Rage against Technology

You have to admit the measures inititated by social scientists really amazes us at times, the following is an excerpt from an article [Link can be found on Page Title] which apparently helps us to resolve our frustrations in a more erm, economical way for this festive season.




Computer Rage - How Not To Destroy Your New High-Tech Gifts
By Neil Tickner
University of Maryland

To help keep these new gifts intact, Norman recommends that users find unconventional ways to let off some steam on old computer equipment, such as barbequing a computer mouse, cleaning a computer in a carwash or chopping a keyboard in half.

"When people sink three grand into a new plasma TV and something goes wrong, sometimes a killer instinct takes over," says Norman. "The anger may simply boil over when your spouse says, 'you spent all that money and now you can't get it to work?' That's when you've got to make sure people or the expensive equipment don't get hurt."


And to think we always called machines cruel and brutal and violent as well.

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Anyone watched Celebrity Death Match recently? It's been showing on Mondays and Tuesdays nights on Arts Central at 10pm.



The recent deathmatch featured Eddie Murphy vs Nick Nolte titled "Yet Another 48 Hours" which cracked me up quite a bit. Macaulay Culkin vs Haley Joel Osmont was good as well but Courtney Love vs David Grohl and erm.. cant remember the his partner.. That was truly gory enough to match the movie "Saw"

Violent Tendencies on my part? Nah.. I'll just crush an ant with my pinkie, that's the furthest I'll go.