Science for SEO: geek jokes

November 21, 2008

TGIF - hooray

I hope that you all had a brilliant week full of fulfilling and exciting projects and that the less interesting things eased by. I hope you're looking forward to a nice weekend hiding from the cold or boldly facing it with vigour!

Without further ado...some cool comics this week:

Be sure to check out "Kevin and the Googlebots", it's a brilliant comic strip by, well...Kevin. It's one of my new favourites!

Also check out the Geeky comic, a nice site if you're looking for a smile.

And then there's Monty the inventor of course.

I love Abstruse Goose too, simple and super funny.

I don't need to mention Dilbert, but if you haven't come across him yet...shame on you.

The usual geek facts for your pleasure:

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.

E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.

The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.

Microsoft has no idea why the following happens:

Open Microsoft Word and type

=rand (200, 99)

And then press ENTER.

To finish...one of my favourite bits of footage ever...enjoy.

BTW I love the fact that some of you only visit on Friday for the TGIF post - clearly it's my best work :)

November 07, 2008

TGIF - weekend ahoy

Welcome to another Friday, time for an easy and chilled out post with geeky humour and some inspiration to celebrate the end of a long week. I'll be working on my PhD this weekend, so will be in a darkened room in front of my laptop and a series if IDE's - fret not, I like it :)

Without further ado:

Programs for sale: Fast, Reliable, Cheap: choose two.

I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as you could be -you aren't stretching your imagination. (J.Backus)

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. (J.Bronowski)

The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time. (T.Cargill)

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. (E. Dijkastra)

On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. (Babbage)

About the last two: