http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/category/humor/ The Humor category includes the lighter side of life, with humor, jokes, cartoons, movies, music, and humor-related links about Web design, politics, life in general, and anything else that's funny, silly, or light-hearted. en-us Humor Copyright 2000-2008 Shirley Kaiser, SKDesigns. All rights reserved. Shirley Kaiser 2008-01-01T21:36:51-08:00 720 daily 2 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://brainstormsandraves.com/xml/brainstorms88.gif http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/category/humor/ 88 31 The Humor category includes the lighter side of life, with humor, jokes, cartoons, movies, music, and humor-related links about Web design, politics, life in general, and anything else that's funny, silly, or light-hearted. I have a couple of old computers to donate or take to a recycling facility, but first I want to remove the hard drives and destroy them. Researching the current best approaches to destroy old hard drives led me to some downright scary stories of identity theft or potential identity theft from consumers just following requirements for hard drive warranties or computer store repair policies. I thought I'd share a sampling of stories and recommendations on how to safely physically destroy those old hard drives. In addition, I'm including some humorous, light-hearted, and creative approaches to destroying those old hard drives. (2029 words, 28 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2008/01/01/harddrives/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2008/01/01/harddrives/ Shirley Kaiser 2008-01-01T21:36:51 This has got to be the funniest thing I've read for days: Zeldminem tells Grettir Asmundarson's lighthearted story of buying Jeffrey Zeldman's new book, Designing with Web Standards. What tops it off is the side-by-side book covers he's created inspired by his bookstore conversation with the cashier. (49 words, 3 links, 1 image) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/08/28/zeldman_eminem_lookalike/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/08/28/zeldman_eminem_lookalike/ Shirley Kaiser 2003-08-28T15:53:43 (131 words, 5 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/06/08/lettermans_top_10_and_president_bush/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/06/08/lettermans_top_10_and_president_bush/ Shirley Kaiser 2003-06-08T12:43:45 This week's mix of topics reminds me why I started calling these Friday Feasts -- another round of topics covering the map. And stay tuned here Sunday for the beginning of a new weekend topic, Saturday/Sunday Sounds. Ideagraph After reading about mind mapping and the Semantic web in a recent Friday Feast, the creator of Ideagraph let me know of this amazing tool. Ideagraph is a personal knowledge manager that goes beyond what other mindmapping tools will do and incorporates more Semantic web possibilities with mapping ideas, creating web pages, documents, images, and more. It's even possible to use... (602 words, 29 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/02/14/friday_feast_36_semantic_web_operas_bork_css_xhtml_do_not_call_lists/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/02/14/friday_feast_36_semantic_web_operas_bork_css_xhtml_do_not_call_lists/ Shirley Kaiser 2003-02-14T17:06:56 Before I get into today's Friday Feast, I first must congratulate Jeffrey Zeldman Presents for entering its 8th year online today! Congratulations go to not only the time length but on consistently having some of the finest, most interesting, and most helpful information available anywhere. (Plus Jeffrey does this nearly every weekday and then some!) On to today's feast: Today's Friday Feast includes a few recently discovered sites but some of the sites I visit regularly, too, that I just have to mention here and there. Visit the Friday Feast archives for lots more, too! * = one of... (1151 words, 50 links, 3 images) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2002/05/31/friday_feast_11/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2002/05/31/friday_feast_11/ Shirley Kaiser 2002-05-31T09:45:14 Today's Friday Feast has links to some helpful new tips for print and CSS, two new articles by search engine expert Danny Sullivan, and great innovations in wireless development. By the way, if you know of some good sites, please let me know and I'd love to post them for an upcoming Friday Feast. CSS Goodies Here are two new articles on helping you get the handle on CSS and printable pages. They're both helpful in their own ways. CSS Beyond the Browser by Eric Meyer for this week's A List Apart. Great help with using CSS for creating... (501 words, 17 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2002/05/10/friday_feast_8_css_search_engines_and_wireless/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2002/05/10/friday_feast_8_css_search_engines_and_wireless/ Shirley Kaiser 2002-05-10T11:29:15 Congratulations to WebReference's License Plate Gallery winning a USA Today HotSite award. I commend WebReference for this great site packed with such creative license plates. The Gallery is a fun place to go cruising. Have a geeky license plate? Take a photo of it, scan it, and submit yours today!... (51 words, 5 links, 1 image) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2002/02/27/webreference_license_plate_gallery/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2002/02/27/webreference_license_plate_gallery/ Shirley Kaiser 2002-02-27T07:23:59 I couldn't resist posting a link to this silly article by the Brains Trust, Pretzel Eating in Safety and Comfort, A Guide for the Dangerously Stupid. (It's also rather ironic that Bush's life is being so closely guarded against would-be assassins and terrorists and that he could have choked to death on a pretzel.) [Hat tip: Tom Negrino, Backup Brain]... (63 words, 3 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2002/01/23/humor_break_how_to_eat_a_pretzel/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2002/01/23/humor_break_how_to_eat_a_pretzel/ Shirley Kaiser 2002-01-23T09:17:06 (115 words, 2 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2002/01/18/on_a_lighter_note_patchsoft_by_microsoft/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2002/01/18/on_a_lighter_note_patchsoft_by_microsoft/ Shirley Kaiser 2002-01-18T06:11:04 I've always enjoyed the lighthearted silly humor of Tom Murphy's dingbat fonts. Visiting Tom's weblog over the weekend I was delighted to find a link to a Flash cartoon using the Tombats 6 dingbat font. The cartoon's light humor is just like the entire series of Tom's Tombats. Tom Murphy also just released Tombats 7 a few weeks ago, too. (110 words, 6 links, 1 image) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2001/10/07/ready_for_some_silly_humor_a_tombats_flash_cartoon/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2001/10/07/ready_for_some_silly_humor_a_tombats_flash_cartoon/ Shirley Kaiser 2001-10-07T06:27:16