This is a perfect example of articles I’m gonna link to in my new category Fellow sufferers: Detlef Grell’s editorial in the current issue of the german computer magazine c’t deals with the annoying habit of consumer electronic devices with clocks (VCR, radio, Hi-fi System…) to blink at you when turned on after having been disconnected from power instead of simply setting themselves via RDS/video signal or at least dim themselves down.