Miscellaneous texts of an edifying and/or humorous nature

• "Deteriorata", a parody of "Desiderata", one of those sappy poems filled with trite advice that gets read at many a graduation ceremony.
• A minute-by-minute recounting of the emotions of a typical grad student.
• The Zero Gravity Toilet instructions from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• Various mathematical and physical ways to catch a lion.
• Commandment #12592 from "Zork I: The Great Underground Empire".
• Bob Black's manifesto "The Abolition of Work".
• Words of wisdom in a CS vein:
  • Using the right algorithm
  • A parable from The Tao of Programming
  • The "Real Programmer's Credo"
  • The original Jargon File (and the troff sources for printing a nice copy)
  • Umberto Eco provides an interesting twist on the Mac vs. DOS "holy war"
  • An interesting quote from Clarke's The Fountains of Paradise, given modern developments.
  • Unix shell jokes
  • TeX sources for a humorous but apt abstract that never was from the field of Computational Neural Systems.
  • Cars and programming languages
  • A parody of a SIGGRAPH conference schedule
• Molly Ivins talks about Camille Paglia
• The travails of everyday life:
  • Fun at Taco Bell
  • Canine electrical engineering
• Philosophical twaddle:
  • A lost classic of Husserl.
  • Why Kant would never receive tenure today.
  • Jean-Paul Sartre describes his dream automobile.
  • "I Have Nothing To Admit", an actual essay by Gilles Deleuze.
  • Philosophy in Zero Gravity (see the 2001 item above)
  • Beer and Jesus (from a T-shirt of the TAMU Atheist/Agnostic student group)
  • Proofs of Jesus' multiculturalism
• Politics as usual:
  • Koans from the 1994 California state elections
  • Dr. Seuss talks about Newt Gingrich
  • Humorous political prophesying from General Sir John Hackett's The Third World War
• Cyberpunkery:
  • William Gibson's poem "Agrippa: A Book of the Dead". See the alt.cyberpunk FAQ for an explanation of its history.
  • "Agr1ppa: A Book of the Mentally Disturbed", a parody of "Agrippa" by Pat "Lord Digital" Kroupa.
  • The run of Cheap Truth, Bruce Sterling's SF samizdat of the early '80s.
• A generic flame form
• Another generic flame form
• Humor in the courtroom
• A poem about emus, due to Lindsey Dubb.
• A mythical ad for Mr. Haiku, a product I could certainly use, due to Jim Cser.
• A Girl's Guide to Geek Guys. The authors apparently have a book out based on the article.