I must have seen this video a trillion times by now. It entertains me on so many levels, that I think it’s absolutely genius. There is a lot of English swearing, so if you are easily offended, you’d better skip this one. Not Safe For Work (NSFW), unless you work in some cool technology company.
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I’ve seen quite a few parodies and jokes on the current state of the pop music. Many of them were funny. Most of them were pretty accurate. But I think this music video from Jon Lajoie nails it best.
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There is a rather serious article on Slashdot about unprepared minds being traumatized when working as a content moderator. There are a lot of sick people around, when they fancy their fancies, any sane person should be as far as possible. But that understanding is always easy coming. As it is often said: “Some things cannot be unseen”, and you should think carefully before agreeing to see such things.
On a lighter note, with a subject like this, Slashdot is pretty much guaranteed to have some funny comments. Here is one that made me smile:
The problem is that most 20 year old kids don’t really know how sensitive they are to things like this until they’re repeatedly exposed to them, by which point much of the damage has already been done. Luckily for me, I was exposed to the Internet and all of the nastiness on it when I was only 13, and I’ve managed to get by with no ill effects at all except for the occasional extended blackout followed by a dead hooker in my bed. Some more sensitive people might really lose their minds, though.
As per this Slashot story:
A new site allows lonely Xbox 360 gamers to pay a prescribed fee for a few minutes of game time with one of the ‘PlayDates’, a girl who is paid to play video games. Gamers can choose to have a ‘flirty’ or ‘dirty’ experience with one of the PlayDates. Is this what we meant when we said we wanted ‘adult gaming’?
Now that gives a totally new perspective for interpreting this image:
For those of you who haven’t noticed, the kid is in fact holding an Xbox controller in his hands.
Here is a bit of a conversation we had today in the office:
– I hate it!
– What?
– They changed the context menu slightly in Windows 7, re-arranged a few items.
– You mean you end up clicking on a wrong menu item all the time?
– Yes.
– Like what? “Print this page and shut down the computer”?
– Yeah, very close.
– Imagine if there really would be such a choice. Instead of, say, “Cancel” button.
– Someone should write a virus for this. It will be the most annoying virus ever.