Humor

Attack of the Bacon Robots (Penny Arcade, Vol. 1)

Get your geek on! Penny Arcade, the comic strip for gamers, by gamers is now available in comic shops and bookstores everywhere. Not familiar with Penny Arcade? What? It's only the most popular comic strip on the web. It's the funniest, most twisted comic that ever lampooned gamer culture, and takes shots at everything from Star Wars to Steve Jobs. Experience the joy of being a hardcore gamer as expressed in vignettes of random vulgarity and mindless violence! Get online and direct your browser to penny-arcade.com, check out the latest strips, then, to read Penny Arcade from the very beginning, get the first collection, Attack of the Bacon Robots, which includes strips, sketches, and creator commentary not available anywhere else!

The Joy of Digital Photography (A Lark Photography Book)

Introduction To Real Itsm

This humorous book is for those who work in Information Technology (IT) and for those who have IT done to them. Service Management is all the rage in IT at the moment, hence "ITSM". The leading description of ITSM is ITIL(r). This book is not about ITIL. Really. Real ITSM(tm) is a tongue-in-cheek satirical look at what the real-life practices might be, as compared to the idealised models in frameworks like ITIL or COBIT or ISO20000 or ... "[My wife] read the introduction and said it was the first IT book that held her interest past page two" Change Manager, postal service "I experienced numerous moments of amusement, humor and outright hilarity, which made reading this book at my desk during work hours a bit difficult." Bob Grinsell For more on Real ITSM (and more samples from the book!) come to the Real ITSM world at www.realitsm.com

Digital Travel Photography (A Lark Photography Book)

Chilling Out: Internet @ction: How to Use the Internet to Make the Most of Your Leisure Time

Computer Factoids: Tales from the High-Tech Underbelly

Computers are those unfathomable contraptions everyone everywhere loves to hate. We can't live with them, but we can't live without them. Contempt for our byte-based existence has developed universal appeal crossing boundaries of culture, economics, religion, and language. Everyone you know has a "those stupid computers" story. If you think you have heard it all, STOP.

The digital revolution began in 1951. Computer Factoids chronicles behind-the-scenes digital weirdness from Day One. Kirk Kirksey covers the landscape of computer history, cyber legend, digital mythology, and Internet lore. Put away your pocket protector because you won't find any techno-babble on these pages. Each of these 39 high-tech yarns is an easy-read with a serious dose of attitude. Whether it is a computer powered by rotting potatoes or a symphony performed by obsolete dot-matrix printers or a computerized bra equipped with a modem, these tales of the digital surreal will make you stand up and shout, "Honey, you're not going to believe this."

The Big Book of National Insults: 1001 Xenophobic Quips and Quotes

If your idea of international relations is summed up more by 'bugger the Belgians' and 'a pox on the Poles' than 'I'd like to teach the world to sing', then The Big Book of National Insults is almost certainly the book for you. Culled from the murkiest and most biliously xenophobic depths of the (un)diplomatic bag, it presents over 1200 stinging examples of international ill will, odium and animosity. Take your seat at this table of Disunited Nations - and eat your fill of the bouillabaisse of bile, the dhansak of detestation, the lasagna of loathing, the paella of prejudice and the smorgasbord of spite. Whether it is the Russians reviling the Finns, the Dutch dissing the Turks or the British bashing just about everyone - and most spectacularly themselves - this is a place where absolutely everybody else is the one with the problem. 'We are the dirty armpit of Europe.' Ken Livingstone, quoted in The Independent, 18 March 1989 'Marry a German and you'll see that the women have hairy tongues.' Ruthenian saying

The Binary Bible of Saint Silicon

Jeffrey Armstrong, aka Saint $ilicon, is the founder of C.H.I.P., the Church of Heuristic Information Processing, the world's first Computer Religion, the Hunt and Peck Method of Salvation, the world's first user-friendly religion. Like the prophets of old, he came from humble origins in the Midwest. An apocryphal story relates that his first computer came with a Loser's Manual. He worked for years in the Data-dungeons of Silicon Valley, toiling in sales and marketing positions. Finally, after years of austerity and penance, he bought a Macintosh (for the Macrighteous shall inherit the Earth). And because he paid full price, great things were destined to happen. Late one night as Jeffrey worked on a word-processing file, lightning struck the satellite dish on his roof. When he awoke, the "Keyboard Prayer" was on the screen in 18 point Times Roman along with the command to write the Binary Bible. Thus he was "Bored Again" and was renamed and saved as Saint $ilicon. He immediately quit his job and retired to a cave in the Santa Cruz mountains and began writing The Binary Bible as it was dictated to him by the Giver Of Data, G.O.D. And so a ray of hope came FORTH for all those with a Terminal Illness, for all who suffer from Data Distress, the D-based and D-filed who have lost their beloved Data. Now a great revival is sweeping the world. From that moment on it was GIGO- Garbage in Gospel Out, or to quote P. C. Barnum: "There's a Seeker Born Every Minute." and in the end, everything will be Right Justified!!! --- from book's back cover

Welcome To I.T.: Actual Stories About the Wild and Crazy World of Information Technology

Funny and true stories of calls to Help Desks.

The Little Book of Internet Dating