Slashdot Mirror
Hump Day Quickies
Some useful stuff:
An anonymous reader noted that AltaVista has opened
Raging.Com which is a super fast minimal search engine without all that bloated portal crap.
gi_wrighty noted that the winneers of the 5k HTML Contest have Been announced. Impressive minimalism.
Soeren Staun-Pedersen
noted that a new
The Gimp User Group has come along.
j1mmy pointed us to pictures of the new Lara Croft Model from E3.
Yaruar sent us a story about Lego Filmsets that come with cameras for you do-it-yourselfers. If you don't want to make your own films, how about your own Mars Polar Lander Site? (Thanks Biff Studly).
antiwesley sent us interesting insight into a typical geek cube.
Speaking of things found in geek Cubes,
BenTheDewpendent sent us a page that tracks tons of info on Mountain Dew and
bob_jordan found pictures of upcoming Futurama Bender Action Figures (Not as cool as Nate's Picolo tho)
Baloo Ursidae sent us a story about electricity generating shoes.
Gorphrim sent us some
Duron Parodies
Finally some Slashdot references: DrFun (one of the original net comics)
mentioned us in a recent strip,
Someone noted that Geek Culture is selling First Post T-Shirts.
QuasEye noted that someone registered hotgrits.org and ironically enough, is running Slashcode. And the WashPost
ran an article on us which is mostly accurate.
And to wrap things up,
maxxon showed us the way to Crank Dot Net, which has stuff on all sorts of conspiracy theories and urban myths and other crazy stuffs on the net. Stuff like UFOs, the face on mars, Creationism, Scientology, antigravity, and perpetual motion and more.
I went looking for the Lara Croft model, but all I found were rendered stills. They show impressive skill with textures, but the lighting is at best amateur. Check out the specular highlights on the breasts, sheesh.
So anyone know where that model is? I do hope it's made of splines. Polygonal meshes are so frumpy.
The "adult supervision" thing is an in-joke. I'm so much older than everybody else who writes for Slashdot (except for Jon "gasbag" Katz) that I might as well be the scoutmaster of Geek Troop # 64.28.67.48.
Think of the old joke about the difference between the Army and the Boy Scouts: They both wear green and sleep in tents a lot, but -- unlike the Army -- the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.
John Schwartz, the Post reporter who did the story, is a very nice guy with a wry sense of humor -- and about 700% more tech knowledge than most of the mainstream press people I've met in the DC area. He's even starting to get into Linux.
Remember, Schwartz was trying to explain Slashdot to a typical newspaper audience. That's not an easy task. Think: the site's name alone makes most people say "Huh?"
I think the d00d did about as good a job as could have been done, even though some of his research was a little outdated. I have moved (Whoo!) to a double-wide bouse trailer since I last talked to him.
- Robin
I guess the fact that the under 5k HTML site is getting slashdotted and running dog ass slow just goes to show that HTML size is not the only thing that makes a site slow.