A video from Apple’s 1984 Shareholders’ Meeting seems appropriate today.

Reuters reports that a man set for execution wants to die laughing. Then he must be told the Funniest Joke in the World, of course!

P.S. I know this is no laughing matter, but I respect a person who manages not to lose his sense of humor even under trying times.

And you thought Monty Python were just fooling around when they crafted this scene of the Killer Rabbit in the Holy Grail movie!

Apparently, there is (technically, was) a squirrel on a similar rampage in Berlin this week.

BERLIN (Reuters) – An aggressive squirrel attacked and injured three people in a German town before a 72-year-old pensioner dispatched the rampaging animal with his crutch.

The squirrel first ran into a house in the southern town of Passau, leapt from behind on a 70-year-old woman, and sank its teeth into her hand, a local police spokesman said Thursday. With the squirrel still hanging from her hand, the woman ran onto the street in panic, where she managed to shake it off. The animal then entered a building site and jumped on a construction worker, injuring him on the hand and arm, before he managed to fight it off with a measuring pole.

“After that, the squirrel went into the 72-year-old man’s garden and massively attacked him on the arms, hand and thigh,” the spokesman said. “Then he killed it with his crutch.”

I made a video slideshow of the photos I took at the Jardin Botanique in Montréal, Canada, during my trip in April. I’d been there to attend CHI 2006 and stayed a day longer to see the beautiful city. I managed to catch a limited-time exhibition at the Botanical Garden, titled “Les Papillons en Liberté” (Butterflies Go Free.) After the trip, my laptop was 2 gigs heavier, filled with marvellous photos of the city. I’ve been lazy enough not to have posted them to my site as yet, they’re just so beautiful, my heart hurts to crop them down to web-friendly sizes. Ditto with the video …

Here’s a preview of Windows Vista. The soundtrack seems to be a Microsoft original; the operating system on the other hand, ahem. This is an interesting followup to a previous post by me.

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This is a pretty interesting (and sadly true) parody of the iPod packaging.

Reminds me of Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s comment on design: "Perfection in engineering is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." This reflects the important distinction between Apple and Microsoft …