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The Fail Whale

August 16th 2010 02:19
original fail whale
The Original Failwhale, by Yiying Lu


When Twitter experiences an outage, users see the "fail whale" error message image created by Yiying Lu, illustrating several red birds using a net to hoist a whale from the ocean captioned "Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again."


The Fail Whale has become such a famous image that it's inspired various
'new' interpretations as below:
See these Fail Whales and many more at urlseque here.


twitter fail whale painting
Fail Whale Painting by David Pache


The Fail Whale Cake
Fail Whale Cake, by Wildflour Bakery



Homer Simpson Fail Whale
Homer Simpson Fail Whale by Ed Wheeler


Fail Whale in 3D
Fail Whale in 3D, by Stephen Allred


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The humble Pie Graph has been through a renaissance in the last few years via the internet as people realised its value in putting across humorous and over-exaggerated points.

Cracked.com has this hilarious collection of internet Pie Charts which attempt to answer the ultimate question: How do we really spend our time these days?


Best Pie Charts
Time Spent After An Argument


Funniest pie graphs of all time
Time Spent Watching A Movie In 3D


The hippie peace symbol pie chart
Time Spent By Hippies


soccer injury pie graph. Football
Time Spent By Soccer Players During A Game


Breakdown of procrastination single red pie chart
Time Spent Procrastinating

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Rickrolling

July 21st 2010 02:41
Rickrolling


Rickrolling is an Internet meme typically involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up". The meme is a bait and switch: a person provides a hyperlink that they claim is relevant to the topic at hand, but the link actually takes the user to the Astley video. The link can be masked or obfuscated in some manner so that the user cannot determine the true destination of the link without clicking. When a person clicks on the link and is led to the web page, he or she is said to have been "rickrolled".

To learn more about the history of Rickrolling view the info-graphic below. Or visit the original page here.


The History of RickRolling
Via: Online MBA





*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the WIkipedia article for Rickrolling.

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Best Dating Websites

June 9th 2010 02:41

With the incredible popularity of social websites, which continue to grow at a fast rate, there are now many new places to meet new people and make friends, even start romances. In fact last year in the United States 1 in 8 couples married met through some form of social media. Imagine what this figure will look like 10 years from now! The info-graphic below, created by Column Five Media takes a look at the most common sites where these newlyweds met. You might be surprised to see that some sites are not intended for dating at all! It seems that wherever like minded people meet to chat, friendships and love can blossom!
Click on the info-graphic to open a larger version in a new window.


best online dating sites
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Why We Love Venn Diagrams

April 14th 2010 01:12
Venn diagrams are a fantastic tool for showing the relationships between various things.
On the internet, Venn diagrams are popular for explaining everything from horror movies to nerds and dorks.
There are 15 classic Venn diagrams on this post at NextRound. Below are some samples.


nerd dork dweeb venn diagram



Denzel Washington Venn Diagram



venn diagram - wearing pants



horror movies, musicals and serial killers



you and me awesome circles
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How Secure Are Your Passwords?

March 1st 2010 01:21
As reported on CXO, 32 million passwords were exposed last month in the breach of social media application developer RockYou.
It exposed an alarming number of easy to crack passwords employed by users.

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Facebook vs Twitter

July 10th 2009 12:20
Facebook was the undisputed king of social networking sites, but Twitter is quickly making up ground. So which one is better, what will suit your needs?
Facebook vs Twitter
Click on the image above to open a much more readable version.


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It's sad how true this is. The only thing missing are the ads which enlarge over the article you're trying to read when you mouse over them.

Online journalism 10 years ago. Articles and ads

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Amazing Department Store Website

June 24th 2009 02:58
HEMA is a Dutch department store. The first store opened on November 4, 1926, in Amsterdam. Now there are 150 stores all over the Netherlands .

Take a look at HEMA's product page. You can't order anything and it's in Dutch but just wait a couple of seconds and watch what happens. Don't click on any of the items in the picture, just wait and see what happens


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Best Programmer Comic Strips

June 19th 2009 09:08
Thanks to SlashWeb, here are some of the best WebComic strips relating to computer programmers. If you think these are funny, find many more here.
If you can't read the comic, click on it to open a larger version.

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The Very Best of Yahoo Answers

June 12th 2009 13:19
Yahoo Answers has become a very popular site for gaining solutions to those queries which chew away at your brain but you're too embarrassed to ask anyone you know.
And yes people really do ask anything. See below for some of the best questions and responses. Click on each image to open a more readable version. All these and more taken from Kontraband here.

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Google Street Views

June 3rd 2009 12:31
In 2007 Google began adding Street Views to its Google Maps service. Soon after, users starting spotting unusual, interesting and unexplained street scenes and sharing them online. Over time, the number of weird things caught on Google Street View has continued to rise.

Thanks to PCWorld, here are some of the strangest sights from Google Street Views. See many more here
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An Honest Scammer

April 13th 2009 10:29
Mr Robert Dutu and Mike Nash. Hello. How are you. Am Robert Dutu. I have a very important business proposition for your consideration. Please can we chat on it? Let me guess? You have millions of dollars you want to give me. But I won’t get it. Instead you will rip me off with advanced fee fraud. You are right. Well, appreciate the honesty. You are welcome. Pleasure chatting with you. Good luck finding an idiot. Thanks man.
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Here are some truly amazing paintings of classical video games that can be used as desktop wallpaper. If you would like to download a higher resolution image, or see more beautiful classic gaming backgrounds visit lifehacker here.


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