Slashdot Mirror

First I will add a plug for https://www.bloglines.com/ â" RSS feeds where ever I can log in, via HTTPS. Great for those feeds I read whenever & everywhere; and for those I only check when waiting to board the airplane. In my bloglines collection I have around 400 feeds, which will grow after looking through these threads. :) Some selections that hopefully no one else has mentioned:

Amusement:
http://failblog.wordpress.com/feed/
All about the Fail

http://lolbots.com/?feed=rss2
Robots making the LOLz, though not updated often.

http://lolgeeks.com/?feed=rss2
Geeks making the LOLz, though not updated often.

The latest limerick database entries - http://peeron.com/tickers/limerickdb.xml

The Triumph of Bullshit - http://bullshit.tumblr.com/rss

Diesel Sweeties by R Stevens - http://www.dieselsweeties.com/ds-unifeed.xml

PHD Comics - http://www.phdcomics.com/gradfeed.php
Ever spent time in academia? You will relate to this web comic.

Unshelved - http://www.unshelved.com/rss.aspx
A web comic about a library. Ssssshhhuusshh!

Indexed - http://indexed.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Take two (or more) topics and compare them using graphs & charts â" full of insight & lolz.

Computerworld Shark Tank News - http://feeds.computerworld.com/Computerworld/Shark/Tank
Many stories, full of humor and face palm

Overheard in the Office - http://www.overheardintheoffice.com/atom.xml
Instead of what was overheard in New York, now worldwide and from your office.

Common geek topics (those blogs that seem to hit all the topics days or weeks before you see them on Slashdot):
Didnt You Hear... http://www.didntyouhear.com/feed/

The Daily WTF - http://thedailywtf.com/rss.aspx

Global Nerdy - http://globalnerdy.com/feed/

Shopping:
http://content.dealnews.com/dealnews/rss/todays-edition.xml
Many of those geek toys you need

Newegg.com daily deals: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=DailyDeals&nm_mc=OTC-RSS
Need I say more?

Slickdeals: http://www.slickdeals.net/rss.php
Need I say more?

Woot! http://www.woot.com/blog/rss.aspx

Dumb political stuff:
Homeland Stupidity: http://feeds.feedburner.com/HomelandStupidity
Government gaffes, bureaucratic blunders and incumbent incompetence

Groklaw: http://www.groklaw.net/backend/GrokLaw.rdf

Declan McCullagh's Politech http://www.politechbot.com/info/rss/politech.xml
Also not updated often, but on target when it is.

Cryptome: http://cryptome.org/cryptome.xml
You can get lost here for hours

Music:
House of Blues: http://hob.com/venues/clubvenues/lasvegas/
The RSS feed for the local House of B

Good morning cuntdot fags, it's time for the idle troll. All I have to say is that it is time to brew up some frosty fucking piss. W00T Well I'm glad that is is news for nerds, stuff that matters.

Hello, It's me the Idle troll. I haven't brewed up any frosty piss in a while. First Post w00t! You all can bask in my first post glory you cuntdot fags!

Irony is the opposite of Wrinkly

http://shirt.woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=4908

Hello, It's me the idle troll. I got first post you cuntdot fags. I've been inactive for a while, but it is time for me to brew up some frosty piss. w00t I really need some cunt to fuck. Yours Truly, The fucking Idle Troll

Wait this isn't the idle. Oh well, I'll bre some frosty piss anyway! It's me the fucking idle troll on mainstream slashdot you cuntdot fags!!! FIRST POST! W00T!

FIRST POST w00t!
Yep, it's me the idle troll again. I just thought I would drop by with some frosty piss.

It's me the idle troll again and its time for me to brew up some frosty fucking piss. F1RST P0ST!!!!! WOOT

HA HA HA! Frosty Piss!!! Yup, it's been a while but the idle troll is back and he is brewing up some frosty piss for you all. w00t Yeah, thought I would add a little spam into this too.

Or, shop the sales for a TiVoHD which runs Series3 software (as it is a Series3 unit) and has an eSATA port for storage space expansion. It was at woot last week for $184.99 (which includes shipping). I've built MythTV boxes for people - even had a side business that did it. I got good at setting up the software, but even when you do get it set up just right, things outside of your control break (such as the TV listing fiasco or some other part of the software pitching a fit) and ruin the experience.

Even when building MythTV boxes, I did all of my DVRing on a TiVo. It just worked. I own it. I can hack it if I want, and my cable company doesn't get to tell me what ports will work and what ports won't. Plus it's Significant Other-friendly.

In Christianity, in some parts of Europe there are a few people who are a bit too much in love with Mary (for my taste), that wouldn't have happened if there were no pictures of her around.

You think Europe's bad? I can't imagine it could be any more Mary-obsessed than Mexico, or at least that part of the Mexican culture on display in Texas. The image of La Virgen de Guadalupe, borne on a cloud by a little dark-skinned angel, graces everything from cathedrals to car windows to the Bandana of Catholicism I got from Woot.

(Of course, being Protestant, I never quite understood the whole thing of praying to someone other than the Big Guy himself...)

It's hard to see it [w00t] in any context but geek culture.

I've also seen woot as an acronym for "(i) Want One Of Those", as in Woot.Com and the more interesting iWoot.com, which is kind of a british ThinkGeek.

woot!

For those not familiar with the site, they sell one product a day, until it's gone, at a deep discount. Today (12/13/2007) it's a NavMan GPS for $149.

I hit the site every day.

This phenomenon is well known to devotees of Woot!. iPod knockoffs comprise seemingly half the seven new products offered each week—various Roomba models comprise the other half—and a good chunk of the selection during each Woot-off.

The name Woot is already taken by http://www.woot.com/

Daily:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ I like to start every day with the Astronomy Picture of the Day
http://www.woot.com/ and the daily Woot.
http://www.slashdot.org/ Then I'll visit Slashdot about 30 times each day,
http://www.techbargains.com/ and I'm surprised more people didn't list Techbargains. I can't stay off this site.
http://www.ytmnd.com/ Finally, I'll spend countless hours each day viewing stupid YTMNDs.

Few times a week:
http://www.apple.com/trailers Movie trailers, keeps you up to date on what's coming out.
http://www.thepbf.com/ The Perry Bible Fellowship = best.
http://www.theonion.com/ The Onion
http://www.thinkgeek.com/ and Thinkgeek, of course.

Mix in the usual bbc, npr, cnn, espn, newegg, email, etc, and that's my rotation. Really, I'm surprised I didn't see more techbargains in these replies. That should be a staple in every rotation.

You must want wine.woot too! The Horror! The Horror!

Which, in reply, I wish to direct you here, here, or even here. Or if unmanned robotic efforts are more your cup of tea, here (one of which just happens to be the subject for today here).

What, was somene not expecting a smart-ass reply to that?

the reasons for Black Friday bricks-and-mortar sales just don't apply to the online world.I don't know about that. Traditional retailers aren't doing it right, that's for sure. They could probably learn something from Woot, which has the equivalent of a line of people waiting up until 1:00EST every night to be the first to see what they're selling for the day. Though, many of them are just there waiting for the next bandolier of carrots...

If Walmart or Target had such sales on their online sites, and advertised them as starting at midnight, I could see them getting the same kind of following.

wootz is having a woot-off today!

"Propiertary memory hardware"
I haven't heard about this. Probably because they are not in memory card business (yet.. still many markets to grab over).

A friend of mine bought this card from Woot! for $150. It got shipped in a brown box and was allegedly Dell overstock. He had to take a leap into darkness because nobody at the time was allowed to benchmark the thing, but now it looks like a pretty good purchase!

For what it's worth, I have a SanDisk SDMX1 MP3/WMA player (256M version) and it's really pretty nice. The physical design is no marvel of engineering, but it worked flawlessly with Linux with no effort. It appears as a standard USB mass storage device. It's got an FM tuner and voice recorder (only records WAV format, though), too. The best part is that I paid $15 (yes, fifteen dollars) for it on Woot a couple weeks ago. Hell of a deal. I bought one for my girlfriend, too (and only paid $5 shipping for the whole order).

It is possible to create thing panel DLP. Here's an example of a thin panel DLP. They quit making them because DLP is too expensive to compete in that market.

The Internet cannot get you drunk. I should know, I've tried.

Call me when you can get alcohol online from amazon.com. Even http://wine.woot.com/ and http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=bacardi&btnG=S earch+Froogle can get me wasted!

Arr! Bluetooth the Pirate! (Some of their older podcasts)

Hence the great success of woot.com. The writing that accompanies each product they sell is entertaining and enlightening, and it adds to the site's draw, which in turn of course adds to its objective measure of worth - revenue.

Yes. It works with wireless USB keyboards like these. There is no "lockout" for keyboards or mice. I imagine my el-cheapo USB gamepad I bought 5 years ago wouldn't work with the Xbox 360, though.

Yeah, like that...only not fugly.

But if that's your cup of tea, looks like Woot's selling them for $50 today.

http://www.woot.com/

No affiliation blah blah.

Hope they don't see today's woot:

http://www.woot.com/

I've been on both sides. I ran the message board for a (small-signal) radio station for a while, and fought with management over posts about competing stations. Hint: don't admin a board unless you and the management are completely clear on such issues! Especially if you have something of an emotional investment in the subject.

But sometimes it just gets out of hand. The message boards for Woot.com are full of spam postings, whining, and just plain crap. But they pride themselves on their free-wheeling tolerance for criticism, so they tend to not censor *anything*. It makes the board nearly useless for its intended purpose of reading the kudos and flames about a product.

The best compromise would be have a clear policy about what will be deleted, and stick to it. That way, you can field complaints from management for letting opposing viewpoints through, and you can also get flamed by whiners wanting to crapflood. If you're catching hell from both sides, you know you're doing something right.

http://www.woot.com/

For listings of daily deals and coupon codes to use for major sites (Dell, Overstock, Buy.com, etc.) I use gotapex.com
http://www.gotapex.com/

For a daily item that is dirt cheap and is usually tech related on a 1st come 1st served buyout basis goto woot.com
http://www.woot.com/

If you haven't already, you must experience the W00t! Basically it's one deal a day, good until sold out. I bought my robomower there, and almost bought a 3ghz HP PC (yuk! HP) this past weekend. Keep any eye on the product photos, they often inject some humorous twist...

From the site:
What is woot and who's behind it?
woot.com is an online store and community run by the employees of a 10 year old consumer electronics distributor that focuses on close-outs and generally buying stuff cheap. Since the distributor doesn't sell to end users, Woot, Inc provides us with an employee-store slash market-testing type of place. Hopefully the boss won't take notice. We anticipate profitability by 2043 -- by then we should be retired; someone smarter might take over and jack up the prices.

I see only 1 item, do you sell anything else?
No. We sell 1 item per day until it is sold out or until 11:59pm central time when it is replaced (see next entry for details). However, each item we sell is in stock and typically ships within 2-3 business days.

What is the schedule for new items?
OK - this is simpler than it sounds: A new product is released at 12am central time Monday through Friday mornings (if you are not a morning person, this can be described as Sunday - Thursday at midnight. better?) Friday's product will last through the weekend unless we sell out. If a product sells out during it's run, a new item will not appear until the next release time. You will know if a product is sold out, because the main page says "SOLD OUT" instead of "I want one". (clever, eh?)

If you haven't already, you must experience the W00t! Basically it's one deal a day, good until sold out. I bought my robomower there, and almost bought a 3ghz HP PC (yuk! HP) this past weekend. Keep any eye on the product photos, they often inject some humorous twist...

From the site:
What is woot and who's behind it?
woot.com is an online store and community run by the employees of a 10 year old consumer electronics distributor that focuses on close-outs and generally buying stuff cheap. Since the distributor doesn't sell to end users, Woot, Inc provides us with an employee-store slash market-testing type of place. Hopefully the boss won't take notice. We anticipate profitability by 2043 -- by then we should be retired; someone smarter might take over and jack up the prices.

I see only 1 item, do you sell anything else?
No. We sell 1 item per day until it is sold out or until 11:59pm central time when it is replaced (see next entry for details). However, each item we sell is in stock and typically ships within 2-3 business days.

What is the schedule for new items?
OK - this is simpler than it sounds: A new product is released at 12am central time Monday through Friday mornings (if you are not a morning person, this can be described as Sunday - Thursday at midnight. better?) Friday's product will last through the weekend unless we sell out. If a product sells out during it's run, a new item will not appear until the next release time. You will know if a product is sold out, because the main page says "SOLD OUT" instead of "I want one". (clever, eh?)

(Image)
Friendly Robotics Robomower RL500
The Rise of the Machines (into Landscaping Professions)
$179.99 + $5 Shipping and Handling

Herald of the Terminators, the Robomower RL500 crawls over your lawn like a worker ant, paring back the living grass, making our world more suitable for the robot masters that will ultimately enslave us.

Yard by verdant yard, that which was once free, organic and wild is brought to heel under the RL500's durable, rust-free mowing deck. After your formerly luxuriant lawn is tamed, how long will it be before the Robomower turns its quintuple horsepower equivalent cutting system on you?

(If the Robmower RL500 rises up against you or any member of your puny human community in less than 90 days, subdue it and return it--it's still under warranty.)

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Friendly Robotics Robomower RL500
The Rise of the Machines (into Landscaping Professions)
$179.99 + $5 Shipping and Handling

Herald of the Terminators, the Robomower RL500 crawls over your lawn like a worker ant, paring back the living grass, making our world more suitable for the robot masters that will ultimately enslave us.

Yard by verdant yard, that which was once free, organic and wild is brought to heel under the RL500's durable, rust-free mowing deck. After your formerly luxuriant lawn is tamed, how long will it be before the Robomower turns its quintuple horsepower equivalent cutting system on you?

(If the Robmower RL500 rises up against you or any member of your puny human community in less than 90 days, subdue it and return it--it's still under warranty.)

There are a number of sites I check daily, some are 'deal sites' such as SlickDeals..., but one of the more interesting has to be w00t !

They have a new deal every day (except weekends), once they run out, that's it ! Don't miss their famous "Bag 'o Crap" specials, and always read the details and the photo (they have some of the most entertaining descriptions evar), and keep and eye out for bravewoman.

I actually bought and actively use the RoboMower RL850 I saw there one day (love it, by the way).

There are a number of sites I check daily, some are 'deal sites' such as SlickDeals..., but one of the more interesting has to be w00t !

They have a new deal every day (except weekends), once they run out, that's it ! Don't miss their famous "Bag 'o Crap" specials, and always read the details and the photo (they have some of the most entertaining descriptions evar), and keep and eye out for bravewoman.

I actually bought and actively use the RoboMower RL850 I saw there one day (love it, by the way).

There is a website http://woot.com/ that is compulsive. Everynight @ 12 AM CST, they list a new item. Some sell out in 5 minutes, others don't sell out

but it had better be at a $200 price tag

So? Even if it's expensive, http://woot.com/Woot will get it cheap somehow....

Seems to me that this concept is already available...and only for $80 from http://woot.com/ today

Sounds *exactly* like today's WOOT (12/6/04) http://www.woot.com/ PCH

It sounds suspiciously like today's product on woot.com

This isn't true. Kerry wants to lower taxes on the middle class and raise them on the upper class.

Last I checked, I wasn't making 200,000 plus a year, so I'll actually save money with Kerry's plan... :) And so will all these CS undergrads!

So, take your own advice and stop making up news.

w00t!

You can't. They are already sold out:
W00t!