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• Angels on a Pin

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

• BBspot - Half-Life 2 Physics Engine Contains Grand Unified Theory

  http://bbspot.com/News/2003/12/valve_unified_theory.html
  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.

• BBspot - Overclocker Creates Rift in Space-Time Continuum

  http://bbspot.com/News/2000/5/clock_rift.html
  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.

• Doug Craigen's Huge Physics Humor Collection

  http://www.dctech.com/physics/humor/
  May be the most linked-to physics humor site on the web because of its very large link collection.

• Einstein, Heisenberg, Tipler

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

• Evil Squirrels and Physicists

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

• First Atomic Clock Wristwatch

  http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/atomic-bill/
  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.

• Physics and Science Fun

  http://www.physlink.com/Fun/Index.cfm
  Fun with physics, science jokes, cartoons, anecdotes, and stories.

• Physics Limericks

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

• Physics Song Book

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

• PhysicsSongs.org

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

• Politically Correct Physics

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

• QuarkDance.org!

  http://pdg.lbl.gov/quarkdance/
  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.

• SatireWire - Scientist Splits Atom, Finds Toy Prize Inside

  http://www.satirewire.com/news/may02/prizes.shtml
  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.]

• Sokal's Hoax

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

• Super G-String Field Theory

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

• The Non Abelian Names of God

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

• The Physics Crackpot Index

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

• The Super G-String

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

• Theological Thermodynamics

  http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/hell.htm
  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.

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