Humour the Computer

Humour the Computer
Author: Andrew Davison
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 1995
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780262540759

You don't have to have a degree in computer science to enjoy this unique collection of funny stories, parodies, laughable true-life incidents, comic song lyrics, and jokey poems from the world of computing. Humour the Computer brings together a selection of some of the best computer-related humorous material culled from a variety of sources: news groups and FTP sites on the Internet, The New Yorker, Punch, New Scientist, BYTE, Datamation, Communications of the ACM, The Journal of Irreproducible Results, and many more. Among other topics, the 70-odd assorted writings embrace the impact of computing on our lives, hilarious hardware, silly software, first encounters with computing, computer companies that we love, programming pains, and absurd academia.

Popular Science

Popular Science
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Total Pages: 138
Release: 1995-03
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Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.

Access

Access
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Total Pages: 864
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Genre: American periodicals
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Cumulative Book Index

Cumulative Book Index
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Total Pages: 2264
Release: 1995
Genre: American literature
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A world list of books in the English language.

Sex as a Heap of Malfunctioning Rubble (and Further Improbablities)

Sex as a Heap of Malfunctioning Rubble (and Further Improbablities)
Author: Marc Abrahams
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781563053122

Further improbabilities from the parody magazine written by eminent members of the scientific and medical community. Here are 150 startling new discoveries--from the role Jello-O played in the extinction of dinosaurs to a proposal to save the Grand Canyon by filling it with styrofoam piffles. Photographs and illustrations.

The Best of the Journal of Irreproducible Results

The Best of the Journal of Irreproducible Results
Author: George H. Scherr
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1983
Genre: Humor
ISBN:

The Journal of Irreproducible Results is the magazine that has stood for years as the definitive parody of scholarly and scientific journals everywhere. This anthology collects its greatest moments. Selection of the Library of Science Book and the Book-of-the-Month Science Book clubs. 81,000 copies in print.

Sex as a Heap of Malfunctioning Rubble (and Further Improbablities)

Sex as a Heap of Malfunctioning Rubble (and Further Improbablities)
Author: Marc Abrahams
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781563053122

Further improbabilities from the parody magazine written by eminent members of the scientific and medical community. Here are 150 startling new discoveries--from the role Jello-O played in the extinction of dinosaurs to a proposal to save the Grand Canyon by filling it with styrofoam piffles. Photographs and illustrations.