Tim Danner

Since I linked to Jonathon Coulton’s song “Code Monkey” last summer, I may as well link to this video of him playing it live. With accompaniment on ukulele. Why not?

If you haven’t heard it yet, I highly recommend that you listen to Jonathan Coulton’s song “Code Monkey.” (MP3) (Local mirror)

Engadget travels back to 1985 to bring us the latest in 15 pound cell phones.

The “Ministry of Reshelving” has declared a campaign to move 1984 from the Fiction or Literature section to the Current Events or Politics sections. Very silly. They even have printable bookmarks that you can stick in the books that you move and notecards to put in the spot you took them from.

Since people are bugging me to put something here…

Roger Ebert awards Deuce Bigelow: European Gigolo zero stars. Read the review—it’s entertaining.

And also, a new idea in security: The Do-It-Yourself Security Inspection. Now you can feel more secure whenever you need it without imposing costs and inconvenience on the rest of society.

A music video for a disco-ish dance tune with Atari-level graphics and a sadistic squirrel.

Rain falls on 610 Flooding the low places like Bad haiku on blogs

I seem to have lost interest in posting funny links, and I’m not sure why that is. It could be related to the intermittent screwups some people have noticed, where the site displays unstyled. When it’s in that state WordPress is also broken. I still don’t know what’s causing that. It just goes away on its own after a few hours. Could be an issue with the host.

Or maybe it just seems a bit pointless to post links to things that I essentially found on other sites that post links to things.

There’s still plenty of funny stuff on the web. Dave Barry’s blog includes so many links that I can’t even read them all. Boing Boing remains, as always, your best source for web strangeness and intellectual property moderation advocacy.

What I really ought to do (keyword: ought) is post more personal stuff, rather than just links. I should keep the “Recent Movies” sidebar up to date (or even say something about the stuff I watch–there’s a thought). There are photos I could post. I haven’t even mentioned here that I’ve started biking. And so on. For now, I’ll leave in place the scheduled job that copies any new links from del.icio.us to here.

In case you feel deprived by this, I’m posting the archive I kept from the old Python CGI funny link system I used before switching to a weblog format. There’s some good stuff in there, like Kikkoman and The Brunching Shuttlecock’s classic Either/Or. Link rot is pretty bad though.

• Census Lists Renamed Lake As ‘Butthead’

• Yes I am a PikaHolic and Proud of It. — An insane collection of Pikachu merchandise and a Pikachu Volkswagen

Dave Barry hangs up his press pass after more than thirty years of humor columns.

Update: Fear not! The Herald will spend the year republishing one classic Dave Barry column each week.

• Nerdy-craftsy Xmas projects — Gingerbread motherboards and the like

• Silly cat picture

• Extreme Ironing
• A senior moment — the LA Times review of the Mercury Montego is hilarious

• African Slaves For Sale — on Ebay. Not really.

• Dave Barry’s Gift Guide - 2004
• Award for the Silliest User Interface: Windows Search

• Giant pandas mark territory by peeing on a tree while doing a handstand

• Picasso on the Pistons/Pacers/crowd fight

• Do you enjoy a game of no skill? — Flash - via metafilter

• Pupils scared by asteroid spoof — Brilliant!
• A visual guide to how not to pull a car out of the water