Hall Of Technical Documentation Weirdness
An anonymous reader submits: "Generally speaking, with the exception of Tina on Dilbert, technical writers aren't very funny. This is something of a rare and unintentional exception. This guy has assembled a bunch of examples of bizarre technical illustration. There's only about 15 at the moment, but he's collecting further examples."
How come this got accepted when all the Really Cool Stuff (tm) I put in didn't?
-5, move along sir, nothing to see here
Condom Wrappers: May not protect you from the filthy faggot diseases carried by Rob Malda.
Fourth Edition
It's a great book, and Tanenbaum really knows his stuff, but sometimes he would put some really stupid jokes in the text.
And this line from page 21 of "E-Commerce and E-Business Infrastructure" by Chaudhury/Kuilboer cracked me up the first time I read it.
"For brick and mortar companies, the challenge is to incorporate Web-based channels into existing operations so as to maximize synergy" which reads straight out of 1999.
Karma: Can only be portioned out by the Cosmos.