It’s a little tough to be saddled with a title like The World’s Best Computer Jokes, but if there is anyone guaranteed not to allow any false modesty to get in dhe way of a juicy editorial commission, it’s veteran computer industry commentator Rex Malik, who has compiled an entertaining slim volume for Angus & Robertson: when it comes to computer cartoons, it’s almost unfair to print anyone else’s work alongside that of Ze’var, the French cartoonist who week after week demonstrates triumphantly that it is possible to be funny about the computer industry, and there are a couple of examples of his work in the UKP1.95 volume; pick of the true stories, not surprisingly, comes from The Daily Telegraph, which relates that when W H Smith’s Bookfinder program was asked in a demo to find a book with the word cat or dog in the title, it innocently offered Catholic Dogma.
