Posted on July 21, 2006 at 11:07 AM in round-ups
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The heh level in my myFavorites bookmarks is reaching dangerouly high levels. It's again time to spill them out onto Earthling. Clearly I need to do this more often.
As an aside, if you look at everyone's URL's marked heh, you'll see I'm dominating that tag (I'm Dave C in myFavorites). But I'm all for changing that. By next heh round-up, I hope to see at least a few things in myFavorites tagged heh by some people other than myself. Consider yourself conscripted. Not only does this make my job easier, it also gets some stuff in front of my face that I might not have seen otherwise.
- Series Of Tubes Is The New Internets - Since the last Heh round-up, Senator Ted Stevens has become famous for describing the internet as a 'series of tubes' and an e-mail as an 'internet'. Let's take a lesson from Valleywag with the heads-up that it's no longer cool to make the George Bush "the internets" joke anymore.
- A Wider Perspective On Flavor - Web comic Penny Arcade hits close to home with this strip about the overly obscure hints nerds leave themselves to try to remember passwords (warning: some salty language). Once I'm done using my current passwords, I've got a funny anecdote about what hint I usually leave for myself.
- A Pause To Praise A Great Game - Long-time 'heh' contributor Jeff wrote up what it sounded like on spanish-language channel Univision when Italy beat Germany in the World Cup semi-finals.
- Wilford Brimley: The Beetis - The way Wilford Brimley says "Di-a-beetis" on the old Liberty Medical commercials has always been strange and hi-larious to me. I recently discovered a cache of YouTube remixes of that ad from earlier this year. The one I link to in the title is one of the better ones. How did I miss this when it was going around? Still, no one has managed to create my dream remix, which would be a mashup of Run-DMC's "My Adidas" and the Wilford Brimley Diabeetis ad. Please steal this idea.
- Japanese Darth Vader Ad - Not sure what this is, but it's a uniquely Japanese Darth Vader gag.
- 50 Worst Video Game Names Ever - Just as it sounds, Game Revolution rounds up the dumbest actual names given to video game titles. One of my favorites is #17 -"Tactics Ogre - Let Us Cling Together".
- Nigerian Letter Scammer Convinced To Carve Replica Commodore 64 - Enterprising scam busters have managed to get Nigerian scammers to do all sorts of things by stringing them along as potential victims. Here's a particularly elaborate task. There's a whole forum about baiting the scammers.
- Old Pole Position Ad - Back in the birth of the video game era, you could get away with the kind of ad where a voice-over guy yells threatening lines at the characters from off-screen.My favorite comment in the discussion thread: " Who was the guy with the giant hand? Was that God?" [via BoingBoing]
- Abominable Snowman With A Junior Consumer Tip - If you lived in New England in the 80's, you saw an awful lot of this public service announcement. I don't know if you'll find it heh-ful if you've never seen it before, but it's worth a try. Here's to hoping more old local PSA's make their way onto YouTube. Also from New England in the 80's - this New England Aquarium commercial.