Archive: Humour

WTF

When adding social media icons to a website, take care over the order in which they appear.

I have created the Ed Miliband random statement generator. It took some pretty extreme coding skills, so I’m quite proud of this.

For anyone who doesn’t know what this is about, check out this astonishing video:

Today’s XKCD led me to look at the Wikipedia article ‘List of numbers‘ out of curiosity.

I was surprised to see listed among the ‘notable integers’ were a few telephone numbers, such as 999 and 911. I guess these were included on the basis of their “cultural meanings”, although they are not integers. (They have since been removed from the article.)

But I was surprised that the most culturally significant telephone number of the past decade — that’s right, 118 — was left out. So I decided to fix that.

Notable integers, including 118

(Don’t worry, I only did this in Firebug, not on Wikipedia itself.)

Intelligent dance music — IDM. It’s a great genre with a naff name. Aside from the snootiness of ‘intelligent’, it has always raised the question: how on earth do you dance to this?

Well we now have the answer, thanks to this video I found the other day. It demonstrates how you should dance to the IDM smash hit Cfern by Autechre.

I will be trying it in my bedroom tonight!

When this blog returned last month, a reader asked me if the impending return of Adam and Joe to our radio sets was the best thing that has ever happened to me. Well, it’s not quite the best news I have ever heard. But nevertheless, tomorrow is exciting.

Adam and Joe return tomorrow morning at 10am on BBC 6 Music!

To celebrate, here is a clip of one of the funniest moments of the programme — when Adam and Joe dangerously ate a chill cake that was sent in by a listener.