Thermal

There are some awesome webcomics out there, with XKCD being my No.1, but with the dozens I Stumble across, there are few that keep my attention for any length of time.

Recently I was lucky enough to find the Bug strip, by Adam Huber, and it hooked me instantly. I spent the next hour after finding it crawling the archives and it was time well spent. It’s beautifully drawn, and the simple expedient of using the bug characters makes it stand out from the raft of stick-men XKCD clones. It also helps that Adam has a wry sense of humour, and is somehow able to get his bugs to display their emotions so clearly. Real life observations mixed with a touch of the absurd, like the downside to being  a vampire shown below, keep you coming back for more. So far it’s being published pretty much daily (he must be mad) so pop over & get bugging…..

If you don’t think this is funny, then you won’t like Unintentional Sex…..

But I think I know my audience

As the tagline says, you can’t prove they don’t exist….

Continued…..(with some very good points!)

If you too believe printers were sent from Hell (and plenty of mine were obvious lieutenants of Satan) then you’ll enjoy the rest of this strip over at the rather excellent The Oatmeal.

Me too. Like when they advertise those jelly sweets that are pure sugar as being 100% fat free, or that ’1 serving’ of a breakfast cereal only contains 99 calories, then you see that 1 serving is the equivalent of some single atomic unit of measurement.

As an aside, what do you septics* call those jelly sweets, seeing as you call jam ‘jelly’? You know those chewy candies like, well, jelly beans. And why are they called ‘jelly’ beans when you can’t spread them on toast? One of life’s many mysteries…..

*Septics=Septic tanks = Yanks. Cockney rhyming slang, innit Mary Poppins?

Not a very promising title for a comedy show, but this was definitely one of the hidden gems of 2009. A whimsical Scottish-made comedy about 4 soldiers recently back from Iraq. Not sounding any better at that point, but it’s just the situation for the sit-com about 4 mates taking the piss out of each other and life in general.

Interspersing the show are little videos like this one supposedly shot on a mobile while in Iraq – the Osama Bin Laden one rating American fast food joints is hysterical but check out the Soldier Boys doing some moves….

Lots more like this at Yahoo! Answer Fail – you hope some of these are faked, but……

What could go wrong?

Oh my God, how true is this? The most worthless dialog of a worthless operating system summed up by XKCD.

11 minutes of your life well spent, a cracking little short film & some universal truths….