Archive for the ‘Geek’ Category

Being User-Friendly…

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

http://www.userfriendly.org/

Source: browsing in the dawn of time

What is it: Easily one of the oldest webcomics around, UserFriendly has provided a daily comic (without any interruption whatsoever) since Nov 17th, 1997. that’s almost 10 years, folks. It may take a little time catching up but what else is there to do if ever you should find yourself lonely, aching and depressed on a 10-day strech of heavy rainstorms? ;-)

The comic usually is satiric, funny, bean-counter-phobic, evil (ask Erwin) and - in the case of Dust Puppy and the cat - totally cute. On many occasions current events are commented on, inducing wide grins all round at tech offices. UserFriendly also comes via RSS, including the “Link of the Day” that provides me with some of the stuff here.
Go check it out! Now!

eXtreme Knowledge Comically Distributed ?

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

http://xkcd.com/

Source: *shrug*

What is it: I’ll just cite the tagline: “A Webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language”. Very often Randall Munroe simply hits right on the mark with a witty remark, a funny line, or the “alt”-text of the image (Hover your mouse on the comic). He has quite a following, usually totally crazy people. Also check out the “blag” linked on the comic page.
Btw, lately XKCD has been featured on Ehrensenf .

ASCII Banners

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

http://www.network-science.de/ascii/

Source: eMail

What is it: Ever seen these Banners in footers of emails and such?

| . _ |   _  |`  _|_|_  _   |\\/| _  _ _  _  _ _|_
|_|| ||< (_)~|~   | | |(/_  |  |(_)| | |(/_| | |

On the linked site you get a generator with tons of fonts to use for creating ASCII signatures and stuff