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(woman at door, to candidate) Look, I'm sorry - there's just no way I can vote for a candidate who'd use Comic Sans as body type.

It’s still a better reason than whether he wears a flag on his lapel

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(woman in bed with penguin, to angry husband) Oh, come one. You must have suspected SOMETHING when I switched to Linux.

Should have seen it coming

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2008-04-07-mission

2008-04-07-mission published on No Comments on 2008-04-07-mission

And rightly so. Wouldn’t you want your last act on this Earth to be consistent with your most deeply-held beliefs?

Q. What was the last thing the PHP programmer said?
A. “}”

2008-03-31-collaborate

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We don’t call it “downsizing” any more

We don’t call it “downsizing” any more published on No Comments on We don’t call it “downsizing” any more

Lost my job / it’s a new opportunity
more free time / for my awesome community

—From Everything is AWESOME!!

(woman to man at bar who is using mobile phone) What are you doing..? Omigod! You're checking out my LinkedIn profile, aren't you?!

Due diligence

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(woman at computer, to three people behind her) Good news: our site is now full compliant with accessibility standards. So the visually-impaired can hate it as much as everyone else does.

2008-01-03-accessibility

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(man talking to woman at bar) That status line was a long time ago. I'm a different person now.

A long time ago

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(teams of developers, facing off) Browser War Re-enactors

Peace in our time

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You haven’t lived until you’ve had a client who insists on making the site render completely under Internet Explorer 5.1 for the Mac.

2007-12-10-remote-hit

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2007-12-10-geothermal

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At least check in somewhere

At least check in somewhere published on 1 Comment on At least check in somewhere

Updated October 2010: It hadn’t occurred to me when I drew this (because location-aware apps weren’t really a thing yet) but Foursquare’s killer feature may actually end up being its ability to reassure parents.

2007-11-06-trackback

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Upgrade

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“Now, count backwards from 0x64…”

Or perhaps information just wantz cheezburger

Or perhaps information just wantz cheezburger published on No Comments on Or perhaps information just wantz cheezburger

2007-10-10-tiny

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2007-10-10-credentials

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(couple gazing at a magnificent sunset from a tall cliff) I see this, and it fills me with hope that there's some way to monetize it.

Maybe banner ads on the clouds or something

Maybe banner ads on the clouds or something published on No Comments on Maybe banner ads on the clouds or something

Sunsets and nature are great and all, but they have no business model and they don’t scale. Pass.