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• Doug Craigen's Huge Physics Humor Collection - May be the most linked-to physics humor site on the web because of its very large link collection.
• Physics and Science Fun - Fun with physics, science jokes, cartoons, anecdotes, and stories.

  Angels on a Pin The possibly true story of the many possible ways of determining the height of a building using only a barometer. http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/angelpin.htm

  BBspot - Overclocker Creates Rift in Space-Time Continuum A rift in the space-time continuum was created when overclocker Jamie Aperman ran a 750 MHz Coppermine Pentium III at 1.6 GHz. It appears that the CPU was operating so fast that it began to execute instructions before they arrived. http://bbspot.com/News/2000/5/clock_rift.html

  Buttered Cat Stick a buttered piece of bread on the back of a cat, then throw the cat out a window. The result may surprise you. http://www.flippyscatpage.com/butteredcat.html

  Einstein, Heisenberg, Tipler A story of interviews between these men and God, intended to determine if they should enter Heaven. http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/eht.html

  Evil Squirrels and Physicists Squirrels are known to hate mankind. First they got the midgets, now they eat the physicists. http://photoemission.tripod.com/evilsquirrel/

  First Atomic Clock Wristwatch A HP 5071A Cesium Beam Primary Frequency Reference can in fact be used as a wrist watch. You have a choice of stainless steel or adjustable nylon band. http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/atomic-bill/

  Love and Tensor Algebra A poem by Stanislaw Lem http://www.ee.duke.edu/~wrankin/misc/tensor.html

  The Non Abelian Names of God A scientific paper parody which includes "The Theory Formerly Known as Strings","The Stages of a Theory" and a dictionary of common phrases. http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~siegel/parodies/nonabel.html

  The Physics Crackpot Index A fun site which outlines how you can tell if a new theory is really from a crackpot. http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html

  Physics Limericks Poems from the contests sponsored by the American Physical Society. http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/features/limericks/

  Physics Song Book New physics lyrics to classic tunes. http://www.dctech.com/physics/humor/songs.php

  PhysicsSongs.org Songs, and links to sites with more of them. http://www.haverford.edu/physics-astro/songs/

  Politically Correct Physics Revised physics course descriptions. http://www.jefflindsay.com/PCPhysics.shtml

  QuarkDance.org! Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Particle Data Group welcomes you to see its Quark Dance website which is a gateway to many exciting physics websites. http://pdg.lbl.gov/quarkdance/

  SatireWire - Scientist Splits Atom, Finds Toy Prize Inside A Princeton physicist recently split an atom of hydrogen and found a toy prize inside, the journal Science reported in its June issue. [Contains fictitious information.] http://www.satirewire.com/news/may02/prizes.shtml

  Sokal's Hoax "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity". http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html

  The Super G-String A parody of modern string theories written in the form of a research paper. http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~siegel/parodies/sgs.html

  Super G-String Field Theory A sequel to the original paper on g-string theory. http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~siegel/parodies/sgsft.html

  Theological Thermodynamics This document reproduces two classics of science parody/humor. The first applies the physics of thermodynamics to conclude that Heaven is hotter than Hell. The second is a response which combines Biblical evidence with thermodynamics to argue that, while heaven is devilishly hot, hell is hotter still. http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/hell.htm

  UT-Chattanooga Collection of Physics Humor Wide variety of physics jokes and humorous essays. http://www.utc.edu/physics/physicshumor0.html

  BBspot - Half-Life 2 Physics Engine Contains Grand Unified Theory Physicists at Cornel-Putnam University (CPU) confirmed yesterday the Holy Grail of Physics, the Grand Unified Theory, is contained in the Half-Life 2 source code. (December 1, 2003) http://bbspot.com/News/2003/12/valve_unified_theory.html