Edvard Munch’s Skrik (The Scream). Public domain image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream“Screaming performance” is a label journalists seem to apply judiciously. The vast Google News Archives records only 28 outbursts having met the high bar. However, a trend is clear. Did Howard Dean kill screaming? Is technological singularity just around the corner?

 

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Year Screaming Performer(s)
1964 Girls who mobbed the Beatles in 1964 (described in 2009)
1972 McGovern supporters
1986 Brian De Palma
1993 Dell’s computers designed specifically for “techno-wizards”
1994 Nine Inch Nails
1994 The latest 32-bit and 64-bit printer and switch controllers
1997 The 1997 Plymouth Prowler’s V6 engine
1998 Jerry Stiller
2001 Early 1990s Japanese sports cars
2001 Edward Petherbridge (actor, playing a homosexual matchmaker)
2002 Dell’s Latitude C610 laptop
2003 Dell’s Inspiron 8500 series laptop
2003 A refurbished HP Pavilion ze5185 notebook PC
2004 Howard Dean
2004 NVIDIA’s GeForce 6800
2004 Sun Microsystems’ Linux computers
2005 The Altix 1330 server cluster
2005 IBM’s eServer p5 Unix machines
2006 NIVIDA’s GeForce 7950 GT
2006 MSI’s PCX5750-TD128 graphics adapter
2007 Dell’s Workstation configurations with 1600 MHz front-side bus
2007 Kingmax’s 4GB microSDHC card
2008 Alienware’s Area-51 ALX (with Radeon’s HD 4870 X2 CrossFireX)
2008 Gateway’s Core i7 Gaming PC
2008 The “Next Generation Intel Core Microarchitecture Family of Processors”
2009 NVIDIA’s GeForce 9600M GT
2009 Intel’s X25-E solid state drive
2009 LaCie’s SATA II ExpressCard 34 storage controller