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• Braingle - "With over 7,500 brain teasers, riddles, logic problems and mind puzzles submitted and ranked by users like you, Braingle has the largest collection anywhere on the internet."
• Lateral Puzzles Forum - "where you can set and solve lateral thinking puzzles"
• Pzzls - puzzles, riddles and brain teasers, in logic, math, science, etc
• Wilk4: Classic Lateral Thinking Exercises - some puzzles to get you started, then a list of books once you're hooked. ;-) (on my site)
• Wilk4: Book Links: Lateral Thinking, Brain Teasers, Riddles and Puzzles - some book suggestions to help you exercise your mind in a most enjoyable way

• Calvin & Hobbes - http://www.calvinandhobbes.com/
• Calvin and Hobbes Extensive Strip Search - Find the strip you've been looking for all this time! Calvin and Hobbes at Martijn's (a great CnH fan site) has a keyword-searchable database of of every Calvin and Hobbes comic with complete references to the books and pages they're published on. (yes, you can see the actual strip)
• Rudy Park - a comic for us geeks
• The Dilbert Zone - Dilbert is the spokes-geek for modern engineers and for almost any downtrodden office-workers.
• User Friendly - another good geek comic strip
• Tapestry - Your Favourite Comics by RSS - a directory of RSS feeds for online comics. They help you keep up to date from within your favorite news aggregator, especially if you happen to miss a few days
• Comics Page - various comic strips
• DailyINK - subscription access to comics by the King Features Syndicate
• King Features Comics - lots of comics and subscription access to large archives of older strips
• MyComicsPage - subscription access to lots of comics and to large archives or older strips
• uComics - lots of comics and subscription access to large archives of older strips
• United Media Comics - lots of comics and subscription access to large archives of older strips
• WebComics - over 100 free online comics, also links to other sites for lovers of comics
• Yahoo News: Comics - recent comics

• 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall in 620+ programming languages - self-explanatory
• Annoyances.org - computer humor - nc
• Before There was E-Mail: Forwarding Jokes Through History - WE ALL TAKE FOR GRANTED the delight of checking our e-mail and finding a collection of hilarious jokes, forwarded to us by a loved one, a friend or Suzanne in Accounts Payable. But what do we know of the origins of this invention? Who was the first brave man or woman to say "Eureka! I'll send this joke to all my friends so everyone can have a laugh!"?
• Doom as a tool for system administration - "As I was listening to Anil talk about daemons spawning processes and sysadmins killing them, I thought, "What a great user interface!" Imagine running around with a shotgun blowing away your daemons and processes, never needing to type kill -9 again."
• How To Pick A Programming Language - nc
• How To Write Unmaintainable Code - "... tips from the masters on how to write code that is so difficult to maintain, that the people who come after you will take years to make even the simplest changes. Further, if you follow all these rules religiously, you will even guarantee yourself a lifetime of employment, since no one but you has a hope in hell of maintaining the code" (funny, though thoroughly evil ;-)
• The Apple Product Cycle - An obscure component manufacturer somewhere in the Pacific Rim announces a major order for some bleeding-edge piece of technology that could conceivably become part of an expensive, digital-lifestyle-enhancing nerd toy...
• The Bastard Operator from Hell Official Archive - BOfH archive, for those learning to be operators (sysadmins)...
• The Gettysburg Address as a Powerpoint Presentation - for the ppt-haters out there...
• Undead Technical Support Hotline - tech support hotline transcript for some interesting products

• Abi-Station Portrait Avatar/Icon Maker - use this site to build your own custom IM avatar, illustration or icon by selecting parts for the face, body, etc - even one that looks like (you think) you look
• Catapult Game (Lords III) - neat little flash catapult game, surprisingly addictive
• Cows with Guns - hilarious song - animation
• Do-Wop Horses - Wait for the entire screen to load up with all four horses and a fence in front of them. Then click on each horse. Make sure your sound is on. Re-click on any horse to make it turn off or turn it back on again. Try clicking on the horses from left to right then right to left then just one or two at a time...
• IconStory - what your computer is doing while you're away
• Jaws in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies - also see Aliens, The Exorcist, Titanic and other movies, in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies
• Public service announcements and health class films from the '40s and '50s - PSAs, health class films, puberty, teenage sexual eductaion, sex ed, 1950, 1960, how to survive atomic bombs, atoms are your friends, are you popular?
• The Kingdom of Loathing - a free, comical RPG, adorned with a staggering array of stunning hand-drawn images
• The Linux Switch Ad (supervillain) - "Linux gives us the power we need to crush those who oppose us ... I'm Steve, and I'm a supervillain"
• Victor Navone's Online Gallery - the site of the creator of the popular Alien Song video (VN is now working for pixar). He has a collection if his artwork and a few videos. Very well done.
• Yeti Sports - a number of flash games like polar bears tossing penguins, etc. may sound weird, but they are well done, funny and addictive (and free for online play or download)
• Zefrank's Carol Maker - Zeldman describes it thusly: "Zefrank’s free Carol Maker combines the fun of player-piano-style music composition and performance with the delights of controlling pixelicious animated musical elves and the joy of sending e-cards to your friends."

• Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About (TMGAIHAA) - hilarious site, and the all-time-best URL

• Conversational Terrorism: How NOT to Talk! - An expose of conversational terrorism cheap shot tactics to notice and avoid. Read 'em and laugh - or weep if you must.
• Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature - Scientific names of organisms are not usually known for their entertainment value. They are indispensable for clarity in communication, but most people skip over them with barely a glance. Here Mark Isaak collects those names that are worth a second look.
• Dark and Stormy Night Contest - The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest - where WWWW means Wretched Writers Welcome
• Internet Anagram Server - all about anagrams. generate anagrams for any string of letters
• OEDILF: The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form - one of the oddest literary projects in the history of poetry, attempting to write a limerick for every single word in the english language. Join in!
• PseudoDictionary - A 'dictionary' of words that *should* exist, made up words, slang, webspeak and colloquialisms. Add your own!
• Richard Lederer's Verbivore - a great read both for those interested in language and words and for inveterate punsters and lovers of anagrams, palindromes, crazy word usage and other linguistic silliness.
• Southern Word of the Day - a collection of the SWotD's from the Tourbus mailing list
• The Collective Nouns - An aarmory of aardvarks, a bevy of beauties, a bout of estimations, etc - more entertaining than as a reference
• The Jargon File - a collection of slang terms used by various subcultures of computer hackers among themselves for fun, social communication, and technical debate.
• The Most Untranslatable Words in the World - from a worldwide poll of professional translators
• Washington Post Style Invitational - The WP has had many write-in contests where people make up, combine or slightly modify words to give them new and humorous meanings. Find the archive of these contest results here.
• Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics - for those who love language jokes and puzzles
• Wordsmith.org - "a worldwide online community of some half-million people who share a love for words, wordplay, language, and literature." Some interesting features are A.Word.A.Day, Internet Anagram Server, and Wordserver.
• World Wide Words - Michael Quinion researches words and phrases and gives you the story behind them -- more than 1,500 interesting entries on the origins, history, evolution and idiosyncrasies of the English language worldwide.
• Wilk4: Book Links: Language and Mis-Speaking - some book suggestions to go along with the Language and Mis-Speaking section for those of you who love words, or just the fun use and misuse of them. (includes puns too of course)

• Coolsig - Find great email signatures, categorized, a ton! of funny one-liners (4467 of them when this link was added)
• Good Morning Silicon Valley - A tongue-in-cheek summary of the daily news. Some of the funniest things I've found on the web came from links mentioned here.
• Grant's Graceland: Bag O Laughs - an interesting christian site with a great humor section
• HumourNet - a free mailing list and website (list may be dead?, but site archive is still there)
• MeyerWeb: The Funny Bits - Eric Meyer (like many of us) has a humor section on his website. His has some unique bits I've never seen elsewhere.
• NetworkWorldFusion: Compendium - This almost-weblog has all sorts of bizarre and interesting links... go back through the archives when you have some time to blow...
• News of the Weird - News of the Weird is a weekly syndicated column by Chuck Shepherd containing synopses of bizarre news stories reported in various sources and is carried in over 250 newspapers.
• The Good, Clean Funnies List - A great mailing list of clean jokes
• The Lunaticks Fire and EMS site - EMS, ambulance, firefighter humor
• This is True - Similar to News of the Weird, a newsletter with true, though funny or bizarre, news stories.
• Top 5 List - an 'open-source' humor list... the moderator sends out the topic to a list of proven-funny contributors, then filters their responses down to a select few. Warning, can be raunchy at times. free and paid versions.
• Tourbus: Very Strange Things on the Web - a collection of links to offbeat sites that are fun, amusing or just bizarre, yet in good taste.
• Wilk4: Miscellaneous Humor - Since, as we all know, the main function of the entire internet is the propagation and distribution of jokes and humorous email, here's Jeff's selection of some that hit his funny bones.

• Neighborhood Hazard (or: Why the Cops Won’t Patrol Brice Street) - a man, an motorcycle and an evil squirrel... and now it has a patrol car…
  (FWIW, reading this caused me to laugh harder than almost anything else ever... Warning: don't read at work if people for 5 cubes around aren't understanding about your not-so-stifled laughter. ;-)
• 20 Reasons why you shouldn't post your picture on the internet - nc
• 21 Variations on "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-haa!" - pick your favorite version of this great song....
• Big Dead Place - "A Guidebook for Distinguished Congressional Visitors to Antarctica" ... written about the differences between life on the Antarctica base for regular folk and as seen by VIPs
• Darwin Awards - at Urban Legends and Folklore - more info about the darwin awards, including info about which actually happened
• Darwin Awards - Population Control Volunteers - honors those who improve our gene pool... by removing themselves from it in the most spectacular or humiliating manner. (bestowed posthumously of course). Some of these stories are true, some false; all reveal human nature at its most bizarre.
• Food Safety Music - "an innovative, humorous, and effective musical approach for food safety education using parodies of popular songs" ... definitely odd... ;-)
• Graduate School Humor - nc
• James Lilek's Gallery of Regrettable Food - self-explanatory
• Juvenile Felis Catus - a review of something called a "Juvenile Felis Catus" (or "kitten" for short). This techies review goes over everything from how to aquire one, required maintence, storage, compatibility with existing equipment, to a comparison against other ways of spending your money (kitten vs. puppy vs. baby vs. new video card).
• Know How to Fold 'em - Four Laundry Experts Judge a Neat New Trick (discussed a common video of a neat shirt-folding technique)
• Larry's Face - Larry's face goes traveling and ends up quite a few places... great work merging him into 100's of photos
• Longmire does Romance Novels - a lot of us can agree that a large number of romance novel covers are pretty silly and are just asking to be ridiculed. This site offers photoshopped scans of real novel covers with titles that seem 'more appropriate' to the pictures. (warning: some are r-rated)
• ProfQuotes - Ever have a professor say something so funny you just had to write it down? Still know where the paper is? Submit it here and let the world know.
• Pumpkin Carving Gallery (Scott Cummins) - each October you get emails with pics of neat pumpkin carvings... this artist has got them all beat. amazing sculptures!
• Quotations and Proverbs Search - Fagan Finder helps you find that perfect quotation or related items (proverbs, sayings, maxims, amorphisms, slogans, clichés, etc) from a number of source sites
• Rock and Roll Hall of Shame - oh the horror!
• Shatner Sings! - adds a few more of the classicly-horrible songs by Star Trek actors like William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and others
• ShotgunGuide - another set of 'Official' Rules for Calling Shotgun
• So You've Decided to be Evil: A Step-by-Step Guide to joining the Forces of Darkness - (pretty funny)
• The Darth Side: Memoirs of a Monster - "Journal of Darth Vader, Lord of the Sith and Servant to His Supreme Excellency the Emperor Palpatine" (Darth Vader's blog)
• The Gallery of Stick-Figure Warning Signs - nc
• The Manager FAQ - The following list is an attempt to cover some of the issues that will invariably come up when hackers without previous experience of the business community first start working in it. Other workers may also find it informative.
• The Official Shotgun Rules - "Calling Shotgun" is the act of claiming the position of Shotgun for one's self. As this position is the most coveted of all positions when riding in a car, the following list of rules has been created to ensure that Shotgun can be acquired in a fair and equitable manner by any passenger of an automobile.
• The Oracle of Bacon at Virginia - If you like the Kevin Bacon game you'll love this game that links any actor/actress to any other! Just enter a name.
• The Star of David Shuriken - as used by the clandestine and terribly mysterious secret societies of Jewish Ninjas
• The Two Things - For every subject, there are really only two things you really need to know. Everything else is the application of those two things, or just not important...
• Unwise Microwave Oven Experiments - don't try this at home -- no really, DON'T!
• VillainSupply - your best online source for everything EVIL. If you are a supervillain, mad scientist, warlord, dictator, or despot, then this is the place for you. (gone, but available via wayback)
• Weight Watchers recipe cards from 1974 - a frightening collection! hilarious commentary

• Caring for Your Introvert: The habits and needs of a little-understood group - linked from GMSV: "This Atlantic article is being broadly linked across the blog world and, I imagine, is being thrust under the noses of surprised extroverts everywhere by people saying, "See? That's it. That's what I'm talking about. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to rest."
• Heroic Stories - By the author of This is True, HS is a free email newsletter of fun, short, true stories of ordinary people performing acts that are heroic to others or that have a strong impact upon others. Free e-mail subscription! Always worth reading, particularly to get your head away from all the other job-related stuff or depressing 'normal' news. Guaranteed non-sappy...
• Misc.kids FAQ: Good Things About Having Kids - considering parenting? need reminding why you had kids?
• The Fastest Man on Earth: Why Everything You Know About Murphy’s Law is Wrong - All about the real people and history behind Murphy's Law. Fascinating stuff about some famous test pilots, rocket sled experiments in "human deceleration" and John Paul Stapp's work that provided the basis for our current crash survivability and safety info.
• Wrecked Exotics - "the internet's largest collection of exotic car crash photos. We display over 6,000 wrecked exotic cars to show you the real consequences of reckless driving" (and in some cases, of overwhelming stupidity or lack of any common sense)

• Philosophical humor links - a list of links to philosophical jokes
• Action Philosophers Comic - "a bi-monthly comic book series detailing the lives and thoughts of history's A-list brain trust in a hip and humorous way that proves that philosophy is not just the province of boring tweed-enveloped college professors."
• Break-up lines of the philosophers - self-explanatory
• Causes of death of philosophers - humorous suggestions of what would be appropriate ways for various philosophers to have died...
• Monty Python Argument Sketch - an argument clinic
• The Socrates Argument Clinic - an argument clinic
• Themes in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy as Reflected in the Work of Monty Python - Gary Hardcastle writes: "My aim in this talk is to present a comprehensive overview of each and every one of the main themes endured by analytic philosophy in the last sixty years or so, and to argue the bold historical claim that the whole lot is well represented-indeed, often best represented-in the work of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin, collectively and henceforth referred to as "Monty Python." Since I have all of fifty minutes to make my case, I expect we'll have time for a song at the end. So let's get to it."

• Art-o-Mat - an odd concept - "Art*o*mats are retired cigarette vending machines that have been converted to vend art."
• Backyard Artillery - a place to buy all sorts of fun toys that shoot stuff, from the catapult watch, rubber band guns, laser tag remote-controlled tanks to kits to build real catapults. dozens of ways to get yourself in trouble ;-)
• Catapult Kits - Have you hurled today?
• Fun with Ferrofluid - all about Ferrofluid, fluid with magnetically-charged particles suspended in it that responds in neat ways when put in a magnetic field. Neat stuff, though potentially *very* messy
• Godfather Horse Head Pillow - "A custom severed horse head plush that is actually quite comfortable to sleep on, albeit a tad on the south side of morbid.... Fans of the mob's harsh brand of communication can now unite and rest comfortably, if not uneasily. Send someone a message they will never forget!"
• Guide to shooting rubber bands - A comprehensive guide to on the lethal and meticulous art of shooting rubber bands. (including techniques on disarming opponents ;-)
• Guys with Too Much Time on their Hands - Obviously these guys don't have nearly enough to do... that's the trouble with us guys... when we have free time we tend to get thinking... and that can lead to "what if" questions ... that can lead to experiments, often of an explosive nature... (yeah, it's mine, also includes some 'Amazingly Cool Inventions')
• Howstuffworks - How Lightsabers Work - How Stuff Works explores the inner workings of light sabers, along with alternate uses and vital safety tips. Hilarious (we all wish it was real though)
• I Want One Of Those - "stuff you don't need... but you really, really want" - a store with all sorts of great stuff
• Museum of Hoaxes - hoaxes and pranks of all kinds. be sure to see the "Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes Of All Time"
• PongMechanik - electromechanical version of the classic Pong video
• Room Defender - an automated sentry robot for your desk or room... fires one or more foam disks at intruders.
• Stonehenge Pocket Watch - Take a "Great Leap Backward in Time" ... inside is an exact scale replica of the major components of the 5,000 year-old megalithic monument we know as Stonehenge.
• The Cubes™ (Cubicle Action Figures) - "Finally, the drudgery of corporate life has been captured in a play set for adults! Bob, Joe, Ted, and Ann spend eight hours a day, five days a week, at tiny desks in tiny cubicles in a giant room packed with countless similar cubicles in a giant building filled with countless similar rooms." (finally, action figures for my job!!)
• Trebuchet.com Videos - get some of the videos of efforts to build full-size catapults seen on various shows on Nova, Discovery Channel, History Channel, Learning Channel, etc. I've seen the Nova show and it's amazing.
• USB Foam Missile/Dart Launcher - Target your co-workers with USB air darts, USB-controlled from your PC
• V8 Snowblowers (the original) - a guy on a mission - obviously motivated by some alcohol, too much free time, and the overwhelming desire to prove to his friends that it *could* be done. Very impressive features actually - even aside from the raw power ;-)

• GodVertising - Church Signs - a funny and thought provoking site that uses a blog to show interesting church signs, which commonly have 'zingers' to get your attention and make you think with just a few words.
• Unitarian Jihad - first communique - a satirical column by writer Jon Carroll from a then-imaginary group calling for peace and moderation and opposing various forms of extremism. Funny, but something to think about in today's violent and polarized world.
• Unitarian Jihad - Wikipedia - see also the 'first communique' link from this group
• Coolsig: Religous sigs - a wide variety of email signature lines and one-liners related to all forms of religion, some thought-provoking, most just funny - probably not for the easily offended

• BBSpot - Another terrific collection of satirical articles
• Bob From Accounting - Another satire site, definitely *not* politically correct
• Despair, Inc. - a great site, selling the Demotivator series of posters, cards, etc - satirical opposites of the pretty office-motivational posters we often see. As they say: "Whether you're a pessimist, underachiever or a chronic failure, I personally offer my unconditional* guarantee that Demotivators® will truly inspire you to new lows!"
• Monty Python: Fellowship of the Ring - FoTR written up as in Monty Python style. Follows with Monty Python: The Two Towers, etc. Hilarious for both MP and LoTR fans!
• SatireWire - Hilarious satirical press-releases and other articles on current news and culture. Find dozens (hundreds?) of classics in the archives
• The Onion - What else can I say? You already knew about this of course...
• The Toque - The World Leader In Canadian Humour, Parody, And Satire
• UK Department of Vague Paranoia: Preparing for Emergencies - a funny spoof site that discusses how to respond in an 'emergency' - since our governments are too busy trying to get re-elected to tell us the straight stuff...
• Valley of the Geeks - Geek and net satire... be sure to check out "Banner Ads We'd Like To See"

• AIR: Annals of Improbable Research - home of the well-known Ig Noble awards for science that should not be repeated. See also their Improbable Blog
• Canstruction - "Canstruction® combines the competitive spirit of a design/build competition with a unique way to help feed hungry people. Competing teams, lead by architects and engineers, showcase their talents by designing giant sculptures made entirely out of canned foods. At the close of the exhibitions all of the food used in the structures is donated to local food banks for distribution to pantries, shelters, soup kitchens, elderly and day care centers." (see the photos, amazing!)
• Cooking For Engineers - "Have an analytical mind? Like to cook? Then this site is for you." (site is not meant to be humorous)
• Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature - Scientific names of organisms are not usually known for their entertainment value. They are indispensable for clarity in communication, but most people skip over them with barely a glance. Here Mark Isaak collects those names that are worth a second look.
• Escher for Real - many of the so-called 'impossible' drawings of M. C. Escher *can* be realized as actual physical objects. This site presents some three-dimensional models that were designed and built using geometric modeling and computer graphics tools
• Intuitor Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics - nc
• Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists - LFHCfS is a club for scientists who have, or believe they have, luxuriant flowing hair (an Annals of Improbable Research feature)
• Murphy's Law Calculator - The Formula that scientists recently proposed to calculate Murphy's Law has recently been turned into an easy to use online Murphy's Law calculator. So now you can work out what the probability of it happening on any given situation!
• Psychology humor - is psychology a science?
• Science Humor Webring - nc
• Science Jokes - a huge selection of science jokes, collected by Joachim Verhagen
• Scientists Define Murphy's Law - A mathematician, a psychologist and an economist commissioned by British Gas have finally put into mathematical terms what we all knew: that things don't just go wrong, they do so at the most annoying moment...
• Self-Referential Aptitude Test - so, can you solve it?
• The House of Murphy - all about Murphy's Law and a huge list of similar laws, axioms, admonitions, corollaries, rules, etc
• The Inventions of Michael Flannigan - the amazing inventions of a victorian gentleman ;-)
• The Worst Jobs In Science (2003) - The worst, most torturous, icky, painful, stinky, dangerous, and just plain horrible jobs in science (by Popular Science magazine)
• The Worst Jobs in Science (2004) - Monitoring dumps, extracting worms, lobbying politicians: science's ugly side -- more of the worst, most torturous, icky, painful, stinky, dangerous, and just plain horrible jobs in science (2004 sequel to this great Popular Science mag article)
• The Worst Jobs in Science (2005) - Pain, Tedium, Danger, Disgust, Humiliation - It's all just part of the average workday for the (often proud, more often smelly) members of our third annual honor roll of the Worst Jobs in Science (2005 sequel to this great Popular Science mag article)