Archive for the 'Laffs' Category
Did you know it's illegal to have a pet falcon? Well, it is in the United States, anyway. You can only have falcons if you're a falconer, and actually using them for work like hauling tiny airborne plows through your field or something, we guess. Anyway, the point is Randall, one of the Woot Writers, was spending his workday Googling various ways to acquire a falcon when he dis...
Ah, Comicon! The annual ritual of geeks, nerds, and dweebs dressing up proudly as their favorite heroes, villains, and anti-heroes and come together en masse so various internet websites can take pictures of them and post them online for ridicule . But this isn't about that. I mean, it's probably why you came here so feel free to ignore this and peruse the pictures, but I'm no...
In a few hours Apple's gonna make a big announcement about what they'll be doing with their 100 billion in cash reserves. The currency of tomorrow? Techcrunch hopes they're gobbling up a movie studio, Bloomberg is sure they'll give handouts to rich investors, and us? Well, we're just hoping to see one or two of the things below. - All the mon...
It takes some serious juice to get into one of those Apple announcements like the one they held today, which is why we're usually reduced to tweeting about it from afar . But when we dispatched our man Friedrich Nietzsche to the scene, Cupertino was only too happy to issue him a press pass. Here's what Freddy had to say: "It is always consoling to think of suicide: in tha...
"Did you make a difference today?" Under normal circumstances, a fit-looking older guy with a beaming white smile asking me this question might not even give me pause. Just some cheery, motivational type or maybe a street corner proselytizer hoping to lure me in. But this time is different because we are both drenched in sweat and naked, standing about two feet from each other...
Are you a Guru? Ninja? Rockstar, Wizard, Evangelist? Yeah, cool, if you're applying for a job in 2009. (Consider yourself zinged!) If you want to intimidate an employer into hiring you these days, you better step up your ridiculousness with one of these hot new variations on the theme. UX Matador Client Relations Führer Marketing Strangler PHP Geisha Soc...