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Top 11: Wacky Replacements for Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death: Page 2 of 5

Tom Hart

text : A picture of Lumberg (from the movie 'Office Space' accompanied by the text "Yeah, I'm going to need you to go ahead and lose all your work in progress. Oh and if you could go ahead and keep supporting StolenFromOpenSource Software(tm), that'd be great."

Lisa Schroer

The new BSOD shows the current Microsoft stock price and a "Thank you for choosing Microsoft!" banner across the bottom.

Cindy Kryszak

A black screen with a coffin in the middle and the Crypt Keeper from "Tales from the Crypt" rising from it and laughing hysterically.

Brian Kinsey

The Not-Quite-Blue Screen of Insufficient Resources for Aero

Stephen Berry

The Black (Hole) Screen of Singularity...Complete with the UNIX phase rm -r*.