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The Algorithm of an Average Taxpayer's Life A structured biography in 483 pseudo-coded subroutines, as logical outcome of random events and processes during lifetime. http://www.alphaandomega.nl/

The Commentator A program for generating comments automatically, customizable by FUD factor, profanity, self-importance, verbosity, humor level, and bitterness. http://www.cenqua.com/commentator/

Computer Programming Humor Jokes, oneliners, and prank definitions. http://www.heuse.com/cphumor.htm

Computer Stupidities Collection of stupid chunks of C source code and reports of encounters with less-than-bright apprentice programmers. http://rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_programming.shtml

The Daily WTF Offers daily posts of user-submitted examples of bad code and software design. http://thedailywtf.com/

Epigrams in Programming List of 120 programming-related aphorisms. http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html

The Evolution of a Programmer Programming style and how it evolves as programmers mature from junior high students to senior managers. http://www.ariel.com.au/jokes/The_Evolution_of_a_Programmer.html

Fifty Ways to Hose Your Code A song kind of by Paul Simon. http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~norm/hose_code.html

Hacker's Wisdom Collection of programming humor and computer folklore classics. http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/

Hello, World Page Collecting examples of "Hello World" programs for as many languages and related programming environments (shells) as possible. http://www.latech.edu/~acm/HelloWorld.shtml

Holger's Humor Page Why is C++ programming like teenage sex? What's the difference between a software developer and a drug dealer? When will operator overloading be added to Java? This page has the answers. http://www.klawitter.de/enhumor.html

How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot Showcases how to shoot yourself in the foot using several programming languages. http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/joke/foot.htm

Jargon File Programmer slang dictionary, containing more than 2000 not-quite-serious definitions and a number of programmer folklore anecdotes. Hosted by Eric S. Raymond. http://catb.org/jargon/

Laugh Along with GNU Designed to provide some laughs to the working hackers - large collection of GNU/programming humor. http://www.gnu.org/fun/humor.html

Life of Programmer Humorous observations and stories of dealing with computers and their users. http://tellingjokes.com/j/lop.htm

Programming is a Weird and Wacky World Collection of jokes, satirical articles, and parodies on popular song lyrics. http://www.elsop.com/wrc/humor/progwack.htm

Programming Languages are Like Women Mildly sexist metaphorical languages lineup. http://www.columbia.edu/~sss31/rainbow/prog.lang.html

Quotes about Programmers Quotations about programmers, software and programming languages. http://www.sysprog.net/quotpgmr.html

Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal Classic Datamation article by Ed Post. http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html

Reflections on Trusting Trust An ACM classic: UNIX coinventor Ken Thompson reports on how he hacked his own C compiler. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=358210

The Retrocomputing Museum Eric S. Raymond's list of outdated, obscure, or deliberatly unusable programming languages, compilers, and interpreters. http://catb.org/~esr/retro/

Softpanorama Humor Archive Open-source related humor, dissing (among others) Linus Torvalds, RMS, ESR, vi, and Perl. http://www.softpanorama.org/Bulletin/Humor/index.shtml

Softwarequotes.com Quotations from various programmers about programming. Includes a quotes search, newsletter, and index of quotes by person quoted. http://www.softwarequotes.com/

The Tao Of Programming Koan-style advice to apprentice programmers. http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html