Three cartoons this morning: a notably weird Zippy about comics, a Dilbert on search terms, and a Zits on passwords (and obscenicons):
Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Three for Thursday
March 13, 2014Who Made That?
January 20, 2014Voicemail deadlock
October 27, 2013Today’s Pearls Before Swine:
I’d suggest voicemail deadlock or voicemail standoff.
Job description
September 23, 2013Yesterday’s Dilbert:
The pointy-headed boss clearly has no clue about what Dilbert is talking about (which is an actual issue in programming), and Dilbert responds with an (implicit) blunt criticism of managers who don’t understand what the people they manage do.
Data retrieval
September 6, 2013Today’s Dilbert:
Now that’s hacking!
Rosenberg’s Laws of Robotics
June 10, 2013
Code 404
May 9, 2013Today’s Rhymes With Orange, with a pun on page:
A pun of a type that juxtaposes two strikingly different contexts (here, court life in a monarchy, on the one hand, and the internet, on the other) in such a way that two different senses of an expression are both applicable.
More on modern communications
April 22, 2013Today’s Zits:
The latest in a series of strips depicting young people as rejecting the telephone and face-to-face interaction in favor of modern communications technology.
As a bonus, though this isn’t hot news, there’s the verbing of the noun Facebook. Plenty of examples around, for instance this one:
Honoring those who Facebooked themselves out of their jobs
The Facebook Fired blog is a painfully modern collection of stories memorializing those who are collecting unemployment thanks to posts on Facebook or similar public disclosures. (link)
The books are watching them
April 10, 2013That arresting clause occurred in a NYT article yesterday: “Teacher Knows if You’ve Done the E-Reading” by David Streitfeld.
Ups and downs
April 10, 2013An xkcd, passed along on Facebook by Jack Hamilton:
I struggle to determine if this is actually self-referential, but then my head hurts.