GNU-Friends Interviews
Jonas Öberg writes "GNU-Friends is doing a series of interviews with long-time free software hackers that I think people would be interested in. Check out interviews with Arnold Robbins, Karl Berry, Andrew L. Moore, Guido van Rossum, David MacKenzie and Chet Ramey. More to come, but that should keep people occupied for a few minutes." The GNU-Friends should have a show right after Superfriends.
The slashdot effect shouldn't hamper DNS lookups. The slashdot effect would only play a role *after* my machine knows the numeric IP address. If anything, the slashdot effect should speed up the DNS lookup if it has any effect at all, becuase it increses the likelyhood that upstream name servers have the name cached from previous users.
Don't label something "offtopic" unless you know the topic well enough to tell what's on topic.