Fun & Silly

(no claims here regarding copyrights or legality. no guarantees regarding humor value.)

(Videos)

Foreign humor

• German Coast Guard (Berlitz commercial!)
• Life in Italy (versus the rest of the EU)
• How Italians Tell Time

Music humor

• Rachmaninoff had big hands

Technology

• Medieval technology

Plain silly

• The Monkey Chow experiment
• Pingpong match / Matrix parody (clip from Japanese TV)

Killer robots

• Robots are our friends
• Space robots -- here to protect you from the terible secret of space
• The humans are dead

Depressive stick figures

• "Procrastination"
• "How to Break Up"

Biology

• A protein synthesis educational video from the '70s, or rather, the hippie party inside our ribosomes.

(Web)

• Need a smile? Take a look at some wonderful bits of joy/design/art.
• Famous artist or unknown? Jackson Pollock or bird droppings? Donald Judd or cheap furniture? These quizzes question the quality of art when there's no name attached.
• Executive Coloring Book
• "Oh, no! I'm the first patient these 23 medical students have ever examined." The Human Guinea Pig at slate.com becomes a test patient for medical students.
• "Esp Experiment"
  • Yes, there's a trick to it. But after you figure it out, be sure to read the hilarious explanations people have sent in.
• The Sheep Market -- cute art project.
• Telemarketer Optimization Project
• Women: learn How to Pee Standing Up! This sounds so cool, but I haven't gotten far with it -- can anyone else?

• Scientists Ask Congress To Fund $50 Billion Science Thing (great graphic, too)
• New Roommates Attempt To Find Manly Way Of Saying Good Night
• Semester Abroad Spent Drinking With Other American Students
• Nonprofit Fights Poverty With Poverty
• Countries Who Met Over Internet Go To War

other great, reliable sources of humor

• Cockeyed.com -- Rob Cockerham's world of science experiments, projects and pranks
• Improv Everywhere -- pranks in New York City
• PhD Comics / Piled High and Deeper

(Graphics)

• Knowledge = Power

(Text)

• Internet over carrier pigeon
• Dark Suckers
• Ruin Sorbees
• End of the Internet
• Intergalactic pyramid scheme
• Sushi joke
• "Albanian Virus"
• Husband 1.0
• Programmer's Song
• Professional's Test
• Jewish Samurai
• Buying Paint
• Boston Geography
• Bagpipe Jokes (from Joke of the day)
• Vampire Bat (from Joke of the day)
• Today's Stock Market Report (from Joke of the day)