Turns out if you just give the same cartoons literal captions, they’re pretty funny, as The Monkeys You Ordered proves.  Buried gold I tell you.  A few favorites:

• Dog
• Tree
• Dolphin
• Piano

Via Kottke and Boing Boing.

cumulostalgia

n. self-aware satisfaction with discussing the weather, which although a well-worn marker of shallow conversation thwarts the suspicion that any day now our fragmented and variegated selves will no longer overlap long enough to maintain a working definition of ‘we.’

Or:

anti-aliasing

n. -soc. psych. curiosity about the real flesh-and-blood people behind internet usernames, whose vivid individuality suggests that when our parents were tracing their fingers along our nameless faces looking for some hint of who we were to become, they really should have gone with Mr. Cookieface, Unicornpuncher, Dutchess Von Whatever, or Wookiegasm.

Or:

contact high-five

n. an innocuous touch by someone just doing their job—a barber, yoga instructor or friendly waitress—that you enjoy more than you’d like to admit, a feeling of connection so stupefyingly simple that it cheapens the power of the written word, so that by the year 2025, aspiring novelists would be better off just giving people a hug.

Intended or not, some of the best contemporary poetry I’ve read since college.

Via Kottke.

Ps – So, after writing this, I clicked the little information button at the top of the page, and it turns out the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is not only cool (and has a bit better definition of itself than what I came up with above), it’s also local, written by John Koenig of St Paul.  Adding local tag…

Via Kottke.

And the sequel:

They’re pretty funny, especially for ones you’ve seen- most of them are mocking enough that you need to actually have seen the movie for them to make sense.  The Dark Knight is a pretty good one, though I’m not sure why they feel the need to make fun of Maggie Gyllenhaal, I think she’s kind of cute.

This one came to mind because they’re not only interesting articles, but they stick with you.  A few days ago I was discussing websites with a friend from work, and we both remembered a particularly line from a particular article.  This article.  To not spoil the particular line, it comes immediately before “When airline mechanics finally arrived…” very near the end of the article.

There’s plenty of other great stories on the site, that one just happened to stick out in my mind.  A great site to spend some time reading.  I believe they also have a book out as well.

• Solution 1 – Snap Bubbles
• Solution 2 – Perpetual Bubblewrap (for the really, really, really stressed out)

Warning – both have sound when you pop the bubbles, in case your speakers are turned way up.

Via Web Urbanist