It's funny. Laugh. Stories for 2013

The Software Inferno 109
GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language 575
King James Programming 184
The Ultimate Anti-Action Online Game: Waiting In Line 3D 94
And Now For Something Completely Different: Monty Python Reunion Planned 168
"Dance Your PhD" Finalists Announced 16
NSA App Ideas To Popularize Spying and Big Data 78
Swiss War Game Envisages Invasion By Bankrupt French 245
Horse_ebooks Is Human After All 72
Romanian Science Journal Punked By Serbian Academics 95
Research Finds Link Between Inflation and Laughter In Federal Reserve Meetings 144
British TV Show 'Blackout' Triggers Online LOLs 222
John McAfee Triggers the Ultimate False Positive 47
Time For X-No-Wiretap HTTP Header? 202
New Smartphone Tech To Alert Pedestrians: 'You Are About To Be Hit By a Car' 136
FOI Request Reveals UK Houses of Parliament Workers' Passion For Adult Content 61
Angry Customer Buys Promoted Tweets To Bash British Airways 286
Prankster Calls NSA To Restore Deleted E-mail 221
AI Is Funny - a Generative Joke Model 211
New Android App Encourages Users To Throw Device As High As Possible 156
10 Wearable Habitats To Shelter You From the Apocalypse 135
Signs Point To XKCD's Time Ending 226
Fake "Speed Enforced By Drones" Signs On California Freeways 218
Colorado Town Considers Drone-Hunting Licenses 341
PayPal Credits Man With $92 Quadrillion 151
Real Version of Homer Simpson's Dream Car Built 53
NSA Recruitment Drive Goes Horribly Wrong 530
Zynga Puts Random Stranger In Customer Support Role 158
Australian Air Force's Recruiting Puzzle Shown To Be Unsolvable 113
Kick-started Remake of Leisure Suit Larry Now On Sale 113
Pro Bono Lawyer Fights C&D With Humor 144
Linus Torvalds Promises Profanity Over Linux 3.10-rc5 334
Google Loves The Internship; Critics Not So Much 103
Irish Judge Orders 'The Internet' To Delete Video 243
Anti-Infringement Company Caught Infringing On Its Website 135
Israeli Singer Publishes a Song In Hebrew — and Perl 69
Warner Bros. Sued By Meme Creators Over Copyright Infringement 210
Online Hitchhiker's Guide Thriving 40
Lawyer Loses It In Letter To Patent Office 342
Man Who Tangled With The Oatmeal Ordered To Pay $46k 68
LucasArts Employees Hold Wake & Eulogy; Vader Still Roams 170
Film Studios Send Takedown Notices About Takedown Notices 197
Boston Cops Go Undercover Online To Crack Down on Concerts 229
IRS Spent $60,000 Producing Star Trek Parody 280
Google Keep End-of-Life Date Forecasted 164
Cyber Squatters Grab Up More Than 600 'Pope Francis' Domain Names 73
Seattle Bar Owner Bans Google Glass, In Advance 471
Indie Horror Film Shows What You Can Do (And Get) For Free 109
Shooting Yourself In the Foot, 21st Century Style 172
UK Apple Shop Forced To Change Its Name 174
Reasons You're Not Getting Interviews; Plus Some Crazy Real Resume Mistakes 246
Book Review: The Rise and Fall of T. John Dick 37
Fox News: US Solar Energy Investment Less Than Germany Because US Has Less Sun 644
Flying a Cessna On Other Worlds: xkcd Gets Noticed By a Physics Professor 148
Press, Bloggers Fall For iPhone Cup Holder 'Joke' 98
Original Batmobile Sells For $4.2 Million 47
IBM's Watson Gets a Swear Filter After Learning the Urban Dictionary 310
Dad Hires In-Game 'Assassins' To Get His Son To Stop Gaming 338

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