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Humor
 Websites presented in alphabetical order All Your Base Are Belong To Us 
 If your life is over-imbued with meaning, turn to this popular and refreshingly silly Flash video for relief. The dreadful language on the site is patterned after Zero Wing, a computer game notorious for poor English (hence the repetition of phrases such as "somebody set us up the bomb"). Caution: includes several mildly salacious images. http://allyourbase.planettribes.gamespy.com/ Topics: Computers, Humor, Nonfiction by Genre, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Apr 18, 2006 Argon Zark!
An "all-digital 'virtual comic book' created entirely on the computer and designed to be viewed over the Internet. It is a free humor/adventure comic story about a slightly eccentric computer genius (read: geek), [and] his companions." http://www.zark.com/ Topics: Arts and Humanities, Computers, Computers, Literature: Fiction Last updated May 28, 2005 Computer Songs and Poems (Song and Poem Parodies with Computer Related Subjects)
Featuring such lines as "Bye, bye to my Apple II pie" and "When I was a lad I served a term, As office boy in a computer firm," this site has hundreds of parodies. Nothing is sacred--among the original sources are Christmas, Beatles, and Monty Python songs, and the works of Chaucer, Milne, and Seuss. Indexed by parody title and author and by original performer or author. http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/ Topics: Computers, Humor, Music, Nonfiction by Genre, Poetry, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Mar 23, 2004 Computer Stupidities
"A large collection of stories and anecdotes about clueless computer users. It's a baffling phenomenon that in today's society an individual, who might in other circumstances be considered smart and wise, can sit down in front of a computer screen and instantly lose every last shred of common sense he ever possessed. ... And yet, amidst the vast, surging quantities of stupidity are perfectly excusable technological mishaps — but that are amusing nonetheless." http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/ Topics: Computers, Humor, Nonfiction by Genre, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Mar 10, 2005 The Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation 11/19/1863
The Gettysburg Address, reinterpreted in Microsoft Powerpoint. This garish presentation is replete with meaningless graphs, mind-numbing bullet points, and a list of "Key Objectives." From a computer scientist with a sense of humor. http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/ Topics: Computers, Computers, Humor, Nonfiction by Genre, Presidents by Name, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Jul 8, 2004 The Indoor Olympics
"Recreate the World Indoor Athletics Championships at home or work in a series of stupid (but fun) games." Try your hand at shot put with a computer mouseball, discus with a compact disc (CD), internal phone system relays, and other activities. From BBC Sport. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/shared/spl/hi/athletics/03/world_indoor/html/initial.stm Topics: Computers, Computers, The Olympic Games Last updated Sep 8, 2009 Organic Chemistry Resources Worldwide
Annotated organic chemistry subject directory. Literature has databases, articles, journals, patents, dissertations, reviews, reference works, current awareness, and guides. The Bench contains various laboratory resources. Structural Analysis includes spectrometry. The Desk has various sites for computer work, scientific writing, and more. Communication includes conferences, organizations, and laboratories. Additional Resources contains jobs and related humor. Searchable. http://www.organicworldwide.net/ Topics: Computers, Computers, Nonfiction by Genre, Science, Science Last updated Jan 11, 2004 SCIgen: An Automatic CS Paper Generator
"SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science [CS] research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. It uses a hand-written context-free grammar to form all elements of the papers. Our aim here is to maximize amusement, rather than coherence." Includes a generated paper that was accepted at an international conference. From graduate students at MIT. http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ Topics: Communications, Computers, English Language, Humor, Nonfiction by Genre, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment, Writing Last updated Apr 27, 2005 Things People Said
This page, with the motto "Ordinary people can be drop dead funny," features categories of humorous quotations of goofs and gaffes committed unintentionally and unrehearsed through speech and writing. Some of the categories are: Questions, Suggestions, and Complaints ; Things Kids Say ; Stupidity ; Famous People (Yogi Berra, Samuel Goldwyn, Eugene Ormandy, Dan Quayle, and others); and Computer Stupidities . http://www.rinkworks.com/said/ Topics: Computers, Computers, Nonfiction by Genre, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Oct 16, 2002 |
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