"Pentagram on your Pentium? Prayers for intervention? Banging on that microwave to get it to heat evenly? Cult of the Flaky Hardware is a darkly humorous look at the crazy things we do to get our machines working again. New feature put up weekly."

This Week's Feature

Is Your Hardware Ninja?

Sections

• The Curse, Flaky Hardware and how it got that way

• The Cure,What people do to hardware on the fritz

• The Coven,The Cult itself

• The Plague,Bringing others to the Cult

• The Apocalypse,Why we will survive the (near) end of the world

• The Lexicon,The words we use

• The Unknown, Philosophies and musings

What on earth is this?

• Flaky - functioning between 1% and 99% of the time.
• Flaky Hardware - electronic components that don't always work
• Flaky Hardware Superstition - a less than totally reasonable explanation of why the hardware is flaky or of how to increase the chances of it working on the next try.

Imagine, if you will--that all of the superstitious things that we did to make our cars, computers, lawn-mowers, and handheld game systems to work came together to form a single universal technotheological belief system. A cult, if you will. You might be a part of that cult right now. You may not even know about it. If you're reading this page, chances are, you're in. -BS

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