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Brilliant.

Ventblockers Our shock picture last Friday of a Quatermass-style lifeform lurking inside a PC prompted a flurry of snaps forwarded by readers who had similarly confronted unspeakable horrors.

We gather that many of our correspondents are responding well to therapy, and could be back working in PC maintenance in five years or so. Others, sadly, are condemned to spend the rest of their days in a padded room gibbering about alien beings like that unfortunate bloke from Quatermass and the Pit who sees a hellish vision of Mars inhabited by Red Planet bouncing insect creatures.

Well, flamethowers at the ready. We're going in...

A gentle start there, courtesy of Rob Dege and the front panel of a client's PC. Definite signs of proto-life.

Next up, Neil Cameron-Rollo, who says this machine was still working...

...as was this one, claims Stuart Green, "until we cleaned it":

Eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww eww.

Pure awesomeness.

Eat at Chick-Fil-A.

#NaNoWriMo is so much fun.

I have to go check Twitter again. Sorry.

Yes, that's a Windows XP error, floating in the sky. No, it's not a Photoshop. And this is what it looked like after a reboot:

Apparently, the fog near a plaza in Ukraine was so utterly intense, advertisements were reflected in the sky. This one, for a church or a house or a vacation or maybe just some Lysol ran into a little Windows XP oopsie. I'm almost sad they didn't just leave the Windows XP error up there, making at least somebody think that God was one of us, cursing his crashing computer. [English Russia]

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D'oh.