Authors:
Paperback, 280 pages
Publisher: Apress
Publication Date: 2004-04-12


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Do you occasionally wonder,

• What kind of person works at a porn video store?
• Do public defenders believe in their clients?
• What does a reporter feel when he visits war-torn Iraq?
• What happens after a child star falls into obscurity?

Thanks to Web logs, or "blogs" as they're affectionately nicknamed by Net-savvy voyeurs, anyone can jump into the shoes of a video salesclerk, a criminal court lawyer, an international journalist, or a TV star, among others.

While entertaining and educating, these virtual diaries represent a cross section of the people who dwell online. This book features the Internet's most provocative writing, by unknown writers and underground celebrities.

Neil Forrester, former cast member of MTV’s The Real World, gives new meaning to the phrase "Bite your tongue." Meanwhile, Star Trek:The Next Generation actor, Wil Wheaton, gives his take on the Hollywood system and fleeting stardom.

Elsewhere, web designer Heather Hamilton finds herself unemployed after postin on-the-job stories to her personal blog. And humorist Choire Sicha shares advice about broken hearts and timeshares. Plus: tales of creepy video-store customers, office pranks gone awry, a childhood encounter with Darth Vader, and so much more!...

Authors: Judith Stamper. Genevi Stamper.
Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Publication Date: 1998-04-01


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    A clever collection of silly jokes that computer enthusiasts of all ages willlove to share, such as "Where do computers go when they're sad? Cryberspace". B&W line drawings throughout....

Authors: Gary Clemenceau.
Paperback, 264 pages
Publisher: Xenochrony Books
Publication Date: 2007-06-01


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    [This from the back cover]

Granted, AcmeVaporware (AVW) is a revolutionary torpophysical cruisepacket powerhouse, providing uncompromising physical layer memetic transport, pseudo-lexiconographical logistics and incendiary torpovapor supply-chain data wake-up calls to anyone caught touching their monkey within the tri-state area, and SURE, all AVW cruise-packets are equipped with unique and deadly FLO-STOP devices, miasma return lines, conventional fulcrum mesh- and soft-network vapor escape topologies [Reference: "Technical Report on TIVRS Field Modificatiions of Torpomotor Assembly Resulting in Death and Dismemberment, But Not a General Loss of Wellbeing." Fielding, 1963], however -- and you knew this was coming -- like "Liberty," this unrelenting technical acumen comes at a price, not to mention BROBDINGNAGIAN run-on sentences that just won't stop EVER. Well, except that one time.

So, BEHOLD: Ten Years of AcmeVaporware MISCOMMUNICATIONS. Just when you thought it was safe to migrate to a new memetic platform, but this isn't a sentence. No, THIS is a sentence! A-AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!Wait, that wasn't funny. Crap, this is supposed to tease you in a furtive, subcutaneous sneaky-ass way, manipulating you into losing all will and BUYING THIS BOOK. Wow. How far we've sunk. We've clearly de-installed our own LRF support, shuffled off this "CUYAHOGA" SERIES coil and joined the TorpoChoir Invisible. If only the steam engine could come back and RUN, RUN LIKE THE WIND. Damn, these wires make it impossible to read, intercourse the penguin. So what, big deal....

Authors: Bill G..
Paperback, 273 pages
Publisher: Andrews Mcmeel Pub
Publication Date: 1998-05


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    The Secret Diary of Bill Gates is a totally cool and outrageously funny parody that details the daily doings of America's greatest computer nerd/robber baron. This full year of diary entries touches on Bill's many supposed obsessions, from crushing competitors to doting on Baby Jennifer to ogling the Spice Girls.
The book is based on the enormously popular "Secret Diary of Bill Gates" web site, which has been appearing on the World Wide Web since 1996 and receives over a million hits a month. It has garnered countless "hot site" listings, including Microsoft Network's own WebPick....

    Bill Gates is undoubtedly not as happy-go-lucky and slapstick as the narrator of this parody, but that's exactly why this is more interesting than his real diary. Written as a yearlong series of diary entries, "Bill" obsesses about issues such as his daily net worth, his fame, his IQ, the construction of his humongous mansion, and taking over the universe, plus divulges his lust for hot women, from his wife, Melinda, to the Spice Girls. Entries are populated with Bill's priorities on issues such as the top 10 most powerful guys on the planet (of which he is always No. 1), top 10 Microsoft bumper stickers, and top 10 dates with Melinda. After reading through a year in the life, you can take the "Are You Like Bill Gates?" quiz. A who's who glossary defines the people and companies that exist in Bill's world and a bibliography recommends 20 more books about Bill that you can read. --Cristina Vaamonde...

Authors: Paul D. Lehrman.
Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Artistpro
Publication Date: 2006-10-06
Edition: 1

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    For over ten years, Paul Lehrman has been providing the music industry with technical know-how, insightful interviews, horror stories, historical perspectives, political harangues, and much, much more as part of his monthly "Insider Audio" column in Mix magazine. Now, for the first time, Lehrman has compiled his favorite columns into one collection. Equal parts humorous and insightful, and always entertaining, the author shares the columns that have made him the most popular writer in professional audio today, with new introductions and commentary. As an added bonus, The Insider Audio Bathroom Reader features the rantings of the author's cantankerous alter-ego, P.T. Grumpmeier, over 20 pages of Paul's favorite jokes relating to music and the music industry, extended interviews that didn't make it into the magazine, and even some columns that Mix couldn't print! Why a "bathroom reader" you ask? Because it's intended to be read in small doses, when you're...ahem...relaxed. But by no means must the book reside specifically in the bathroom. Read it anywhere -- it's great to keep around in the studio, or on the coffee table, or to take to the beach -- anywhere you're in need of some recreational and enlightening reading material!...

Authors: Karen M. Strom.
Paperback, 50 pages
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
Publication Date: 2006-03-15


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    Karen Strom's Sticks and Stones, an Alphabet Book for the 21st Century, presents a unique glimpse into life in rural, southeastern Arizona, on the border with Mexico, as these two cultures enter the 21st century....

Authors: Ben Woods.
Kindle Edition, pages
Publisher: Benjamin A Woods
Publication Date: 2006-07-01


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    The Developers mixes the insane and obscene with technology, romance and pop culture. But while the book's web development group tries to make its mark on the virtual world, it encounters pre-eminent issues that will soon be shaping the Internet of the future: Are individuals losing their remaining privacy due to the World Wide Web? Will online social interaction eventually replace in-person gatherings as a necessary means?...

Authors: Henry Beard. John Boswell. Ron Barrett.
Hardcover, 112 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication Date: 1998-10


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WHERE WOULD YOU WANT TO GO TODAY -- IF YOU HAD 50 BILLION DOLLARS?

Find out on Bill Gates' Personal Super Secret Private Laptop: A Microspoof. Due to a miraculous twist of fate, the laptop you hold in your hand came into the possession of Henry Beard, John Boswell, and Ron Barrett, a trio of concerned, if computer-illiterate, citizens and authors of such bestselling humor books as O.J.'s Legal Pad and French for Cats. Now that these three have hired precocious preteens to hock into Gates' secret notes, plans, e-mails, and to-do lists, we can all be privy to the intellectual property of the richest man in the world.

Fabulously fabricated in two-color throughout, Bill Gates' Personal Super Secret Private Laptop exhaustively captures the mind, spirit, and nerdiness of Bill Gates -- the guy who owns you, or soon will....

    Bill Gates' Personal Super Secret Private Laptop is both a genuinely witty and inventive swipe at the world's richest man and a masterwork of book design. Each page is a folded-out laptop, with jokes contained on the "screen." Here's a sample, from a chain letter Gates is sending to Warren Buffett, Rupert Murdoch, and others:

"...But the President of South Korea deleted this E-mail message, and his economy collapsed. Later, he managed to retrieve it and sent it out, and the IMF gave his country a $20 billion bailout. As soon as you receive this message, wire one million dollars to the bank account next to the name below, then add your own name to the list, and send 10 identical E-mail messages to your fellow moguls. Do not break the chain. Mike Milken failed to reply to his E-mail message, and look what happened to him!"

No one has used the ubiquitous graphical user interface as a comic canvas before, and the authors should be commended for their cheeky, stylish innovation. The book's joke-intensive screens include topic lines from Bill Gates news groups, both pro and con; a letter encouraging the Unabomber to correspond with his competitors; a list of new software products--including the Cubicle '98 office politics software ("BackStabber memo-writing program with BlameShifter feature and FingerPointer mouse hardware"); the Mafia's Web page; et cetera. Bill Gates' Personal Super Secret Private Laptop is great fun, and sure to cement this trio's reputation as the masters of parody publishing. And it's much cheaper than a laptop--for now, at least. --Michael Gerber ...

Authors: Brian McCann.
CD-ROM, pages
Publisher: Nightingale-Conant Corporation
Publication Date: 1998-11-15
Edition: Win 95/98

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HEADS UP HUNTERS -- THIS DEER IS PACKING HEAT!

It's payback time and deer hunters everywhere are going to get what's coming. You are the deer. Armed with your choice of an M-16, a Bazooka or a sling-shot full of special deer pellets, you're the meanest kick-ass stag in the forest.

The season never closes and big-belly trophy hunting has never been better. Lure hunters into the open with guaranteed mating calls such as "Help, I'm naked and I have a pizza."

TIE THAT BIG OLD REDNECK TO YOUR RACK!

From trailer parks in West Virginia to the winter wonderland of Minnesota, you can stalk everything from a cuss'n bourbon-guzzler to a proud Connecticut Yuppie in full-court Eddie Bauer.

Virtual environments so realistic you can smell the stale beer.

SPECIAL DEER WEAPONS:

M-16: Gives the hunters a taste of their own medicine

Slingshot: ammo consists of hard and soft deer pellets -- a total surprise

Bazooka: time to stop kidding around

SPECIAL HUNTER STALKING DEVICES:

• More than a dozen genuine hunter calls including "Free Beer Here" and "Help, I'm naked and I have a pizza."
• Deer Farts -- get up-wind and smoke 'em out
• Binoculars and scopes -- just like the ones hunters use on deer. No wonder they never miss!

THE DEER'S FAVORITE HUNTING LOCATIONS

West Virginia: get them redneck hunters before their bladders burst

Connecticut: track yuppie hunters, too dumb to stay in their SUVs

Minnesota in Winter: took at the goofy hats on those fellars!

HASTA LA VISTA VENISON-EATER!

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

Pentium 75MHz or better

Windows® 95 or 98

16MB of RAM

4x CD-ROM drive

Sound-blaster compatible sound card

640 x 480 color capable monitor, 256 colors or better ...

Authors: Joseph Mirsky.
Paperback, 124 pages
Publisher: Joseph's Jewelry
Publication Date: 2008-05-22


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    I own a jewelry store in Pompton Lakes, NJ. I send newsletters to 1500 of my customers 3 times a year. I ve been doing it since 1997, 34 issues so far. People say they save them, re-read them, and copy them for their co-workers. Sometimes they call me up just to say they like them. They're so popular, I can t figure out why I m not rich.

Since everyone's entitled to my opinion, I put together this 123 page book for the wider world. At 16.26 words per square inch (25.203 x109/km2 for you scientific types), this book has over twice the literary calories of the average book, with no fat. A bargain! There are 87 photos and 35 illustrations. There are at least 467 short articles (you can count them different ways). In other words, it's the perfect bathroom book.

This book is wide-ranging, It s to jewelry like Car Talk is to cars. It s life on Main Street with attitude. And wit. There are hundreds of double entendres and and puns (but only one groaner). I even sprinkled in some Greek, Latin, French, and Vietnamese in a gratuitous display of superficial erudition, but the curse in Klingon is worth the price of admission.

Here are a few articles, titles only. You ll have to gamble 16 bucks to find out what they mean.

Grown-ups Play Peek-A-Boo
The Sound Of One Hand Clapping
Close Encounters of the Canine Kind
First Supper
Finger Lickin Bad
A Human Is Forever
Olden Goldies
Bad Hair Day
Go Stand In The Corner Til You re 21
But Was It Crunchy or Creamy?
Thinking Inside The Box
Tempis Fuhgeddaboutit
Waste Management
Heavenly Host And Tabby, Too

You ll get vicarious little-guy satisfaction in how I sock it to 'em in a section called David v. Goliath et al. I take on a bank, the post office, New Jersey, a famous cartoon character, Visa in particular and credit cards in general, including an elegant method of getting even with that rip-off credit card you hate.

Don't be so smug. I'm going to sock it to you, too (That's the collective you. It means other people.) Joseph's 3 Laws Of Retail Dynamics, Psychopathia Ornamentalis, We've Got Steam Heat, and A Diamond As Big As The Ritz, and other tales of the cockamamie consumer give the lie to that Customer-is-Always-Right propaganda.

But seriously folks, there are explanations of all sorts of little things that are mystifying to the ornamental civilian, like what the quartz in your watch and the 14 in your karat are. There are also detailed explanations of birthstones, and how-do-they-do-that articles on diamond cutting, jewelry repair, how to clean silver, and gem identification. There are longer articles about the Great Diamond Hoax of 1872, the Amber Room, the shameful behavior of DeBeers, and the exploits of a legendary gemologist during World War II.

The book includes the Fifties rock and roll themed newsletter. It had 30 references to fifties music with prizes for getting them all. You should have seen all the people coming in with underlined newsletters. I hope you re a movie buff. The movie newsletter, with 40 movie titles and 6 movie quotes for you to find is also included. And the answers to both are provided at no extra charge.

Since we're not in the store, I threw in some forbidden politics. The highlight is the Militant Moderate Manifesto. In It s the Economy, Stupid, economics is handily explained in one page, so you can throw out that dense econ 101 textbook you never understood. In Passing has a lengthy article on hats and short articles on a variety of topics, such as artificial stupidity, the decline of the fudgesicle, and the self-help industry (no, you can't order your Acme Home Counterfeiting Kit from me).

Of course it plugs my other book, Consumer Guide To Diamonds, Third Ed. You weren t going to spend your fortune on a diamond without doing your homework, were you?...