The “Sky Wheel,” a portable double-ferris wheel manufactured by Allan Herschell and marketed by Chance Manufacturing until the mid-seventies, looks like a great big taffy-pulling machine. Or a twine thingy. Either way.
    The first of these fold-’em-up and roll-’em-out erector set rides came off the line in 1939, and they were manufactured with pretty much the same design until the 70′s, when they stopped making them.
    If you see one, ride it immediately. I’d recommend that you jump the line, hurl the operator bodily from his roost and grab the next passing car. Or the feet of the people in the next passing car.
    Once you get to this point you’ll have already figured out what to do next; I’ve faith in you.

    Angry Machines International (AMI) has begun the painstaking process of dialing back the malice in their popular line of vertical application servers, the AMI-Z. Customers complained about how rudely it performed, and about how it seemed intent upon completing its tasks efficiently but with ill will and bad intent.
    Not that there were any errors, mind you. Every calculation, every transaction was performed precisely as intended. As a messaging and collaboration server it was without peer, and could be trusted with the most demanding of business critical tasks. It just seemed so pissed off about the whole thing.
    Originally this was intended as a security feature. Not only would it block unauthorized attempts to access its protected information, but it would do so with contempt and disdain; it is well known that a hacker/cracker would be less likely to attempt an additional intrusion if they felt emotionally abused during their initial experience.
    But now day-to-day processing is tainted with hatred and belligerance. Emails arrive on-time, printouts occur with no delays, and backups complete successfully every time–seething with barely conceiled hatred the whole time.
    Crap, you know, I don’t have time to go on. Google the stupid thing if you want to know more.