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[via xkcd]

Even though decades have passed, Monty Python humour still is in a league of its own - and one of the best things about it is that someone will always be offended by it . The clip above is a popular sketch from Monty Python’s Flying Circus called How Not To Be Seen. There is a remix version on the value of cover and subterfuge in the Halo franchise of first-person shooter video games, but it’s just not the same …

I have never found an office chair that lives up to its promised hype, and I have never looked at EBay for one … . A-minus-minus from xkcd.

A humourous take by xkcd on another M$ abomination: Windoze ME. Don Fletcher (in his comment to the comic at TechRepublic) pointed out that “MS had a problem getting XP to work, but they wanted a release for the year 2000 because the media hype about Y2K was going to drive a ton of un-needed upgrades. So they slapped the XP GUI and some code onto 98 and called it ME. It was a terrible OS from a tech point of view (poor driver support, features that didn’t work etc)”. Don continued: “I started beta testing Vista in June 06, and as the RC releases came out the features slowly went away, until the RTM was basically XP with a Vista GUI and some extra intrusive security. The whole process has been just like ME, as well as the resulting OS. Quite disapointing, actually.” What can we expect to see next from M$?

While we’re at it … a cartoon from UserFriendly.org. And I like Jay Garmon’s link between the philosophical cynicism of Winston Churchill and the market forces of Adam Smith .