Funniest Website Of 2010, So Far

There is hope for mankind. Our imagination will save us. Or something.
What do you do if your wife cries uncontrollably at the end of every single movie you watch? Clearly you buy the domain cryingwife.com and post videos of her weepy film reviews. As a bonus there is her hysterical railing against the injustice of it all, such as at the end of 2012 (not referring to the waste of money). Subtitled for your convenience. Hilarious, somebody hire these two for something. If this particular video does not go viral something is very, very wrong with whoever is choosing which videos are able to go viral in our ‘system’.

Embed A PDF Into A Web Page

I’m sure there are 20 ways to embed a PDF or a PPT file into a web page but this tip is so easy that it’s worth a post. Just paste in this code, with the URL of the document you want to embed in place of the bold text:

<iframe src=”http://docs.google.com/gview?url=http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf&embedded=true” style=”width:600px; height:500px;” frameborder=”0″></iframe>

With this we’ll get:

The PDF/PPT doesn’t have to have been uploaded to Google Docs, it just needs to be online. What uses can you think of for this functionality? It’s one thing to post a link to another page that you found helpful in a blog post but when you can display a PDF right on your site-without having to host it-you certainly get a much richer site. Via googlesystem.blogspot.com.