Humorous Creations by Other People [possible satire]

These are works of humour by other people that are kept here for posterity. Mostly they are works that have disappeared from the Internet, and could no longer be found.

• “English is a Crazy Language” - “We drive on parkways and park on driveways.”

• GNU Visual Basic - from the old Freshmeat.net site.

• Darien - Everybody’s Free (to Ping Timeout) - IRC parody of Wear Sunscreen

• Technion Bit #1 - a small poem/song (in Hebrew) I found written on a Technion desk.

• "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Star Trek - The Next Generation" - a crossover/mashup parody of Star Trek - The Next Generation and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

• “How many (Usenet) Newsgroup Readers does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?”

• “Top 12 things likely to be overheard if you had a Klingon programmer”

• “The S stands for Simple” - about the SOAP remote-procedure call protocol.

• “Uncomfortable Questions: Was the Death Star Attack an Inside Job?” - a conspiracy theory set in the Star Wars universe. Via the Debunking911.com site, via the now defunct Websurdity site.

• Graduate Student Jokes

• The Fountainhead Starring Skull Force - a parody of Ayn Rand’s Novel The Fountainhead.

• Division Two Magazine - a parodical site that has been restored and mirrored by me.

• Oded C.’s Stories - humorous stories in Hebrew by a writer called “Oded C.”, with whom I communicated around 2000/2001, and who sent me some of the stories he has written.

• Mirror of funroll-loops.info - “Gentoo [Linux] is Rice”.

• “How to Make Square Corners with CSS”

• “What if people bought cars like they bought computers?”

• “What if drivers were hired like programmers?”

• “The Toaster vs. Computer Science”

• The 12 Days of Christmas Letters - what the Christmas carol means in practice.