This is a clip of percussionist Joe Porter playing the Windows XP shutdown theme on 15 different percussion instruments in a row, accompanied by a string quartet. It brought back memories. Mostly, of my computer shutting down in college when I was in the middle of doing something important. “Like

Crochet artist Nicole Nikolich recently completed this double-sided Windows home screen blanket, with Windows 95 on one side, and Windows 11 on the other. It took Nicole over two months and a respectable 104,800 stitches to complete the 8-pound, 5′ x 3.5′ blanket. And, I think I speak for everyone

This is a video from Front Street West and Spadina Avenue in Toronto of a high-rise construction job gone wrong when a large window pane being hoisted by a crane begins swinging and spinning in the wind, eventually striking the building and raining shattered glass onto the street below. Apparently

This is a video of South Korean acapella quintet MayTree (previously) performing a brief history of Windows startup sounds, including such bangers as Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 10, and Windows 11. Which was your favorite? Mine has been and always will be Windows XP. As

These are two videos of South Korean a cappella group Maytree performing Windows and iPhone sound effects with nothing but their mouths. Most impressive. For reference, when I was in business school my classmates and I once passed an egg down the line using nothing but spoons in our mouths.