Humour
Well before the Web, Usenet used to be the only way to waste time while writing a thesis. Much of the humor here dates to my grad student days in the late 1980s. Please note that I did not write most the articles linked here: I merely saved them from Usenet for posterity.
Geek
- What if computer users bought cars
 - Life before computers
 - Geek nursery rhymes
 - Hindi film songs to illustrate programming constructs (really)
 - My geek humour
 - Rapid reviews
 
Academic
- Understanding the university power structure
 - Universal Grade Change Form
 - Decoding professors
 - Decoding letters of reference
 - Advice I got from a referee of one my papers (quoted verbatim)
- Some polishing of the English is required. With a thoroughly reading, the authors can find the grammar mistakes.