Office melody

Office melody

Comic for 24 Jul 2008

I can buy my own gold watch, thank you.

I can buy my own gold watch, thank you.

From Mike On Ads: Use your web browser history to estimate whether you’re male or female. It looks at the sites you’ve visited, uses the typical demographics for those sites, plus a little maths, to give probabilities of you being male or female.

This simple but clever example gives you a tiny bit of insight into what websites can figure out about you, even if you don’t tell them anything.

For the record, I’m 53% male, which is a little disturbing. I’m going to go check out the Playboy site right now …

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What Lives Longer Than a Cockroach? Unix Bugs.

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Funny and pointless Facebook groups

FaceBook groups has a huge membership of pointless groups, which carry >30K members on avg. Here is the list of few:

1. Bollywood gave me unrealistic expectations about desi women (My fav..:P)

2. Bollywood gave me unrealistic expectations about desi men (Women copied from the above group...they cant even be creative, lol)

3. I Thought You Were Hot Until I Clicked on "View More Pictures"

4. Alcohol Improves my Foreign Language! :P

5. I Wish I Were Your Derivative So I Could Lie Tangent To Your Curves! ( awesome...)

6. 30 Things To Do In An Exam When You Know You're Going To Fail It Anyways! (The first thing i would do is look around for the possibility of flirting and fill the paper with self-made theories.)

7. When I was your age, we had to blow on the video games to make them work...
(I did that, but i'm not that old, its just that i had come across such hardware. )

8. Do you believe in love at first sight, or should I walk by again?
(hahaha...imagine saying this really to somebody)

9. For those who have ever pushed a "pull" door
(I admit i did that some...Ok, many times in my life. :P )

10. oh shit, we had homework? ( It doesnt matter anyway. Homeworks are meant to be forgotten.)

11. When I was your age, Pluto was a planet. (Yeah! this was injustice to pluto. Seeing it is so powerless, the fanatics have suspended it forever. )

12. You run up the stairs because you think something is gunna grab you (i did this couple of times when i was kid)

13. I Use my Cell Phone to See in the Dark

14. No, I Don't Care If I Die At 12AM, I Refuse To Pass On Your Chain Letter.

15. I FLIP MY PILLOW OVER TO GET TO THE COLD SIDE

16. Geometry can kiss my Angle-Side-Side

17. If I were an enzyme i would be DNA helicase so i could unzip your genes

18. If 100,000 people join, my fiance' will let me name my second son Spiderman

19. Join this group, invite all of you friends, and then leave.

20. Kids who hid in clothing racks while their parents were shopping (sounds fun! )

21. If 500 000 join this group I will change my middle name to Facebook

22. I Will Go Out of My Way To Step On a Leaf That Looks Particularly Crunchy

23. I Secretly Want To Punch Slow Walking People In The Back Of The Head

24. it wasnt awkward until you said "well, this is awkward". now its awkward.

25. Behind Every Doctor... is a skilled intelligent nurse that saves their ass ( Skilled, intelligent nurse?? Nurses were supposed to be beautiful????)

26. GET ME A CHICKEN SANDWICH AND SOME WAFFLE FRIES, FO' FREE! (...and i even want some coffe )

27. Why Yes, I Do Frequently Burst Out in Song

28. I have a tendency to laugh at inappropriate times (No, i dont! but its fun to watch such people )

Comic for July 6, 2008