Filthy PCs: The X-rated circus of horrors
Grotesque dust creatures and mummified frogs
Posted in Bootnotes, 26th November 2010 12:54 GMT
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If any of you are feeling a bit queasy, stick with it, because we're entering the final straight with the obligatory eight-legged exposé.
Barry Redwood of Ontario says this kind of thing is a common sight in his repair shop. We'll do the joke for you - yes, this machine was used for web surfing:

Eddie Abbott brings us two more arachnid habitats...


...as Simon Avery reveals what he found inside a PC he'd had running in his loft for a few months in early November. He notes: "Being the only warm thing in the loft, the flies looking for somewhere to hibernate crawled in through the missing backplate..."

That evidently turned out to be a bad move. The spider looks well-fed, though.
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