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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.
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.