Jul 252014
- 11 Tricks to Get Engineers to Sort of Respect You: These are hysterically accurate.
- Here’s What Happens When Your Joke Goes Massively Viral On Twitter: The plagiarism here fascinates me. The plagiarizers didn’t take the joke as a kind of meme or template, then craft it to their own circumstance. That would have been cool. Instead, they just took the material in a ham-fisted way and presented it as their own. That’s pathetic.
- Weird Al airs all his grammar grievances in hilarious spoof of Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines”: This is so much better than the original!
- Mmm “wedding cake”: My submission — from an Asian buffet restaurant in Los Angeles — was posted to The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks on Monday!
- 10,000-developer survey: 2% of coders split staggering 54% of all app revenue: If you’re interested in tech, these stats will interest you.
- Tony Dungy Explains Why He Wouldn’t Have Drafted Michael Sam: I’m not surprised, but I’m disappointed. (Michael Sam is the first openly gay player drafted into the NFL.)
- The Blood Harvest: This is where I see major benefits to GMOs.
- Lifeguard Would Save Drowning Man, But Who Is He To Play God?: Indeed, it’s dangerous business to act at all when you’re living in the same universe as an omnipotent, omniscient being…
- Neil Patrick Harris Makes Fun of CRAZY US Liquor Regulation: This is pretty awesome.
- Silly German Shepherds: OMG to the last clip. The enthusiastic French kisses of your dog are a sure sign that you drank waaaaay too much.
- Black Squirrel Assault Course: If only we had squirrels, I’d be so tempted to construct something like this for them… but you can’t beat his fine British commentary!