Those wacky Chinese can’t keep themselves from opening fire on Tibetan protesters, even while the eyes of the world are on them during this delightfully shambolic Olympic Games:

Chinese troops fired on Tibetan protesters this week and 400 people have been killed since unrest erupted in March, the Dalai Lama was quoted as saying in an interview published on Thursday.

The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader denied a comment attributed to him by Le Monde newspaper that 140 people had died on Monday when the Chinese security forces opened fire. But his office said there were casualties.

“The Chinese army again fired on a crowd on Monday August 18, in the Kham region in eastern Tibet,” said the Nobel Peace prize winner who is on a 12 day visit to France.

Zzzzz…

Let’s get back to discussing faked opening ceremonies and under-aged gymnasts!

Tonight I was giving a techie walkthrough for a friend via MSN (a.k.a. “Windows Live Messeger”) when I had the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSOD).

Man, was I pissed off. So it was that much sweeter when I read that the BSOD itself had a cameo during the Olympic Opening Ceremony. How cool is that?

At the exact moment Li Ning was rounding the lip of the Bird’s Nest during the amazing torch-lighting climax, someone snapped this photo of our good friend the BSOD nestled amongst the Nest’s steel twigs. Perhaps an Opening Cermonies IT dude spit out his coffee on the machines in the server room when Li took to the sky?

Resolved: This is more embarrassing for China than their smog and human rights record combined!