BBspot is most notable for its technology news satire.

BBspot is a founding member of HumorFeed, a prominent community of news satire webmasters ; Briggs is also a member of the editorial board for Check Please !, a journal devoted to the serious examination of news satire and journalism.

BBspot is most notable for its news satire, which mainly covers Technology, Microsoft, and Hollywood.

BBspot issues an award, the Technical Award of Excellence, for gadgets and technology, based on a series of obscure or superficial challenges ; such as coin flips, who has the best mascot, logo or name, and the web site.

Material from BBspot has been featured several times, sometimes presented inaccurately as real news, on respectable news websites and on TV.

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The PC Weenies webcomic also appears regularly on BBspot.

Jon ( Jonathan Q. Arbuckle ) is Garfield's owner, usually depicted as an awkward clumsy geek who has trouble finding a date.

Many gags focus on this ; his inability to get a date is usually attributed to his lack of social skills, his poor taste in clothes ( Garfield remarked in one strip after seeing his closet that " two hundred moths committed suicide "; in another, the " geek police " ordered Jon to " throw out his tie "), and his eccentric interests which range from stamp collecting to measuring the growth of his toenails to watching movies with " polka ninjas ".

Although, in the United Kingdom ( UK ), the pejorative noun " anorak " ( similar to the Japanese " otaku ", meaning a geek or enthusiast ) is often applied to people who obsessively pursue a particular hobby that is otherwise considered boring.

Sometimes, hacker also is simply used synonymous to geek: " A true hacker is not a group person.

* Lawrence " Larry " Tudgeman III ( Kyle Downes ): Referred to as " Tudgeman " ( or simply Tudge ), Larry is portrayed as the stereotype of the school geek.

He is a geek, and rival to Cory and Shawn.

In the April 2011 issue of Mother Jones, a timeline of Michael Dell's life is included in the article American Magnate: Michael Dell: How a homegrown geek outsourced, downsized, and tax-breaked his way to the top.

The film centers on Rob Gordon ( John Cusack ), a self-confessed music geek whose flair for understanding women is over par for the course.

The idea is that everything that makes a geek individual and different from all the other geeks in the world can be written down ( encoded ) in this very compact format.

One of the consequences of being so old in such a fast-moving field is that much of the geek code now looks rather dated.

Hayden's own geek code is :< BR >

For geeks with multiple occupations, a slash or slashes is or are used:, for instance, for a geek of medicine and technical writing.

Because geek is often synonymous with trekkie, it is important that all geeks list their Trek rating.

Although some categories have special syntax, generally each category is followed by a series of or signs showing how much the geek agrees or disagrees with the category.

For example, an after a category means that the geek's feelings on this category are not very rigid and can change with time, while a dollar sign implies the geek is in the enviable position of being paid for their work in this category.

In music, the Canadian geek rock band Moxy Früvous recorded the song King of Spain which is a modern retelling of the famed story, as the former King works at the Pizza Pizza.

Eliza is portrayed as a geek by her extensive zoological knowledge and her glasses, braces and by occasionally standing pigeon-toed.

Jim asks for sexual help and advice from band geek Michelle Flaherty ( Alyson Hannigan ), his senior-year prom date, who is busy at band camp.

Nadia is disappointed that Jim chose a geek over her, but is happy for Jim and allows him to go and find Michelle, performing at band camp.

" The king is Richard Norvik ( Barry Miller ), a former class geek turned multi-millionaire computer whiz.

The only insight into Snyder's past was his Band Candy-induced regression to adolescence, where he is a socially inept geek with delusions that others can tolerate his presence, and has no obvious understanding of the supernatural.

His point is simply that the Tories have showered him with personal satire, despite the fact that as a private subject he has a right to speak on political matters without affronting the prerogative of the Sovereign.

In them, there is usually a group of Anglo-Americans with tragicomic problems, worthy of being explored either in the novel or in the play or in comedy and satire ''.

There is a bitter satire for a future writer in that ''.

More than a beautiful visualization of the illustrious adventures and escapades of the tragi-comic knight-errant and his squire, Sancho Panza, in seventeenth-century Spain, this inevitably abbreviated rendering of the classic satire on chivalry is an affectingly warm and human exposition of character.

In English writing, the phrase " a modest proposal " is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire.

In the tradition of Roman satire, Swift introduces the reforms he is actually suggesting by paralipsis:

Wittkowsky counters that Swift's satiric use of statistical analysis is an effort to enhance his satire that " springs from a spirit of bitter mockery, not from the delight in calculations for their own sake ".

A Modest Proposal is included in many literature programs as an example of early modern western satire.

A Modest Proposal is the name of The University of Texas at Dallas ' Alternative Student Newspaper, the monthly opinion paper of the University ; it was also the name of a regular column in SWIFT Magazine of Harvard University, a satire publication that also takes its name from Jonathan Swift.

" For most Swahili speakers, the use of satire in writing is unfamiliar.

* Absalom and Achitophel ( 1681 ) is a landmark poetic political satire by John Dryden.

Among his very numerous works two poems entitle him to a distinguished place in the Latin literature of the Middle Ages ; one of these, the De planctu naturae, is an ingenious satire on the vices of humanity.

The Caucus Race as depicted by Carroll is a satire on the political caucus system, mocking its lack of clarity and decisiveness.

Living in worsening poverty, neglecting his health, and drinking excessively, Jarry went on to write what is often cited as the first cyborg sex novel, Le Surmâle ( The Supermale ), which is partly a satire on the Symbolist ideal of self-transcendence.

Featuring vividly outlandish characters, bizarre situations, and equal parts suspense, slapstick, irony, satire, black humor and biting social commentary, Li ' l Abner is considered a classic of the genre.

" Just about anything could be a target for Capp's satire — in one storyline Li ' l Abner is revealed to be the missing link between ape and man.

In Isaiah 44: 09 – 20 this is developed into a satire on the making and worship of idols, mocking the foolishness of the carpenter who worships the idol that he himself has carved.

It is classified as a Menippean satire, a fusion of allegorical tale, platonic dialogue, and lyrical poetry.

Typical of his satire and cynical humour, the book included a discourse on Parkinson's Law of Triviality ( debates about expenses for a nuclear plant, a bicycle shed, and refreshments ), a note on why driving on the left side of the road ( see road transport ) is natural, and suggested that the Royal Navy would eventually have more admirals than ships.

Candide, ou l ' Optimisme (; French: ) is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment.

For example, " Holiday in Cambodia " is a multi-layered satire targeting both yuppies and Cambodia's then-current Khmer Rouge regime.

Diderot's intention in writing the dialogue is disputed ; whether it is merely a satire on contemporary manners, or a reduction of the theory of self-interest to an absurdity, or the application of irony to the ethics of ordinary convention, or a mere setting for a discussion about music, or a vigorous dramatic sketch of a parasite and a human original.

The novel is considered a satire of orthodoxy, veracity, and even nationalism.