Category: Net: Fun

Here’s an old joke/story/thought that’s quite thought provoking. Filed under “Net: Fun” as I can’t quite think where else to put it – it isn’t quite a joke…

You are driving along in your car on a wild, stormy night. You pass by a bus stop, and you see three people waiting for the bus:
1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.
2. An old friend who once saved your life.
3. The perfect man (or) woman you have been dreaming about.

Which one would you choose to offer a ride to, knowing that there could only be one passenger in your car.

Think before you continue reading.

This is a moral/ethical dilemma that was once actually used as part of a job application.

You could pick up the old lady, because she is going to die, and thus you should save her first; or you could take the old friend because he once saved your life, and this would be the perfect chance to pay him back.

However, you may never be able to find your perfect dream lover again.

The candidate who was hired (out of 200 applicants) had no trouble coming up with his answer. What did he say?

I came across this collection of optical illusions via A Girl’s Gotta Blog and have had a little bit of fun with them.

They’ve got (in the little flash presentation) the “count the black dots” illusion: there aren’t any black dots (only white ones) on the grid, but the eye is confused by the grey bars and the black squares, a picture of a face with the word “LIAR” hidden on it, a many legged elephant, the musician and the face illusion, the spiral confusion one and many others.

Take a look and have some fun. I warn you know, they can cause you to see things that aren’t necessarily there (like the black dots…)

I swear that my blog’s soon going to be marked “Adult content” by all the content filtering systems out there, but when you see such an adorable picture of a lovely pussy (cat) that I came across via Quinn) it makes it all worth while…

It’s been a few weeks since I last gave a pussy a really good stroking – last time I did it though, both of us got enjoyment out of it and spent the rest of the night together. But enough about my parent’s cat(s).

As per 90% of most images posted here, you can click on the image to enlarge it…. Now I must get to bed!

Despite Neil beating me in posting this very funny image, I decided to post it anyway – but with a slight difference.

Yep, it’s in colour! No, I didn’t find a colour version – that picture (click to enlarge) was totally “colourised”/”colorized” by yours truly. Unfortunately, I wasn’t clock-watching so I’m not sure how long it took (around 30 to 45 minutes at a guess), but I hope you like it 🙂

What Neil didn’t tell you, is that he got the link off a fellow ODP editor who posted the link in the internal editor forums – hence why I was a “bit miffed” when he posted about it.

Ok, I know this link is “old” in Internet terms, but I was going to feature it back in November. Why the delay? Well, the day I decided to feature it I notice it was actually inside that day’s .net magazine. So I decided to wait. Then it appeared on the BBC’s Weird and wonderful top web list. I thought I’d delay it again to try and let their bandwidth recover (I know what it’s like when a website is featured on/in the mainstream media- your bandwidth usage shoots through the roof).

Anyway, since the site is still up I guess you can all go and visit Joel Veitch’s Independent Woman site where the popular Destiny’s Child song Independent Woman song is performed by smoking, North of England kittens. Extremely funny, and the pre-lude to it where part of I.W. appears in Joel’s Destiny’s Child meets “Til Death Us Do Part” (i.e. they both feature Alf Garnett).

I also quite like the cover of Led Zeppelin‘s Immigrant Song (“we come from the land of the ice and the snow…”). And the “Tales of the Blode” is also very enjoyable in a slightly South-Parkish way (an animation that looks suitable for children, but is more aimed at Adults – a bit like Jamie and his magic happy lamp ).

H–ll, just go over to Rather Good and pick your own enjoyable Flash animation.