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A site for techs by techs. Includes tech stories, calls, customer types, co-worker types, and EUPOTD's.
http://www.techcomedy.com/

Features humor articles, links and more about the modern technology you love to hate.
http://www.technocursed.com

Using search engines to find fewer results. History of whacking and related terms, some examples, and the paradox of announcing the results of a successful whack.
http://www.unblinking.com/heh/googlewhack.htm

A deranged plot-driven comic by Matt Wilson
http://comic.keenspace.com

A repository of humorous and amusing joke emails with a search engine, regular updates and a weekly mailing list.
http://www.jardmail.co.uk

Actual responses to internet personal ads.
http://www.waytoopersonal.com/

Contains many jokes, software, images, media humor, pranks, gags, and other silly files.
http://www.computerpranks.com

Take your picture through your computer monitor.
http://onestep.hypermart.net/framephoto.html

A new randomly chosen (and fictitious) error greets you every time you go to this site.
http://www.servererror.net/

A funny warning to send to your friends
http://homepage.mac.com/johnnybgood/io.html

Guide to the funniest sad and silly web sites.
http://www.iamsad.co.uk/

Humor site exposing the weirdest, funniest, and most disturbing auctions from eBay and other internet auction sites.
http://www.disturbingauctions.com

A transcript of an actual conversation with Sisa, the My Siemens.com personal guide.
http://www.minke.com/plays/sisa.html

Articles submitted by about tech support experiences by tech support people.
http://www.vendetta.org

Claims to be the world's smallest website. Smaller than a postage stamp, the site includes games, a webcam, weblog and multimedia all in 18x18 pixels.
http://www.guimp.com/

An article about Pigeon-Mail, a carrier pigeon flying in between two computers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1321176.stm

Written argument between William G. and Thomas Smyth presented as Usenet posts.
http://www.shipbrook.com/jeff/net1540.html

Generate bogus new economy phrases.
http://dack.com/web/bullshit.html

Helps to avoid spending billions of hours waiting for web pages to load.
http://www.onzin.nl/internetdownload/

Humor and cartoons about routers and the joys of router configuration.
http://www.william-whitney.com/cisco/cisco.html

A look at some of the stranger eBay auctions.
http://www.crazy-auctions.co.uk/

A lengthy, humorous 404 Not Found message.
http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/service/

An insight into the downside of running a web site and the correspondence it can generate.
http://www.webfoot.com/advice/WebDarkSide.html

A collection of "funny, strange, confusing, interesting, or scary eBay auctions."
http://www.funnyauctions.com/

Uses Google to find hidden humorous comments about anyone or anything.
http://is-a.com/

QDB
Database of amusing quotes taken out of context from IRC channels. Includes a top 100 list and a list of recent additions.
http://www.bash.org/

Platform independent Cray supercomputer emulation. Requires Flash.
http://www.xosx.com/

EFF
Long list of funnies that explore the nooks and crannies of Net culture includes tales of hacker Barbie, the crypto subpoena hoax and the cyberpasse manifesto. Also find parodies based on Dr. Seuss and Edgar Allan Poe.
http://www.eff.org/Net_culture/Folklore/Humor/

Showcasing items found on peer-to-peer networks, usually things people probably didn't intend to share at all.
http://www.foundonp2p.com/

Funny, out of context quotes from instant messenger users.
http://www.freewebs.com/outofcontext/

Real and ficticious geeks reveal all.
http://www.geekoftheday.com/

Visitors can visit one of millions of family-friendly websites at random.
http://www.randomwebsite.net

Geeky parody of "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music. Large 47 megabyte mpeg file.
http://windward.nodalpoint.net/doc/media/favorites.mpeg

Allows the visitor to photograph his or herself, and order copies, using Kognak Unprofessional Online Photo Booth.
http://roscoetoon.lunarpages.com/stuff/camera/

Organization tracking down and ridiculing webmasters who break their hosting agreements with unsuitable content.
http://www.haktanir.org/sitebuster/

An effort to convince web page authors not to use under construction icons. Suggests a few alternatives to the most common images.
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~gk/atwork/