The first time I saw lesser-known presidential candidate "Vermin Supreme":http://www.verminsupreme.com/ on the Internet, I thought he was dead serious and I was terrified by him. "This weird guy," I thought. "He will enslave us all." Supreme, recogni…
When creating a new online presence, it’s important to choose a name that’s both memorable and at least vaguely emblematic of your site’s intended purpose. This usually means following one of two broad naming strategies: 1) Choosing a random, possibl…
Last Friday, keen-eyed Twit-wit, Andrew Bloch, noticed something slightly askew in his copy of Malaysia's top-selling English-language periodical, The Star: namely, that America's third richest hip-hop star, 50 Cent, was only worth RM1.50 in local c…
David Rees is not kidding. He really does sharpen pencils for a living. Sure, he made his name as a humorist (from 2001 to 2009, he created the acclaimed political cartoon “Get Your War On”). Yes, he’s been known to create straight-faced projects…
I'm just going to say this right now: This video of a Dutch man who simply can't stop laughing and his annoyed-but-sympathetic wife is the most adorable non-corgi video I've seen on the Internet. Apparently Huug Bosse (what an incredible name!!) unde…
It's nice to see the BBC aiming its microscope at a specimen that we know so well, and yet so rarely care to think about. Especially if we are that specimen. But it all makes sense, really, that we should: "Lashing out towards other innocent humans:
I don’t want to spoil anything, but I’m assuming that I’m the only one who DVRs Jeopardy, so if you missed the trifecta of Watson episodes this week, you’ll probably never see it anyway. Well, in a surprising turn of evens, Watson, the super computer…
Fortunately, a company called Sarcasm, Inc, has invented a brand new writing technology to address this international crisis in ironic interpretation: a punctuation mark for sarcasm. Based in Michigan, the American capital of this brand of humor, Sar…
