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The 20 Funniest Computer Geek Humor Bits of All Time
Below you will find the 20 funniest Geek Humor bits of all time. They have been selected from the vast array of submissions on my Geek Humor Discussion board and on the web. The decision on making the cut was tough, but I think you will find them as funny as I have.
update: not sure if #19 is something i would enter into the above category…
This is a lovely movie from 1946 from Encyclopedia Britannica about how to place your community on a Democracy vs Despotism scale. The link to the archive.org is here, however I could not get it to play in Quicktime (its an mp4 movie… fucking Apple is starting to bug me). Instead I had to use the all known and hated RealOnePlayer, which worked just fine.
Use this link to play the movie outside the browser:
rtsp://ia300131.us.archive.org:554/0/items/Despotis1946/Despotis1946_256kb.mp4
The coolest thing since google is probably google itself!
Ever wanted to see what life looks like in a completely different part of the world?
Live?
Now you can!
Update: For best viewing experience, open the links from the page above in VLC!
For more tidbits, look here.
To me this is one of the coolest things to happen on the net for a long time. In theory it is not really new, since the technology has been around for ages, but it was only recently that some clever bastards realised it, and even more recently that another clever dude built a website that actually made the discovery seriously useful.
The ability to simply access webcams, both public and private, located all over the world can give kick ass insight into different countries and cultures, and I love that stuff.
I just hope it will stay around for at least a while, these kind of cool things tend to vanish a bit too soon.
Well, I decided to scrap the idea of cutting the new year movies together into one clip for now, instead I present them to you in unabridged form.
The movies can not really convey the amazingness of the experience, but I hope that they provide at least some indication as to what we experienced up there, while everyone else was getting drunk and permanently damaging life and limb with dangerous explosives.
The best part of this New Year was probably the fact that aside from the air traffic controller, no one within sensor range wished anyone a happy new year. I find nothing more annoying then endless repetition of this near-useless phrase.
Without further ado, here are the movies. They are about 15mb each and are 30 seconds in length.
Slow but reliable:
Movie 1 | Movie 2 | Movie 3 | Movie 4 | Movie 5 | Movie 6
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