Geek Social Fallacies

Spotted this in the comments in someone else's journal and thought it was worth re-posting:
http://www.plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html

Phun

Making a valiant bid for Coolest Thing Evar... http://www.badscience.net/?p=622

Good news / bad news...

The good news is, my Nokia N810 was delivered today. Whee, shiny thing!!

The bad news is, I may have to kill myself in reaction to the Instructions For The Slow Of Thinking.

For example:

Switch the device on or off
To switch the device on or off,
press and hold the power key.

Gee thanks mister, I ain't done seen none of this here electrickery before.