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Articles / Palm Graveyard

Poor little PDAs...

    Reality shows that ways, in which many digital devices die, are just as odd, unpredictable, and bizarre as death of an intelligent man. The gadget tribes at the bottom of the food chain – the least protected ones, are of of course pocket personal assistants/computers. They are not as durable as phones and notebooks, and always are under a risk of getting squished, dropped, stepped on, crippled, or chewed by dogs.

    Quite nice proof of this theory is the “Palm Graveyard”, which was founded by the owner of Palm Infocenter website in memory of his Palm III which has passed away. Since the bodies of the dead ones are on display here, this cemetery resembles a morgue, and while it does not cause such strong feeling as Rotten.com [don’t suggest you going there if you just had a meal], it does make you wonder if anything has happened to your little Palm in past 10 minutes.

For example, this Palm V has experienced the weight of his owner’s fat ass.

This one has become a hi-tech dog food.

This one ended up being washed and then dried.

This one hasn’t made it into the collection yet, but it sure will soon.

The story going along with the above pictures tells us that the owner of that Palm is some high ranking moron in some hospital. One day he asked for his Palm III to be replaced with a Palm VII. After few months, during a severe rainfall, the computer got wet, and the owner called the tech support of its own company, where he was told to put his palm in the oven. The big idea behind it was that the heat generated by the pilot light would slowly and safely evaporate all water from within the Palm. Someone really smart has used the oven to bake a pizza – without noticing a palm pilot inside the oven...

People like that shouldn't be allowed to use technology. Hell, they shouldn't be allowed to breed.

Or live.

Sad.