Practical Jokes from alt.shenanigans

Welcome to smart

Ewwwww, gross!!!

Why do ducks have flat feet?

From stamping out forest fires.

Why do IT consultants have flat feet?

From stamping out burning ducks.

Forest fires all over the place today!!

Wow. A portable lie detector that claims 80% accuracy.

Steven Champeon has a good idea.

Er... Uhm... skip the intro?

Sick, yet disturbingly amusing...

The most common stumbling blocks for developers transitioning to web development.

Part IIof the Human OS... Side note: again with the text that simply changes color when selected (as opposed to the standard inverted highlighting), Most disconcerting.

From a co-worker: IMPS.

Very interesting, if biased article showing how agendas can influence results.

Virus won’t let victims get help.

Heh.

Okay, honey, this explains it...

One of my all-time favorites: This Is the Title of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times in the Story Itself

Alert! Alert! Productivity speedbump ahead! Alert! Alert!

Fitt's Law-inspiredgem of a helper program. Nice idea, this.

My most favorite ROGUE-like game of all. Endless hours of frustration.

Seems like my company's doing okay; it's number 7 with a bullet...

Up last night 'till past 4:00 with two sick kids. It's horrible to have to watch your kids throwing up, because there's nothing you can do for them except keep their hair back and wipe their faces. The bug's been going around; I hope it doesn't get me or my wife, especially not until the kids are a little better.

Yea, baby!

Welcome to E The People:, a nonpartisan site working with over 400 online newspapers, television stations and Internet portals bring government closer to the people.

Probable view of what the butterfly ballots looked like to the voters in Palm Beach.

Pushlets; and more MVC goodness.

Yet another unusable Florida ballot.

Give a family a cow, and his family will eat steak for a week; give them a cow and teach them livestock management and they'll eat well for the rest of their life. Good stuff, maynard, especially if you're searching for that gift for the person who has everything... Give in their name.

The Interaction Design Patterns Home Page

Geek Boys Can't Get A Date? URBAN GIRLS WILL TAKE YOUSHOPPING!

Project management tools available on the web. Now you have no excuse for not completing your work. And it uses that fabu Outlook sidebar, too...

Designers build better ballots. Find inspiration for all those contests I've been linking to.

Concierges: wave of the future. Because agents just can't cut the mustard yet...

Another ballot redesign contest.

The latest JOHO was rib-tickling in places. Man! Every issue has at least one thing that leaves me gasping.

Whoa!

Kung Fu is back! I remember watching the original show with my father and thinking how similar their attitudes were.

I'm trying clickgarden right now. It's claims are great, but will the product live up to them?

Thought of the weekend that really made me question myself: Let's just make Bill Gates president-for-life and get this whole election thing out of the way. Maybe I need some more time off...

Food for thought.

Just for fun.

New word of the day: avatecture. Usability note: try to select the text in the line labeled title: - ouch. Breaks the rules. I had to do it twice to make sure I was getting it.

Why, oh why, did I forget to post links to these two great articles. P.S. If you really want to know a ton more about information foraging, check out Peter Merholz's site - specifically the posting on November 21, 2000. I'm still chewing my way through the chunks 'o information there.

More free online reading. This time it's "a book about people - both business people and consumers - and how we all interact with each other, in life and on the Internet".

This sounds good. So does this. The future's so bright, I gotta have mirrored UV-scattering lenses implanted into my eye sockets...

Understanding the transformation from corporate to business web.