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Fairy Penguins Send First Email

Posted by samzenpus on from the talk-to-the-animals dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Australian researchers have successfully connected a Tasmanian colony of fairy penguins to the internet. The research effort was part of the Interspecies Internet initiative, promoted by Google's chief internet evangelist Vint Cerf and former Genesis lead singer Peter Gabriel in a TED talk earlier this year."

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  1. at last by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least fairy penguins can make up for the lack of ponies.

    1. Re:at last by Kemanorel · · Score: 2

      ^ This is probably one of the first AC comments I would mod up.

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    2. Re:at last by dragon-file · · Score: 2

      And dont get me started on birthdays! You were born on X date? So were 19,178,082 other people. Congrats on not being special.

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  2. Other sites by geeper · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What are some other sites similar to Slashdot that I can use today (and maybe longer)?

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    1. Re:Other sites by JustOK · · Score: 2

      threres's m.slashdot.org. That *like* slashdot.
      Or try http://slashdot.jp/

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    2. Re:Other sites by hawguy · · Score: 4, Insightful

      What are some other sites similar to Slashdot that I can use today (and maybe longer)?

      If you want to read the stories a week before they show up on Slashdot, try Arstechnica.com

    3. Re:Other sites by CheshireDragon · · Score: 4, Insightful

      no, reddit is like this everyday and follows with a dipping IQ. I see reddit as the idiocracy of the Internet.

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  3. Bummer by Nerdfest · · Score: 5, Funny

    Too bad Linus is probably too busy at Microsoft to respond.

  4. ROT13: Lamest 4/1 Joke in Slashdot History by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Which is saying something.

  5. The Real April Fool's Joke by Antipater · · Score: 5, Funny

    "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters"

    Ha! Fooled you!

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  6. Usually a fan of the April 1 jokes by DarkOx · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I actually enjoy Slashdot taking a day of the year out to just be silly. In past years some of the jokes have been hysterical. I enjoyed the "achievements" thing. The rot13 though is just irritating. So much fun having to paste all the summaries into my terminal so I can read them; I just love obvious repetitive tasks.

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    1. Re:Usually a fan of the April 1 jokes by Monkey-Man2000 · · Score: 2

      You are already logged in, so FYI, you just have to click on the text, "Click for a FREE PREVIEW of the decrypted version of this story!" to see the ROT13 translation.

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    2. Re:Usually a fan of the April 1 jokes by MickyTheIdiot · · Score: 2

      Something about it being a monday is pissing of people about april fools. Instead of shaking their head and moving on they're spewing forth crap... it's happening all over the place today.

      complainer:
      "Be a serious news organization"

      I hear:
      "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

  7. Re:Stop posting these! by thoriumbr · · Score: 3, Informative

    You should reconsider staying online on next April 1st...

  8. It's not an April's fool joke by blind+biker · · Score: 3

    It's not an April's fool joke if you can tell by looking at it for 2 microseconds.

    April 1st is just the day when Slashdot is utterly useless. Every Single One of the news stories is a ridiculously badly camouflaged "joke".

    Too bad, 'cause I'm in bed with a flu. Oh well...

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    1. Re:It's not an April's fool joke by HarrySquatter · · Score: 2

      So they've raised their standards? Maybe Dice is something right.