I don't know how many of you know this - we have a site called ToonDoo, a place to create & share comic strips online, which is probably best described as an Office Unproductivity suite, judging how much time our own folks spend there - I have 30+ comic (or perhaps not-so-comic) creations of my own. We try to tuck'er out of the way, because, you know, it is not good for business ... I am proud to report that it has already been blocked in several humor-challenged IT companies in India.

ToonDoo has been gaining quite a user base on its own - with over 125,000 comics created, of which 75,000+ are available in public. The private comic strips tend to be office or classroom humor variety - very specific to a context and a social group. Like, you know, when you are in a boring meeting or a boring class - which is to say you are in a perfectly typical meeting or a perfectly typical class - you can doodle away your boredom in ToonDoo, and even secretly share your creation with other fellow sufferers. No artistic skill required - just bring your sense of humor, but if you lack that, well, there is always that financial planning spreadsheet on Zoho ;-)

We had a "field day" on ToonDoo recently when our office cricket tournament was on; losing in the field doesn't hurt nearly as much as the Toon-barbs you get from colleagues.

Here are a couple of my recent attempts (hold your fire, please - yeah, I know I am not going to make it as a comic already!)

First, this news item from this blog post which is connected to this thread provided inspiration for this one ...

And then, on a Friday,