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Meanwhile, Memepool has been down for a while. It's been down before. Maybe for good this time?

Friday Apr 18, 2008.
http://memepool.com/Subject/Games/

In other news, I had several erections today. All without the aid of any pills, creams, or pumps.

Slashdot-free since Leap Day 2000

Welcome to the home of the Quit Slashdot movement. (Well, it's a small movement.) Anyway, here's my humble list of materials to help you quit Slashdot:

• Top Nine Reasons to Quit Slashdot

• Alternatives to reading Slashdot

• Sites just as bad as Slashdot

• The "Quit Slashdot Today!" web page button

• Frequently asked questions

Update 14 April 2004

• Let us all take a moment to ponder the meaning of "Jew", and perhaps peruse the Jew FAQ. It's for a good cause, after all.
• Rereading this page today made me realize that my offhand comment about the Santa Cruz Operation in Reason #9 was weirdly prescient. Note that this remark dates at least to Nov. 1 2000, from the very first version of this page that archive.org possesses (Actually I'm pretty sure I made this page in Feb. 2000, but archive.org didn't spider it till later.)

Update 28 Oct 2001:

• 3000+ hits this week due to BBSpot.com listing.
• As several visitors noticed, We're Number 1.

Update 20 May 2001: 14,000+ hits last week, due to memepool and the inevitable fan-out effect. Notes:

• Thanks to all who wrote with positive comments (surprisingly, not one flame!). Unfortunately I'm really busy with end-of-quarter work right now (hey, work is the whole reason I quit Slashdot), so I can't reply/link to everyone. But, best wishes, and I hope quitting Slashdot brings the same benefits to your life that it has to mine.
• Weblogs reveal that this page has been submitted to Slashdot several times. Please do not do this. I have no desire to get a firestorm of screeching Slashdotter mail in my inbox. I have real work to do.
• Does anyone else suspect that the death of Eazel may have been partly due to employees reading Slashdot instead of coding? Save open source now! Quit Slashdot today!

Update 15 May 2001: Moving up! This page is now number 4 on Google searches for the phrase "Jon Katz idiot". Additionally, memepool.com has decided to link here as a public service. Welcome memepool readers! Pro-/. flames will be piped to /dev/null. Also, please note this e-mail, edited to deter spam-bots; (hey, they've got a sense o

Slashdot-free since Leap Day 2000

Welcome to the home of the Quit Slashdot movement. (Well, it's a small movement.) Anyway, here's my humble list of materials to help you quit Slashdot:

• Top Nine Reasons to Quit Slashdot

• Alternatives to reading Slashdot

• Sites just as bad as Slashdot

• The "Quit Slashdot Today!" web page button

• Frequently asked questions

Update 14 April 2004

• Let us all take a moment to ponder the meaning of "Jew", and perhaps peruse the Jew FAQ. It's for a good cause, after all.
• Rereading this page today made me realize that my offhand comment about the Santa Cruz Operation in Reason #9 was weirdly prescient. Note that this remark dates at least to Nov. 1 2000, from the very first version of this page that archive.org possesses (Actually I'm pretty sure I made this page in Feb. 2000, but archive.org didn't spider it till later.)

Update 28 Oct 2001:

• 3000+ hits this week due to BBSpot.com listing.
• As several visitors noticed, We're Number 1.

Update 20 May 2001: 14,000+ hits last week, due to memepool and the inevitable fan-out effect. Notes:

• Thanks to all who wrote with positive comments (surprisingly, not one flame!). Unfortunately I'm really busy with end-of-quarter work right now (hey, work is the whole reason I quit Slashdot), so I can't reply/link to everyone. But, best wishes, and I hope quitting Slashdot brings the same benefits to your life that it has to mine.
• Weblogs reveal that this page has been submitted to Slashdot several times. Please do not do this. I have no desire to get a firestorm of screeching Slashdotter mail in my inbox. I have real work to do.
• Does anyone else suspect that the death of Eazel may have been partly due to employees reading Slashdot instead of coding? Save open source now! Quit Slashdot today!

Update 15 May 2001: Moving up! This page is now number 4 on Google searches for the phrase "Jon Katz idiot". Additionally, memepool.com has decided to link here as a public service. Welcome memepool readers! Pro-/. flames will be piped to /dev/null. Also, please note this e-mail, edited to deter spam-bots; (hey, they've got a sense o

http://www.propertydisposal.gsa.gov/Property/Propf orSale/ShowProperty.ASP?PropertyID=1273

thnx memepool!
http://memepool.com/Date/259/

Is RSS 2.0 one of the Unlikable Paranoid Beardo Dave Winer http://www.memepool.com/Date/253/ RSS formats or one of the rival RSS formats created to annoy Unlikable Paranoid Beardo Dave Winer?

Ehh.. I saw this on memepool this morning. Best of luck to the University of Calgary's lab web server...

You latched on to this one almost a full week after it was posted on http://memepool.com/. WTG.

I know of exactly ZERO people who get their news from blogs.

You should get out more :-)

People rarely get their world-event type of news from blogs, true. But for news about latest gadgets, weird stuff, or a niche area blogs can't be beat.

Posted at memepool on Friday, Aug2, 2002.

I think I can beat that, at least for persons of approximately my generation: Courtesy memepool, transformer porn.

It never would have occurred to me to send in an article from memepool, but there was an entry for this site just a few days ago.

Check out Memepool. Seems that their article of Thursday, June 17th was lifted almost verbatim by some karma-wh*re without proper attribution.

Tsk-tsk. For shame...

"Slashdot - We might not be first to the news, but we sure as hell are going to nuke your server. And then some."

memepool article, complete with link to security focus memo.

But not all blogs are journals. Some, like boingboing and memepool post interesting links with brief commentary. And don't forget Roland P.'s Technology Trends. By reading these blogs, I can find out about cool new stuff hours before it reaches Slashdot, and weeks before it hits the regular media.

Basically, blogs help me refine online content and figure out what's worth reading.

more links and such.

memepool

Agreed. I hate this place when the geeks think they're being funny. Slashdot became much more readable when I started assigning a -3 moderation to anything moderated as "Funny" (check the prefs -- great feature). Unfortunately the same trick doesn't work for the front page.

In the meantime, here are some other good tech/news sites to check out while Slashdot is useless:

• Ars Technica
• Kuro5hin
• Plastic
• MetaFilter
• MemePool
• Memigo

Enjoy!

" The internet without goatse is like apple pie without the vanilla ice cream."

HEY TACO, WHY THE BLACKOUT ON THIS STORY?!!!
Talk about being disconnected from the community you "serve", the FCC should pull your license.

Yahoo is not rocket science, and it sure ain't Google. And Yahoo probably (justifiably) doesn't want to pay Google prices for a feature that just doesn't matter that much to the great majority of their users. Because the great majority likely fall into two camps:

1. Too dumb to use anything EXCEPT whatever search engine they're spoon-fed by Yahoo.

2. Too smart to ever use ANYTHING spoon-fed to them by Yahoo.

I'm a Yahoo user. But even when they switched their search engine to Google, I still tracked over to google.com for all my searching. Google has created a *tres chic* brand, and Yahoo can't appropriate that.

But on to my main point....

Have you people even been to yahoo.com in the past few years?! Suggesting that full-text web searching is somehow a critical Yahoo feature is just silly. Only the most technologically myopic of grandmas and carpenter uncles actually searches with Yahoo.

Yahoo excels at being a ==PORTAL==. My personalized Yahoo page is very convenient. CLICK->categorized personalized mainstream news, weather, basic calendaring, etc.->scan, scroll, scan, scroll->sip coffee->CLICK->on to /., then fark, then memepool, etc.

...with links to articles: tiles

Perhaps it's Something Awful that's doing it?

Fark seems to think so.

(Ever feel like you're writing for memepool or Everything2? I sure do!)

I always find it ironic when people post on Slashdot that they never read weblogs. Slashdot is a weblog! Weblogs can be collective, personal and filled with bad poetry, or just recent news stories. They can have original writing or boobies. Weblogs are lots of things, and Sturgeon's Law applies.

Memepool has a link to a fantastic Dukes of Hazard interpretation of the whole SCO/Linux affair.

This sounds a lot like Memepool's topic last wednesday.

" Wednesday May 21, 2003 Sequels, prequels, spinoffs, remakes, adaptations. Can't Hollywood come up with anything original any more? Posted to Movies by yoyology "

I do that because I know my way around the site. Some sites have a much cleaner design, mostly Blogs(Memepool for example), in which case I read like 98% of the page. Obviously this statistic varies.

I remember reading one of the Dilbert books, Is your computer safe from hackers? where it said that marketing will continue to become more and more manipulative Make money with your website! as it builds upon the shoulders of already tried marketing schemes.

I just wonder how long before Specials on Ink Jet refill kits! they start putting ads Long Distance for just 1c per minute! in the middle Spy on your neighbors! of all web content?

I've seen memepool /. sites in the past...

Memepool?

Memepool.com

Well, uh, that's how I found it.

Everyone who reads memepool would probably think the same. :)

The main problem with enforcing standards on the web is twofold. First, the web is very ad hoc. It isn't like television or telephone which is regulated by the government and maintained by singular utilities. Also it is inherently multimedia which means you can get some far out web designs that, although interesting in an art-installation sort of way, are in no ways easy to use.

Second is that the web is considered a secondary or tertiary source of information at best. I mean unless you are using it for periodicals or the like, the web is a lot of free-floating crap and ego-stroking. We all know that web access is a privelige and broadband is outright rare (beyond the geek-centric). Outside of Amazon and a few others, what companies actually do a bulk (or even a significant minority... say 10%) of their business online?

Of course some other natures of the Web make it perfect for the disabled: it is pull-media and electronic information that can be parsed (unlike say reading a newspaper or getting info at a mall kiosk).

But until internet access is as common as asphalt roads (which don't exist on probably 50% of inhabited areas) making demands of this fledgling tech is a bit much. Now should demands be made? Definitely. But can you expect reasonable results? Probably not.

Personally I'd rather see the government spend money on stemming the tide of AIDS and easily curable diseases in the 3rd world instead of worrying if memepool.com is standards compliant.

I think maybe he mistook Slashdot for Memepool.

There were so many links in the title I thought I was reading memepool. Thanks, I'll be here all week.

This may be karma-whoring but at least I'm giving credit where credit is due... :)

there is only so many times in a day you can "go make coffee" or "check your email".

Geek Slack List

• http://www.subgenius.com/
• http://www.slackersguild.com/
• BBC News
• http://www.memepool.com/
• http://www.plastic.com/
• http://www.arstechnica.com/
• http://www.metafilter.com/
• http://www.techdirt.com/
• http://www.bottomquark.com/ (Science News)
• http://newsforge.com/
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/
• http://www.anandtech.com/
• http://www.bjorn3d.com/
• http://cellar.org - Image of the Day
• http://www.collegehumor.com/
• http://www.everything2.com/
• http://www.kuro5hin.org/
• http://www.theonion.com/
• NASA - Astronomy Picutre of the Day
• http://www.majorgeeks.com - Windows Shareware / Freeware
• http://www.advogato.org/
• http://www.sweetcode.org/
• http://www.disinfo.com/ - Disinformation
• http://www.somethingawful.com/
• http://www.astronomynow.com/ - Astronomy News
• http://www.aip.org/ - American Institue of Physics - News
• http://www.adequacy.org/

• The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking 1 on Large Computations

Hope this helps =)

Slashdot's posting of an old nemepool post came early this month! This was posted to memepool.com over a week ago.

... a while back. Right from their site:

"Although the general public often seems surprised when librarians don't fit their pre-conceived image, the profession has celebrated its own differences for years. Librarians are funny, irreverent, interesting, and often radical people. Though popular culture includes considerable library material, it often ignores those on the fringe."

PDHoss

But I have to disagree with you that slashdot is a group-weblog. Slashdot is more like a new-commentary system

Well, that goes back to the distinction between "filter" blogs and "journal" blogs...I consider this and that that to be blogs as well, but more about links ala the filter type. Slashdot also is link centric...and given all the ranting and raving that takes place on the comments boards, it's even more journal-bloggy than the other sites, where commentary plays at best a secondary role.

I think there's a rather untapped potential for the blog format in the professional world. I think that kind of comments page, but where anyone can take the central soapbox, might be very useful in certain medium or large-size product teams.

I'm no big fan of the "this is where I went for lunch today" blog, but for better or worse, blog is a large-ish umbrella term, with some very promising parts.

did you ever imagine that things like http://goat.se would appear?

"Goat.se" would be a Swedish site. The working link: Goatse.cx. But watch out: it goes to a disgusting picture of a man's stretched anus.

Along similar lines, Dr. Cerf, did you think that the Internet would ever incubate so-called "memes", transmitted through links to music videos, such as "All Your Base Are Belong To Us", "Hampster Dance", "Hatten är din", "Yatta!", "We Drink Ritalin", and the other things that can be found on memepool?

Like Quickies? Try Memepool. Or try this mega-MLP on Kuro5hin.

fhqwhgads, is that you?

These guys can tell you more about the anti-Wolfram position.

Free your mind

and your ass will etc...

This was posted on memepool yesterday with an interesting link. This seems to be happening more and more.

That's swiped from True Porn Clerk Stories. (Recently featured on Memepool).

Do you happen to be an editor at memepool?

Thanks :-).

It's courtesy of a link from the ever-awesome memepool about No-Scalpel Vasectomy. I was quite tired at the time (so I probably found it unusually hilarious) but it was too good to pass up.

8. What are the alternatives for birth control?
Tubal ligation is the most often considered alternative, but it requires a much more invasive surgery and much more pain to the patient. Tubal ligations may also increase premenstrual syndrome symptoms, and a recent study showed an overall pregnancy rate of 1 in 40, far higher than vasectomy. Birth control pills have about the same effectiveness as vasectomy, but are far more expensive and bring with them hormonal side effects. Condoms and foam together also nearly equal the effectiveness of vasectomy, but are inconvenient and in the long run, costly. Either one alone is far less effective. IUDs (intrauterine devices) are less effective and increase the risk of pelvic inflammatory infections. Diaphragms and spermicidal foam have a lesser effectiveness and an increased risk of urinary tract infection. Withdrawal before climax is very ineffective and those who try this are usually called "parents." For all these reasons, it is my feeling that men who have vasectomies are being responsible and kind to their sexual partners.

I've set it as the sig on one of my mail accounts, but usually delete it when composing the mail. Especially if I don't want to offend the person. But, anything goes here, so...

[I'm envisioning a simple black shirt with that written on it in nice, white, bold letters... After all, if it's tattooed to someone's forehead, they won't be able to see it that often.]

This was up a few days ago on the excellent memepool.com. Go take a look - you might like it.

Come on, a story mentioning this thing showed up on the eternally spiffy memepool just a couple of days ago. 5:1 odds the article poster got it from there without giving proper credit. Show some manners, people.

This story is much more like memepool than most /. stories!