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This is just Animal 57.

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> It comes from Animal 57. In alt.folklore.urban, Jason Eudy
() recently revealed the secret:
-> The only question I have is whether this qualifies as an urban legend
-> or "just plain stupid:"
->
-> Apparently, Pepsico owns the patent for something called "Animal 57s."
-> They keep these things in the back of Taco Bells and KFCs. It's where
-> they get their meat. These things are just big chunks of meat floating
-> around in tanks of water. If you tap on the side or stare at them,
-> they'll come toward you. Apparently a living organism that's used for
-> nothing but its meat (because that's all it is).

http://kibo.com/exegesis/anima...

Kibo called it almost 20 years ago.

Kibo mentioned this years ago.

Animal 57 at Taco Bell.

The best information you can get on the 'net

http://www.kibo.com/

" CubeSat deployer located outside Japan's Kibo laboratory "

Everyone knows that Kibo is thought to stand for "knowledge in, bullshit out."

It's the Sign we were awaiting!
The New cComming is near!
http://www.kibo.com/

Oh, fuck, my eyes...

It's Animal 57.

It looks like the fast food chains are already using the aquaria for Animal 57...

Does James "Kibo" Perry know about this? Has he not commented? I think that maybe Kibo is just getting slack in his old age.

Kibo's old posting about Happynet (everyone who knows they're a bozo gets a newsgroup named bozo.personal.* and everyone who doesn't think they're a bozo gets megabozo.personal.*) would work as well. See http://www.kibo.com/kibopost/happynet_98.html

I think people could do worse than to take a lesson from the mighty Kibo

Wow, that's almost as awesome as Kibo's WebTV page!

Facebook is quickly gaining on myspace for the electronic embodiment of tackiness.

Urgh. So far the vomit-across-the-page attitude on MySpace had been a major consideration in me leaning towards Facebook if my hand was ever forced to accpting a defacto-standard personal netoworking site. I'm not surprised that Facebook are willing to race MySpace to the bottom in implementing appalingly band graphic design to attract hoards of 14 year olds.

Someone should tell these Bozos that Kibo was only joking. On the plus side, Kibo has so much published prior art, we can send patent trolls to kill MySpace *and* Facebook.

I sure hope one of the new elements is finally permablink!

Animal 57.

"Web domains in Kibonia (.KB) are available for only fifteen schwas a year. They can be reserved forever, provided that payment of fifteen schwas per year is received in advance."

So a recorder for K Band radio would be KiBo?

• The Net Legends FAQ
  
• The Happynet Manifesto
  
• The New Hacker's Dictionary
  
• The alt.sex.hello-kitty FAQ

At $200 a pop (pun intended) these things seem a bit expensive for equipment that often ends up being squished...

There is no escape!

There is no escape!

> there are more visually pleasing fonts, and I see no reason
> why official documents should not look good.

Yes, there are more pleasing fonts, but don't let untalented people come any where close to them. Give them Times New Roman and delete all the other fonts from their computers.

At my company, Futura is our corporate branded sans serif, with New Century Schoolbook used for serif work. However, only about 10% of the corporate population can deal with this. We've got people who produce hundreds of pages of Futura text (where its sans serif nature makes the document an eyestrain to read). We've got people who can't tell the difference between Futura, MS Comic Sans, and Arial. We've got people who will mix Futura and Times New Roman in the same freaking sentence. I once saw a marketing person (who should have known better) try to use Zapf Chancery (an abomination) in all caps all over a presentation for a trade show, before he was smacked upside the head.

I can't imagine our Federal government is any better. So, if settling on Times New Roman is the way to prevent font atrocities, then so be it.

Sheesh. The only way I can keep from exploding like this at work is to read Kibo's pages on this.

I have noticed, however, that the really clever, funny, `troll' posts (such as the one you replied to), are still usually modded up funny.

Even if we've changed the meaning of words a little, at least some people maintain a sense of humor...

Kibo is submitting to Slashdot? Party like it's 1989!

It's called "search engine bombing" and as a concept it's at least 5 years old if not older. Here is an explanation.

I wonder what Archimedes Plutonium is up to these days.

I know that this page should have been funny, but for some reason, I'm not laughing. And I'm even familiar with the works of Pablo Neruda.

I kind of expected something like "Engrish" or the often funny Airtoons (but it's probably only funny for those of us that fly a lot). Or even, the hasn't-been-updated-since-the-millennium Kibo and his amusing criticisms of font use or Gerald Holmes, which has outlived the silly .com web awards that are featured on his site. Hooray for Gerald!

If you don't like netnews, why not start your own? It's gotta be much easier now than it was back in the days of trying to locate people in other states to hook you in to netnews, and there's nothing at all that says that any given news server has to hook in to any other given news server. You could start fresh...

Kibo?

I am not Kibo.

Kibo was James "Kibo" Parry, who can still be found at http://www.kibo.com/.

KIBO == Knowledge In, Bullshit Out.

--Jim

And anyway, considering his post I linked to was actually ON the subject of "the superconductivity of plutonium", I find it hard to see how the post would be moderated offtopic.

Troll, sure, but that's not what I got.

No. Now get out of my comics shop.

Kibo will be pleased!

It's true all right. Here's a writeup about it, including a picture. Except it's Animal 57, not Animal 54. The Animal 54s were too mutant to survive.

Anyone who reads a.r.k will see this as pepsico finally admitting that they have Animal 57

This is freaking creepy. Maybe less creepy than Quorn, which is made from slime mold (mycoprotien) but it's far too creepy for me.

WIPO Troll Club 91 Member

It is now evident by the usage of the club's ultra secret motto "YHBT! YHL! HAND!" that WIPO Troll is a member of the secret club known as Club 91. The club's web-presence is here. WIPO practices kibology, to quote the website: "A.R.K" stands for "alt.religion.kibology", and also for the ancient Celtic "algae ryngwyrm kibog", meaning "Read the directions before beginning." Below, "YHBT.YHL.HAND" is a phrase so secret that nobody on the Internet can understand it. Do not attempt to ask what it means on alt.religion.kibology. You will not get the answer. "YHBT.YHL.HAND" is the only thing which cannot be understood by the mind of Man, unless he's in Club91.

All is cleared by reading the FAQ.

no cheese allowed

JJ

Good News: Recent technological breakthroughs have restored
you to full and perfect health. You say, "Yea!"

Bad News: Teenagers have cracked your hospital's security and
you now look like a Pokemon. You say, "Pikachu! Pikachu!"

Well, perhaps then we could suggest Kibo's HappyNet idea be expanded to include the internet itself... Now where would /. end up? my guess is probably somewhere in the megabozo category...

-GreenHell

Look again. There's nothing organized about it. Just a relative handful of people sharing stories, having fun, and doing what people tend to do in an online community. Just some good ol' boys, never meanin' no harm....

If you remember your newsgroups, the inchfan is the alt.religion.kibology of Slashdot, not the alt.syntax.technical. Good-spirited, not malicious, often funny as all get-out. These aren't the people that make Slashdot a pain to read at -1.

While on the subject of trolls, a quick quiz -- what's the difference between "unitedstatesian" and "Micro$oft"? One of them is an intentional slam directed towards a group that's as hated as it is powerful. The other is a overly literal translation of a Spanish adjective.

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Shoot the moon? Hell, says Prof. Alexander Abian, why not just blow it up?

Sadly, Crank.net says he died of a heart attack. His homepage is still up at at Iowa U., and a fan has archived THE ABIAN LIST. See the gumption of a man who named the mass of the Cosmos at the big bang after himself (scroll down a bit). Finally, see the greatness of the man reflected in his exchanges with James "Kibo" Parry and Archimedes Plutonium.

First photogenic cyberstar, maybe; or first pretty girl you can look at as you read her diary. There have been other virtual celebrities before Jenni, and even before the Web (such as Kibo, for example), though they were mostly textual and didn't get quite that amount of media attention.

Yes Kibo is still around, although I don't think he is grepping all of usenet for his name anymore...

Burnt flesh and curly fries?

"Waah! Einstein died and he didn't get to finish his curly fries!"

http://www.kibo.com/adventure/adven ture_1.shtml
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If Kibo greps /. he'll soon add these to the Dumb Toys Gallery, along with other very bizarre action figures. Be sure to visit that gallery. It's creepy.

If Kibo greps /. he'll soon add these to the Dumb Toys Gallery, along with other very bizarre action figures. Be sure to visit that gallery. It's creepy.

And then there's the correlation between hackers and adherents of fringe subcultures and interests. The Church of the SubGenius draws a sizeable percentage of its base from computer people (this is evident in SubGenius references in things such as Slackware).
Quite a few computer people are into psychoceramics, following crackpots and lunatics and collecting fringe theories and beliefs. (This also ties into the affinity for unconventional thinking.) Askew visionaries, from Ed Wood to Harry Stephen Keeler get a lot of their fan base from computer "geeks". And need I say anything about Kibo, arguably the first genuine Internet personality?

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