Comic 1144 - Tags

<div>There once was a man from Japan
Who thought there was nothing worse than
Web code, short or long,
With tags that match wrong.
But who cares what that guy thinks?</span>

Original comic here.

Comic 1129 - Cell Number

A wannabe star in LA
Shamefacedly skipped town one day
And while he would claim
That he’d never sought fame
His cell number gave him away.

Original comic here.

Comic 1121 - Identity

A man of the Great Orinoco
Secured things with systems rococo
But he’d never need
To be fully IDed
Cause no one else would be so loco.

Original comic here.

Comic 1118 - Microsoft

When Microsoft got big and scary
We squashed them before things got hairy.
But while they were flat
All these others grew fat —
We could stand to be slightly more wary.

Original comic here.

Comic 1095 - Crazy Straws

There once was a young man from Tours
Who loved to design crazy straws.
He went online to find
Hobbyists of like mind
And they argued for weeks without pause.

Original comic here.

Comic 1090 - Formal Languages

There was a man from Alabama
Who was sort of an in-person spammer.
At events about formal
Language, it was normal
For him to burst in and yell “GRAMMAR!”

Original comic here.

Comic 1085 - ContextBot

If there's one thing that sours the mood
It's these vague status updates - how rude!
I can scroll down the page
Till my eyes pop with rage
But they never do more than allude.

"I officially give up," says Dean.
"That's the last time I trust them," wails Jean.
"I can't stand it!" Scott cries
While Rolando just sighs;
Well, OK, but... WHAT DO YOU MEAN?

You can post pics of pigs with the plague
Boast of crimes that send you to The Hague
You can fill up my feed
With a socialist screed
But please, don't be so flipping vague!

Original comic here.

Comic 1084 - Server Problem

When your system is tied up in knots
When your root device kernel hub rots
I’d just give up, mate
Shut it all down and wait
For the superintelligent bots.

Original comic here.

By Minerva!

Classic comic 250 - Snopes

From half-hearted email-scare clunkers
To tales of beasts eating spelunkers,
The way everyone copes
Is to check it on Snopes—
But who will debunk the debunkers?

Original comic here.

Comic 1068 - Swiftkey

This new Swiftkey app's pretty neat –
It picks phrases you often repeat.
It picks phrases you often
It picks phrases you often
It picks phrases you often repeat.

Original comic here.

Comic 1058 - Old-Timers

I was looking for b00bs on YouTube
When I got called a n00b by some rube.
Well, those parents of mine
Conceived me online
So my view is that Y0U are the n00b.

Original comic here.

Still catching up, still somehow four behind. If only we were on that eccentric time system that is coming up in three comics' time, perhaps I would fare better.

Comic 1057 - Klout

I'll stand on street corners and shout:
"If you ever catch me using Klout
(Unless it's to opt
Out, or get alerts stopped)
I implore you to please lay me out."

Original comic here.

Comic 1056 - Felidae

OSX has a problem, and that's
That it's shortly to run out of cats.
With th' exception of lynx
Every name that's left stinks
So they'll soon end up looking like prats.

Original comic here.

Comic 1055 - Kickstarter

Kickstarter's no longer a cash cow –
It's all got to be much more flash now.
So it'd be great
If you'd all please donate
To help set up a pitch with panache. Ciao!

Original comic here.

Comic 1051 - Visited

If your browser history stinks
You can run from the nudges and winks
You can say you were blinded
—You’re really high-minded—
But you can’t hide from those purple links.

Original comic here.

Comic 1046 - Skynet

There once was a nightmare dystopia
Where conditions could not have been ropier.
The machines all awoke
And then endlessly spoke
To themselves, lost in meta myopia.

Original comic here.

Bit late, this one, but I'm not going to overanalyse it.

Comic 1043 - Ablogalypse

If you are a LiveJournal mumblr
Or a beetle-brained blogosphere bumblr
Please don't get all glum
Or run off to your mum
When your hoster gets humbled by Tumblr.

Original comic here.

Does this mean that Blogspot is not quite the thing these days? It suits me just as well as my penny farthing and plus fours do.

Comic 1036 - Reviews

There was a man from Syracuse
Who took ever so long to buy shoes.
When asked why this was
He said, “It’s because
I believe all the online reviews.”

Original comic here.

Comic 1034 - Share Buttons

When a web page could not make you wearier
Scroll down till you reach its posterior.
The share buttons, at least,
Give you something to feast
Your eyes on, and make you feel superior.

Original comic here.

Comic 1025 - Tumblr

From Aussie to Yankee to Pom,
We're starting to move away from
"Great name for a band"
For phrases that stand
Out, and using "Dot Tumblr Dot Com".

Original comic here.

No joke in this limerick I'm afraid, though it does have another example of the irrelevant-first-line technique that I am starting to get keen on.