Classic Onion: Heroic Computer Dies To Save World From Master's Thesis

Reported in The Onion:

WALTHAM, MA—A courageous young notebook computer committed a fatal, self-inflicted execution error late Sunday night, selflessly giving its own life so that professors, academic advisors, classmates, and even future generations of college students would never have to read Jill Samoskevich's 227-page master's thesis, sources close to the Brandeis University English graduate student reported Monday.

As a master's candidate living in Waltham, and sometimes using the same model of notebook computer described in the Onion article, I had to chuckle. Read why Samoskevich's thesis was so bad here.