I Will Derive
Jamie stumbled upon a very choice video this morning called I Will Derive. To the tune of some song you've never heard before, singing about subjects you know nothing about... oh and a a TI-84 cameo. It features the dopiest dancing you'll see on YouTube today. I promise.
Now Slashdot is going to be posting every funny cat video on the Internet? What the fuck?
"The right to do something does not mean doing it is right." William Safire
Indeed... I was ok with "Idle" being its own little sub-section that you had to choose to go to... but not making the front page.
News For Nerds, Stuff That Matters.
Is now...
News For Sheeple, Stuff That Doesnt Matter.
Why can I still not turn off seeing this stupid section? It's pathetic.
Nice knowing you slashdot
So many years of wonderful service.
d~y
Fitting captcha: crested
Even worse:
/.: Either let me blacklist the Idle section via my user preferences, or remove this shit, seriously
So far, we're still unable to automatically filter the Idle section out of our front pages.
How bad is this? /. idle? /. has jumped the shark..
(no dispespect to the video makers, but we can all browse youtube randomly if we want...)
--Q
n/t
I thought it was funny, mellow out.
I know it has been said many times, but this is what makes slashdot great - the moderation system! When I first saw this video, I laughed. I enjoyed it. I thought it was funny and was glad that Slashdot had linked to it.
Then I read the comments and realized that the video wasn't funny or appropriate, and was in fact a harbinger of the Apocalypse. I shouldn't be smiling and happy - I should be ranting and outraged. I should be writing my elected officials and forming citizens action committees.
How dare slashdot trick people into a watching a silly youtube video buy disguising it as a story about a silly youtube video. Don't the slashdot editors realize that there is only a limited amount of webspace space on the internet, and they shouldn't be wasting it on stuff like this?
I am so glad I have seen the error of my ways. Now I just need to know where I can get one of these giant sticks to ram up my pigu, so I too can be a diligent defender of Slashdot integrity.
I'm a casual Slashdot reader. I usually just check the front page on Slashdot. This is the first time that I've heard about the Idle section.
If it has funny stuff like this, I'm there.
I think that, once in a blue moon, putting something on the front page from other sections that don't normally make it there is a good thing.