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The Wackiest Technology Tales of 2008

Posted by timothy on from the hindsight-is-much-better-than-20/20 dept.

coondoggie writes "Despite the daily drumbeat of new and improved hardware or software, the tech industry isn't all bits and bytes. Some interesting things happen along the way too. Like floating data centers, space geekonauts, shape shifting robots and weird bedfellows (like Microsoft and Jerry Seinfeld). What we include here is an example of what we thought were the best, slightly off-center stories of 2008."

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  1. Wow.. by Anrego · · Score: 3, Informative

    This sounded interesting.. but just really didn't hold my attention. Most of the stuff fell under one of two categories:

    1) stuff which is cool, but that I already knew about ..
    2) stuff which wasn't really all that interesting

    Additionally the little blurb of info the give on each was fairly dry .. .. and they have (at least for my browser) added some annoying anti-"just view the print version" stuff..

    AND GET THE HELL OFF MY LAWN!

  2. A slide show by techno-vampire · · Score: 5, Informative

    I tried to RTFA and found that the article was nothing but a stupid slide show with a vapid paragraph of comment for each. Unless there's a link to the complete text, there really isn't anything worth looking at.

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    1. Re:A slide show by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Yes that website is awful. Everything on the page is grabbing for attention and it's quite hard to use. One of the worst sites I've seen in ages.

    2. Re:A slide show by bugnuts · · Score: 3, Informative

      Would've been a much better article if it didn't force use of javascript and didn't force you through some 30 pages of crap. 3 pages of crap would've sufficed.

      Interesting how the delivery mechanism is so hated by many techies, but so loved by others. /luddite

  3. Even those with the attention span of a goldfish by Finallyjoined!!! · · Score: 4, Informative

    Would get bored with the article.

    Even the slides were boring.

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