Laugh at…

Laugh at animals

• Cat articulates his existence, wimp.com

• Squirrel take GoPro and gives best POV EVER!!!, by Viva Frei, YouTube video, August 7, 2016

Laugh at people

• Abbey Road zebra crossing live feed lets you watch Beatles fans piss off motorists 24/7

• Doug Loves Movies

• The Smartest Man in the World podcast.

  • [iTunes version of Smartest Man in the World podcast]

• The Bugle podcast

  • iTunes version of The Bugle podcast

  • The Bugle Wikipedia page

  • Ask an American montage (part 1) and (part 2) (you must listen to this!)

• Clif Bar Triathalon Start Commercial

• Wiretap, with Jonathan Goldstein, CBC Radio [An especially funny episode is ‘Life out of Balance’, where Howard gets all hopped up on Hyperquench]

• Riki Lindhome

• The Capitol Steps [They only get funnier after you’ve voted them into office!]

Laugh at science and technology

• Inaccurate Google Voice Transcripts [including Google Voice’s awesomely mistranscribed rendition of Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech, as read by Tim Meadows] and the Mos Eisley Cantina scene from Star Wars as transcribed by Google Voice, as heard on the Pod F. Thompkast

• Heisenberg was right (“This sign is in Spanish when you are not looking.”)

• iPhone 4 vs. HTC Evo (not work friendly language, but trust me: don’t be drinking any liquids when you watch this)

• The Gettysburg Address (in PowerPoint)

• What is circuit bending? (see for yourself!)

• The “Smiley” Intervention (A.K.A. “The T. S. Eliot Equation.”)

• The Telecrapper 2000 (TC2K) - The answer to telemarketers (be sure to check out the flash simulated conversation. :)

• How to torment telemarketers with one word - (This is brilliant! :)

• This Parody Of Every TED Talk Ever Is Absolutely Perfect, Digg.com

• TODD Talks, John Oliver “Last Week Tonight” (from episode on Scientific Studies)

Laugh at the security industry

• How to become an information security thought leader, written by Chris Eng

• Security Public Relations Excuse Bingo

• The Upside-Down-Ternet (or “go ahead, steal my WiFi”)

Laugh at random things

• The 25 most baffling toys from around the world

• How to say in [A translator: check out the Top 100 most frequently translated words/phrases!]

• xkcd

  • How the Heartbleed Bug Works

  • Color Survey Results [From my friend Ali: “If you don’t have much time, look at ‘color names most disproportionately popular among men and women.’ Also, the Miscellaneous section at the bottom.”]

  • Explain xkcd - Graphs

• Ron Gutman: The hidden power of smiling

• The Onion Radio News

• Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld (All Things Considered, June 29, 2003)

• Flying Spaghetti Monster apparition in flare salvo smoke, posted on Boingboing by Mark Frauenfelder, August 16, 2006

• Literal Videos

  • Take On Me: Literal Video Version, YouTube video by DustoMcNeato, October 3, 2008

  • Total Eclipse of the Heart Literal Video Version, YouTube video by artistwithouttalent, September 1, 2013

  • You spin me round Literal Version, YouTube video by pianicata4, September 2, 2013