close this bookVolume 11: No. 03
View the document1) NSF news
View the document2) Other opportunities
View the document3) Technology news
View the document4) Robotics
View the document5) Education
View the document6) Journal calls
View the document7) Philosophy
View the document8) Satire
View the document9) Art and simulation

College student humor is on file at . [WebSiteDaily, 03Feb00. net-hap.]

The Wacky Patent of the Month website is . [Curt Davis , DUC, 13May99.]

There is also a website for Erroneous Predictions and Negative Comments Concerning Scientific and Technological Developments, at , said to be taken from a 1969 Congressional Research Report. [Amnon Till , net-hap, 02Mar00.]

Product warnings and instructions can be pretty stupid, as shown at . [Ben Cooper , NetSites, 16May00.]

For serious satire and parody, see The Onion daily newspaper at . [Alan S. Harrell , NetSites, 18May00.] (A college favorite.)

SatireWire offers "New Satire for the New Economy," making up stories about dot-coms and the B2U (Business-to-Unemployment) marketplace. . [Timothy J. Mullaney, BW, 18Dec00, p. 84.]

Paranoid Joe is a cartoon ezine about "living in today's tough world." . [Michael Ewing , newjour, 11Jan01.]

"User Friendly" by Illiad is a popular cartoon strip about the techs and geeks at an Internet service provider. There's even an AI. "Reads like Dilbert for the Information Technology and Open Source communities." . O'Reilly & Associates have published two books of the cartoons, "User Friendly" and "Evil Geniuses in a Nutshell." See . [Lisa Mann , net-hap, 18Apr00.]

Speaking of evil geniuses, the Evil Plan Generator is back online. . [Brandon Laws , 15Jan01.]

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