I came across a hilariously funny video on YouTube (via Laughing Squid): Star Trek Meets Monty Python. It’s a very well done mashup of clips from the original Star Trek series with the “Knights of the Round Table” song from Monty Python’s Holy Grail. Simply awesome! 
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Trekkies of the Round Table
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Useless Account
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007If you’ve been as overwhelmed as myself with the amount of new, often indistinguishable social web applications that are going live every week, you might get a kick out of this hoax site:
Its only purpose is to allow you to create and edit an account (as you might in a social web app), nothing else. And heck, it’s officially “Slightly more useful than Twitter”, according to the fake TechCrunch quote (OK, they call it TechLunch) on the site. 
Wii Safety Manual
Wednesday, December 6th, 2006Apparently the Japanese version of the Nintendo Wii ships with an insane Safety Guide. Who would have thought that it is not a good idea to stick four leaf clovers into the Wii?
Of course, the community was quick to respond with a spoof: Wii Safety: The Missing Pages
Which fantasy character are you?
Tuesday, July 18th, 2006I came across this interesting little survey application that matches you up with the Fantasy / SciFi character you have most in common with. It looks like most of the characters are drawn from Star Trek, Star Wars, and the Lord of the Rings. According to this application, I’m most similar to Jean-Luc Picard:
An accomplished diplomat who can virtually do no wrong, you sometimes know it is best to rely on the council of others while holding the reins.
Need a tax break? Go do some whale hunting…
Saturday, February 25th, 2006While working on my taxes, I just came across this little gem in the IRS instructions for itemized deductions:
Certain whaling captains may be able to claim a charitable deduction for whale hunting expenses. See Gifts to Charity on page A-6 for more details.
WTF???
Human-Animal Hybrids
Friday, February 3rd, 2006I so gotta get me one of these Human-Animal Hybrids T-Shirts!
Thanks to BoingBoing for the link, and thanks to George Bush for making this possible.
Waterfall 2006
Thursday, January 26th, 2006Both a coworker and Andy Hunt’s blog pointed me to this website. It’s about time the venerable “Waterfall” software development methodology got its own conference: Waterfall 2006.
Enough with the Web 2.0 hype already…
Sunday, January 15th, 2006If you’re getting tired of the hype around “Web 2.0″, you may get a kick out of this: Wankr
The Official God FAQ
Monday, January 2nd, 2006I promise after this post I’ll shut up with the Atheist posts for a while. But first:
This is absolutely hilarious! Pay attention to the disclaimer.
And while we’re on the subject, here’s a partly serious, partly humorous proof that there is no god. A lot of good links on that site, too.
Merry Crispness
Sunday, December 25th, 2005Merry Crispness – or Christmas, Hannukah, Winter Solstice, or whatever you may or may not be celebrating.
On December 25th we celebrate Newton’s Birthday because Newton actually was born on December 25th. We call the holiday Crispness because it’s about keeping your mind crisp. And it’s not a coincidence that it’s the same day as Christmas and the Yule holiday where Christmas came from. It is the day that we celebrate the Tree of Knowledge, which represents the sum total of all human understanding. We use the traditional pine tree, which is already a very fractal looking tree to represent the Tree of Knowledge. The tree is decorated with lights and ornaments symbolizing The Sacred Network or the Internet.
On that note, the Church of Reality recently adopted the Flying Spaghetti Monster as its Official Fictional Deity. This seems like a nice marriage and makes it a lot easier for me, as I strongly sympathize with both movements.
Happy Holidays everyone.
How to scare a file sharer
Wednesday, December 7th, 2005Here’s an absolutely hilarious story on how someone stopped a file sharer in a hotel from hogging all the bandwidth. If this really happened, it is one of the best pranks ever.
Serious competition for Flying Spaghetti Monster
Monday, November 7th, 2005As much as I love the Flying Spaghetti Monster movement, this one poses some serious competition: Church of Reality.
The website contains an abundance of very well thought out pages. A lot of it is sarcasm, but there seems to be some deeper and honest motivation as well. They have actually managed to be recognized as a charitable organization by the IRS. And if that’s not enough, the website contains several pictures of the Linux Penguin and is littered with fractals.
Maybe I should join this church in time to celebrate one of their most important holidays, Newton’s Birthday on December 25. Because unlike certain other religions’ prophets, Newton was actually born on that day.
FSM Update
Saturday, October 29th, 2005I hadn’t kept up with the Flying Spaghetti Monster movement for a while. It really seems to be gaining a lot of traction. In addition to many downloadable wallpapers, they now have a whole bunch of printable brochures, flyers, posters, etc., many of which are quite well done.
But the funniest happenings have to be some recent propaganda events:
Keep up the good work.
Déjà Fubar
Thursday, October 27th, 2005Andy Hunt of the Pragmatic Programmers has coined a new term:
déjà fubar | ËŒdÄ zh ä ˈfoÅËŒbär | noun That sinking feeling that you’ve made this very same mistake before. Maybe even many times before.
I love it (and know it well…).
What If God Wanted Pasta Sauce
Thursday, August 25th, 2005Sparkletone did a wonderfully quirky pastafarian parody of “What If God Was One Of Us”, called “What If God Wanted Pasta Sauce”. He provides both a regular version and a vocals only version for those who want to create their own mix.
(via BoingBoing)
Flying Spaghetti Monster
Monday, August 22nd, 2005OK, I’m probably the last person to hear about this, but this is insanely funny. In response to the Kansas State Board of Education’s ridiculous and backwards decision to teach Intelligent Design (essentially Christian Creationism dressed up as science), somebody has created a parody religion called “Flying Spaghetti Monsterism”, which has gained a huge following in the past few months. This open letter to the Kansas School Board describes the religion and states that is is just as much science as Intelligent Design. If you have any doubts, just check out the chart that compares the decline of pirates in the world to the rise of the global average temperature and thus clearly proves that global warming is caused by the decline of pirates.
The responses from the few sane people on the Kansas School Board are also worth reading. I wish them luck for the final vote in October.
Wikipedia entry on the Flying Spaghetti Monster
RAmen.
Clientcopia : Stupid Client Quotes
Friday, August 19th, 2005Someone on the Pragmatic Programmer mailing list recommended this website: Clientcopia
It’s a massive (3300+) collection of stupid client comments from all fields, many of which I’m sure you can relate to. Just hit “Random” a couple of times; it’s quite entertaining.
LipoBattery
Wednesday, August 11th, 2004Dave Thomas has an interesting proposal on turning excess body fat into laptop energy. He calls this the LipoBattery. It would solve both the problem of overweight programmers, as well as the lack of battery power in laptops.
As soon as they actually invent this thing, please sign me up for the beta test!