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September 10, 2003
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Dale Amon (Belfast, Northern Ireland)  Civil liberty/regulation

User Friendly has been my daily "must read" cartoon every day since it's inception. It's the "Bloom County" of the computer world. If you see a tech guy laughing hysterically and falling off his seat, it means he's either just wiped the corporate server terrabyte disk and backups by accident or is reading UF.

Like Bloom County, the strips have long standing characters and follow ongoing story lines. The stories often have a connection to the humorous side of current events.

Now to the point and the current events. UF's Sunday 'toon takes a pithy look at the true meaning of the RIAA "amnesty" program.

Don't blame me if you spend the rest of the day and well into the night reading the UF cartoon archives... you have free will. Really.

Comments

Oddly enough, I just finished reading UserFriendly for the day. I do recommend it as .


Posted by Daniel Von Fange at September 10, 2003 01:51 PM

Might I observe that the User Friendly cartoons also come in a nice series of books, published by O'Reilly. I particularly like the cover of this one


Posted by Michael Jennings at September 10, 2003 08:59 PM
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