humor

Seth Meyers on Fire When It Comes to Amazon’s New Tablet (Video)

Ina Fried in Mobile on October 2, 2011 at 9:22 am PT

While Amazon’s Kindle Fire is probably the iPad rival least in need of a good mocking, Seth Meyers did get in a good shot on “Saturday Night Live” last night.

Witnesses Reporting Backfire Heard From @theonion

Humor online is a tricky thing, as any misunderstood internet commenter can tell you. Part of what makes comedy work are subtle cues and indicators of “play,” that we’re in on this humor thing together. When the medium for that exchange is something as minimal as Twitter (you’ve got 140 characters, and that’s all), strip those subtle cues out and — well, stuff like this happens.

Boing Boing partner Xeni Jardin, discussing an “oddly presented” and largely misunderstood tweet from @theonion yesterday morning reporting that screams and gunfire had been heard inside the Capitol building

Did You Get Your System Administrator a Cake Today?

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on July 29, 2011 at 2:12 pm PT

You, uh, did know that today is System Administrator Appreciation Day, didn’t you?

You May Be Reading This in the Bathroom, on Your Phone

Peter Kafka in Media on November 8, 2010 at 2:21 pm PT

And many of you probably think that’s okay.

Video: College Humor’s Ricky Van Veen on How to Make Web Stuff That Doesn’t Suck

Peter Kafka in Media on June 9, 2010 at 1:06 pm PT

Some of you may have already read Mashable’s summary of the “10 Web Content Urban Legends” presentation that Ricky Van Veen delivered yesterday. But I got to see the College Humor co-founder do this in person, and I can vouch that it’s well worth watching for yourself.

Microsoft Gags on Puke Ad

Peter Kafka in Media on July 2, 2009 at 9:36 am PT

Microsoft’s first series of Web video ads for Internet Explorer 8 didn’t seem to garner much attention. But its latest one did: It features a married couple, an unspeakable porn site and a lot of vomit. Now Redmond says that was probably a mistake.