Sure, I miss some things about working in an office like the social chats and the people to bounce ideas off, but some things about working from home in the summer are hard to beat.
It’s 4 July - time for my yankee readers to remind themselves that America rules and England sucks.
Q: What’s the difference between a rock guitarist and a jazz guitarist?
A: A rock guitarist plays three chords in front of thousands of people.
Q: What do you call a French man wearing plastic sandals?
A: Phillippe Philloppe.
A man goes to the doctors with a sore knee.
The doctor says, “You’ll have to stop masturbating”.
“But why?” asks the man.
The doctor replies, “Because I’m trying to examine you”.
Reader Chris Brown sent in this gag which came via his daughter from her science teacher, Mr Brent Butler.
An atom goes into a bar and orders a drink.
After finishing his drink, he reaches into his pocket to pay the bartender,
and says, Oh no, I’ve lost an electron!”
“Are you sure?” says the bartender.
“Yeah,” says the atom, “I’m positive!”
And this is a bonus one, from Chris himself:
Q. You know who’s been together forever, been through a lot of crap, and
are still together to this day?
A. My arsecheeks.
Q: What do you call a woman with two toilets?
A: Lulu.
As an aside, I’m quite pleased these photos of some punky children I took at a wedding last year.
That’s the motto of the French Navy.
(Thanks, Abby.)
Jim O’Donnell points out that the National Archive have done a web site about Victorian prisons, with some blind/partially sighted students, which looks very nice and has sleek code.
Meanwhile, Anne van Kesteren has written a very useful guide that’s an overview of the differences between HTML4 and HTML5.
The Korean film, A Tale of Two Sisters is deliciously creepy, beautifully filmed and elegantly acted. (Isn’t Korean a lovely-sounding language?)
Pat Lauke points out that Jeremy Keith fell into the cheesetrap at @media. If only he’d known about the Tim Berners-Lee Quote-o-matic! quote generator.
There are some people who say that worrying about web standards and accessibility is an indication of much too much time on my hands. I wish. Anyway, people who collect old Teasmades, they’re the ones with too much time … Man, I love England and its eccentrics.
I was shocked to find my James, my six year old, typing “Thomas” into the Youtube search engine and getting user-filmed Thomas snuff movies. Will no-one think of the children?!?!
And, I don’t want to bring this up, but me and your friends have been a bit concerned about you lately. Ask yourself: are you popular?
Some researchers in Paris have discovered that the Hunchback of Notre Dame wasn’t a real hunchback. He was merely a quasi-modo.
Q: Why did Lieutenant Uhura smell bad?
A: Because William Shatner.
Not particularly good, but it is Good Friday:
Jesus walks into a hotel, puts four nails down on the counter and asks “Can you put me up for the night?”