use rivets to attach the belt clip to the main body of the case? (2.) How many should we use? (3.) How large…
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Happy April Fool’s Day, Tweeps!
April Fool’s Day and Twitter were made for each other, don’t you think? Sharing-oriented messages with a shortened URL courtesy of bit.ly or some other tool? It’s the perfect combination of trust, expectation of useful content, and an obscured link. The perfect storm. That was my thinking at least. For the last couple of weeks…
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Why did you steal my recycling bin?
You must have noticed that it wasn’t yours. I mean, for one thing, mine was taller. Much taller. It probably had 30% more capacity than your typical bin. That, and it was obviously newer and much nicer than your UV-faded, weather-beaten, run-over-by-the-car experiment in plastic durability. I guess I’ve answered my own question. I suppose you…
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Product #FAIL: Crest for Kids
Can you see anything wrong with this product? Perhaps. But how about from inside a sealed box? No, and as luck would have it, that’s how these kid-friendly tubes happen to be sold. Having had some time to field test it (something I’m guessing Crest didn’t do), I can see at least two fun-enhancing benefits…
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blog.grader.com: Useful, or…?
After reading a recent blog post by Spydergrrl, I was moved to visit a number of twitter monitoring and grading resources she suggested. While she didn’t specifically recommend “Blog Grader”, it’s in the same suite of Grader.com tools that encompasses Twitter Grader, Facebook Grader, Website Grader, and (the completely nonsensical for-fun-only pseudo-tool) Personality Grader, among…
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CPR Wordle 2009
An Apology — In a previous post I outright lied misspoke when I said: “I’ve been blogging for a couple of years now, but have ended up abandoning — then deleting — every blog I’ve ever started.” In fact, I’ve neglected to delete Canadian Privacy Roundup — a “blog” which I’ve been alternately maintaining and…
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Safely Ignorable Content – An Introduction
I apologize if you’re reading this; I’d hoped that the title would dissuade you. Not reading? Good. A few things have happened that made me realize the necessity of lightening things up around here. The first of these is a re-realization of the fact that I’ve been blogging for a couple of years now, but…
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Alternative Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
Alternative Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous is a forthcoming syndicated television series scheduled to premiere this fall, featuring the incomparable, incommensurable, and now ailing and incomprehensible Robin Leech. The show features the unusual and unknown lifestyles of entertainers, athletes, business personalities, and other wealthy and successful individuals that you’re completely fascinated to learn more…