Some amusing humor sites.

• Humor.  There are a number of humor sites for philosophy including Ryan Stone's EpistemeLinks, Daniel Dennett's Philosophical Lexicon, D.H. Mellor's The Causes of Death of Philosophers, and a humor site by David Chalmers.  
• Tom Wayman's poem, "Did I Miss Anything?" is apparently a classic in certain circles, giving an answer to the perennial question from students who miss class.  I like the beginning, where the poem answers the question this way: "Nothing. When we realized you weren’t here we sat with our hands folded on our desks in silence, for the full two hours."
• The Philosophy Football Match is a soccer match of history's great philosophers, conceived by Monty Python veterans.  It might be a bit esoteric for many freshmen, but we thought it was hysterical.  
• This list of "teaching tips" by David Galey is sort of hysterical, partly because some of these are actually good ideas. 
• Partially Examined Life is a fascinating website, created by some philosophy graduate school dropouts, who create podcasts and a blog on various philosophical topics.  There is some humor here, but also just some good discussion about the topics. Their podcasts are also available on iTunes (search for "partially examined life"). We listened to the one on Nietzsche, which was quite interesting.
• Super heroes. Many of our students (and some of our colleagues) grew up playing with plastic super heroes with "six-pack" abs.  Philosophy grad and attorney Ian Vanderwalker has hilarious pictures of famous philosophers as super heroes, with descriptions of their powers. 
• Donald Palmer's text, Looking at Philosophy: the Unbearable Heavyness of Philosophy Made Lighter uses cartoons and drawings to explain philosophical points. 
• Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein illustrates philosophical theories with jokes.  
• Professor Peter Singer interviewed on the Colbert Report.  This comedy show is extremely popular with young people, who may find it interesting to see an interview with one of the most important (and controversial) philosophers of our day.
• Philosophy Songs includes mp3 files and lyrics to some songs about philosophy, written by V. Allan White.

Update: June 20, 2010