{"id":2814,"date":"2004-10-12T18:19:43","date_gmt":"2004-10-13T01:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2004-10-12T18:19:43","modified_gmt":"2004-10-13T01:19:43","slug":"the-works-humor-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/12\/the-works-humor-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"The Works:  Humor Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on KUOW&#8217;s <a href='http:\/\/kuow.org\/program_theworks.asp'>The Works<\/a> tonight at 8:00, talking about the history of humor on the Internet.  Here are the sites we mention by name:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.theonion.com'>The Onion<\/a> &#8212; the great grandpappy of Internet humor sites.<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.brunching.com'>Brunching Shuttlecocks<\/a> &#8212; sadly defunct, but the archives are still there for the browsing<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.homestarrunner.com'>Homestar Runner<\/a> &#8212; &#8220;Strong Bad&#8217;s Email&#8221; is especially popular<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.metafilter.com'>Metafilter<\/a> &#8212; a great way to find the latest and greatest Internet funny, before it arrives in your Inbox<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.fark.com'>Fark<\/a> &#8212; another place you can catch memes before they spread<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.worth100.com'>Worth 1000<\/a> &#8212; Photoshop contests, often with hilarious results<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a few we didn&#8217;t mention but that are definately worth a look.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net'>McSweeney&#8217;s Internet Tendency<\/a> &#8212; another  founding fathers of Net yucks<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.cockeyed.com'>Cockeyed<\/a> &#8212; Rob Cockerham does science experiments and pulls pranks<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/smartypants.diaryland.com'>Mimi Smartypants<\/a> &#8212; a hilarious blog from a wiseacre in Chicago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have a favorite humor site, feel free to mention it in the comments.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>:  Good lord, how did I forget <a href='http:\/\/www.b3ta.com'>b3ta<\/a> and <a href='http:\/\/www.thesneeze.com'>The Sneeze<\/a> (home of <a href='http:\/\/www.thesneeze.com\/mt-archives\/cat_steve_dont_eat_it.php'>Please Steve, Don&#8217;t Eat It!<\/a>)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on KUOW&#8217;s The Works tonight at 8:00, talking about the history of humor on the Internet. Here are the sites we mention by name: The Onion &#8212; the great grandpappy of Internet humor sites. Brunching Shuttlecocks &#8212; sadly defunct, but the archives are still there for the browsing Homestar Runner &#8212; &#8220;Strong Bad&#8217;s Email&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}