Scary MBR-nuking program inspired by XKCD geeky webcomic


Dustin sez, "After reading Friday's XKCD (#340) [Ed note: in which the punchline involves a love-letter written to the narrator's master boot record], I was inspired to write a program that does exactly that -- it writes a 'love note' to your computers MBR, except in a neat twist it displays the 'love note' on bootup. There is a screenshot. There is also a quiz to determine whether or not you're qualified to actually install the program." Link (Thanks, Dustin!)

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Geeky comic about chess and roller-coasters
Nerd humor about Katamari Damacy
Sarcastic comic about computational linguistics (and emo kids)
Funny map of online communities in the style of a D&D map
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