some AIDS humor from Johns Hopkins

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Madeleine Begun Kane, Humor Columnist,
Notables Webl0g , Political Commentary,
Humor, Song Parodies, January 1-March
31, 2005

Madeleine Begun Kane, Humor Columnist,
Notables Webl0g , Political Commentary,
Humor, Song Parodies, January 1-March
31, 2005 03/31/2005 06:59 AM
enjoy this song parody .. Madeleine Begun Kane .. ode to delay

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Madeleine Begun Kane, Humor Columnist,
Humor Columns About Cars, Politics,
Privacy, Work, Marriage, Technology,
Money, Law, Music, Computers & Dubya's
Dayly Diary

Madeleine Begun Kane, Humor Columnist,
Humor Columns About Cars, Politics,
Privacy, Work, Marriage, Technology,
Money, Law, Music, Computers & Dubya's
Dayly Diary 12/26/2003 04:15 PM
"Carnival of the Vanities." - www.madkane.com .. MadKane.com political humor as a whole .. Mad Kane’s Notables Weblog .. Madeleine Begun Kane .. entries .. Madkane

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large johns

large johns 12/24/2004 12:21 PM
Big John vs. Great John.

Don Hopkins

Don Hopkins 02/10/2004 02:47 AM

Don Hopkins: "The Sims pie menus were something I whipped up one night and just checked into the code base, and then gradually evolved over time." [Scripting News]

Don is an old friend - we worked together at Kalieda Labs. He helped create the Sims.

Don Hopkins interview

Don Hopkins interview 06/03/2004 12:37 AM
Alpha ville Herald Interview with Don Hopkins.

Interview with Don Hopkins

In this interview, Don Hopkins describes his early days on the Sims development team with Will Wright (back when the project was called Dollhouse) and the difficulties the team had fighting EA's attempts to terminate the project, and then preventing EA from gutting it of interesting content (like architecture tools). Even now, he claims that EA fails to respect Will Wright and his vision by not developing custom content for TSO, and that it has shown no interest in a tool that he (Hopkins) created that would allow users to safely create custom objects that won't crash the game.

Overview of the Interview -- some headline quotes:

"I recall that one of our most difficult accomplishments was convincing EA not to cancel the project, because some of the EA old guard didn’t trust nor respect Will’s vision, didn’t “get” the idea of Dollhouse, didn’t think it would sell, wanted to inject it full of their old tried and trusted formula, and wanted to gut out the most interesting parts of the game (like the architecture tools). I think it’s a lucky fluke that The Sims ever shipped, and I hope EA has learned enough from their experience to trust the projects that Will is directly involved in, listen to what he’s been saying eloquently and consistently for years, and let something like The Sims happen again."

" I don’t think the lack of user created content is the only reason The Sims Online is a failure, but I think it’s an extremely important one that EA went out on a limb and promised, but never executed on. EA still hasn’t officially announced that they’re not going to let Maxis support user created content, but as far as I have been able to tell, they’ve whitewashed the original discussion groups where they made and discussed the promise. I realize that there are some difficult technical issues that have to be solved, in order to support user created content in an online game like The Sims Online. That’s why I wrote this proposal for SafeTMog, a tool that would enable users to safely create objects for The Sims Online that could not possibly crash the game: http://www.donhop kins.com/2004/02/05.html#a72"

"Unfortunately EA was not apparently interested in SafeTMog, which leads me to believe that they’re not interested in ever supporting user created content in The Sims Online. I don’t know why Maxis never executed on the plan they promised, but I do believe they disregarded and didn’t respect Will Wright’s opinion in this matter, which he clearly articulated. I don’t think the problem was a lack of resources – just the opposite. So much conservative money was bet on the project that it wasn’t allowed to innovate. I don’t believe it was ineptitude at the engineering or design level, but more likely at the executive management, resource allocation and marketing level. My impression is that some of the people in charge didn’t believe in Will’s vision, didn’t trust him, didn’t listen to him, didn’t do what he’s been saying for years, all along. I wish EA would have taken some of the millions of dollars they made from The Sims 1, and invested it back in fully developing The Sims Online, instead of sucking it out of Maxis to support the rest of EA."

You can read the entire Inter view with Don Hopkins in the Alphaville Herald.

[Don Hopkins' RadiOMatic BlogUTron]

Don is an old friend.  He's also MAD I tell you MAD!

Collector's Collections Gallery: Tim
Hopkins

Collector's Collections Gallery: Tim
Hopkins 08/04/2004 01:13 AM
Today's Collector's Collections update features and update to the the collection of Tim Hopkins from Louisville, Kentucky.

Hopkins begins human trials with donor
adult stem cells to repair muscle
damaged from heart attack

Hopkins begins human trials with donor
adult stem cells to repair muscle
damaged from heart attack 03/26/2005 02:36 AM
Technocrat.net Mar 26 2005 7:21AM GMT

slinging some humor your way

slinging some humor your way 11/17/2003 05:27 PM
A DJ friend of mine made me a mix this weekend that he's been working on. I was listening to...

Programming Humor

Programming Humor 06/05/2004 05:52 AM

Code Humor Challenge: Some pretty funny examples of developers trying to be funny. People are submitting hundreds of comments of funny code they wrote and tried to get (or succeeded in getting) into production.

One of my previous employers had, for historical reasons, the requirement that all class names be prefixed with "Mc" (McUser, McCheckbox, etc.). I created the class McNugget, complete with methods like McNugget.dip(McNugget.BBQ_SAUCE).

This one's pretty good too:

Disco = Uncool

Do Until Disco = Cool

if Year gt 1970 And Year lt 1978 then

GetDownAndDance
Disco = Cool

Else

MockDiscoDancers

End if

Loop

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Humor alert

Humor alert 01/07/2004 06:50 PM
The other day, I wrote a post saying weblogs are ruining Google. I hate to do this, I hate to explain a joke, but it seems there's been too much confusion. No, weblogs are not ruining Google. I was kidding because, see, this is what people do: they search for something on Google, a weblog is one of top responses, and then they piss and moan about weblogs ruining Google, etc. Do I need to resort to writing "J/K" next to all silly posts?

The other funny thing -- at least to me -- is that both times I used the expression "text wrap" in my query, rather than the more common "word wrap." So it extra made sense that Google would return my post to me. And funnier still was the fact that I'd forgotten I'd already looked for a text wrap plugin for Eclipse months ago. So you see the levels of humor here? Did you ever suspect megnut posts had so much depth to them?

Neurology of humor

Neurology of humor 06/21/2004 12:35 PM
Cognitive neuroscientists at Dartmouth College have shown that the part of your brain that "gets" a joke is not the same as the region that deems it funny or not. To test their hypothesis, the researchers conducted functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) on subjects while they watched Seinfeld and The Simpsons. From a Scientific American report on the study:

"The investigators found that instances of humor detection lit up the left inferior frontal and posterior temporal cortices--the left side of the brain. Humor appreciation, in contrast, led to spikes in activity in the emotional areas deeper inside--specifically, in the bilateral regions of the insular cortex and the amygdala... Past research has shown the left inferior frontal cortex to be involved in reconciling ambiguous meanings with prior knowledge. And ambiguity, incongruity and surprise are key elements in many jokes."

Still, the results are preliminary. When SciAm asked an outside psychologist for his expert opinion on the research, he commented: "If some people don't find The Simpsons funny, it's premature to say that they have a defective frontal lobe." Of course, he's wrong. Link

Hungarian humor

Hungarian humor 09/14/2004 03:12 PM
Pestiside is a blog by an American living in Hungary. Talk about snarky. And talk about funny. I believe, in fact, that this is what's known as a wickedly funny site. (Thanks, Ethan, for the link.)...

Time for Some Humor

Time for Some Humor 03/14/2005 05:09 PM

Of all the places to have this information, Microsoft was the last on my list. Even then, even that they have it, the funniest part is how seriously they take it.

A parent's primer to computer slang
Strange New Gaming Worlds Online
MSN:Teens' online lingo leaves parents baffled

My warped humor........

My warped humor........ 03/13/2003 10:24 AM
I seriously can not stand arrogant flashy people. They live excessively for no reason but to show off and say...

"his sense of humor"

"his sense of humor" 12/15/2003 10:29 PM

A sense of humor?

A sense of humor? 04/25/2004 09:39 AM

The NY Times reviews Eats, Shoots & Leaves, a book about punctuation that's recently come across the Atlantic after receiving rave reviews in the UK. In what's surely a sly joke to the Sunday Book Review reader, the Times entitled the article, ' Eats, Shoots & Leaves': Punctuation and It's Discontents. At least I hope it's a joke.

More Couch Humor

More Couch Humor 02/08/2003 08:33 PM
I stumbed across two more funny pieces at The Avocado Couch. The first one, A note to the obnoxiously self-absorbed is one of the best rants I've read in a long, long time. It goes all out. The second one,...

Chatological Humor

Chatological Humor 10/29/2003 12:11 AM
Amusing irrelevancy: if you ask Google's Translation Tool to translate "gruppenfuhrer" into English, it notes the comparative ending and lower case initial ...

Geek humor at its best

Geek humor at its best 07/14/2004 12:04 AM
The House With Too Many Perpundiculars

PHP Humor ... No that's *Not* a Joke
Itself

PHP Humor ... No that's *Not* a Joke
Itself 03/21/2003 09:12 AM

PHP Humor ...  No that's *Not* a Joke Itself

PHP-Con is doing humorous interviews with some of the speakers to promote the event.  Here's the one with John Coggeshall:

When was your first PHP?

John Coggeshall: Sitting in a darkened smoke filled room... I was almost out of money but a friend of mine told me she [PHP] was good for a trick or two and didn't charge much.

His comments on Perl, Java, and Visual Basic are really good.  You can read more of this over at the PHP- Con site.

MSNBC - Political Humor

MSNBC - Political Humor 09/25/2004 09:10 AM

10ccs of Humor Stat

10ccs of Humor Stat 01/23/2003 10:59 AM
A Big SplashUnfortunately, I don't think this whole splash screen manager idea will work for Safari. You see, oddly enough, we made it a

I Find Solace in Humor. You?

I Find Solace in Humor. You? 09/22/2004 08:32 AM
The Glorious Revolution: A Look Back, by Jeff Greenfield (CNN), is one of 16 What if Bush Wins? essays in the September edition of The Washington Monthly.

"Humor: Dan Rahter 'Don't You Know Who I
Am?""

"Humor: Dan Rahter 'Don't You Know Who I
Am?"" 09/13/2004 09:47 PM

Festival "mundial" del humor

Festival "mundial" del humor 07/26/2004 11:07 PM

AmEx vs. rec.humor.funny

AmEx vs. rec.humor.funny 04/14/2004 09:19 AM

Political Humor Boomerangs

Political Humor Boomerangs 04/10/2004 06:01 PM

Via Wonkette, here's a slightly unfair but powerful re joinder to President Bush's jokes about weapons of mass destruction. Media is in the hands of everyone, and people are going to use it to hold powerful people -- including media people, such as the Washington correspondents who found Bush's performance so hilarious -- to account.

Code Humor Challenge

Code Humor Challenge 06/01/2004 02:14 PM
The goal is to get a humorous piece of code into a production environment. Any kind of humor is acceptable...anything that might make a future developer smile. The code must actually be used by the application.

Humor Roundup from My Aggregator

Humor Roundup from My Aggregator 12/24/2004 12:58 PM

• What Famous People of the Past Would Have Googled
• Bohemian Art Show
• A Giant Step Forward for Punctuation
• Modern Advice for Parents-to-be

If Ahnuld has a sense of humor...

If Ahnuld has a sense of humor... 10/29/2003 12:12 AM
...as one of his first acts as governor he'll create a state telecommunications agency called "SkyNet."...

Political humor finds home on Web

Political humor finds home on Web 08/02/2004 07:04 PM
Saturday Night Live vet Will Ferrell gets political as he revives Bush impersonation for liberal advocacy group.

Authors Use Irreverent Humor for Kids
(AP)

Authors Use Irreverent Humor for Kids
(AP) 04/29/2004 05:44 PM
AP - Glenn Murray blushes a hearty shade of red when a cashier at a Chicago deli recognizes him: "Heyyyyyy!" the young man shouts gleefully — and loudly. "You're the fart-man!"

8I8 Buttafly :: Humor - Politics -
Procrastination

8I8 Buttafly :: Humor - Politics -
Procrastination 11/05/2003 03:02 AM
The Buttafly Guide to Interpreting (network site) Photos .. Funny interpretation of the meaning of Friendster pics

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Disneyland Paris's fart humor

Disneyland Paris's fart humor 01/02/2004 07:10 AM
I took a holiday in Disneyland Paris this Christmas, and was amazed to find the flatulence-humor subtext pervading the safety cards stuck on all the ride-vehicles. JPEG Link

Bitter comic illustrator humor

Bitter comic illustrator humor 01/28/2004 11:25 AM
This makes me think that life among funnybook writers and their pictureifiers isn't all sweetness and light: "Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work, or some interesting ways to get some variety into those boring panels where some dumb writer has some lame characters sitting around and talking for page after page." Link (Thanks, Zed!)

Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and
Humor

Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and
Humor 12/19/2004 03:14 PM

Thursday Humor: The true meaning of
"service"?

Thursday Humor: The true meaning of
"service"? 03/24/2005 08:15 AM
I thought I had a handle on the meaning of the word “service.” “The act of doing things for other people.” Then I heard the terms Internal Revenue Service, Postal Service, Telephone Service, Civil Service, Selective Service, City/County Public Service, Customer Service, Service Stations. I became confused about the word “service.” This is not what I thought “service” meant. Then today, I overheard two farmers talking and one of them mentioned that he was having…

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Has Silicon Valley lost its sense of
humor?

Has Silicon Valley lost its sense of
humor? 10/31/2003 04:09 PM
San Jose Mercury News Oct 31 2003 2:59PM ET

Harvard Primate Neuroscience Lab has
sense of humor

Harvard Primate Neuroscience Lab has
sense of humor 09/17/2004 11:56 AM
Xeni Jardin: Theron "Somebody's at Harvard's having a little fun at George W.'s expense. Check out the Bush to monkey morph in the top right. No idea if this is a subtle hack, or really the Harvard PCNL having some fun." Link
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