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Rage Against the Machines

Posted by michael on from the broken-dreams dept.

wiredbeat2000 writes "Kent Norman is a cognitive psychologist and director of the Laboratory for Automation Psychology and Decision Processes at the University of Maryland. He studies -- and makes films about -- why people lose it, and smash their computers, PDAs, mice, ect. MIT's Technology Review has a story about his lab."

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  1. Re:Machine Smashing by Jucius+Maximus · · Score: 2, Informative
    The one occasion when I had a good time smashing computers was back in 1998 or so when I was working as a non-paid co-op in a tech gig at the local university.

    My boss had around a dozen extremely old computers (complete with largely monochrome and/or failing monitors) and he told me to trash them. So I had a good time seeing how far the monitors would bounce when they hit the bottom of the dumpster.

    Ah yes, good times. But really, old monitors and other computer parts should go to proper recycling facilities due to the heavy metals and other dangerous chemicals in them that should not be kept away from open landfills.