Humor Archive:
Awesome Website Flowchart
In: Humor Internet/tech
13 Jun 2011Do you have an excellent idea for a website? This flowchart will tell you whether you have everything you need to make it a reality. (posted by digital talent agency Vitamin T – which explains all the web developer brown nosing – hehe.)
Honest Names for Yoga Poses
25 May 2011Too funny not to post. As a bonus, on the right, a comparison of nine poses to getting fall-down drunk.
Sorry about the sidestep into diagram and photo humor – I’ll post some boring econ charts soon to balance it all out for you.
Rapture Flowchart
20 May 2011
Art Professors (and Porn)
10 May 2011
Gartner’s Magic Magic Quadrant
In: Humor Internet/tech
1 Apr 2011Gartner regularly maps out technology markets’ competitiveness – with one quadrant on their chart being “magic”. Well, this time they’ve mapped out Magicians. Thanks to Linda Smith for the link!
Baggage Fees
30 Mar 2011I hate baggage fees. Interesting fact from below: when airlines started charging fees, 25% of passengers switched to carry-ons — resulting in longer lines at security checkpoints, higher TSA costs, and longer delays in loading/unloading planes. In conclusion: airlines are charging you more money to make your flight experience worse.
Rational Discussion Flowchart
17 Mar 2011
Usefulness of Education
In: Employment Humor
2 Mar 2011I had a conversation last night about “knowledge” education vs “skill” education that reminded me of this xkcd chart. The skills I learned hacking computers and building art projects have contributed much more to my career success than anything I learned in graduate school.
Valentine’s Day
In: Humor
14 Feb 2011
Procrastination Flowchart
In: Humor
11 Feb 2011
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- Jay: The Geek looses. Management eventually realizes it can automate his job. [...]
- Frank: @ Michael: apparently you live somewhere *within* the big, brown sphere. I live on the surface of [...]
- neale: Thanks made my day :-) [...]
- Dust: Yep, the 3d does make it confusing. The label should read "area of circles = GDP in USD) [...]
- hoho: @Ethan You are not geek, that's for sure :) [...]