When I clicked on one of your links, I also got to this one, which is pretty great: [link] But "Someone is wrong on the internet" is the one I think of most often.
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
How about the infographic ones like chart of Lord of the Rings characters.
Dear god, Consuela. I think I'd have to at least get suddenly sick and take off the afternoon. Damn.
Not to be all downer about it, but my favorite thing he's ever done is the radiation perspective chart. It was a truly important piece of information for the time presented in an understandable way.
So, someone put together a webpage that shows homophobic language being used on twitter.
You can see mentions "today" and "last week", etc. Granted it just hits search terms so context isn't provided.
I love the Mattress xkcd, because I deal with this problem every. single. night.
Yeah, I really like the infographic ones he's done. Not funny, but amazing. Someone on the Internet is wrong is totally my favorite though.
Someone is wrong on the internet is just...right. It's not funny, per se, and I can barely even call it clever because that's not the angle--instead, it's hella perceptive and succinct as all get out, though, and it's a fuck of a shortcut and I'm glad it's now common (righteous) lexicon.
Apparently the opener of "You know, I've heard some very good things about your technical expertise here at [ita !'s workplace] in the IT department" doesn't automatically make people IIS subject matter experts. I'm somewhat disappointed in that failure.
OMG they fixed it. It's been posted.
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FUCK YEAH!