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Does anyone here also frequent www.memepool.com? If not, then do.

This story was posted there last Thursday.

That just means there's too many people unwilling to read other blogs, this is old news at www.memepool.com. Heck its old news here too.

Slashdot being this huge does have its ups and it definatly has its downs. I think with such a large audience they can post more than a handful of stories a day or put up a page of rejected stories. Doubt the latter will ever happen, then someone could make their own slashdot with those submitions and take ad revenue away from whomever owns /. this quarter.

Mod me down for expressing my opinion, I've got more Karma than you can imagine.

Indeed.

Today, I found this article on Memepool. In it is an editorial and a lengthy interview with Ralph Nader. That man has a serious (if not well-intentioned, as I would like to believe) chip on his shoulder when it comes to corporatist america and democracy in general.

I would LOVE to see him in the White House. Hell, I'd love to see him as just an ADVISOR in the White House.

Rami
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http://www.somethingawful.co m/cartoons/lf-archives.htm

lifted from the ever pleasing www.memepool.com

and memepool.com
had it on August 19!
what, oh what is the world coming too!
I just don't feel safe anymore, in a world where this kind of thing can happen...
</sarcasm>

It warms my heart to see that even the nutty transhumanists who can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality don't take themselves seriously enough to login or even create a dummy account. Let me save this futurist bullshit on the mini-tapepunch machine in my flying car or I'll just have the robot butler/babysitter/security-guard do it for me.

Hit pause on your Star Trek marathon tape and try to join us in the real world, ok Spock? I like sci-fi too, but extrapolating one idea or two to their irrational end to produce some lame Star Trek-esque fantasy is simply not convincing. memepool recently posted a similiar rant.

I saw it posted on memepool.com the other day. Mmmm, that's a great site to suck up the hours.

Things like this just make my mind boggle. Advertising / spam on the net really drives me nuts. Why do people seem to think that by pissing off thousands of customers simultaneously thay will somehow pick up revenues ? Where do these people keep their clue ??

I really fail to see the point of this sharezilla thing, unless its just designed to be a complete GNUtella spoiler that drives people away from the service.

Or maybe its a gag. Whatever.

Marketeers are worse than lawyers. And adverisers are the worst form of Marketeer , cos they con themselves that they are "creatives". And as for advertisers that work in "new media" they have to be the lowest of all

... whatever

Monday Jul 31, 2000 Relive the sloth-like speed, nightmarish user interfaces, and new-car smell of the web browsers of yesteryear, at Dejavu.org.

Congratulations! You've just invented a secondary meaning of the word 'slashdotted!'

Slashdot, v.

1. To bring an Internet site, esp. one with an HTTP server, offline due to excessive demand for its contents as a result of its mention on Slashdot. "Let's hope that memepool doesn't get slashdotted by this..."

2. To destroy what might otherwise be an intelligent public discourse by flooding it with nonsense or deliberately offensive or stupid garbage. "Looks like George and Al are trying to slashdot the election."
--
-jacob

Let's see: Memepool and RobotWisdom spring to mind... Also ArsTechnica, Kuro5hin and KernelTraffic (which isn't only about the kernel; the Samba summaries are also very good).

This was in memepool several days ago.

-p.

I think we can all agree that information that is freely shared is good for everyone. It would be nice if the slashdot editors made at least a cursory effort to be aware of whether the links submitted to them are on another weblog. For the record, I personally don't think there's anything wrong with using the link, as long as appropriate credit is given.

Also for the record, I am a contributor to memepool, and I have found it to take nearly no effort at all to check if leads I am given are currently appearing on another site. If we as members of the slashdot community expect the same level of responsibility from the slashdot editors, I have no doubt they will be able to rise to our expectations.

This was posted earlier today on www.memepool.com.

Just a minor 'plaint. S'right?
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computers://use.urls. People use Networds.

Has anyone else noticed that /.'s quickies are rapidly becomming like reading last week's Memepool ?

Has anyone else noticed that /.'s quickies are rapidly becomming like reading last week's Memepool ?

• Kerbango
• Lansonic
• iRad

Another page I read (memepool) had a link to CopyLeft which is now selling t-shirts with the DeCSS source code silk-screened onto the back side and includes hard copy of DeCSS code with each T-shirt purchased. Is something like this impacted in any way by this case?

Memepool has a bunch of screenshots of what you are talking about.

If you think you know what the hell is going on you're probably full of shit. -- Robert Anton Wilson

Some website glitches were captured by the folks at Memepool. Currently (11:58 PST, 01 Jan 2000) their top story. There's also an older one with some stuff dated 1900 at the MS website.

Y2K issues have already walloped Microsoft, at least according to the fine folks at memepool who snagged this screenshot. ;-)

Each and every one? Man, you have a really broad definition of "e-commerce".

Like I said before, look under television (except I got the date wrong: it should be December 14). But you're right in that they're idiots and reposted it today. It's quite amuzing how /. and memepool play off each other like this, reposting each other's content which was originally ripped off from each other.

Tuesday Dec 14, 1999
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away (the 70's), someone greenlighted one of the most
horrible creations ever to deface the boob tube: the Star Wars Holiday Special. This review
maybe makes it sound like it's so bad it's good, and in some ways, I guess it is, but in most
other ways, it's sort of like putting live hornets in your ass.
to Television by faisal

A transcript of the whole thing can be found here. You can read it while you're waiting for the clips posted by dieman to download.

BTW, this was posted on memepool back on December 13, but I guess some people must have missed it.

I've happened on this site before, it may have been posted to memepool or something similar. There was a lot of information on Scientology that Scientologists wouldn't find too flattering. A lot of it seemed so paranoid to me that I hoped it wasn't true, such as a list of ex-scientologists who later turned detractors and also later met an untimely demise. Given the rabid nature of a lot of the scientologists defending their cult I wouldn't be so sure however.

I don't see this as anything different than a review or expose however. This is no different than if George Lucas went after any bad Star Wars: The Phantom Menace reviews and had them yanked because they referred to LucasFilms or ILM's trademarks. For that matter its no different than if restraunts threatened legal action over poor restraunt reviews (or poor health department ratings).

What's so amazing to me is how incredibly stupid the scientologists and their lawyers are. There's a page that says all kinds of unfavourable things about them, the least of which is that they bully people who don't agree with scientology, and they bully them into being shut down. Nothing like providing proof of peoples opinions of you.

For a 20/20 expose on Scientology go here, here, here or just click this for a Google search

The dangerous thing about this as far as rights go is that while many think of the internet as the last bastion of freedom its really not even close. ISP's routinely take the easy way out when faced with any legal action or even public pressure.

WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS BOTH A GEEK WALK THROUGH MEMORY LANE AND ACTUAL TECH ANALYSIS. IT'S MY POST, AND I CAN WRITE WHAT I PLEASE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. ;-)


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I'm as surprised as...well, I guess none of you have any reason to be surprised. But I've never owned an Amiga; hell, I've barely even seen one.

OK, so I grew up drooling over the concept of having a pimped out Amiga system, and can completely identify with the rabidly loyal Amiga community(I had an Apple IIgs and lived in the city Applefest used to be held in. 'Nuff said.)

And, now that I think about it, a very large proportion of the music I grew up listening to was downloaded to my IIgs via a 2400 baud modem, straight from Aminet sites. Ah, yes, the good old days of blasting data through *FSP*(does anyone else remember this beautiful little hack of a UDP protocol?) so I could get around FTP user limits...not to mention, downloading to my system that didn't even possess a hard drive! 800K floppiez, K-RAD 3133+...;-)

No, but I think the real reason I've been loving Amiga's lately is this comic strip I found off of Memepool--it's called Sabrina; the archives are here, and this is undoubtedly one of the most dementedly weird strips I've ever seen.

It's joined User Friendly and After Y2K(mmm..TTB...mmm...NTZC...) for "gotta read it" value. Imagine this strip about a bunch of Amiga-addict Anthropormophized Kitten/Skunk/Squirrels-Cum-Hot Chicks who have lives that traverse the range of Web Site Designer for Porno Director to pregnancy.

I really can't describe how strange of a geek strip this is. It's definitely geek. It's obsessively geek. In someone else's hands, it'd be Geek Sold Out. In this guy's hands...just go. Go now.
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Oh, yeah. The Amiga. The point that the Amiga was an insanely efficient OS with 512K ram should be muted by the fact that there was significant amounts of extremely useful custom hardware embedded within that system. I think one of the slowest realizations the industry is going to eventually come to grips with is that general purpose processors are really f*cking slow at many tasks, at least compared to hardwired solutions.

Just consider how many Pentium III's you'd need to match a Voodoo 3 at bilinearly filtering the texture coatings for large amounts of polygons.

One of the major things I'm looking forward to seeing out of Transmeta is the degree to which they've bridged the specialty opcode vs. general purpose architecture divide that's somewhat divided the industry over the last few years. I'm tremendously interested, for example, in if we're going to see things like Routing and Firewall Opcodes dynamically programmable into the Transmeta CPU.

If Transmeta doesn't do it, those guys with that mass FPGA programming language will. Sooner or later, we're going to have hardware morph itself into the configurations various applications and utilities require. Should be interesting to watch.

What do you guys think?

Yours Truly,

Dan Kaminsky
DoxPara Research
http://www.doxpara.com

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From www.memepool.com:

Hasbro just bought Wizards of the Coast -- adding them to a harem which already includes Milton Bradley, Parker Brothers, Avalon Hill, Microprose, Playskool, and others. This means that a single company now produces Magic: The Gathering, Pokemon, Dungeons and Dragons, Civilization 2, Pictionary, Scrabble, Clue, Tinkertoys, G. I. Joe, Furby, the Supersoaker, and, um, wait, what's that game about acquiring all the properties on the board?

-Andrew

Let's get those attributions right!

Peter

Let's get those attributions right!

Peter

\broken_record{ This was memepooled on April 4th.} -peter

...but you could have read about this yesterday (beating the "Strict Press Embargo until 10 am April 15") on memepool. Hey, self-promotion is my middle name :-)

I'm just psyched to see memepool finally get mentioned here.

This same note was on Memepool a few days ago. It's good to credit sources.