Description: What do you get when you cross a comical cartoon rabbit with an arcane computer technology? If the rabbit's name is Mr. Bunny, you get Mr. Bunny's Guide to ActiveX, an outrageously funny technical book parody. Between the beginner-oriented table of contents (each page is listed, along with its page number) and the incredibly annoying index (every entry says "See ActiveX"), you will find page after page of printed words and space-wasting screen shots, just like a real technical book. But how many technical books include an adventure story? Mr. Bunny and his befuddled friend Farmer Jake visit a fantasy world based on Microsoft's ActiveX technology and the popular Visual Basic programming language. Although the twisted techno-babble, deranged graphics, and offbeat analogies are based on real technology, it's all done for laughs. Any resemblance to actual learning is purely accidental.

This is the first technology book by Carlton Egremont III, author of numerous lengthy grocery lists (unpublished), one or two letters to his mom (unsent), and a doodle on page 117 of the Rochester Public Library's copy of Mob), Dick (overdue). Mr. Bunny's Guide to ActiveX makes a lovely gift for the nerd who has everything, and is perfect for propping up uneven table legs. For the high-tech parent there is simply no better anti-dote to yet another bedtime reading of The Velveteen Rabbit or the OLE 2 Programmer's Reference. Just like Carlton, you and your children will come to believe in a talking bunny, a befuddled farmer, and a technology called Active X.

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