Archive for the ‘Humor’ Category

Bad Jokes Make People Rude?

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

It took a university study to prove that bad jokes provoked rude, often nasty, responses.

The joke used in the study?

What did the big chimney say to the little chiminey?

Nothing. Chimneys can’t talk.

Good thing they didn’t go with “mein hund hat kein nase.”

No kidding Bad jokes result in real social harm – LiveScience- msnbc.com.

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You KNOW You Were Thinking This Tuesday Night

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Unless you’re living in a cave, you know all about the momentous event that took place on Tuesday. No, I’m not talking about THAT. I’m talking about CNN’s hologram technology.

Slate has their own take on Wolf Blitzer’s inteview with Jessica Yellin.

(Small caveat: I couldn’t get this video to run under Mozilla, but it worked under IE just fine. Fitting, perhaps, given the subject matter.)

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Mac Virus?

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Or course, Macs don’t get viruses

No. Never. Except, perhaps, on Halloween.

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