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There was a very funny tongue-in-cheek article on technorage by Charlie Brooker in Monday’s Guardian (21/01/08). Here’s an excerpt: Recently, I was on a plane, sitting beside an 80-year-old woman who couldn’t comprehend how the in-flight entertainment system worked. It had a touch-screen monitor and an additional set of

Charlie Brookers article

Charlie Brookers article

okontrollerbara mysglädje som att läsa A.A. Gill i Sunday Times för tio år sedan – och alltid, alltid, slutar det med att kollegerna ropar »prosit« från höger och vänster när man försökt kväsa skrattattackerna framför jobbdatorn. Läs krönikan från i måndags och dö. Kanske allra roligast för oss som dessutom ser det stora poetiska allvaret i att fjärrkontrollera sig igenom en ny teveapparats menysystem utan en tanke på att plasta upp manualen, och som nickar sammanbitet när Brooker

I love complex gadgets. What I can’t stand are idiots who don’t know which buttons to press [guardian.co.uk]

I love complex gadgets. What I can’t stand are idiots who don’t know which buttons to press [guardian.co.uk]

screen options, replete with little icons and sliding scales. Sit me in front of a brand-new telly and it’s the first thing I’ll reach for, because new tellies often come with surprising and exotic new features provided by the gods of technology. Read full article here… Share This

most of the time the things we use are so badly designed it isn’t actually the person using it’s fault. But sometimes, just sometimes, it can be blamed on sheer stupidity. People who know me will also know how much I LOVE Charlie Brooker. I love complex gadgets. What I can’t stand are idiots who don’t know which buttons to press…

Charlie Brooker in The Guardian...

Charlie Brooker - I love complex gadgets. What I can’t stand are idiots who don’t know which buttons to press