Articles in the Humor Category
Humor, Web 2.0 »
Is Web 2.0 is cramping your social life? Tired of having your awkward drunken slips of judgment splashed across the web on Flickr or Facebook? Take back your privacy with Flickrblockers.
Using Flickrblockers you can be the life of the party without worrying about the plague of incriminating evidence showing up on Flickr the following morning.
[via Wired Compiler]
Google, Humor »
On the heels of Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick, Philipp Lenssen jumps ahead a few years to announce Google’s inevitable purchase of the Internet itself. LOL
MAY 12, 2017 – BUSINESSWIRE. Mountain View-based search giant Google Inc today announced they’ve acquired the internet for the astounding sum of $2,455.5 billion in cash. The deal had been rumored in various search blogs since the beginning of the year and was now confirmed by the company’s CEO. “This is in line with our vision to make information more accessible to end users,” says Eric …
Dan Solove, Data Aggregation, Humor, Surveillance »
Given the increased frequency of revelations about government data gathering and surveillance stories, Dan Solove has created a quick and easy template to help news outlets report on these stories:
Under a top secret program initiated by the Bush Administration after the Sept. 11 attacks, the [name of agency (FBI, CIA, NSA, etc.)] have been gathering a vast database of [type of records] involving United States citizens.
“This program is a vital tool in the fight against terrorism,” [Bush Administration official] said. “Without it, we would dangerously unsafe, and the terrorists would …
Academic, Google, Humor »
Nathan Weinberg posts his response to Andy Beal’s hypothetical about what Google-designed cola would look like. It’s quite funny.
As it happens, I was discussing style guides with some of my colleagues today, when one joked that he was waiting for Google to announce thier own manual of style. That got me to thinking, what would a Google style guide look like?
Following Nathan’s formula, here’s what I came up with:
All headings in Google font & colors
Contextual ads alongside each paragraph in your article
Publications embedded with RFID chips (cookies for online articles) …
