Tags: humour

44 Medieval Beasts That Cannot Even Handle It Right Now

Look, I would never usually link to a “listicle” on Buzzfeed, but this is all kinds of cumulative mirth.

Pop Sonnets

Modern pop songs retold as Shakespearian sonnets.

Guy Walks Into a Bar - The New Yorker

If you’re going to check out the New Yorker’s nice new responsive site, might I suggest you start here?

22.7 Million Pixels Of Raw Slideshow Power

This may be the only slideshow on a website I’ve ever actually bothered to click all the way through.

xkcd: Syllable Planning

This is called expletive infixation.

I’ll always remember the “Phila-fucking-delphia” example from Steven Pinker’s The Language Instinct:

If you said “Philadel-fucking-phia”, you’d be laughed out of the pool hall.

Dinosaurs! WTF?

A blog covering the conservative dinosaur readiness movement.

Benedict Cumberbatch Name Generator

I bet you’re going to just keep clicking and clicking and clicking…

Ask About Going Home

Some examples to illustrate the UK Border Agency’s latest campaign.

They’re Using It At Coffee Shops

You can’t demo a digital product without a cup of coffee on a wooden table.

This charming charlie

In an extension of the “Christ, what an asshole!” theory of comics, here we see Peanuts captioned entirely with lyrics from The Smiths.

The Motherfuton News

Pretty motherfuton funny.

Textastrophe

These are mostly just mean …but kinda funny.

CRAPCHA: Completely Ridiculous And Phony Captcha that Hassles for Amusement

These seem just about as reasonable as any other CAPTCHA.

The lovely and talented Paul and Kelly from Maxine Denver were in the Clearleft office to do some video work last week. After finishing a piece I was in, I suggested they keep “rolling” (to use an anachronistic term) so I could do a little tongue-in-cheek piece about the Clearleft device lab, a la Winnebago Man.

Here’s the result.

It reminded me of something, but I couldn’t figure out what. Then I remembered.

How people sit in meetings and what it really means

Show me on the teddy bear where Nate Bolt touched you.

Mailappapp by Visual Idiot

Revolutionising the way you revolutionise email.

The World Wide Web is moving to AOL! by Brian Bailey

Biting satire that hits its mark superbly. Ouch! Be careful — this is sharp …and funny.

YOU HAD ONE JOB!

Funny and painful in equal measure.

What your Twitter bio says about you by Robert Stringer

The truth …it burns!

Actual Facebook Graph Searches

Another Tom Scott project:

I had to take one more quick, cheap shot — and I think a Tumblr blog is the quickest, cheapest shot it’s possible to take.