The Annoying Music Show Jim Nayder is an otherwise normal guy with a passion for really bad music. He is quoted as an expert on having songs stuck in your head in the Pocket Encyclopedia of Aggravation.
Digital Comedy Nipple If you like your humor dry with a dash of sauce. To find out what's so annoying about this page, click on the "pornography" link at the bottom.
Bud Uglly Web Page Design A Web page that brilliantly pulls together all of the most annoying Web tricks, even a few you may not have seen elsewhere. Be sure to look at all the previous versions of the page for full viewing (dis)pleasure.
The Disgruntled Postal Worker Zone This site asks, "Is the word "disgruntled" a registered trademark of the U.S. Postal Service? And why is it that you never hear of happy employees being gruntled?" I actually wrote an article once on this Web page in which I answered that question...
Unclaimed Baggage Center As mentioned in the entry on Lost Luggage on page 141 of the Pocket Encyclopedia of Aggravation, if an airline loses your luggage, it might end up here. Shop now for other people's mislaid things.
The American Institute of Stress. Enough said.
End Daylight Savings Time These folks get annoyed twice a year when they have to reset their clocks. Daylight Savings Time didn't make the final cut in The Pocket Encyclopedia of Aggravation, but the thought was there.
Why is Everyone So Cranky? Author Leslie Charles wants to know.
Noise Effects Handbook A scientific study on the effects of too much NOISE, a subject whose entry appears on page 158 of the Pocket Encyclopedia of Aggravation.
What Bird Did That? Ever look at a bird dropping on your freshly washed BMW and wonder what feathered creature is responsible? Here's where you find out.
Bad Human Factors Designs A scrapbook of products that were designed without ease of use by humans in mind.
Land of the Lost Socks The Hoosier Times has set up this helpful site to try to reunite lost socks with their mates.
Robert Matthews British physicist has devoted much of his mental ability to explaining such Murphy's Law phenomenon as why toast lands butter side down and why ropes seem to spontaneously knot themselves. His articles were tremendously useful in writing the Pocket Encyclopedia of Aggravation.
JunkbustersWeb site devoted to putting an end to telemarketing, junk mail and spam.
Don Norman's Human Centered Design Norman advocates designing products so they're actually easy for people to use.
Eric Kramer A pioneer in the field of annoying candy wrapper research (see page 70 in the Pocket Encyclopedia of Aggravation)
Error Messages a Web page that compiles the most outrageous examples of error messages from the author of Developing Windows Error Messages An entire book on the subject of error messages
TV-Turn Off Week For those who are bothered by televisions that are always left on as found on page 205 of the Pocket Encyclopedia of Aggravation.
Reasonable Drivers Unanimous a Web page for those who are bothered by speed limits. (See p. 189 in the Pocket Encyclopedia of Aggravation-- Speeding Tickets)
The World Anti-Mimic League opposing mimes, clowns, cymbal monkeys and other hellspawn. Although the author of the Pocket Encyclopedia of Aggravation was once a mime herself, mimes are featured on page 148.
The
Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation if the PowerPointization
of the Nation is your Pet Peeve, you will love Peter Norvig's vision of
what Abraham Lincoln's famous speech might be like if he'd had PowerPoint.
This presentation is mentioned in the article on PowerPoint on page 175
in the Pocket Encyclopedia of Aggravation.
Interactive Guide to Flaming a Web site devoted to Internet Flaming
Jump the Shark a Web page that chronicles the moment when favorite TV shows start to go down hill
Journal
of Mundane Behavior journal devoted to the study "of aspects
of our everyday lives that typically go unnoticed by us. We approach these
topics with both the sense of whimsy about the extraordinary efforts we
put into
maintaining such "mundane" aspects of our
lives."
Annals of Improbable Research a humor magazine of science, medicine, and technology. AIR is known for (a) funny genuine science; (b) deadpan satire; and (c) the Ig Nobel Prizes.
Uselessknowledge.com just what it says
AmIAnnyoingornot.comA place to vote on which celebrities are annoying and which are not.
Minor Annoyances and What They Teach Us An article by Phil Agre from the Red Rock Eaters Digest.
The E-Mail Annoyances Resource Page If your pet peeve involves e-mail petitions, hoaxes, and false virus warnings, send the perpetrator here to read up.