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Gretzky video game the only NHL hockey
available, jokes the Great One

Gretzky video game the only NHL hockey
available, jokes the Great One 03/26/2005 01:01 PM
Canadian Press Mar 26 2005 5:12PM GMT

Pro video gamers have it tough

Pro video gamers have it tough 07/26/2004 01:59 AM
Great K5 piece on the plight of the professional video-gamer, plagued by new game releases and vendors who build games for non-competition play.

In this, I am referring to the Cyberathlete Professional League's one time decision to switch from the Quake series, which they had been using since the start of their foundation, to a newer (and more popular) game at the time, the infamous Counter-Strike.

Now for most of the 'professional gamers' who have lived off their earnings from past CPL tournaments, this meant the end of their career unless they made the jump from Quake to Counter-Strike. Unfortunately, switching games is not as simple because both games have different sets of physics and gameplay; in Quake you battled one another one on one while Counter-Strike is a team-based game, the players usually in numbers of five.

Now, even more recently, the CPL has announced for their World Tour that they would be switching games once again, this time back to a duel based game. There will still be a Counter-Strike tournament during the event, but this leaves many to wonder how much more air time does Counter-Strike have before it finally gets shelved as well.

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When the Job Market Gets Tough, the
Tough Go Meta-Searching

When the Job Market Gets Tough, the
Tough Go Meta-Searching 06/19/2004 02:48 AM
Finding that perfect job in the current market is now more competitive than ever. The latest trend in online job searching is to use job meta-search engines that combine jobs from a variety of job sites on a single search results page. [PRWEB Jun 19, 2004]

Tough on Terror, or Tough on Liberty?

Tough on Terror, or Tough on Liberty? 12/12/2003 10:06 PM
Reports, including this one from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, on a study on the prevalence of terror-related crime hit the wire services several days ago but have received relatively little attention in broad circles. The new study, done by the TRAC research center at Syracuse University, shows that federal investigators have recommended the prosecution of an estimated 6,400 people on terrorism charges since September 11, 2001. Out of 6,400 cases, just 879 have been convicted. Of these, 184 have been convicted of "international terrorism" and the remainder for related charges. Overall, only 123 received significant sentences (over one year in prison) and only 23 were sentenced to five years or more. Also, convictions for "international terrorism" had a median duration of just 14 days, indicating that the vast majority of these convictions were for very minor crimes. The linked story quotes Charles Pena, director of a libertarian group. "It bothers me that we would round up whole bunches of people without an idea about whether they really are a terrorist . . . It certainly is valid to ask whether the whole war on terror is successful."

Gay marriage satire

Gay marriage satire 07/27/2004 01:18 PM
The Fafblog continues its reign as the funniest political satire blog on the Net with today's post about gay marriage in the form of a mock-interview with the Family Research Council's Dr. James Dobson:

[JD]: The legality of gay marriage sent out powerful shockwaves of destructive gay energy throughout hetereosexuality. Without an amendment to the constitution specifically barring homosexuals from obtaining marriage rights, this destructive Gay Force rampaged throughout the Traditional Family Nexus, corrupting it and turning thousands of upright, decent, missionary-position-loving straight couples into deranged, out-of-control mutant gay perverts.

FB: This is horrible! What in your scientific opinion as a doctor can we do to stop this?

JD: Well, humanity's only hope at this point lies in the Marriage Protection Act, which would strip federal courts of the ability to review the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act. That way if the draconian anti-gay laws we need turn out to be unconstitutional, we'll never know, because the courts won't be able to stop them.

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Using Copyright to shut down satire

Using Copyright to shut down satire 07/29/2004 01:15 PM
A well done political satire by JibJab Media that takes some shots at George W. Bush and John Kerry is coming under fire by copyright holders who apparently can't take a joke.

"HubLog: Smell the satire"

"HubLog: Smell the satire" 04/09/2004 09:09 PM

Notes and Tips: Satire

Notes and Tips: Satire 02/05/2005 09:01 PM
DivisionTwo has a funny spoof about Linux, too....

Is It Still Satire If You Can Find
Someone Who Missed The Joke?

Is It Still Satire If You Can Find
Someone Who Missed The Joke? 12/24/2003 12:08 PM
As expected, it's shaping up to be something of a slow news day, but there are still a few good stories out there. This one, found over at Tech Law Advisor shows why people without a sense of humor shouldn't be allowed to hire (or be) lawyers. A few years back, after a judge ordered the detention of a 13-year-old kid for handing in a school essay with a "violent tone", the Dallas Observer wrote up a satire piece about the same folks having a 6-year-old arrested for writing a book report on Maurice Sendak's insanely popular children's book "Where the Wild Things Are." In the article, they made up ridiculous quotes ("We've considered having her certified to stand trial as an adult, but even in Texas there are some limits." and "Any implication of violence in a school situation, even if it was just contained in a first-grader's book report, is reason enough for panic and overreaction.") and attributed them to real people who were involved in the original case. Those people are now suing for libel. Of course, satire and opinion are protected speech, but the people in question are claiming that because some people don't have a sense of humor and missed the satire, it's not satire at all. If that argument stood, then all you would need to do to unprotect satire is find someone with no sense of humor who missed the joke - and rush them to the courthouse to have them help you file your lawsuit. Meanwhile, it seems like the judges are realizing that this case is pointless. Yet more evidence that we live in a society where if anyone says anything you don't want to hear, you sue first and act offended later.

Parody or Satire? Threat To Sue JibJab

Parody or Satire? Threat To Sue JibJab 07/27/2004 07:37 PM

Revisiting Barcode Replacement Satire

Revisiting Barcode Replacement Satire 05/11/2004 03:16 PM
A little over a year ago there was a huge media frenzy over a site that let people view and print out barcodes. It was really just a database of barcodes, but the site presented a satirical commercial showing how you could use the site to "name your own price" and re-code any product to a price you preferred. Of course, actually doing the re-coding would be illegal. Running a database telling people how seems perfectly legal... unless you're lawyers at a big company like Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart and a number of other big companies forced the site to shut down, and the folks have now set up the site as a Wal-Mart spoof. John submitted a story about the whole mess one year later. It sounds like those involved didn't expect the level of backlash they got - especially from the press who labeled them as the thieves. Still, they've now got other plans up their sleeves for satirical projects.

Liberal Party of Canada Sues Satire
Website

Liberal Party of Canada Sues Satire
Website 12/23/2003 02:44 AM

New Political Satire Site Shows Truth
Can be Funny

New Political Satire Site Shows Truth
Can be Funny 09/14/2004 10:55 AM
A former Marine Corps officer and civilian contractor in Iraq announces the launch www.cutthroatcomedy.com, a bipartisan comedy/commentary site that sheds light on our nation's current political climate by lampooning politics, politicians and the presidential election.

FC Now: The Office: Brilliant Satire or
Tired Facsimile? Discuss.

FC Now: The Office: Brilliant Satire or
Tired Facsimile? Discuss. 03/25/2005 06:57 AM
As promised, I watched the premiere of The Office on NBC tonight. (Remember that I am coming into this with only word of the legend of the BBC version; I have not seen the series on which this American rendition...

The effin stupidest Paris Hilton satire
imaginable

The effin stupidest Paris Hilton satire
imaginable 11/13/2003 02:52 PM
Paris Hilton sex tape - Spoof

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"Yeah, he'll be tough. He'll be tough
with somebody else's blood"

"Yeah, he'll be tough. He'll be tough
with somebody else's blood" 08/16/2004 02:39 AM

LotR movies remixed as trenchant Russian
political satire

LotR movies remixed as trenchant Russian
political satire 05/18/2004 04:11 PM
Dmitri Puchkov is a Russian ex-cop who goes by the alias Goblin. "Goblin" is his nom-de-edit when he's remixing Lord of the Rings, dubbing in Russian dialogue to lampoon cops, oligarchs, and gangsters. He's working on a re-cut of Star Wars now. (This is old news, but I only just read about it)

Frodo Baggins is renamed Frodo Sumkin (a derivative from the Russian word sumka, or bag). The Ranger, Aragorn, is called Agronom (Russian for farm worker). Legolas is renamed Logovaz, after a Russian car company famed for its Ladas. Boromir becomes Baralgin, after a Russian type of paracetemol.

Gandalf spends much of the film trying to impress others with his in-depth knowledge of Karl Marx, and Frodo is cursed with the filthy tongue of a Russian criminal.

The films - which Puchkov says were originally made for his close friends but have now gone out on the internet - have found cult appeal in Russia's crowded pirate market, where a pirated, high-quality DVD in both Russian and English costs £5. That is all ordinary Russians, who earn only $300 a month in Moscow, can afford. The Russian pirate industry is worth $311 million, and has grown by 25 per cent since last year, pirates making more than 40 million disks a year.

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UK ban on religious jokes

UK ban on religious jokes 06/22/2005 02:20 AM
Independant: "As MPs vote on whether to go ahead with a Bill that could outlaw religious jokes, we celebrate comedy's...

SMS jokes keep Zim going during vote

SMS jokes keep Zim going during vote 04/05/2005 06:16 AM
iafrica.com Apr 5 2005 10:26AM GMT

Join the cult of bad jokes.

Join the cult of bad jokes. 10/29/2003 01:15 AM

I tried and tried, but I just couldn't resist linking to this parody:

"Confirming their intent to battle Google's new Blogger service, MT then announced on its TypePad site that the it would be rendering all of its users' posts in image format- meaning that any blog hosted by the TypePad service would be immune to Google's awesome searching reach, because the blog entries would actually be images, rather than text ... Taking the incredible step to block your users' access to and from Google, the de-facto clearinghouse and meetinghouse of the Web, is a bold and almost paranoid move for MovableType to make in a war that hasn't even begun (neither the new Google-powered Blogger, nor MT's new TypePad sevice, have yet to launch). It's as if MT has forgotten how precarious their strong hold is over such a fickle group of fans."

For reference, the author was referring to this dollarshort.org post, which, I assume could have only benefitted from a "THIS IS A JOKE" disclaimer.

The confusion over my feeble attempts at humor has spurred us to create the <$MTJoke$> tag, which from this moment on, is a required Movable Type tag to be used when indicating sarcasm, gentle ribbing, playful jests and half-truths.

THIS IS A JOKE!

I guess my 26 paragraph screed on Google's gourmet chef wouldn't go over well either.

Realistic punchlines for old jokes

Realistic punchlines for old jokes 04/19/2005 06:16 AM
Cory Doctorow: Here's a Something Awful competition to come up with realistic punchlines to old, generally offensive jokes:

What do you get when you cross a chicken with a centipede?
A media circus about the debate over the morals and ethics of genetic engineering.

Why did the blonde get fired from the M&M factory?
Repeated absences and stealing.

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A Parrot that tells jokes

A Parrot that tells jokes 01/27/2004 12:12 AM
Parrot's oratory stuns scientists: "The bird, a captive African grey called N'kisi, has a vocabulary of 950 words, and shows...

Google April Fools Jokes

Google April Fools Jokes 04/01/2005 10:39 PM
Search Engine Journal Apr 2 2005 2:59AM GMT

Email jokes backfire for UK workers

Email jokes backfire for UK workers 08/21/2004 04:39 PM
Personal Computer World Aug 21 2004 8:48PM GMT

The Limerick packs jokes anatomical ...

The Limerick packs jokes anatomical ... 06/18/2004 03:56 PM
Wordcraft, an on-line community of linguaphiles, best known for its extensive collection of eponyms, has taken on a new and fairly ambitious project -- they're trying to rewrite the entire Oxford English Dictionary -- in limerick form. So far they're only on the a's, but they do seem optimistic.
Shamelessly stolen from languagehat's blog

Parton Jokes About 'Wardrobe
Malfunctions' (AP)

Parton Jokes About 'Wardrobe
Malfunctions' (AP) 04/21/2004 09:03 PM
AP - If anyone was hoping for a wardrobe malfunction Wednesday during the Country Music Television Flame Worthy Video Music Awards, Dolly Parton aimed to disappoint.

"rejoinder to President Bush's jokes"

"rejoinder to President Bush's jokes" 04/13/2004 03:30 PM

Newspaper Sorry for Naughty Santa Jokes
(AP)

Newspaper Sorry for Naughty Santa Jokes
(AP) 12/19/2004 03:22 PM
AP - A weekly newspaper in eastern Kentucky has apologized for mistakenly printing sexually explicit Christmas jokes that left some blushing readers as red as Santa's suit.

rejoinder to President Bush's jokes

rejoinder to President Bush's jokes 04/11/2004 12:20 AM
Be sure to watch this movie clip .. 3.6MB QuickTime Link .. Jason Woliner .. little video

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Dean Jokes About 'Screeching' in Iowa
(Reuters)

Dean Jokes About 'Screeching' in Iowa
(Reuters) 01/22/2004 11:39 AM
Reuters - A hoarse Howard Dean joked on Thursday about his nationally televised outburst, saying his voice had not recovered from his "screeching" after he lost in Iowa, the first major prize for Democrats seeking the White House.

Spammers Latest Trick? Dumb Jokes

Spammers Latest Trick? Dumb Jokes 07/06/2004 05:28 AM
Well, now you've done it. All those stupid jokes you've been sending around as friend spam has made spammers realize that to get past Bayesian spam filters, they shouldn't just paste in the text from classic pieces of literature, but instead just toss in a few lame jokes, and watch the spam fly right through filters. The article doesn't make the connection, but it seems quite likely that the reason these get through more effectively than other types of text is because so many people bombard their friends with stupid jokes as friend spam.

Dim-witted light bulb jokes won't have a
chance

Dim-witted light bulb jokes won't have a
chance 03/16/2003 04:50 AM
If you need inspiration, go to www.google.com and search under the words ''light bulb jokes.'' There are thousands of light bulb joke Web sites. ...

"list of other April Fool's jokes for
2005"

"list of other April Fool's jokes for
2005" 04/02/2005 11:08 AM

Whoopi Goldberg make dirty jokes about
Bush

Whoopi Goldberg make dirty jokes about
Bush 07/10/2004 09:03 AM
Captain Ed

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"Bush jokes about search for WMD, but
it's no laughing matter for critics"

"Bush jokes about search for WMD, but
it's no laughing matter for critics" 04/13/2004 03:29 AM

Urgo's list of April Fool's Jokes on
Websites

Urgo's list of April Fool's Jokes on
Websites 04/02/2005 05:11 AM
Keep track of those April Fool's website jokes .. (Urgo via /.) .. list

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Rafsanjani has best jokes in Iran
election text war (Reuters)

Rafsanjani has best jokes in Iran
election text war (Reuters) 06/22/2005 02:18 AM
Reuters - Beep Beep. "Vote for Ahmadinejad who supports the poor." Beep Beep. "Joining together and voting for Rafsanjani is better than handing the country over to a fool."

Do Dumb Blonde Jokes Slow Mental
Activity?? (Reuters)

Do Dumb Blonde Jokes Slow Mental
Activity?? (Reuters) 07/14/2004 10:20 AM
Reuters - Blondes perform intelligence tests more slowly after reading jokes playing on their supposed stupidity, said psychologists in a newly published German study.

Google Gulp, Jeeves 9000, MSN Search
Spoof & Other April Fools Jokes

Google Gulp, Jeeves 9000, MSN Search
Spoof & Other April Fools Jokes 04/02/2005 12:49 AM
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