Frightful, funny, or weird: Halloween computer tales
Funny:
- Configure your computer with southern humor: “Winders 2005″ [Lorelle, Photography and Travel… ]
- Best of secretGeek: Silliest User Interface: Windows Search and more
- Get paid $75 to take a quick survey from Google, IF they pick you to participate [ hey, the FAQ is funny, [Yahoo Fan Club via Digital Point Forums]
Scary:
- Pentagon gathering data on people from MySpace [BoingBoing] (spying on mySpace: those guys need some fun. wonder how many computers they used for this venture; your tax dollars at work)
- According to some techs, there’s a pattern to the quality of Microsoft products:
DOS 3.3: GOOD
DOS 4.2: BAD
DOS 5.0: GOOD
DOS 6.0: BAD
DOS 6.22: GOOD
Windows 3.0: BAD
Windows 3.1: GOOD
Windows 95: BAD
Windows NT/98: GOOD
Windows ME: BAD
Windows 2000/XP: GOOD
Windows Vista: ? [Open Source Magazine: Altroon at TechRepublic] (Maybe this should go under ‘weird’ heading)
- Got the flu? blame your computer, not your spouse (I just got over a flu and I blame my spouse who coughed all over me. such is love. we share everything) “… your desk and everything on it (especially your keyboard) is … teaming with nasty, microbial sea monkeys. Your cell phone is even worse…” [Mike Elgan, Computerworld]
- Lousy software influenced Moby’s music: “I was using different software on my computer … this software is really hard to use, so it was me just being lazy … more fun to make music without samples, … the sampling software was such a pain in the ass … ‘[Moby discusses his music album, Hotel] (I like Music; interview w. Moby)
Weird:
- Haunted house story: Even the computer turned on by itself [Charleston Daily Mail] (hmmm… if the computer had Vista beta, that might be a ‘feature’, not a haunting)
- Infolab Video’s News at Seven creates a tv show mashup of web news and rss feeds [Boing Boing]
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