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Hump Day Quickies 51

Posted by CmdrTaco from the could-these-titles-be-any-more-lame dept.
Stephen Adler wrote a follow up to his article on the Slashdot Effect on the Meta Slashdot Effect. Its the effect of the article about the effect. I found it funny. Cheshire Cat sent us a link to Allcam.com which is a Yahoo-style page devoted solely to web cams. James Morris sent us a link to Linux Australia which has another tux logo. Jeff Hartmann sent us a link to a cute little Ice Penguin from Michigan Technological University's Winter Carnival '99. Surprised someone sobered up long enough to make it. MTU has a great campus though they need something besides snow cows. netweasel sent us a link to an Apple Ad that you will like. Patrik Rådman sent us a "pootified" version of slashdot. Adam Muntner sent us something that we all need: Virtual Crack zzg sent us a link to a bizarre page of cool stuff like ion guns and plasma pens (oh my)
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  • Amazing1.com is *very* funny:

    SCENARIO A - You pray to God to place a gun or other protective device within your reach. God does not answer. The intruder now is breaking down the only barrier between him and your family - the bedroom door. The children are screaming, your wife sobbing. You have let them down by listening to the media and the do righters. You have no defense, they now will pay the ultimate price for your ignorance and gullibility.

    The funeral is unbearable. In your sadness you become angry and ask yourself WHY? Why did the Kennedy?s, the Schumers and other anti gun whackos have the right to deny your family the right to life? You soon realize that these same people live in secure protected compounds, some with armed guards and high tech security equipment. What right did they have in denying you a viable means of self defense?

     Since when are 'whacko' militia folk so enterprising?


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  • "Linking to that virtualcrack page was incredibly stupid and irresponsible. Do you really think it's funny? [...] Making jokes about it only helps to make it seem more acceptable to those who haven't wised up about hard drugs yet."

    I think slashdot's readership is just a little more mature than that. Of course, after seeing this post ... maybe I spoke too soon.
  • © 1997-99 Rob Poot.

    Oh no.

  • Posted by Julian Cross:

    Heh, I like this. I have been hubbified.
  • Posted by Assmodeus:

    ARGH!!!!! the /. is becoming more and more prevalent... i know its not my connection, but any url i try to visit is like 30 bps... it sucks...
  • I'm not exactly sure why, but there's just something amusing about crack. I guess it's because it's just so terrible that if you ever try it, you probably deserve what's coming to you. As a result, it's difficult to think of a more whack habit for someone to have, and therefore "crackhead" becomes perhaps the least offensive of the "offensive epithets" to hurl at someone.

    Or maybe it's because, if it weren't for the U.S. War On Drugs that hasn't benefitted anyone except the DEA and law enforcement (thanks to the wonderful world of "asset forfeiture"), not to mention the companies that make the black helicopters that we send to Latin America, the U.S. wouldn't have a problem with crack today. The absurdity of a world where something like crack not only exists, but flourishes (in the inner cities at least), bespeaks of an absurdity one usually only sees in Camus novels, not in real life.

    So chill out, take a virtual toke [virtualtoke.com], and try not to get all hot and bothered when someone exercises their First Amendment rights in a relatively harmless (and humorous) way.

    -Jake

  • Bad Australians! Bad bad bad!!


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  • Of course, now there will have to be a paper on the meta-meta-slashdot effect, showing both requests to the original slashdot paper due to the meta-slashdot paper, and also showing the hits to the meta-slashdot paper itself.

    That could get pretty tiresome after a while. Maybe he'll try to see how long it takes for the recursion to stop, and for people to lose interest in reading papers on meta-meta-meta-meta-meta-meta-slashdotting.
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  • From the Meta-SlashDot Effect article:

    There is a second resurgence, on a much smaller scale, two day's later which peaks at about 9:30am, with an abrupt fall off and then a re-resurgence around 6pm that day. This is seen in Figure 4. plot. The author scanned the various Linux news web pages for posting of the /. effect article but found none. This small resurgence occurring 2 days after the initial posting by /. is unexplained and open to interpretation.

    I would bet that this is the explanation of the mystery spike: when a story falls off the bottom of the main page, it appears at the top of the "Older Stuff" sidebar, where it can be seen by people who had missed it previously, exposing it to a new wave of hits.

    I know the first thing I do when I load /. if it's been a while or there are a lot of new stories is to look down the sidebar until I see something that I recognize, then work my way up to the top of the sidebar. Then I go to the bottom of the main page and work my way to the top. I'm less likely to hit the stories in the sidebar because: they are only occasionally things I haven't seen; they're stale; and they are titles only, so even seeing the summary requires loading an extra page. Hence, this does not cause a huge spike, but it's still pretty noticeable.

    David Gould
  • Don't forget the dialectizer! [http] It's especially fun to run Slashdot through the the Elmer Fudd [rinkworks.com] filter. :-)

    Ask Swashdot and Qwick Winks!

  • Poot? (Score:1)

    by Pyro P ( 7396 )
    I can't get to the poot server. What the heck is a poot, anyways?
  • >Crack cocaine is an extremely addictive drug which destroys people's lives
    so does alcohol, but drunkeness jokes are still damned funny! Besides, who has died from *virtual* crack recently?

    >Do you really want your site blocked by parents concerned about their children?
    Maybe, that would stop the 14-year-old AC posts

    >I think you ought to offer an apology.
    I think you ought to get a life, and if you don't like crack, don't smoke it. Its that fscking simple

  • Ion s etc (Score:1)

    by MrT ( 9608 )
    Hmmm, a nice place to shop. I particularly recommend the books on Anti-Gravity by Capt Bruce Cathie (Ret) from NZ. Very very informative stuff.
  • Where I grew up (SE United States) 'poot' is a euphemism for flatus, especially when expressed by a lady or child.

    As the saying goes, "Men fart; ladies poot."
  • let the man run his site.. sheesh. You dont like virtual crack, you don't visit virtualcrack.com

    As for parents wishing to ban their kids from sites, I'd say thats a bunch of BS. Parents, Filters, nor software programs will EVER stop an intelligent teenager from visiting anything.
  • Admit it, CmdrTaco... you just wanted to put the word "hump" on the front page. :P
  • Linking to that virtualcrack page was incredibly stupid and irresponsible. Do you really think it's funny? I wouldn't have complained about a joke referring to cannabis, but Crack cocaine is an extremely addictive drug which destroys people's lives. There is _nothing_ funny about it. Making jokes about it only helps to make it seem more acceptable to those who haven't wised up about hard drugs yet.

    As a publisher, you have a responsibility to draw a line between what is funny and what is just plain offensive. If you don't then people will just stop visiting your site. Do you really want your site blocked by parents concerned about their children?

    I think you ought to offer an apology.
  • Ah...you're all just a bunch of crack heads. Maybe they should rename this site to crackdot.

    LOL!!!

    Anyway I thought offensive comments were supposed to be moderated. So much for that.

    I'm still laughing at your reponses BTW. Fuck you too!
  • Hey..not every site on the Web *needs* to be child-safe. Geesh...how boring would that be. Oh and while I'm at it...not every damn restaurant needs to be child-friendly, not every TV show, not every song lyric and not every movie. Damn!

    It's quite pathetic to see parents so insecure in their own ability to raise kids that they fear a 4 day crack binge by little Johnie or Sally at the mere mention of the word....."crack".

    Well....

    CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK and double CRACK!!! Hey kids, I'm smokin crack here! It's fun!

    Ha!
  • As a publisher, you have a responsibility to draw a line between what is funny and what is just plain offensive.

    No he doesn't, don't be absurd. He can choose to do so, but he's certainly not obligated to. Offensive is a subjective term.

  • I can personally say that not all the girls here are snow cows, there's also the ugly catagory. So when there are only 50 or so good looking women on campus to the few thousand guys that go here..not counting the ones with boyfriends from downstate or elsewhere...it doesn't give anyone a very good change of getting one. And I know I'm exaggerating a little...I'd say there's about 100 or so good looking women not 50.

    -Jeff

  • The Ice Penguin at MTU looks a little 'wide' (not fat like he should be, heh), but then again, it's snow/ice, and from my experiences with MTU, I really doubt the person(s) making that were totally 'there' when they were doing it :) Still looks good though, kudos to them.

    My site contains 100% GPL'd source code :)

  • I got railroaded out of there after 2 write-ups
    in one year. One thing that Dean of Students
    Martha Y. Janners and Asst. Dean Tyrell used
    against me were postings I had made more than a
    year previous to mtu.flame. She was telling me
    that I was an angry student and needed counseling.
    Totally clueless staff.

    I hate that school. Advice to prospective
    transfer students and seniors in High School:
    Dont go there. The Library sux hardcore, they
    blow money on stupid s--- like a whole new
    building for Fine Arts (at Michigan Tech! while
    the CS department, Physics Dept, and Math Dept
    take up 1 floor each on one of the smallest
    buildings on campus). Its cold snowy and they're
    transfering to semesters which will screw up
    all the students currently going there.

    -Moose/Zebulun
  • What a warm fuzzy feeling it is to see MTU mentioned on Slashdot & to see responses too :)

    As far as the ratio went, it wasn't MSU, but my friends & I all seemed to do alright. If you consider 4:1 is a population ratio, you actually have a near 1:1 ratio once you take out the social misfits. (Not to dis on them, they're part of tech's charm)

    -TF (Class of '92)
  • Hey! I go to MTU, and I'd just like to make it known, yes, we don't have many women up here, but there's been an explosion this year, we have, I think, 1 women for every 50 guys! That's AMAZING!!! :-)

    Actually it's a better ratio than that, but we're still not like most universities... :-) Oh well, I guess I'm supposed to be here for the education anyway. :-)

    --Jason
  • The server which hosts the article on meta slashdot effect is not responding.
    Intentional humor?
  • I especially liked the survey - I use a Poot OS.

    Back to toking on my virual glass dick...

    Jason Dufair
    "Those who know don't have the words to tell

  • In all fairness, to make things easier for people
    I just added the "Australian Tux" link at the top of the page - its not usually there.

  • Ok. This one is just to ridiculous not to respond to. I am a female of the MTU population and am under 110 pounds! A snow cow...me? I hope that not what I'm refered to. I know that there is a higher amount of overweight beer loving women here than downstate but to generalize us ALL as snow cows is just an ignorant, naive statement. It makes me wonder just what kind of beer goggles you're wearing Jason! We have a big pond to choose from and it's that kind of egotistical outlook that excludes you from it. You better take off those beer goggles and take a better look around.
  • Glad you liked it! The technology is actually pretty simple - I've written a perl module (WebMunger.pm) which is subclassed from HTML::Parser, which can be used to do web transformations like that. I haven't yet uploaded it to CPAN, though. If you want a copy, let me know (dlowe@pootpoot.com) and I'll mail it to ya. That goes for anyone.

    Enjoy!

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