This article also appears in The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century.
It’s the second Monday in October, which means it’s Canadian Thanksgiving (or in French, Jour de l’Action de grâce)! I’d like to wish you a safe and happy holiday and remind you to think of what you’re thankful for.
Give this to your non-techie friends and relatives who keep hitting you up for tech support:
For more comics like this, see www.slowwave.com.
For those of you who love both martial arts and comic books, here’s a desktop that you might like: Green Dragon, featuring Bruce Lee as a Green Lantern…
In brightest day, in blackest night,
No evil shall escape his sight
Let those who worship evil’s might,
Get their asses kicked by Bruce, a’ight?
Even though this organization gives me a nice paycheque every two weeks for evangelizing:
…I still found today’s xkcd comic on the Windows 7 beta release funny:
The alt text for the comic does say "Disclaimer: I have not actually tried the beta yet. I hear it’s quite pleasant and hardly Hitler-y at all."
By the bye, don’t quote me on this but I hear tell that the next Ubuntu release will do nothing but show Richard Stallman and Eric Raymond forming a sexy “Eiffel Tower” (see this post for an explanation) with Linus Torvalds in the middle. I’m just sayin’.