Ooh, I've thought of one: a helium balloon. Imagine the tension as he occasionally forgets to hold the string!
bandwidthcrisis
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Can I just suggest that to mix things up a bit, this one should be set on a peninsula.
I bought a PC kit and it said "some assembly required" so I always try to link at least one asm file in my projects.
The "get shared and with whom" link in that article has "how to opt out" information.
Er, snopes.com has been debunking urban legends since the 90s (not only on the site but also newsgroups such as alt.folklore.urban). I think it deserves a little more respect than 'one of those "fact-check" articles'.
That reminds me of the joke where a factory has a big machine break down. They call in a specialist to fix it.
The specialist looks at the machine for a moment, hits it with a small hammer and it starts working instantly.
But on being told that the repair cost is $500, the factory owner is outraged and asks how that can possibly be justified for less than a minute's work.
"Well, it's $5 for use of the hammer, $495 for knowing exactly where to hit the machine."
Shouldn't they get back to their job of being inside people, in pairs?
Drain.exe would say "water in drive a:, commencing spin cycle" then power up the drive and make a gurgling sound.
Sheep.exe ... would create a sheep that would wander the desktop.
When I read it, it stirred a distant memory of hearing such a story before, so I knew that there was something behind it and looked it up.
You could just about play speech using one bit output using pulse-width-modulation. But it was almost unrecognizable. And would take a lot of memory for the time.
It was usual to have different numbers of beeps for POST errors.
But this was an age when a PC would say "Keyboard error. Press any key to continue", so things were not thought out that well.
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Glows under UV, AND is Fluorescent? Remarkable.