If you respect movie stars or venerate figures such as Walter Cronkite, don't read Joe Queenan, whose columns for Movieline and The Wall Street Journal savage American icons. He spun outlandish tales of fund managers trashing hotel rooms, engaging in gunfights, urinating on Quotron machines, and eating the heads off live chickens. Even when made up, though, Queenan's humor isn't just pointed-it has a point. Geared toward the computer hobbyist, the site features technical explanations and performance scores for all of the important components that drive a personal computer, including motherboards, processors, graphics cards, and hard drives. One offering was a memo from Rep. Bill Goodling to members of his House education committee that laid out its schedule for the week.
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