Sparky's wartime in America

It's the Microsoft Muppet show
Fri Feb 14, 3:10 PM ET OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian software group Opera has
taken a swipe at U.S. giant Microsoft by issuing an Internet browser that
converts text on Microsoft's website into the nonsense language of a popular
television puppet. When Opera users visit Microsoft's site with the new browser,
the text displayed there appears to them in a language mimicking that of the
Swedish chef on the popular "Muppet Show", Opera said in a statemen on
Friday. "This joke is for real," Opera's chief technology officer Haakon Wium Lie
told Reuters.

Opera calls its new browser the "Bork edition" after the "Bork, Bork, Bork!"
sound made by the Swedish chef Muppet. In the chef's mock Swedish, the MSN
site headline "Weekend movie guide" is rendered "Veekend mufeee-a gooeede-
a" and "Looking for a new car?" is "Luukeeng fur a noo cer?" to Opera browser
users. On other sites, including Opera's own (http://www.opera.com/), the
browser functions normally. Full story