Category: Links

As far as I know, this is the first time in 20 years that The Simpson’s opening couch scene has been done as a minute-long parody of a music video, bearing almost no resemblance to the usual format. It’s almost a paid commercial, but it’s also pretty awesome.

Update: Original video was taken down, new copy linked.

Errol Morris loves this ad, and you have to admit it’s really something. Buy a mobile home from Cullman Liquidation, or don’t. He doesn’t care.

The making-of video is cool too, and has Star (the token hot salesgirl) saying a few lines.

Link [oh! you pretty things]

Microsoft thinks having a good sense of humor is an important “competency” for any employee to have, and has a page to help “improve proficiency” and avoid overdoing it. It also grades a person’s funniness on a four-level scale.

Dilbert is listed under Recommended Readings.

Where to find humor. There are topics that can be near universally humorous. Misers, bad drivers, absent-minded people, anything that is understood worldwide as the human condition. What’s a ridiculous situation you’ve been caught in lately? There are funny things in the workplace. The jargon of it, memos, ironic rules. And there is always the news. Humor that unites people rather than puts down people or groups is always safe.

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High praise for the founder of modern Singapore, from Nobel Peace Prize-winning former American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, in the 2010 Time Magazine list of the world’s 100 most influential people.

There is no better strategic thinker in the world today. Two generations of American leaders have benefited from his counsel.

Link (via @davechua)

It’s hard to believe you can play a game this awesome for free, in your browser. Programmer Jay Pavlina spent over a year recreating the entire Super Mario Bros. game, with playable characters from other NES-era classics.

I just powered through World 1-1 as Mega Man, shooting Goombas with my arm cannon, and machine-gunned the hell out of World 1-2 as Bill from Contra. Also available: Samus Aran from Metroid, Simon Belmont from Castlevania, and Link from the Legend of Zelda.

Enter a URL and this script will render any modern website in the unforgettable style of Geocities homepages circa 1996. I tried it on this blog and got an eye-searing yellow and white mess of Comic Sans and animated arrow GIFs, complete with an Alanis Morrisette MIDI file. It’s like they’ve actually seen my old Geocities page!