Some days ago, I arrived at The world’s oldest family companies (I can’t remember how). It’s a curious list of the 100 oldest family companies in the world.

Funny I can recognise only three of them: the two Spanish companies and Faber-Castle (maybe because I had to draw at college).

Another shocking fact is that Italy, France and Japan are leading this list. I haven’t counted them, but they seem to appear the most.

Well, taking a second read, I didn’t knew “Barovier & Toso” by its name, but if I say ‘glass’ and ‘Murano’ it may ring a bell.

Since it seems to be the geek humour week at this blog, let’s recover something I discovered some time ago. It’s a web site which describe itself in this fashion:

Approximately 31 RFCs so far, starting with RFC 527, need some additional attention. Most of them were released on the 1st of April, claiming to be “funny”, for some reason in some cultures. This Document represents the current state of research to define the algorithm “IS_RFC_FUNNY” which identifies such RFC’s.

I’d bet the most known of those is RFC 1149 “Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers.”, but there are really good ones there.

• RFC 2549: IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service.
• RFC 2795: The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS).
• RFC 3251: Electricity over IP.

And to escape for our computer geeky humour to something more generic: Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. I’ve found specially interesting #5: that’s what happens when you let typography geeks write a joke.

UPDATE: C. Ovidiu points me to another funny one, RFC 3514: The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header

Found at a worthy #1 at reddit:

WARNING: Do NOT calculate Pi in binary. It is conjectured that this number is normal, meaning that it contains ALL finite bit strings.

If you compute it, you will be guilty of:

• Copyright infringement (of all books, all short stories, all
  newspapers, all magazines, all web sites, all music, all movies,
  and all software, including the complete Windows source code)
• Trademark infringement
• Possession of child pornography
• …

Read more at: Converting Pi to binary: DON’T DO IT

Just LMAO!

PS: when did this blog turned into a repository of fun geeky stuff?

I’ve seen a lot of funny “not found” errors, but Technorati is there fighting for #1:

Huh?

There are blogs, and then there’s whatever you just typed in. If it’s a blog, we don’t know about it. Maybe you made a typo. Or maybe it’s a blog that doesn’t exist. Maybe you don’t exist. (In which case, please ignore this.)

UPDATE: found through El Fary recomienda Ubuntu, but I guess you won’t get it unless you are Spanish.

UPDATE 2: Wikipedia to the rescue: El Fary

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