Uh oh, the b-tards got their hands on Google's Chrome comic

The seditious perverts on bizzaro community board 4chan got their grubby hands on Google's Chrome comic and now they're doing to it what they already did to cute cat pictures when they came up with LOLcats. We'd link to 4chan but their links don't stay static and a commenter tells us the images originated from Yayhooray anyway. Sure, more topical and certainly more earnest parodies of Google's Chrome Comic are already out there, but for my money they can't beat the sociologically-revealing collection of awkward non sequiturs we've gathered below. More »

Hamlet, the Facebook News Feed edition

We present you Act I of Hamlet, the Facebook News Feed Edition, in its entirety. Click to embiggen. For the full story — including Polonius's riveting status update: "Polonius thinks this curtain looks like a good thing to hide behind," please see McSweeney's.

Why using desktop software is like watching Paint dry

This parody video pokes fun at Microsoft Paint, the aging art software included with Windows. YouTube commenters already point out that Vista Paint, the latest version, isn't much of an improvement. But that's not what makes it so funny to me. More »

Sporkk

NICK DOUGLAS — The site for fake startup Sporkk is cute enough ("Business Sporkk! Student Sporkk! Kid Sporkk! Minority Sporkk!"), but the parody (yet another fake site from blogger Sean Bonner, creator of isolatr) comes with a Twitter account for the personification of Web 2.0. The account's message last night: "Falling asleep to my 'get rich the pets.com way' tapes I bought at a yardsale today." Update: Sean says it's not his; it's by "some dude" who told him to be the first to blog it.

Google: We funny, you no funny

Google on its April Fool's Day prank: More »

Scobleize yourself — get on the A-list (and kick ass)

Hey, kids! Robert Scoble here! I'm a famous blogger, and you can be too! Then you can have fun coining words like "brrreeeport." Because "brrreeeport" is now an important Internet zeitgeist! Actually I just like to say "brrreeeport." More »