Trepia: A Buddy List Of Strangers

An anonymous reader writes "Trepia has released an IM client that automatically populates itself with people who happen to be around you. Something that has been done before by Apple with iChat, but Trepia claims to be 'iChat on crack' in this article featuring the software. This could have potentially revolutionary social effects..."

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What I want to know is...

[Motherfucking Shit]

...how come nobody seems to be putting up gag avatars? The parent post was made in jest, but hey, this is Slashdot; I was expecting to see at least one person with a pic of the Goatse Guy next to their profile! I guess maybe it's because we geeks are the type to have a digicam and a self pic, and thus no need to upload something bogus, but I'm really surprised to see so many apparently legit photos. I wonder how that ratio pans out for the total userbase.

I stuck up a pic of John Ashcroft for the time being, but I'm trying to find (or crop) some hardcore porn that's just the right size...

Re:Half Way There

[den_erpel]

not really, we are dealing with fruit not recognising a quote of James T. Kirk.

[marc@scorpius marc]$ cat /usr/share/games/fortunes/startrek |grep -A 2 Genius
Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. You can't simply say,
"Today I will be brilliant."
-- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3