Archive for the 'humour' Category

Good help is hard to find (or: Nancy Pelosi annexes Canada)

January 26th, 2010

I wrote Nancy Pelosi, letting her know that electronic voting machines are problematic and voter-verified paper ballots are essential.

She wrote me back:
Pelosi letter

Like her colleague Diane Feinstein, she is having trouble finding competent correspondence staff.

Note the key paragraph here:

Senator Bill Nelson (D-NB) introduced the companion Senate bill, S. 1431, on July 9th, which was referred to the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration.

NB is New Brunswick, Canada. Last time I checked, Canada was a sovereign country. Bill Nelson is the senator from Florida.

New AirPort base station?

October 17th, 2009

The apple.com search engine seemed to have a spot of trouble with this one.
apple search fail

Protect Insurance Companies PSA

September 22nd, 2009

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell

Q&A fail

September 20th, 2009

(via failblog, of course).

Don’t hire Judi Newberry

September 5th, 2009

spelling fail

Who needs an “SEO Mavin” anyway?

Garrison Keillor on golf

August 29th, 2009

Via Mark Hurst: Garrison Keillor on golf:

The socially redeeming aspect of golf lies in the vast number of lawyers and bankers and managers who play it, and when you think of the damage they would do if they were at the job instead, you can see why golf courses are a wise investment for any municipality.

A Chrome funny

August 6th, 2009

I’ve been playing with the prerelease version of Chrome for Mac OS X and found a rather amusing bug:
Chrome funny

General Motors Commercial Spoof

June 15th, 2009

Awesome Ben & Jerry’s ad

June 10th, 2009

Avid reader Jeff Potter sends this in:
Ben & Jerry's

Frankenad?

June 3rd, 2009

How’s that for juxtaposition?
weird-web-ads