Internet satire hall of fame: Black People Love Us!
Black People Love Us! is one of my all-time favorite satirical websites. (Thank you to an anonymous commenter who gave me the correct URL.) A mark of great satire is the number of people who have...
View ArticleTechnology update
According to an article in the November 11 Chronicle of Higher Education, today's college "students favor connecting with others via cellphones instead of e-mail, which they view as an obsolete...
View ArticleData mining on orkut
I've long had an interest in social networking and have been happy to work on orkut at Google. I finally got permission from ACM to post a paper I co-authored about orkut: Evaluating Similarity...
View ArticleSlow Internet connection leads to arrest
From the Arizona State University online student daily, via fark: An 18-year-old male ASU student was arrested Sunday night at Hayden Library and charged with indecent exposure and public sexual...
View ArticleMarried couple divorces after online affair -- with each other
From Metro, via fark: A married couple are divorcing after they chatted each other up on the Internet using fake names.Sana Klaric and husband Adnan poured their hearts out to each other over their...
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Randall Munroe's visit to Google (xkcd)
In early 2007, I started reading my now-favorite cartoon, xkcd: a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. It's geeky, playful, and whimsical. Some of the cartoons are only decipherable to...
View ArticleIt's not the same.
Keith and I were listening to a radio show together when the host exhorted people to send in their comments:Host: We read all your emails.Keith starts laughing.Ellen: What's so funny?Keith: Do you know...
View ArticleQuickies
Teen Girl Falls in Open Manhole While Texting: The family may sue the city. "Orgasm A Day" Campaign Directed At British Schoolchildren Sparks Controversy: The leaflet for high school students includes...
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Truth in advertising?
I came across the above Google ads on Snopes today. If you don't understand why I was amused, just read the ad headlines.It reminds me of a Frank and Ernest cartoon I like to include on electronics...
View ArticleCouple Let Baby Starve To Death While Raising Virtual Baby Online
This cartoon is funny. This story is not. It is, however, beyond satire.Topic: BeyondSatireSubject: Internetchildren
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