It's funny. Laugh. Stories for 2008

Banned Words List Carries Its First Emoticon 333
Tales From the Support Crypt 855
Software-Generated Paper Accepted At IEEE Conference 235
Christmas Tree Made From 70 SCSI Hard Drives 248
If Programming Languages Were Religions 844
100 Years Ago, No Free Broadband Pneumatic Tubes 293
Russian Hopes To Cash In On Emoticons 213
Slashdot's Disagree Mail 135
Prescription Handguns For the Elderly and Disabled 1093
Scientists Get Their Groove On On YouTube 77
The Real Monsters Behind Godzilla 243
PETA Using Games To Spread Its Message 477
McDonalds Files To Patent Making a Sandwich 346
Unix Dict/grep Solves Left-Side-of-Keyboard Puzzle 423
Monty Python Banks On the Long Tail Via YouTube 222
Dead Parrot Sketch Is 1,600 Years Old 276
The Best Fictional Doomsday Devices 340
Mystery Science Theater Turns 20 165
AVG Virus Scanner Removes Critical Windows File 440
Halliburton Applies For Patent-Trolling Patent 244
US Army To Use MMOs For Turing Tests 55
Slashdot's Disagree Mail 126
Blizzard Sued By South Carolina Inmate 239
EA Recommends Hilarious Work-Around For RA3 CD-Key 301
MTV Bleeps Filesharing Software Names In Weird Al Video 395
The Greatest Scientific Hoaxes? 496
Second Penny Arcade Game Due Out This Week 68
Dead Goldfish Offered The Vote In Illinois 216
UK UFO Sightings Declassified, Still No Intergalactic Relations 319
XKCD Invited To New Yorker "Cartoon-Off" 231
Slashdot's Disagree Mail 100
Study Shows Worm Grunters Imitate Moles 110
Microsoft's Ethical Guidelines 271
Baldness Gene Discovered — 1 In 7 Men "At Risk" 297
Slashdot's Disagree Mail 202
XKCD Improving the Internet ... Yet Again 204
Cisco Ships Mexican Folk Music On VPN Client CD 79
Prevent Gmail From Emailing Under the Influence 258
Slashdot's Disagree Mail 206
Adobe Flaw Allows Full Movie Downloads For Free 166
Slashdot's Disagree Mail 167
NASA Produces Rap Video On Astrobiology 113
Popup Study Confirms Most Users Are Idiots 568
The Ninja Handbook 111
Metallica Guitar Hero Release Has Higher Quality Than CDs 102
Slashdot's Disagree Mail 251
Today Is International Talk Like a Pirate Day! 287
City Uses DNA To Sniff Out Dog Poop Offenders 252
Colfer Asked To Write Sixth HHGTTG Book 338
Slashdot's Disagree Mail 188
Microsoft Causes Internal Family Strife 543
Jedi Knights Course Offered By Queen's University Belfast 180
Verizon Tech Accused Of Making $220K In Sex Calls On User Lines 218
Robert Heinlein's Pre-Internet Fan Mail FAQ 181
Smilin' Bob Not Smilin' Anymore 357
To Boldly Go Where No Mento Has Gone Before 143
Slashdot's Disagree Mail 354
Solving Sudoku With dpkg 190
Jail 'Greedy' Scam Victims, Says Nigerian Diplomat 809
Slashdot's Disagree Mail 264
Teens Arrested For Motorized Office Chair 338
"War On Terror" Board Game Confiscated In UK 598
Slashdot's Disagree Mail 489
BSOD Makes Appearance at Olympic Opening Ceremonies 521
The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us 578
Google News Has Russian Army Invading Savannah, GA 413
Reporters At Black Hat Get Bounced For Hacking 128
Airline Cancels All Flights Booked Through Third-Party Systems 410
The Internet Meme Timeline 235
8 People Buy "I Am Rich" iPhone App For $1,000 684
Get Ready For the Nerdlympics 174
The Low-End Approach To Wireless Hacking 124
Chinese Restaurant Suffers Large Translation Error 364
Band Leaks Own Album, Blames Pirates 243
House Dems Turn Out the Lights On the GOP 1143
NASA "Bed Rest" Contractor Blogs the Days 60
Spore Almost Ready for Production, Complete With "Sporn" 127
Yahtzee Deconstructs the E3 Trailer Park 46
The Ridiculous LexisNexis Search that the Justice Department Used 589
MPAA Plans To Launch Movie Links Site 199
San Francisco DA Discloses City's Passwords 333
Ancient Italian Walls Repaired With Lego Bricks 62
2008 Pwnie Award Nominees Announced 74
HP Shatters Excessive Packaging World Record 359
Ubisoft Steals 'No-CD Crack' To Fix Rainbow 6: Vegas 2 434
SCO's Lawsuit Gets Even Crazier 179
1200-Baud Archeology 211
Joss Whedon's "Doctor Horrible" Set To Launch 245
B-2 Stealth Bomber Gets Upgrade, Joins the '90s 366
Doing the Laptop Drive of Shame 252
DHS Official Considered Shock Collars For Air Travelers 673
Meet the New Chess Boxing Champion of the World 235
There's a Sucker Converted Every Minute 395
Interview With Author of the First Spoof Language 102
WTF? NC Offers to Replace 10,000 License Plates 467
IT Students Contract Out Coursework To India 642
Real Snail Mail 103
Return of the '70s Microsoft Weirdos 338
A Really, Really Ex-Parrot 91
Register, Others Call Plagiarism in "Limbo of the Lost" Game 400
All Your Coffee Are Belong To Us 354
R2-D2 Monitors Your Web Servers 70
Bone-Headed IT Mistakes 259
Geohashing Meets an Angry Rancher With Firearms 800
Denon's $499 Ethernet Cable 719
Japanese Company Says Laws of Physics Don't Apply — to Cars 736
Microsoft Seeks Patent On Brain-Based Development 173
Pringles Can Designer Dies, Buried In a Pringles Can 261
Japanese Woman Hid In Closet for a Year 5
The Smartest Browser and OS 436
Manager Disables Web Server by Sneaking Away Xbox 129
I Will Derive 269
Line Forms At Apple's Always-Open Manhattan Cube 445
Penny Arcade Releases Episodic PC Game 78
Feds Now Allowed To Use Internet 113
New Urinal-Based Video Game Makes a Splash 176
IT Workers Are Getting Fatter 366
The Most Annoying Software Out There 885
FBI Wiretapping Audit Secrets Uncovered Via Ctrl+C 231
Free (As In Speech) Beer, V2.0 266
DataStorm V1.0, a Full-Auto Floppy Disk Cannon 153
"Back To My Mac" Catches a Thief 329
Introducing Classical Guitar Hero 221
A Scooter With Everything (For Certain Values of Everything) 74
NES Nudity Galore - The JUSTIN BAILEY Conspiracy 103
Satan, Britney Spears Top Paris Hilton In OSS References 182
Homer Simpson Drawn With Web 2.0-Style ASCII Art 160
Jack Thompson's Letter To Take-Two Exec's Mother 351
German Firms Patent Scented Text Messaging 127
Facial Hair and Computer Languages 199
EULAs For Malware 105
Blizzard to Boll - DENIED! 289
WiiMan, the Nintendo Wii Super Hero 46
Dilbert Goes Flash, Readers Revolt 486
NBC to Create Programs Centered on Sponsors 286
Oklahoma Leaks 10,000 Social Security Numbers 245
Robot Rebellion Quelled in Iraq 317
Purdue Students Win Rube Goldberg Contest 105
Uwe Boll To Quit Making Movies With 1M Signatures 355
The DIY Tank 334
Celebrity AD&D Character Sheets 194
T-Mobile Claims Trademark In the Color Magenta 249
Geeky April Fools' Day Prank Roundup 282
Inside UC Berkeley's High Tech Joke Recommender 102
Study Shows Males Commonly Mistake Sexual Intent 825
A Fond Look at Some Obsolete Ports 528
The 30 Dumbest Video Game Titles In History 113
What Will Life Be Like In 2008? 648
Nuclear Scanning Catches a Radioactive Cat On I-5 594
The Wrath of the Apple Tribe 870
MD Bill Would Criminalize Theft of Wireless Access 764
What's Your Favorite Monster? 245
Happy Pi Day 351
Paul Krugman's 1978 Theory of Interstellar Trade 173
Drinkable Languages Offered At LA Time-Travel Mart 62
Web Videos Show Off the Wonders of Chemistry 93
Facebook Moderator Gets Subpoena in Wikileaks Case 83
Diebold Leaks 2008 Election Results 196
Gaffes That Keep IT Geeks From the Boardroom 652
Hunting Bad CIOs In Their Natural Environment 112
Obsolete Technical Skills 603
Inventor to Launch Pop Bottle Rocket into Space 285
Rush Limbaugh Begs Steve Jobs For Bug Fixes 689
Microsoft Battles Vista Perception With Prizes 342
Speedcabling - Untangling For Fun and Profit 138
Men Willing to Give up Sex for a 50in TV 139
Yet Another Perpetual Motion Device 563
Top 10 Most Memorable Tech Super Bowl Ads 179
How To Lose $7.2B With Just a Few Basic Skills 234
Microsoft Launches IT Superhero Comic 285
China Vows to Stop the Rain 214
The True Cost of SMS Messages 583
Joel Hodgson Answers 95
Understanding Art for Geeks 213
Command Line Life Partner Wanted 503
Texas Creationist Museum Facing Extinction 824
New Dell Laptops Give Users a Literal Shock 383
10-year-old Microsoft Ticket Resurfaces? 257
CES 2008 Hall of Shame 179
2007 Darwin Award Winners 229
Long Term Effects of Gizmodo CES Prank 426
XKCD Inadvertently Causes Googlebomb 221
Beer Brewing Bender Completed 113
The Magic 8-Ball's Take on Tech in 2008 52
New Years Resolutions - An Engineering Approach 144
Dvorak Looks Back At 'Another Crappy Tech Year' 253
Computer Glitch Halts Seattle New Year's Fireworks 202