Miscellaneous links

These are links that I have either not sorted into a proper category yet or just don't have a well defined category to file them in. It's a mixed bag of links to sites that I sometimes visit. Perhaps you will find some of them interresting, perhaps not.

The Daily WTF - Curious Perversions in Information Technology

Code nightmares, storries about pointy haired bosses from hell and IT employees who are stupid beyond belief. Lots of laughs if you work in IT.

The Bastard Operator From Hell

The Complete WWW Edition of the BOFH. These stories were written by Simon Travaglia and will make you roll on the floor laughing if you've ever worked a sysadmin or tech support job. Great fun, a must read.

Engrish.com

Humourous abuse of the english language in various contexts. There are many good laughs to be found here. Some people write the strangest stuff when they don't really know the language.

bash.org

A database of quotes found on various online forums (mostly IRC). Most of these quotes are quite funny but I guess some people would find some of them offensive - but that's your problem, not mine.

The GNU Operating System

GNU is a project to develop a free software implementation of a UNIX like operating system. They have most tools done, but not their kernel, so most GNU systems use the Linux kernel. GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU is Not Unix".

But That's Impossible!

A humorous (or scary, you chose) list of responses often given by people clueless about security.

The Pwnie Awards

An annual awards ceremony celebrating and making fun of the achievements and failures of security researchers and the wider security community.

The Free Software Pact Initiative

Free Software advocacy associations April (the main French advocacy association devoted to promote and protect Free/Libre Software) and "Associazione per il software libero" (Italy) have launched a joint campaign aimed at the European Parliament elections in early June 2009. The campaign invites citizens to ask candidates to sign the "Free Software Pact".
The Free Software Pact is a simple document with which candidates can inform the voting public that they favor the development and use of Free Software, and will protect it from possible threatening EU legislation.

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

A must read document before you start asking questions on mailing lists, IRC, online forums and similar.