Humor Archive:
Sketchy Santas
4 Dec 2010… the number of Santas available and a parent’s desire to have their children see St. Nick in a timely manner, loosely determines the potential sketchiness of Santas in your area. As demand (D) increases, you can expect a corresponding increase in quantity (Q) or available Santas and the sketchiness (S) of any given Santa. (via)
Some additional entertaining stereotypical cartography. My favorite is “Europe According to the Vatican”. All part of Yanko Tsvetkov’s Mapping Stereotypes project.
An awesome map of stereotypical American views of the world:
Hip-Hop Explanation of Currency Wars
12 Nov 2010The amount of time someone put into this video is staggering. Oh, and it’s fairly accurate, and absolutely hilarious. “In the future all macroeconomic issues will be explained through hip-hop.” (via)
The Graduate Thesis Repulsor Field
10 Nov 2010The Thesis Repulsor Field is characterized by an attractor vector field directed towards completion, but accompanied by an intensive repulsive singularity at the center. Thanks to Claire for the link.
iPhone vs Android vs Blackberry
In: Humor Internet/tech
6 Nov 2010A hilarious look at how different phone users view each other. Thanks to Stephen Dobson for pointing it out.
Updated: Periodic Table of Irrational Nonsense
25 Oct 2010Now, each “element” has a popup description/snarky comment.
Facebook Portrait Interpretation
24 Oct 2010This chart will hopefully help you view specific Facebook portraits within the context of the larger genre, and therefore lead to a richer, more complex appreciation of Facebook portraiture as an emerging form of banal, eye-numbing expression.
Thanks to Tom Dawkins for the link.
Why People Drink as They Get Older
In: Humor
22 Oct 2010Should probably have a second line for having children. Thanks to Fred Simonton for passing it on.
Swear Word Modifiers
27 Sep 2010Frequency with which select adjectives are intensified with obscenities.
How to Get Bacon at Burning Man
16 Sep 2010A few weeks late. Still amusing.
Okcupid has beautifully abused their users’ profiles again for some entertaining statistical analysis. This time they extracted unique keywords from profile description by race – and as usual, the commentary is priceless:
If I had to choose over-arching themes for white people’s lists, for men, I’d go with "frat house" and for women, "escapism." Whether one begot the other is a question I’ll leave to the reader.
Some other interesting profile content analysis:
Exhibited writing proficiency vs religion:
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