* Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
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> Slashdot: 'The downside of nerdy sites is that they attract lots of nerds'
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>| Slashdot's standard nerd hypocrisy is another running gag. Everyone knows
>| that anything related to Apple/Linux/open source is innovative and cool,
>| whereas if Microsoft had done exactly the same thing, it would be evil and
>| monopolistic. Double standards rule.
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> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/14/slashdot
What a turkey. Dig that pipe. Remind you of anyone?
http://www.subgenius.com/
> According to Jack, Slashdot is filled with idiots, it should be largely
> ignored, and people visit it only because they type 'slash dot' by accident in
> their Web browsers.
Or maybe it was deliberate:
Either way, Slashdot soon became so popular that it gave rise to "the
Slashdot effect". Slashdotters would see a new user-submitted story
and click the link, and the target site would promptly collapse under
the sheer weight of visitors. Sites that carried stories about Linux
and open source, and geeky science news, usually hadn't been set up
to handle huge spikes in traffic.
Naturally, many people tried to exploit the Slashdot effect,
including me. There was no quicker way to get noticed.
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> How convenient. Maybe Jack will soon write an article about Groklaw. Oh! He
> also disses USENET in this article. Anything that's being poisoned by
> Microsoft's AstroTurfers. :-)
But unlike Usenet, Slashdot has an innovative and cool Karma system
to bury a lot of the rubbish.
How can one believe someone who is so far out of touch that he doesn't
know about kill-files?
> Slime ,slime, slime...
--
Like you, I am frequently haunted by profound questions related to man's
place in the Scheme of Things. Here are just a few:
Q -- Is there life after death?
A -- Definitely. I speak from personal experience here. On New
Year's Eve, 1970, I drank a full pitcher of a drink called "Black Russian",
then crawled out on the lawn and died within a matter of minutes, which was
fine with me because I had come to realize that if I had lived I would have
spent the rest of my life in the grip of the most excruciatingly painful
headache. Thanks to the miracle of modern orange juice, I was brought back
to life several days later, but in the interim I was definitely dead. I
guess my main impression of the afterlife is that it isn't so bad as long
as you keep the television turned down and don't try to eat any solid foods.
-- Dave Barry
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