Peeve Farm

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Peeve Farm
Breeding peeves for show, not just to keep as pets

Brian Tiemann
~~Silicon Valley~~New York-based purveyor of a confusing mixture of Apple punditry and political bile.

btman at grotto11 dot com

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Monday, September 8, 2008

12:11 - He's always been an innovator

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In the comments to this post, PlanetaryGear mentioned the "Bill Gates' Last Day at Microsoft" video:

And yes, it's amusing. Yes, the celebrity cameos were good and often inspired. The self-deprecating humor, painting Bill as a clueless, out-of-touch, aimless guy that everyone just sort of humors out of a weird combination of pity and fear, consistently delivers as expected. But... I just can't shake the feeling that this video, like just about every single other thing of note that Microsoft has ever done, owes its inspiration to something that came before:

I mean... seriously.

UPDATE: I don't know what the problem with the embedded videos is all of a sudden, but the first one is here and the second is here.

UPDATE: And now they're back. I guess YouTube's inner child had a bit of a cold last night.