‘I’ before ‘E’ except after …
You’ve got to love the English language with its rules, exceptions to the rules, exceptions to the exceptions to the rules, …etc
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hussam
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hussam
Hidden Messages
I just found out that Abstruse Goose leaves hidden messages in his comic file names! Uggh .. checking out web comics is becoming more tedious now: must read comic strip, highlight over with mouse cursor to see alt-text for the first hidden message, and a few more clicks to find the file name for the second hidden message. What’s next? decode images for steganographic messages? I sure hope not
May be I should build a browser plugin to automate all that…
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hussam
Star Wars on the NYC subway
This Improv Everywhere team is very creative. If you like this, checkout their Ghostbusters tribute and even more cool stuff on their website.
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hussam
Flutebox and Beardyman at Google
WOW! These guys are very talented. I especially like the piece in the beginning by “Flutebox” … I guess this is one more reason why working at Google would be awesome
(hat-tip: Fadi)
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hussam
Everybody is a “Social Media Expert”
It seems that nowadays in the Middle East everybody and his mother are a “social media expert” and an “entrepreneur”. I am sorry, but using Facebook, Twitter, Digg, YouTube, and Google Analytics does not make you an expert, it just means that you are an internet user in the year 2010! Actually, coming to think of it, what is a “social media expert” anyway?
Some guy described himself on Twitter as a “Next-Generation Information Technologist, Visionary Entrepreneur, and a Social Media Expert.” It is a buzz-word trifecta!
Renato are discussing. 
Renato 8:52 pm on July 22, 2010 Permalink |
That is actually a trend in nerdy webcomics: PhD comics have the “Emergency Button” below and I guess xkcd has the same. And yes, I think Abstruse Goose had some deeper hidden messages in the past. Also, I don’t see the “second hidden message”. Where is it?
hussam 8:57 pm on July 22, 2010 Permalink |
Oh thanks for telling me about that emergency button
I never saw that!
As for the Abstruse Goose messages, so the “first one” is the one you get when you hover your mouse cursor over the image (just like with xkcd). The “second one” is the actual file name for the picture itself, to see that, right click on the comic picture and select “properties” (or try to save the image somewhere and see).
For example, in today’s comic his file name says that his drawing represents how his room looks like while working, and previous messages were interesting as well