Authors: Dan Rattiner.
Paperback, pages
Publisher: Permanent Press (NY)
Publication Date: 1984-11

Authors: Murkysoft.
Paperback, 95 pages
Publisher: Hysteria Pubns
Publication Date: 1997-01

Authors: David Albert.
Paperback, 97 pages
Publisher: Athena Press Ltd
Publication Date: 2002-11-18

Authors: Stan Kelly-Bootle.
Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Mit Pr
Publication Date: 1995-05
Edition: 2 Sub

Reviews :

    "Ascertain the meaning before consulting this dictionary," warns the author of this collection of deliberately satirical misdefinitions.

New computer cultures and their jargons have burgeoned since this book's progenitor, The Devil's DP Dictionary, was published in 1981. This updated version of Stan Kelly-Bootle's romp through the data processing "laxicon" is a response to the "Unix pandemic" that has swept academia and government, to the endlessly hyped panaceas offered to the MIS, and to the PC explosion that has brought computer terminology to a "hugely bewildered, lay audience."

The original dictionary, an urbane and witty pastiche of Ambrose Bierce's famous work, parried chiefly the mainframe and mini-folklore of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. This long-awaited revision adds over 550 new entries and enhances many of the original definitions. Key targets are "a host of new follies crying out for cynical lexicography [including] the GUI-Phooey iconoclasts, object orienteering, and the piping of BLObs down the Clinton-Gore InfoPike."



ack n. [Origin: back-formed negation of nak.] A signal indicating that the error-detection circuits have failed.

computer science n. [Origin: possibly Prof. P. B. Fellgett's rhetorical question, "Is computer science?"] A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter.

multimedia n. An application attacking all five senses of the user—sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch—but especially, smell....

    Warning: If you aren't a true-blue geek, you won't even have a clue as to why this cracked glossary of computing terms is supposed to be funny. But if you're capable of finding humor in jokes about OO programming, TCP/IP, Bjarne Stroustrup, and operating system kernels, The Computer Contradictionary is truly hilarious. Sample: "ISAM ... One of the most successful data-security systems so far devised. Information is protected from all but the most persistent, patient, and devious." If you're even tempted to smile, you'll enormously enjoy British author Stan Kelly-Bootle's witty, urbane, and well-informed parody....

Authors: Darren James.
Paperback, 108 pages
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Publication Date: 2008-03-27

Authors: Ken Justesen.
Paperback, 170 pages
Publisher: Financial Data Support Systems, Inc
Publication Date: 2002-05-14


Reviews :

    A hilarious collection of female personal ads gleaned from Internet dating sites, replete with typos, grammatical errors and dangling everythings. More than 1,000 ads meticulously transcribed character by character are grouped by common themes into 32 fun-filled chapters, including Blondish, Games, Holidays, Interracial, Motorcycles, Prince Charming, Religion, Soulmate, Threesomes, Vanity .... Each ad is commented upon by a divorced male, a regular guy in his mid-fifties who, amused by the way some of his baby-boomer contemporaries market themselves, makes light of the entire process....

Authors: Phil N. Good.
Kindle Edition, 194 pages
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Publication Date: 2002-01-11


Reviews :

    In this awkwardly-paced thriller the future has gone amuck. A Christian group terrorizes the west. Boy Scouts are listed as a subversive hate group. Whooping cranes come back with a vengeance and are eating the Ridley turtles. The poles shift and the North Pole ends up in Libya. U.S. capitalists seek political asylum in Russia. Most Americans are in a stupor from their implanted entertainment systems/GPS locators. NASA mistakenly uses centimetres instead of astronomical units in a major space program. Some outlaw Linton clones accidentally knock a hole in the fabric of time and space. Finally a war breaks out between computers that completely gridlocks all electronic communication.

Rapture comes but the massive amount of electronic noise interferes with the transmission so that most people are missed on the first try. What the future holds is unsettling and perhaps dangerously familiar! But in spite of all this, we still have the right to life, liberty and to file suit for unhappiness....

Authors: Stuart MacFarlane. Linda MacFarlane.
Hardcover, 57 pages
Publisher: Helen Exley Giftbooks
Publication Date: 2001-09-25


Reviews :

    Inspirational quotations...

Authors: P. Salus.
Paperback, 248 pages
Publisher: No Starch Press,US
Publication Date: 2005-07-31

Authors: Matthew Strebe. Michael Moncur. Charles Perkins.
Kindle Edition, pages
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Publication Date: 2006-01-25
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    The Best of SlashNOT is a collection of short satirical stories ranging from true observations of humorous events to hilarious absurdity that any true geek will love. The Best of SlashNOT takes the most humorous stories from posted on SlashNOT.com and presents them in the order that the SlashNOT community ranked them. You won't find Geek humor funnier or more laser focused on technology than The Best of SlashNOT. Articles include all the community favorites, like: . Einstein returns from grave to bitch-slap dark matter . Quaker: The non-violent first person shooter . Microsoft seeking two letters cooler than X and P . Science reverts to mad science Universe even darker and scarier than previously thought . Google arrested while dumping body . Gates and Torvalds to finally settle this thing . Schrodinger arrested on cruelty, weapons charges . IBM developing Artificial Stupidity . Microsoft releases Windows XP Homeless edition SlashNOT is a satirical website that parodies Slashdot.com, the ridiculou...