MetaFilter posts tagged with computers and humor

Q. Would you like tea OR coffee? A: Yes.

grumblebee — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:47:24 -0800

What real-life bad habits has programming given you? "This has actually really happened to me. I was trying to hang a glass picture frame on the wall and accidentally dropped it. And in the shock of the moment, I loudly yelled 'Control Z!' Then the glass hit the floor and smashed."

Top Billing

nthdegx — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 04:57:34 -0800

Inventor of CTRL-ALT-DEL ridicules Bill Gates. "'I may have invented CTRL-ALT-DEL, but Bill Gates made it famous". Video clip of the episode, via TUAW, who say "The funniest part is the expression, or lack thereof, on the face of Bill."

The Daily WTF

sonofsamiam — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:51:53 -0800

The Daily WTF features braindead code samples. High-larious to a nerd like me.

NEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDSSS!!!!!!

Stan Chin — Thu, 04 Sep 2003 00:02:49 -0800

Nerd Gym (43 pages o' flash) is about 80% hackneyed obvious jokes, but there's some gems here and there. Which is dissapointing, because I don't get enough of the "Cleaning the Spitten Coffee off of the Monitor" workout. It also has very little to do with driving a tricycle drunk or throwing a javelin limpwristed against the Alpha Betas.

Eloquence — Sun, 25 Nov 2001 11:42:16 -0800

MIT's Erotic Computation Group. "By developing advanced sexual appliances and techniques, we seek to broaden the range of human amative expression and heighten our potential for sexual gratification." Good to see that at least some people are doing research that will benefit all mankind.

starvingartist — Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:04:54 -0800

Features your computer ought to have... probably most of us have seen at least one of these before, but here is a damned funny collection of non-existent computer features that should exist. I especially like the "Fuck It" button :)

TNLNYC — Tue, 08 May 2001 10:30:26 -0800

Every OS sucks... A nice little ditty (requires either windows media player or flash player).

plinth — Mon, 07 May 2001 07:35:57 -0800

Upgrade your PC. With a shotgun. [via fark]

plinth — Mon, 24 Jul 2000 06:28:40 -0800

Apple to release the vMac and dMac [from Fark], of course we all knew that the iBrator has been around for some time. Be sure to check out the movies if you haven't seen them before.

baylink — Tue, 30 May 2000 09:41:58 -0800

And you thought guns were only useful for shooting *people*.

mathowie — Wed, 22 Mar 2000 12:28:02 -0800

Microsoft Windows for Linux^TM This site also features Microsoft Linux Certification. It's funny, laugh.