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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. 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. How did this get approved for the main page? by VinylRecords · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There isn't anything relevant or newsworthy in the entire piece that was the subject of this post.

    The 'article' is merely a slide-show with some of the most poorly written reporting I have ever encountered. News today is usually infotainment and not information anymore and this is a prime example. Even entries to this piece that should be newsworthy are presented so awfully that I could barely muster the willpower to proceed to the last slide.

    Networkworld.com ... never visiting this website again.

  3. Re:Wow.. by ChromeAeonium · · Score: 5, Funny

    (well unless perhaps you consider quantum mechanics - I'd call that stuff wacky)

    -Hey Electron, what are you doing? You'd better not be eating my Christmas cookies!
     
    -Nope, I'm over here!
     
    -Hey, my cookies are gone! Damn it Heisenberg, isn't there any way to compensate?
     
    -Judging by the size of your microscope, I'd say someone's compensating!
     
    Yep, the Subatomic Sitcom practically writes itself.