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This doesn’t appear to be an officially endorsed product, yet someone has created a Windows brand cheese snack. I wonder if the cheese also makes you crash after a few hours? See all the cheesey goodness at the link
“Firefox has encountered an unexpected problem with windows.” is the obvious comment at YouTube. -via The Daily What
Artist Paul Destieu created an art installation inspired by a common error in Microsoft Windows. “My Favorite Landscape” shows the Windows XP wallpaper called “Green Hill” duplicated multiple times.
Link via Geekosystem
A replica of the “Semelle” window
The Michelin Man aka Bibendum was featured in three stained glass windows when the Michelin tire company set up business in its Fulham Road location in London in 1911. However the beautiful art deco windows were removed in 1939 at the beginning of WWII and taken to another Michelin location for safe storage. They disappeared soon after and the company is now appealing for their return in time for the Michelin House Building centenary celebration in January.
The current windows are high quality recreations based on the best interpretations of tinted pictures and black and white photographs.
The person who provides information leading to the return of the original windows will be offered a stained glass amnesty and rewarded with a dinner for two at the Michelin-starred chefs’ luncheon event scheduled in January at Michelin House.
(TBT link)
Windows errors are annoying, but if you have enough of them you can dance! From Today’s Big Thing. -via b3ta
Personally, I prefer this version from a few years back that uses sounds from both Windows 98 and XP.
How well do you know your computers, operating systems, and peripherals? Find out with this Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss. They’ll give you a question, and you decide whether they’re talking about an Apple computer, or an IBM clone type computer that uses Windows. Or neither. I scored 80%! Link
The argument of Mac vs PC (or more accurately, Mac vs Windows) is as old as time itself – that is, if time started in 1984, the year that the Mac was introduced.
Sure Windows is bad. Awfully bad (I’m looking at you, Vista) but according to Charlie Brooker of The Guardian, there is something worse than Microsoft’s operating system: the cult of Mac worshippers!
Consequently, nothing pleases them more than watching a PC owner struggle with a slab of non-Mac machinery. It validates their spiritual choice. Recently I sat in a room trying to write something on a Sony Vaio PC laptop which seemed to be running a special slow-motion edition of Windows Vista specifically designed to infuriate human beings as much as possible. Trying to get it to do anything was like issuing instructions to a depressed employee over a sluggish satellite feed. When I clicked on an application it spent a small eternity contemplating the philosophical implications of opening it, begrudgingly complying with my request several months later. It drove me up the wall. I called it a bastard and worse. At one point I punched a table.
This drew the attention of two nearby Mac owners. They hovered over and stood beside me, like placid monks.
"Ah: the delights of Vista," said one.
"It really is time you got a Mac," said the other.
"They’re just better," sang monk number one.
"You won’t regret it," whispered the second.
But never fear, dear Mac lovers, Microsoft is trying to brew its own cult by using Windows 7 Launch Parties propaganda: Link
