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Affero's Hack-a-Thon
Henri Poole writes "I've got friends who ride their bikes for a week and get me and others to donate $100 to their cause. Spending more time on lists then roads, we've set up an analogous service for Free Software and Open Source projects. Substitute the physical sweat with a good hack, and you'll see the match. After you save your next newbie from tech-hell, just ask them to help your cause. In Lessig's blog, he writes "If there's one thing I've learned from watching, and tinkering, in this web-log space, it is that the many tiny brushstrokes of thousands paints more and more powerfully than the blast of even the most important and powerful papers...As I indicate on my Affero page, I count FSF and EFF as the two key players to support." And if you don't think you can make a difference, do this math: A $1 donation to the FSF for every user of GNU/Linux would increase their budget by 30 fold."
"In Soviet Russia we imagen a beowulf cluster of these...
In Soviet Russia, Beowulf imagines a cluster of YOU!"
That style of humor is getting a little forumlaic. It's like that Mexican Funny Videos show where 43% of their content is people falling down, and another 10% of their content is repeating that footage over and over again.
In Soviet Russia we imagen a beowulf cluster of these...
In Soviet Russia, Beowulf imagines a cluster of YOU!
In a Beowulf cluster, you imagine a Soviet RUSSIA !
Two wrongs may not make a right, but three
It's like that character from Mystery Men.
You must first learn to master your rage...
Or my rage will become my master? That was what you were going to say wasn't it?
Not nescisarilly.
Can someone please explain to me where these jokes started? I keep hearing them, but no matter how much I google, I can't seem to find the source. I know this is of the main topic, but it's on this particular threads topic ;)
"There's a madness to my method." -mthed
That style of humor is getting a little forumlaic.
"getting a little formulaic?" The bit was formulaic twenty years ago when CIA plant Yakov Smirnoff was doing it and there *was* a Soviet Russia.
Now it's pure gold, and I can't get enough!
Only in America can you have a web site with non-stop Smirnoff ripoffs on current events of interest to nerds. What a country!
I don't get it. I've been reading Slashdot for 5 years, but this "Soviet Russia" shtick is lost on me. I have two questions:
A) Where did the re-invention of this gag come from?
B) Why do you fuckin' numbskulls think it's funny?
Thank you.
YOU are lost on joke!