was Microsoft Agrees to Alter Vista Desktop Search. I wonder if the headline was just a coincidence, or if using a slightly modified “AltaVista” was a sly joke? (For newer Net folk, back in the day, AltaVista was THE search engine.)
Entries Tagged 'Funny' ↓
The title of this story in my feeds
June 20th, 2007 | Funny • Microsoft • Vista
Separated at birth?
April 1st, 2007 | Curiosities • Funny

Tennis player Justine Henin and Haley Joel Osment.
Overheard in a hotel lobby:
June 29th, 2006 | Curiosities • Funny
rm -r *. “Here’s what I want you to type. ‘are em’ … yes. The letter ‘r’ and the letter ‘m’, together. Now type a dash. Yes, like a hyphen. OK, and then another ‘r’. Yes rm space hyphen r.” From Jeff Veen.
Anil Dash
June 2nd, 2005 | Anil Dash • Funny • NYTimes
accomplished something quite notable today: he managed to subtly get goatse (SFW) into the New York Times. [via Boing Boing. I may be the last one to post this, but still, worthy of note…]
Amazing Flickr coincidence story
January 25th, 2005 | Flickr • Funny
on the FlickrBlog today. A guy went to Tokyo and took a photo of a woman who was herself shooting a photo of a street scene and posted it on Flickr. Someone who knew the woman informed her and she signed up for Flickr and posted the shot SHE was taking, already immortalized by the first guy.
In case you’ve missed them,
August 26th, 2004 | Funny • Google
Google has an archive of their Google Olympic Doodles.




