Another fun Carnival of the Insanities is up, which includes this deliciously ironic blunder by Google.
Animal lovers can get furry over at The Friday Ark.
Archer is LiveBlogging the Perseid Meteor Shower. And speaking of lawyers, I’m surprised I didn’t see this list of funny law firm names at his blog. I liked Low, Ball and Lynch.
You may have noticed a new button deep down on The Skwib sidebar, showing this famous picture. Click on it and visit Humor-Blogs.com, an aggregator of blogs that concentrate on teh funny. This is the brainchild of Diesel, who hosts the hilarious blog, Mattress Police — Antisocial Commentary. He’s also written a book, and it will be available later this week. You should get a copy! (After you’ve purchased THE AMADEUS NET, of course.)
And if you’ve got a humor blog, you should definitely consider joining. Not only will you be part of an elite cadre of chuckle-meisters, you will have the chance to have these highly intelligent, well-dressed, nice-smelling folks rip your blog to shreds in a fair and balanced review. (Was that enough groveling?)
Lest you think The Skwib is anti-Chinese, you must go check out this marvelously inventive man from China, Mr. Woo. [YouTube clip]
He makes a living farming, but he has the heart of an inventor (a Chinese tradition, really, considering gunpowder, pasta, astronomy, map-making, etc, were all first created there). He has invented his own line of robots, including one that pulls a rickshaw. (I love that Mr. Woo has invented the rickshaw (Mr. Woo 26) to placate his wife after he inadvertently burned their house down with a previous edition — the dreaded Mr. Woo 22.)
So, The Skwib is in favor Chinese people, particularly those like Mr. Woo who exhibit the nobility of the human spirit. Not so keen on the Chinese government, which is more concerned with repressing the human spirit, particularly if they’re Tibetan.
(Via NewScientist, via BoingBoing.)
From the Beijing Olympics, to Russian interference at the North Pole, this Carnival of Satire has an international flavor, and speaking of flavor, we begin with a hilarious review of The Food Network from Riding with Rickey.
Conservathink has disturbing, less-than-jolly breaking news: Following Russian claim of Arctic sea bed, Santa Claus falls ill; President Putin denies culpability.
We’re a year away from the Olympics in China, and Madeleine Begun Kane has The Real Poop on Chinese exports.
You can find a few of our own satirical take on the next Summer Olympics in our Beijing Olympic mascot series for new Chinese demonstration “sports”: Tibetan Dissident Bi-athalon, Organ Relay, Hu Flung Falun Gong? (pictured at left), Forced Sterilization Footy and Press Clubbing.
Speaking of atrocities, Hurty Elbow examines the issue of photo retouching in the magazine industry, with this Redbook cover (if Redbook and retouching had been around during the time daVinci painted Mona Lisa). Continue Reading →
King Phillip II presents “The English Are Pigs” (circa 1588) –> slide 6Anniversary of the Battle of Gravelines (August 8, 1588), when English defeated the Spanish Armada …. Okay, partially defeated the Armada. The weather did the rest.
First built by Dr. Ernest Malifico in the pre-Euclidian Dynamic Structure Era, the Red Juggernaut is by far JBM’s best-selling business mechanical.
Though primarily used to terrorize non-compliant nation-states of that time, evil overlords have found many other uses for the Red Juggernaut.
Modern business collections agencies have found it especially effective, and it is a standard piece of equipment in hostile takeover bids. NaziWorks 3000, for example, has a fleet of 12 million Red Juggernauts.