Even if it never makes any money, Twitter certainly does provide fabulous material for television spoofs.

So far, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have done several funny bits on Comedy Central, deftly mocking the microblogging service.

And now, Conan O’Brien is doubling down with two skits so far dubbed “Twitter TRACKER” on “The Tonight Show.”

In them, a loudmouthed voice delivers pointless celebrity tweets as a flock of blue cartoon Twitter birdies is murdered in various ingenious ways.

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This is is just too cute to pass up. Apparently, some staffers at AOL are using a teeny-weeny cartoon of new CEO Tim Armstrong as the icon on their instant messaging program.

Since he got the job, the big version of Armstrong has been busy making the rounds, even though he does not officially start until April 7.

He’s been talking up many current and former AOLers–many from its glory days–to learn as much as he can about what he needs to do to force the once-mighty online icon back to relevance.

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It’s hard to resist one of the winners from a content sponsored by Valleywag and Fark for the best Photoshopped depictions of what a Yahoo-Microsoft coupling would look like.
Pretty funny, actually, and here is my favorite:

And here is a new cartoon from the Joy of Tech duo, Nitrozac and Snaggy, which is also featured in [...]

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While we usually feature our cartoon dudette and dude–Nitrozac and Snaggy–from Geek Culture’s Joy of Tech in Voices now, there was one leftover comic about Apple’s Macworld that deserves special attention.
That’s right: The Macworld Expo Survival Kit (gas mask optional!).
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More from the cartoon dudette and dude–Nitrozac and Snaggy–over at Geek Culture’s Joy of Tech, whose work will be appearing more regularly on this site, since we all could use a good laugh.
Yesterday, we wrote about the troubles of the One Laptop Per Child project. Here’s more!
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As a Thanksgiving special, an extra cartoon this week from the cartoon dudette and dude–Nitrozac and Snaggy–over at Geek Culture’s Joy of Tech, whose work will be appearing more regularly on this site, since we all could use a good laugh.
Today, they make kindling out of Amazon’s new electronic book-reading device!
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More from the cartoon dudette and dude–Nitrozac and Snaggy–over at Geek Culture’s Joy of Tech, whose work will be appearing more regularly on this site, since we all could use a good laugh.
Get ready to be Spam-Poked by Facebook!
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More from the cartoon dudette and dude–Nitrozac and Snaggy–over at Geek Culture’s Joy of Tech, whose work will be appearing more regularly on this site, since we all could use a good laugh.
This time at the expense of the eminently mockable gPhone from Google–or lack thereof!
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More from the cartoon dudette and dude–Nitrozac and Snaggy–over at Geek Culture’s Joy of Tech, whose work will be appearing more regularly on this site, since we all could use a good laugh.
On the occasion of Yahoo earnings today, here is the No-Sacred-Cows cartoon!
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More from the cartoon dudes–Nitrozac and Snaggy–over at Geek Culture’s Joy of Tech, whose work will be appearing more regularly on this site, since we all could use a good laugh.
Since I am going to Apple HQ in Cupertino, Calif., for lunch today, here’s a recent apt one.
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We love those clever cartoon dudes–Nitrozac and Snaggy–over at Geek Culture’s Joy of Tech, so much that we hope to showcase them more on the AllThingsD site in the future.
To kick it off, what better way than to show yesterday’s most excellent explanation of why social-networking pretty lady Facebook is worth those 15 billion samoleans, [...]

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