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Slashdot Announces Idle Section

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the do-not-read-the-idle-section dept.

For the last few months we've been beta testing Idle.slashdot.org, our offtopic humor/meme/viral video/pictures section. Like many of you, we spend most of our waking hours on-line seeking stuff to entertain our brains, but most replicators out there pick so much content that it's incredibly boring filtering through the mediocrity to find the funny. We intend to fill our idle section with a very small collection of the very best the net has to offer, making it the most efficient way to waste your time. Some of this content will make it back to the Slashdot mainpage, but much of it will be new content that we wouldn't dare soil the precious Slashdot mainpage with. We are also using it as a test bed for new functionality on Slashdot — currently the page is a reasonably dynamic/interactive experience with various voting controls and filtering options. Finally you will see occasional original content, starting with a recurring special feature today where Samzenpus shares some real tech support email from some of our most intelligent readers. We hope you will enjoy wasting a slice of your day with us, and in addition will submit content through the usual channels, but put it into the 'Idle' section so we know not to take it seriously. Now go about your day — it's mid August, so I'm sure everything you do is urgent, exciting, and oh-so-interesting.

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  1. Natural order by iXiXi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Order -> chaos /. -> #$%&*

    1. Re:Natural order by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 5, Funny

      Order -> chaos /. -> #$%&*

      I hate examples written in Perl.

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    2. Re:Natural order by JamesTRexx · · Score: 4, Funny

      Careful, not everyone who has Tourette syndrome is a Perl programmer.

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  2. Re:I come to Slashdot because it *isn't* Digg. by bhamlin · · Score: 1, Funny

    If I want actual Intellectual articles with in-depth discussions, I come to slashdot.

    Oh, man. That's quality entertainment right there. Looks like you're new here. Welcome aboard. :D

  3. Re:Anyone else... by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. No funny April Fool's this year.

    I'm confused. When did Slashdot do funny April Fools?

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  4. Re:a Slashdot article aboutSlashdot by AutopsyReport · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, but we'll see the dupe in a day or so.

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  5. Great... by CaptainPatent · · Score: 2, Funny

    The site that has been the number 1 most efficient waster of my time at work just got more efficient?!?!?

    I can smell the pink slip from here!

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  6. Re:Anyone else... by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Funny

    That wasn't funny. That was terrifying.

    Oh, and thanks for reburning that shade of pink into my retinas. I just managed to recover, you jerk!

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  7. Re:Can you feel the excitement? by Otter · · Score: 5, Funny

    Agreed, the last thing we want is for the cesspool of Digg-reading, MySpace dwelling, Pokemon-playing LuSerS!!!!!1 to spill over into where the grownups are trying to have intelligent discussions.

    You forgot "Wikipedia-linking".

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  8. Viral? by Gat0r30y · · Score: 3, Funny

    I believe that this isn't viral anymore, it is now bacterial -like the clap.

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  9. Re:Can you feel the excitement? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You forgot "Wikipedia-linking".

    [citation needed]

  10. Re:Can you feel the excitement? by Daimanta · · Score: 5, Funny

    Indeed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Wikipedia#Usefulness_as_a_reference

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  11. Re:Can you feel the excitement? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    idle is the cancer that is killing /.!

  12. Re:Can you feel the excitement? by sm62704 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wikipedia? Bah, I do my research using Uncyclopedia!

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  13. Hope you've got a big ramp... by porkmusket · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's a hell of a shark you're trying to jump.

  14. Re:Can you feel the excitement? by timster · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nah, I think we've all pretty much settled on the correct answers to those (vi, Firefox, KDE, and Picard of course).

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  15. Re:Can you feel the excitement? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Farkdot - enough said

  16. Re:Can you feel the excitement? by jollyreaper · · Score: 4, Funny

    * If you don't know what LCD stands for in this context, you should turn in your geek card. Assuming you had one to begin with...

    Liquid crystal display, naturally. Now what about the posts with titties in them? It was made quite clear that there would be titty.

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  17. Re:I come to Slashdot because it *isn't* Digg. by Matt+Perry · · Score: 4, Funny

    If I want actual Intellectual articles with in-depth discussions, I come to slashdot.

    Boy, are you in the wrong place. You were supposed to take a left turn at Albuquerque.

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  18. Re:Conspiracy Theory! by jamie · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually, it's every other new feature of Slashdot that we hate. This one we actually think is fun.

  19. Re:Conspiracy Theory! by Hemos · · Score: 5, Funny

    I suspect you to be an agent of the Psychic Friends network.

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  20. Re:Conspiracy Theory! by scc · · Score: 5, Funny

    We have an Idle section now?

  21. Re:Conspiracy Theory! by ScuttleMonkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

    Please enjoy the shiny and click on our ads. /jedihandwave

  22. Re:Can you feel the excitement? by eln · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's vi, Firefox, Gnome, Kirk you mouth-breathing idiot. Go back to idle.slashdot.org!

  23. Re:Can you feel the excitement? by genner · · Score: 4, Funny

    while the rest of us can have the "enlightened" discussion we are accustomed to.

    You mean such as:

    • vi vs. emacs
    • Firefox vs. Opera
    • Gnome vs. KDE
    • Kirk vs. Picard

    Yes, I see what you mean.

    No all of those issues have been settled once and for all.
    The correct answers are:

    Pico
    Lynx
    FluxBox
    Janeway

    Now if you'll excuse me I have to go settle this little scuffle in the middle east.

  24. Re:Conspiracy Theory! by dysfunct · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm a subscriber you insensitive clo... ooh, those just might be the ads I'm looking for!

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