From NETTUTS, a humorous summary of 10 bizarre programming languages, namely:
Ook!
Piet
Whitespace
LOLCODE
Shakespeare
Befunge
reMorse
FALSE
Whenever
l33t
The conclusion one draws from this list is unmistakable and undeniable: There are programmers in the world who have far too much free time on their hands!
-TimK
Ran across this site, thanks to StumbleUpon. The title says it all. Cats in sinks. Yup. Pictures of cats in sinks.
This site delighted me not only for the off-kilter humor of the concept, but also because it’s genius from a marketing perspective. It appeals directly to cat-lovers, but with a twist that just makes you [...]
Commander Data, the android– er, artificial life-form– from Star Trek: The Next Generation once asked, “What is funny?” He was answered with blank stares and um’s and uh’s. But I think I know what it is.
Funny is an incongruity that makes backwards sense.
Here are a set of incongruities that made me guffaw, all voiced by [...]
Penn & Teller haven’t yet done an episode on lie detecting for their Emmy-nominated series Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (which you can get on DVD). On Bullshit Penn & Teller expose, rip apart, and generally make fun of nonsense from talking to the dead to alien abduction to alternative, new-age medical mumbo jumbo to conspiracy [...]
I’m helping out with a project I used to work on, one in an organization that uses SourceSafe to manage its source code. Fortunately, this time, I don’t have to deal with SourceSafe this time. All I have to do is to submit my diffs against a baseline, and someone else will have to deal [...]