wasoverheard – I hear funny people
September 15, 2008 by Jason Bean
Filed under Communication, Humor, Social Networking, Software & Online Apps, b5media & Admin
It’s not much to look at, but it’s hilarious to read through the site and hear the statements taken out of context that people have overheard.
The site was developed by Mark Jaquith one late night at the b5ranch during SXSW 2008. There was an ongoing joke where various people would say things that were funny through the week and we’d keep repeating them. The best is when the statement had some additional meeting when you removed the contextual statements surrounding what was said.
The wasoverheard site works in conjunction with twitter. All you have to do is follow @wasoverheard on your …read more
Wordsplosion – Grammar Disasters Caught on Film
September 15, 2008 by Jason Bean
Filed under Communication, Humor, Images & Photos
Okay, it’s not technically caught on “Film” but “…Caught in Pixels” didn’t quite sound right even though it’s probably more accurate.
Regardless, the point of the Wordsplosion site is to highlight a variety of grammar, well, let’s just say what they say, it can’t be said much better or succinctly.
Wordsplosion brings you the best of the worst of the world of
grammatical errors, punctuation gaffes, misspellings, typography etc.
We call this family of textual catastrophes “wordsplosions.”
If you’ve caught some of these types of accidents yourself, you can e-mail them and share with the world too. Just send the image to images@wordsplosion.com
I’m not sure …read more






