Cartoons are popular, and can be used in magazines, books, newsletters, newspapers, catalogs, greeting cards, brochures, direct mail pieces…you name it. It’s been happening for many years. Along came the Internet and the explosion of the electronic information age. Now the use of cartoons in any electronic format has been elevated to yet another level.

Gag cartoon humor and the Internet have developed a symbiotic relationship which supercedes many other forms of visual conveyance, whether it be a story on a web page, a blog item, an Intranet article or specific area in a website devoted to cartoons or humor in general. Cartoons lend themselves well for this medium.

Dan Rosandich

Cartoonist Dan Rosandich took control of his existing archive of cartoon panels and categorized them into a searchable database, so that publishers and other professionals can easily locate the type of cartoon they might be looking for. Whether it’s a medical cartoon or a cartoon relating to pets, Dan makes appropriate gag panel cartoon humor available. Dan makes appropriate gag panel cartoon humor available. Visitors can sort through an archive of over 3000+ cartoons at Dan’s web catalog, by clicking the daily web cartoon at the top of this article.

Professional web designers can also use the daily web cartoon offered by Rosandich, which updates automatically via php script at 2am eastern time 24/7/365 and all that’s needed is a simple line of code to paste into your HTML. Dan guarantees all cartoons scheduled are 100% family friendly and the daily image is a static 500 pixels wide, but the height varies from day to day.

Custom cartoons & humorous illustrations are also a specialty. Some of the other uses where cartoons are also popular are PowerPoint presentations, email templates and email “blasts”, ezines, electronic newsletters, ebooks and for web templates. Dan also launched several new sites which can be accessed at http://danscartoons.com and he has introduced a free kid’s coloring book site at http://www.coloring-booksforkids.com

You buy birthday gifts for your relatives through your affiliate links.

You get physically exhausted doing the Google Dance.

You check your server stats more than your blood pressure and you think their may be a correlation.

You write keyword rich poetry.

You regularly check the availability of the domain name, “Yahoo.com” just in case they’ve forgotten to renew.

Your wife informs you that you’re hosting dinner. You tell her you are sure that dinner.com, .net, .org, etc. domains are already taken.

Customer service asks you to verify your address. You give them your IP.

You rate and review your own website listing.

Where do you want to go? – Mandrake Linux™

Where do you want Bill Gates to go?

What do you want gone today?

Where do you want to go tomorrow? – mrscripts.co.uk

What kind of error message do you want today? – Dawn Fontaine

“Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.” -Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft

“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.” -Isaac Asimov

“Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.” -Jeff Pesis

“There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.” -Jeremy S. Anderson

“One of the main reasons I blog is because I have a really, really bad memory.” – Matt Mullenweg, The Tech Night Owl Podcast

“I only have room for one passion and woman in my life and that lovely lady’s name is web hosting.” – Mitch Keeler, The Web Hosting Show

“Microsoft isn’t evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.” – Linus Torvalds Quotes

“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.” – Mark Twain

“Test everything. Hold on to the good.” – The Apostle, Paul, 1 Thessalonians 5:21 (not funny or a webmaster but love it)

2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you’d have to buy a new car.

3. Occasionally your car would just die for no reason, you’d have to restart it. For some strange reason, you would just accept this.

4. You could only have one person at a time in your car, unless you bought a car ’95 or a car NT, but then you’d have to buy more seats.

5. You would be constantly pressured to upgrade your car. Wait a sec, it’s that way NOW!

6. Sun Motorsystems would make a car that was solar powered, twice as reliable, 5 times as fast, but only ran on 5% of the roads.

7. The oil, alternator, gas, engine warning lights would be replaced with a single “General Car Fault” warning light.

8. People would get excited about the “new” features in Microsoft cars, forgetting completely that they had been available in other brands for years.

9. We’d all have to switch to Microsoft Gas ™.

10. Ford, General Motors and Chrysler would all be complaining because Microsoft was putting a radio in all its models.

–Author Unknown

Watch for the upcoming sequel: “If Microsoft Built Operating Systems”

I haven’t checked to see if any of these fictitious but funny domain names are actually registered. Nor can I speculate why someone would want to reserve such domains other than for sheer humor. Feel free to check their availability.

• 404WebDesign.com
• Anarchy.gov
• BestSellingFreeware.org
• BillClinton2004.com
• CubanCigars.us
• Dictator-Resources.com/scripts/polls
• eMother-in-law.com
• Flunk.edu
• FreeVirusDownload.com
• Gay.mil
• Healthcare.gov
• LoseMoneyNow.biz
• Mordor.gov
• Microsoft.com/index.php
• Rocky6.com
• SlackerLance.com
• Taliban.af

Traits: Owner of a new university-supplied computer account with httpd access. Complete lack of originality. Multiple references to beer/Disney movies. Several photos of student with college buddies (high school, if freshman student).
The Good News: They don’t know how to get their page linked to the outside world, so only they and their friends download their 16 million color pictures from the last party.
The Bad News: They, their friends and their 16 million color pictures might be on your server.

Mr./Ms. “Enhanced For Netscape” (Equally Bad: Mr./Ms. “Optimized for Internet Explorer”)

Traits: The second thing you see on his/her page is a Netscape logo and a link to an ftp site where you can download Netscape <BLINK>NOW!</BLINK>. The first thing you see is about 80 different <TITLE>s scrolling back and forth across your screen.
The Good News: You won’t have to look at their pages for long, because there won’t be much there to see.
The Bad News: Half of the rest of the people who look at these pages are going to think “Hey, that’s cool!” and copy the source.

The Old-Timer

Traits: Pages compatible with HTML 1.0, no graphics and very few attribute tags. Normal-text-size message at top says “This page not enhanced for Netscape or Internet Explorer. Cope, whipper-snapper.”
The Good News: He’s likely there because he has something of importance to say.
The Bad News: Whatever it is will likely be boring or far too technical for you.

The 5-Year-Old

Traits: Pictures of their parents, the family pet, etc. More data about the daily life of a kindergartener than you thought possible. Cute “kiddy-talk” dialect to the text. <ADDRESS> contains the note “such-and-such’s mother helped her build this page.”
The Good News: The first few of these you see give you a warm, fuzzy feeling.
The Bad News: The last few dozen of these you see all look the same.

The Computer Science Major

Traits: Links to the Linux FAQ, the Geek Code, Star Wars theme music and DOOM .wad files. Cautious use of Netscape enhancements. Picture of Darth Vader instead of personal pictures. HTML 3.0 (Beta) compliant seal-of-approval at bottom of her page.
The Good News: If you’re a geek, you’ll find what you’re looking for here. Even if you’re not, you’ll like the page design.
The Bad News: Complete lack of socially redeeming qualities. Unfortunate tendency to upload specs of their home PC.

The Businessman

Traits: Pages without fancy backgrounds and with only one nice, clean, image map. Unfortunately, there are no text-links for those using Lynx.
The Good News: You won’t go blind staring at his pages.
The Bad News: You might wish you had once you see the prices of the goods/services he’s offering.

The Newbie

Traits: Very little created text on their pages, it’s almost all links to other people’s pages. Missing right brackets in <A HREF>’s kill whole lines of information. Several image files are not able to be loaded.
The Good News: They’ll almost have to get better.
The Bad News: They just might not.

The Egotist

Traits: Large image of him/herself greets you when page is loading. 1/2 Meg .au file of him/her chatting with his/her dog. Access counts shown for every page. Several lengthy pages devoted to his/her compact disk/Magic: The Gathering card/beer can collection. More personal details than you’d ever want to know.
The Good News: There isn’t any.
The Bad News: Frequently friendly with Mr. “Enhanced for Netscape.”

The Maniac

Traits: Last counted 1267 .html files in his public_html directory and 100+ CGI scripts in his cgi-bin directory. Is known as a “Close Personal Friend of Bob (Allison).” Thinks the people at Yahoo! “don’t keep up with the Web fast enough.” Will be the first on his block to have an Ethernet cable hardwired into his brain.
The Good News: You could go through all his pages and never find an error.
The Bad News: You’ll never make it through all his pages.

–Author Unknown