Annals of Improbable Research

Site:
http://improb.com/

Category:
Humor

Review (in 1996):

This may be science at its funniest, as students at MIT collect and distribute some of the best science stories ever.

AIR hands out the IgNoble awards (which "should not be confused with those other prizes") to such dignitaries as the co-authors of "The Constipated Serviceman; Prevalence Among Deployed U.S. Troops", which kept numerical statistics of bowel movement frequency. They even have some fun of their own; burying a "time caplet" containing, among other things, McDonalds fries, Internet Barbie (a half-naked doll with fiber-optic cables for hair), and a running shoe. Of course, they placed all these items in a trash compactor before putting them into the caplet.

AIR is a great reason to go into science (or perhaps to avoid it at all costs).

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.