Windows 7 is Puttin’ on the Ritz

Super duuuperrr! Microsoft today releases its latest operating system, Windows 7, which has been earning positive reviews and is expected to erase bad memories about Vista, its reviled predecessor.

So what does Microsoft do to celebrate? Introduce the software with that cute 4-year-old girl who says, “I’m a PC”? Nope. Next to a computer monitor it sits CEO Steve Ballmer, voted most likely to reprise Peter Boyle’s portrayal of the monster in the musical version of “Young Frankenstein.”

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My Red Cross CPR class didn’t cover this: About 58 percent of pet owners say they would perform mouth-to-snout resuscitation on their pets in an emergency. About 63 percent of dog owners and 53 percent of cat owners said they’d perform CPR.

Fish owners just shrugged their shoulders.

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Shocking development: The maker of Taser stun guns is warning police agencies not to aim for a suspect’s chest because of the risk of an “adverse cardiac event” and should instead aim for areas other than the chest.

But not there, either.

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