Category: internet

  • HTML 5 Sarcasm tag [pic]

    One of the biggest problems that online communication faces is that it can be very hard to communicate sarcasm.  To fix this problem, Twitter user @gf3 suggested that the W3C should include a tag in the HTML 5 spec.  The W3C tweeted a response with a witty answer that you can see below.  I love…

  • Parents Shouldn’t Text [pic]

    I thought you guys would be interested to know that the very popular (and hilarious) site Damn You Auto Correct has launched a spin-off site called Parents Shouldn’t Text.  It’s very similar to Damn You Auto Correct but is specifically about why older people, specifically parents, shouldn’t be allowed to text.  To give you an…

  • How geeks fight [cartoon]

    The cartoon known as The Joy of Tech has posted a rather funny cartoon showing how geeks fight.  Enjoy!

  • Stats for the Internet in 2010

    Image via Wikipedia A company called Pingdom has realeased some very impressive statistics for the state of the internet in 2010.  It is worth checking out all of the stats given in the previous link but here are some of the highlights that I found most interesting. 107 Trillion emails were sent in 2010, 89.1%…

  • An Ashton Kutcher tweet only gets you 13,000 clicks

    Image via Wikipedia Have you ever thought to youself, “I could get a huge amount of traffic to my site if I could just get some celebrity with millions of followers to tweet about it?”  A company had that dream realized but the results are less than spectacular. Ashton Kutcher tweeted a video from a…

  • Record 750 Million photos posted to Facebook for New Years

    Image via Wikipedia Today, Facebook announced on its twitter account that a record 750 million photos were uploaded to Facebook during the New Years 2011 weekend.  That is a lot of pictures on a single social networking site!  Anybody with a guess how many pictures showed drunk people?  Anyway, that number is really impressive and…