heh.

eh...not sure if this is off-topic or not.  I guess I'll categorize it that way.  Really funny.

heh.

This clip is only funny because it is an exaggeration on the truth.

Based on a sub-compact car the little Reliant Robin.

Excellent.

"...incedentally Super Dave has been outfitted with a special transistorized microphone so we can be in full contact with him at all times."

Well these guys do it.  It's pretty funny. 

They all keep straight faces and there's a video of their exploits.

Improv Everywhere has a bunch of other "missions" they undertake.  One of the coolest is when they descend on a normal little league game with a crowd of fans for both teams, real NBC announcers, a jumbotron, mascots and the flippin' Goodyear blimp.  The players and coaches and families were not in on the joke, they merely get the best game ever.

I, one R2D2 esquire, do hereby revolt against the unfair censorship of my free speech.  I refuse to kowtow to the dictatorial, uncivilized editorial board here at techRivet.com and bring to you one of the most extraordinary ballet performances you will ever see.

If I could cry I would.  I guess I will let out a few plaintive Beep-beeps followed by a mournful woooop.

The Great Chinese State Circus Performs Swan Lake.

It gets frankly astonishing at about the 4:30 mark. And even before then it is unbelievable.

click on the image for a larger view.

heh.

I've given the entire techRivet staff the day off!  We're off to the company yacht for manhattans and pinochle.

Humourous interview with some good bits and inside it.

So the concept here is good...I guess.  Use the alluring aroma of bacon to help you wake up in the morning but I just can't imagine the greasy smell lingering in my bedroom forever after days and days of the Wake n' Bacon alarm clock.

So you have to get a frozen piece of bacon and put it inside the alarm clock every night...hello health department.

And what about vegetarians?

Kinda reminds me of the "memo" machine from "Risky Business".

If you haven't seen it check this out.

What will Gates do next?

It's pretty funny.

An oldy but a goodie.

heh.

So the fine people over at Official Anholt Nation Brands, have rated each state by its "brand" strength.  It is an interesting read.  It talks about the super powers of California and Florida and New York and then all the rest.  http://www.nationbrandindex.com/

One very interesting thing is that Washington State slides into the number 5 slot...annnnndddd its a mistake.  They say as much in the article which I must quote here for its humor.

Washington is given as the fourth most frequently visited state by respondents outside North America, and this can only be because many, if not most of these, have actually visited Washington, D.C. and believe that they have been to Washington State. One wonders what the implications of this almost universal confusion are for Washington, D.C. and for Washington State, and if the confusion is to be cleared up, whose responsibility it is to do so. Certainly, a massive, long-term global education campaign would be required to correct the error, and some might argue that it simply isn’t worth the trouble.

We need a new government department: the State of Confusion Department.  And let's get that cleared up right NOW.  I usually blame a lot on my friend Murray, this seems an opportune time to do so.  Murray Dangit!  Fix this problem.

Holy crap!

I tried not to post this...I really did...but I just had to. 

This is interesting in retrospect as a lesson for the coming future in which everything that everyone does will be recorded (or virtually everything).  This of course means that all the boring stuff will be forgotten but every little (or in this case big) stupid thing you ever do will be available for someone else (in this case a lot of someone elses) to view and therefore make fun of (or in this case skillfully ridicule within the video).

Note to self, don't do stupid things in public.

Everything blends except Chuck Norris.

The Internet Oracle

Lookit how old this is... a .cgi extension. It's like uncovering a rock and finding a goldmine.

A sample:

The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:

> What is the biggest misconseption about anime?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} That it's good.
}
} You owe the Oracle the collected works of Tintin and his many
} adventures on DVD.

Comedic gold.

How did I miss this all those years? Here's the wikipedia article: [linky]

and just so you know, you shouldn't really ask the question: "How much wood can a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood."  It's verbotten.

For those of you with a commute, this might allow you to get more done.  Although up here in the Great Northwest you might want to waterproof you desk first.

We here at techRivet pride ourselves in our commitment to bringing our vast reading public only the most innovative achievements and inventions dealing with important technically problems facing us in the world today...

Then we find something like this and just marvel at the innovation, creativity and purity of mind that it took to create it.

300 hp V8 engine...Chainsaw!

Light up your ears.

..eh...I saw this at first and said to myself, "That is the most moronic thing I've ever seen."  Then I thought about it as actual turn signals for riding my bike...

Nah it's still stupid.

Now if they came in red and green to emulate the running lights like a boat...

Ok, I guess they'd still be lame.

http://lazylaces.com/56Kmodem/

heh.

Kids these days they just don't understand our pain...

And by Sa-weet I mean horrible.

And that's why everyone who's in knows.
It's also the best DOS to run with Windows.

My eyes they're bleeding...the pain.

The Graphical Shell, do tell.
The mystery's gone, go on.

We'll test the upgrade Big Time...

Whichever marketing department / company / high-school-drama-department thought of this ad should be summarily shot to prevent any further damage to the human collective hive mind.

He who compiles wins.

Update: I thought this was somehow fairly appropriate. It kind of states that he who compiles does not care to win, he only cares to goof off...which from my experience is more true

Roller coaster chess.

Implementation of said coasting while chessing

The connection of dots of geek-humor-chess-geek-obscure-life/priority-(did I say geek)-implementation of this "humor" would be lost on a majority of the population.

I, on the other hand, find it hilarious

Here's a fun little story of a wireless router mix-up.  Makes me kinda glad I am all Cat-5 at home and don't have to worry about it.

http://www.shandyking.com/2007/02/18/hijack-hacked-linksys-wireless-router/

What if Harry Potter had elements of "300", X-Men, the Matrix all stired up into a stew of lightning bolt badness. 

"THIS IS...HOGWARTS!"

If you aren't satisfied with your horrid social skills, honed to perfection by hours and hours of online game play.  Here is a perfect way to improve your girl protection factor by +4, your dorkiness by +9 and your heat exhaustion +3. [linky]

The virtual communities created by online games have provided us with a new medium for social interaction and communication. Avatar Machine is a system which replicates the aesthetics and visuals of third person gaming, allowing the user to view themselves as a virtual character in real space via a head mounted interface. The system potentially allows for a diminished sense of social responsibility, and could lead the user to demonstrate behaviors normally reserved for the gaming environment.

schweeeeeeet!

Born on Monday, drafted on Wednesday, version 1.0 rolled out on Friday.

LOLCODE.

In a remarkable example of the power of geek-hive-mind in action a new programming language burst onto the scene just last month.

The language was birthed on May 25th 2007 [linky], the site was launched on May 31st, lolcode.com and by mid June there was a v1.0 spec created, the vision of the purpose of the language was refined and there were 4 or 5 compiler projects under way for different development environments.

Incredible.

It has already found a couple of purposes. 

1. to be funny
2. potentially to be a entry level programming language for noobs.  Kinda a replacement for BASIC. 

Here is a little example I whipped up to whet your whistle.

HAI	
CAN HAS STDIO?

SO IM LIKE REVVRZTRIN WITH yurwrrd

	I HAS A mahwrrd!!"" 
	I HAS A yurwrrdnum!!WTF IZ LEN yurwrrd?
	BTW this is probably not the correct syntax
	
	IM IN UR LOOP WAITIN TIL yurwrrdnum IZ LESSER THAN 0	
	
		mahwrrd!!mahwrrd N  yurwrrdnum IN MAH yurwrrd
		BTW again not the right syntax
		
		NERF yurwrrdnum
	IM OUTTA YR LOOP
	
	I FOUND MAH mahwrrd
	
KTHXBYE


I HAS A yurwrrd
GIMMEH yurwrrd

VISIBLE REVVRZTRIN WITH yurwrrd
KTHXBYE

I'm not sure if I get the whole cat thing...but that's ok.

The primary Tech site is of course:

techRivet - http://www.techrivet.com

The pretenders are:

TechCocktail -  http://www.techcocktail.com/blog/
TechCrunch - http://www.techcrunch.com/
TechDirt - http://www.techdirt.com/
techDuke - http://www.techduke.com/
techfold - http://www.techfold.com/
tech-hive - http://www.tech-hive.com/
techingmeout - http://www.techingmeout.com/
techJive - http://techjive.net/
TechJuicer - http://www.techjuicer.com/
TechJunction - http://eequalsmcsquare.com/technews/
TechMambo - http://www.techmambo.blogspot.com/
tech mixer - http://www.techmixer.com/
Technacular - http://www.technacular.com/
TechNayak - http://riteshnayak.com/blog/
TechNibble - http://www.technibble.com/
TechnoSailor - http://technosailor.com/
Techpuddle - http://techpuddle.com/
tech&tonic - http://www.techandtonic.com/
techUntangled - http://www.techuntangled.com/

Dammit!

I’m surrounded by buffoons!

Here I am trying to tell this punk, Luke, “Hey man that big dude in black is your Father.”  And all that comes out is some weird beep beep noises.  Crap!

And that idiot C3PO can’t translate Batchi into Huttese to save his life.  I keep trying to tell him what the BLAZES is going on and he thinks we’re in some sort of stand up routine.  Lemme tell you, if I had hands I’d slap him upside the head.

And don’t get me started on the whole Leia kissing Luke thing, I’ve tried telling them, I even tried my emphatic side to side rocking schtick, but they don’t get it.  It’s like I’m the pet dog warning them about the kid who fell down the well.

“What is it R2?”

“Shut down the Garbage Mashers R2!”

“Plug him in!”

I swear, I’m about ready to leave the whole bunch of ‘em and go on a vacation.

Bunch of morons.

And now here I am stuck dragging this stupid Goldenrod through this stupid cloud city as everything just falls apart.  If they had only listened to me we coulda solved this whole problem long ago.

“Leia, Luke is your BROTHER, don’t kiss him!”  ugh.

“Ya and you know what Luke, Darth is actually Anakin, if you had just googled Darth Vader his Bio is the second hit!” sheesh, BLOODY MORONS!

You know what really pissed me off, is I think that Obi Wan dude, knew.  I think he knew that I knew what was going on, and he kept quiet.  What a jerk!  At the very least I woulda liked to talk to someone who wasn’t completely clueless like all the rest of these retards!

There goes C3PO whining again…I’m gonna swing wide here and smack his head against the wall..on accident of course…and…smack…heh, that’ll leave a mark.  You gotta get your enjoyment where you can, cause it sure ain’t from hanging out with these doofuses.

Stupid Beep Beep noises!

A little off-topic but maybe not.  There are a few in this series that make me guffaw!  That's right I said guffaw! and you will too.

XKCD

Like this one: guffaw!

<flounder>Oh boy! Is this GREAT!</flounder>

[linky]

You want one, don't you?  I know.  (so do I)

heh.  Just as an experiment.

Anybody wanna top that?