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May Ten Quickies
Paul wrote in to point us to the GNU Jobs Page.
^BR wrote in to say that the may issue of Daemon News is out for your BSDies out there, and
CaVi wrote in to say that the Linux Gazette is out (sorry that
these took so long to announce... moving was a bitch).
Bitscape sent us a Salon story about Coding in Vampire Mode.
Mikesch noted that www.palmcolors.com is selling colored Palm Pilots rsn.
Looking for new backgrounds?
President John F. Kennedy wrote in to tell us that the Volume 7 of Propoganda is up. And for those who are curious, he actually did send me beer!
robert@budzynski.ddns.org sent us this art gallery with fodder and
dayeight sent us a photomosaic picture for you Lara Craft Perverts out there.
HighJack noted that the latest version of JWZs X Screensaver distribution contains a new one that looks like those funky falling charachters from The Matrix.
And finally for some crazy fun stuff,
dave sent us hilarious proof that Star Trek is Satanic,
and chrisd sent us one of the best ebay auction items in recent memory.
Psst-this is Hemos. It was Rob's birthday on May 10-he thinks he escaped. E-mail him and tell him how much you love him.
When are you dorks going to accept that computer programming is about as artistic as getting your homework done on time? Cripes, comparing a device fucking driver to Mingus, you're lucky he's dead or he'd beat your ass.
I want a Transparent blue one ! :-P too cool, hehe.
:-P
Am I the first post, or is there something wrong with slashdot? I assume the latter. This isn't a first post hting or anything, I just wanted to read some responses
I guess everybody is busy playing q3 . . .
The Laura Croft porno montage--*that* baby is going on my desktop. And people say pornography has no redeeming social value! ;-)
I no he dosen't make rpm's of this but I was wondering if anyone will make rpm's of the newest version or just post the matrix screensaver part of it?
Rubbish, I know several women who are into porn.
to quote Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets -
"You call those skanks women?"
But really - approach an attractive and intelligent woman in a bar sometime and ask her how often she reads Penthouse.
The "modern woman who enjoys porn" is largely a myth concocted by Bob Guccione in order to reel in men who would normally be ashamed to buy a whack mag.
Chris DiBona is a well known scam artist. I think he calls himself a social engineer. What else is new?
Happy GIMPing,
Seth
I swear, when I posted this there were no other messages.
I dunno... It may not be in particularly good taste, but it hardly qualifies as porn in the "traditional" sense. And it is really funny, IMO.
/. anyway.
I bet most of the women I know would think it was funny, too. At least, all the ones that are even remotely likely to read
I wonder if someone got paid to do that? Kinda like the Dilbert cartoon "I was this close to making it my job description to download naughty pictures off the internet..."
Look at his root page.. It'll be pretty obvious.
Jesus! That's at least the second person who thought that it might NOT be a spoof. Of COURSE it is a spoof.
Although, as satire, it was a bit shy of so-so (IMO).
Of course, there are many algorithm tweaks that can be made to produce better looking results (IMO). The Photomosaics book shows that a lot of tuning helps to produce the best results.
For example, are luminances more important than color detail? Should a tunable algorithm be used that can follow sharp, high resolution details (ie. should greater than 3x3 subdivisions be used). Can tile pictures be color, gamma, contract-adjusted to produce better fits.
So, like many image-processing algorithms, there is a world of detail that can be addressed for more aesthetic results.
Anyone else tried ttyquake? Just get the version of svgalib that is a hack over the aalib (?) char cell graphics libraries, then use LD_PRELOAD to grab them... Weird.
Sorry, Bill and MSFT were up for auction last week on E-bay. I own him and his mansion now. :)
:)
Incidentally, I picked up a wonderful little island as well to turn into a private paradise....Austrailia.
Now all I need is the Ark and the Holy Grail, then my plan to take over the world will be complete. buwahahahaha
I got a laugh. My X root window remains untouched. Would have been nice if the posting had mentioned its composition, but to some extent one can presume that anything aimed at "laura croft perverts" is going to be of questionable content.
The Linux montage project is making good progress producing Tux from linux logos, but this could have been done in a few days. Now I know the secret -- it isn't the force of free-speech OSS code, it's the force of pr0n. Driving the expansion and commercialization of every major technological achievement since Gutenberg. Far out.
For you windoze people: Arcsoft Photomontage. I've used it, and it's pretty nice.
-not a coward, but never bothered to get an account.
I most whole-heartedly agree. I was cracking up hard when I saw that. It's actually funny. :]
:]
I actually *like* 7 of 9. It's a cool name for a cool character, and I think she's more of a C than a D.
I found this:
/ 4
http://www.smalleranimals.com/tylergalleryboard
Basically:
"This is an image of Lara Croft, from Tomb Raider. The library is composed of over 7000 images of naked women. The images came from a CD a user created with my ThumbNailer app. He gave me the CD as a thank-you. It does a great job of providing Tyler with a library of flesh-tone images... This was done with 2x2 matching and color-correction, no tile repeats."
Every woman I have ever got to know closely has admitted to enjoying porn. Not porn in the playboy or hustler sense, but erotica in the "non violent adult movies" sense. I'm in my mid-thirties, and I've had more than my fair share of relationships.
:)
Sure, at first they've denied it, but getting a little more comfortable with me they've admitted it. I'm not surprised... would *you* confess to enjoying masturbation to a woman you don't know well enough? It'd be just the same for them.
I'm sure that many women don't like porn at all. But in my experience, 100% of women I got to know well (ex-girlfriends and otherwise) have admitted to enjoying porn... especially when it's done sensually, in exotic locations, and with enough teasing (i.e. not straight "in your face, wham bam thank you maam") And these women have mostly been well-educated career types.
Then again, it may just be the sort of women I've attracted
How about Star Trek / Babylon 5 flames?
;->
As scary maybe. Even scarier? Why?
We don't get laid because we don't want to. **dignified**
There's a famous font face that looks just like it. i assume they used it. what's the name of the font face... hm.. hm...... damn i can't come up with it right now.
Arcsoft Photomontage
So what *was* that on e-bay?. All the good stuff seems to get yanked before I can bid. :-( (All the more reason for your proposed "weirdest of e-bay" repository.)
If you were willing to alter your
tile images a little bit, you could
replace step 3 with
3)a. select random tile from catalog.
b. adjust tile's global HSV values
to match required HSV for source
at that location.
this would cut down on the processing time.
also, if you searched for a given value in your catalog, you would end up with topographic-like
"bands" of the same tile in areas where your source had a given color.
Oooh. We call that "drilling up" and there's nothing magical about it, really.
Damn. Is anyone else looking at Slahsdot right now? It is really hosed as hell.
http://members.aol.com/suboner/Zen/
http://members.aol.com/suboner/Zen/
*no text*
Yep,
l m l m l
Looks like he's firing off flaming arrows,
but provides plenty of true self identity at:
http://members.tripod.com/~tzimisce69/index.htm
http://members.tripod.com/~tzimisce69/index2.ht
http://members.tripod.com/~tzimisce69/index3.ht
Anyway, nice artistic pictures.
bwildasi
Either that, or someone is off his meds. WAYYYY off his meds.
Rob - if you want women to use slashdot - quit posting pornography. Its pretty simple - mostly they aren't into it.
And you guys wonder why you never get laid...
Spoken like a true nerd! Here's a whole mess of porn, and you thinking, "What program does that?"
Unfortunately, I also had the same thought.:)
if we pulled our resources and bought the ark of the covenant and sent it to Bill Gates? ***sizzle sizzle***
Are you kidding? ... You're completely insane.
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Your honor is perfectly understandishable.
You know, I've always wondered...
That catfood quote is from the episode where Lisa is friends with the Smart Girl. They play a game where one forms anagrams from a famous persons name that describes the famous person. They ask Ralph to play and he responds, "my cat's breath smells like catfood." Is it an anagram?
BTW, if you have no idea what I'm talking about turn on sigs and look at PHroD's sig
2^5
Well, you can always leave negative feedback for someone who renigs...
Recently I saw the Star Wars HMMV being re-sold on ebay, so apparently whoever bid on it like a year ago never bought it. Or that Cool Site of the Year award, last I looked it was up to like $100k.
It's cute though.
Coincidentally, there was a bit on TV this weekend by a guy said he created this prorgam that does this. It was on either those CNet style shows on SciFi before MST3K, or maybe Discovery channel's Discovery News. It just takes an archive of pictures, gives them like an average color value, then takes a big picture and starts plopping the pics in place roughly matching the colors. It's a neat idea, but I don't think it'd be too hard to re-make it as say a Gimp plugin...
They've already cancelled both auctions, so what was the other auction about?
Silly Everything Birthday Thingy.
--
Cool article. Been there, done that. Both the coding till sun-up, and the mystical, magical, spiritual state of mind you get into during the deep hack. It doesn't happen often, but when it does, watch out world, here comes some crazy, hairy code that just works. It takes a long time to understand the resulting code afterwards:)
Bill - aka taniwha
--
Leave others their otherness. -- Aratak
Anyway, thanks for his full name. I'll see what I can find locally. Sounds like he has to be heard to be talked about meaningfully (kinda like Bones asking Spock what death was like:)
Bill - aka taniwha
--
Leave others their otherness. -- Aratak
Hmm, do you possibly mean Charles rather than Jeff? I just did an online search of the local library and found a Charles Mingus (1922-) doing jazz CDs (ie listed under jazz in the CD section).
Bill - aka taniwha
--
Leave others their otherness. -- Aratak
Actually, the library did have it (bad search params, I guess) so I borrowed it. "Ah Um" was not to be found (somebody got it between my search and arrival at the lib). Should be interesting.
Bill - aka taniwha
--
Leave others their otherness. -- Aratak
Thanks, but I think I'll stick with the MP3 (size) and get freeamp to either speed up or output waves. The results on my 486 vary from vary skippy to slightly skippy, depending on the MP3. Thanks anyway.
Bill - aka taniwha
--
Leave others their otherness. -- Aratak
"Magic Eye pictures of the 90's"? But Magic Eye pictures _are_ from the 90's!
I dug a little deeper and found out it was a spoof!
http://members.tripod.com/~tzimisce69
He does warn you in advance though...
Codifex Maximus ~ In search of... a shorter sig.
People, please. Shorten the URL and look at his
homepage. This is satire, and good one, since you
almost fell for it or could not decide if it was
for real.
see subject. Hope you had a good one.
"shop smart:shop s-mart" ash
i like your site :)
"There is no spoon" - Neo, The Matrix
oh no...i never use ebay
:)
"There is no spoon" - Neo, The Matrix
The Ark of the Covenant... hmmm...
Makes you wonder, what happens to these folks selling crazy stuff (like the Russian space shuttle test article) if someone actually bids on the item and they can't deliver? Does EBay take action or can the purchaser sue for fraud? EBay doesn't strike me as the best place to fool around.
(I feel dumb. I posted this under someone else's comment when I meant to post it at the first level. No, Preview doesn't prevent this. How about a "Delete Post" button, Rob?) The Ark of the Covenant... hmmm... Makes you wonder, what happens to these folks selling crazy stuff (like the Russian space shuttle test article) if someone actually bids on the item and they can't deliver? Does EBay take action or can the purchaser sue for fraud? EBay doesn't strike me as the best place to fool around.
That's the last time I ever look to Ebay for an auction. With kids like that auctioning on there, who knows how man of their other products are real frauds.
The silicon follies series i found to be highly patronising. if you read the rest of them, the reiterating theme is "professional engineers are sad and pathetic" mixed in with a large dose of "useless liberal arts majors are good and wonderful".
basically, it's just another dig at techies, which is a pity as salon's content is often interesting.
It was not pornography. It was humor. Anyone who manage to get offended by it has serious problems, unrelated to slashdot.
If any of you have older pilots with the IR-memory upgrade, then email them and let them know that you're interested in this option. If we slashdot them they'll have to do it! =)
This guy is clearly a loon. Most Christians do NOT believe the nonsense he spouts, and I suspect that it is a spoof.
Christianity is about God himself dying on the cross so that we might have divine help to overcome Sin in our lives. That is, first God accepts us as His children, then he makes us more worthy of that acceptance (we're never really Holy enough.)
It is not about proclaiming who is saved and who is not, and it certainly has nothing to do with rating TV shows.
Even moreso, It's not really about avoiding Sin -- although we do try to avoid Sin because we love God and he hates Sin. What this guy seems to believe in is a kind of ritualistic purity and legalism which is more Muslim or Jewish than Christian.
I thank God that I don't have to live under that kind of system. Don't think that's what God is about.
-- Slashdot sucks.
What my post was trying to say was, it's reasonable to say that links to porn should have warnings attached, because it is offensive to some people. But to say it's offensive to women specifically is not only factually inaccurate, but the sort of dangerous generalisation that leads to oppressive behaviour.
Actually, bizarrely, I've known more women who like Playboy than men. But that's probably just a statistical blip, I think Playboy would be a rather different magazine if most of its readership were female :-) Personally, I can't stand that airbrushed crap. Anyway, if you look closely at the Lara Croft pic, the pictures clearly aren't the sort that appear in Playboy.
Supposing for a moment this is still true in an age where every second TV ad has a "hunk" taking his shirt off, how is it relevant to this discussion?
I agree, I wasn't at all saying that not liking porn made anyone assexual. What I was saying was that the widescale acceptance of the idea of female assexuality was a major cause of the belief (and hence the reality) that women didn't enjoy porn. I considered it too obvious to be worth stating that women are no more assexual than men.
Your argument seems to revolve around a very limited idea of what it means to be a woman. And you seem to be implying that men are all tasteless sex-crazed exhibitionists. Trying to understand your homogenous idea of the world is making me depressed. I refuse to conform to any predefined pattern of behaviour on the basis of on the configuration of my genitalia!
fish and pipes
That Tyler photomosaic app looks great. I was really eager to try it out but it's Windows only...
Although, recently I saw someone accurately describe photomosaics as the Magic Eye oictures of the 90's...
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
I haven't tried it yet but it's here.
Pixie / GeekChick
Yay! Finally some quickies. I like a little variety rather than one post on just one topic.
i disagree-- i think the previous AC was saying that putting stuff like that up here will only disgust the minor 4% of women who /do/ read Slashdot, and discourage others from starting to do so.
/are/ into porn, (on the majority, just so i don't alienate some people) aren't into Playboy or the like, for example, and...
Either way,
A) one might assume that women who
B) yes, sex sells, and women's bodies tend to be the ones selling it, but finally,
C) just because women don't like porn doesn't by *any* means mean we are a-sexual. I find it to be a somewhat ridiculous assumption; perhaps it's only that women exhibiting their libido are subjected to a double-standard of what's permissible to show. Either that, or we try to be more tasteful and keep such things (as feeling 'sexual' or being something other than mere reflections of male fantasies) out of the public eye, and instead letting them be displayed in a the intimate, private sphere.
My $.02. Happy Slashdotting.
--Anneke
--Anneke
"Real Women Use Linux"
I didn't notice that 3.12 was out since 3.11 was just released a couple of days ago. But I expect the new RPM's will be in the same locations.
The item you requested (101092904) is invalid. Please check the number and try again. If this message persists, the
item has expired and is no longer available.
Now I don't get to view the infamous items....
WAAAAAAAA
There wasn't anything on the original Star Trek in there, only this Next Gen / DS9 / Voyager rubbish. That's a bit disappointing, really.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
How ridiculous. And I thought I was pathetic for wearing the suit at conventions.. I guess some people are messed up in a much worse way. *no Star Trek/Wars flames here, both are cool*
eek! poagpacks on
Go Poag!
Whenever I see a URL pointing into the middle of a site, let's say:
http://members.tripod.com/~tzimisc e69/satantrek.html
I click the location box in my web browser and hit backspace until I end up with something like:
http://members.tripod.com/~tzimisce69
Which often helps to get things into context.
Sometimes I end up in a directory listing, which is a great way to explore a site. Unfortunately, some sites are rude enough to leave directories without index.html and block directory listing. Bad, bad webmaster. No cookie today.
Stop worrying about the risks of nuclear power and start worrying about the risks of not using nuclear power.
that's a hell of a lot of porn. i didn't see any repeats when i looked at it, damn. BTW, does anyone know what program does that?
-- adraken
is there a GIMP plug-in in the works for this? this would be damned cool. if we didn't have to buy a WINDOWS program to do this
-- adraken
anybody wanna put xscreensaver-3.12.tar.gz somewhere I can get it, (or point me at a mirror that has this version?) I'm getting about 200 bps for a few minutes and then it just stalls.
Drink! OHBC >O+
I went over to look at this...
*sigh*
I hung out on a non-Xian newsgroup for a bunch of years, and was one of the proponants of a Big 8 version of it. This, unfortunately, looks all too real, like the kind of post we used to get every Sept. and Feb., when the new students got their Net account, and discovered that Everyone Does Not Think Like They Do in Rock City, TN, or Podunk, IL.
File under the heading of "people who ought to live on a farm, and never look at tv or a computer".
The scary thing is, of course, that these fruitcakes *are* out there, and not only can get guns, but get organized, as witnessed by the birth control clinic murders and bombings over the years
mark
How do some people make this shit up?
--Ivan, weenie NT4 user, Jon Katz hater: bite me!
--weenie NT4 user: bite me!
"Computers are nothing but a perfect illusion of order" -- Iggy Pop
Actually, it's not Arcsoft Photomontage, it's Tyler, a Win32 program that's available for free download on the site. I fired it up and it seems to work fairly well. I don't have such a large image gallary to work with on my machine, so my results weren't as well crafted, but I could see it producing some cool pics givin a large enough base of images.
BTW, does anyone know of a large web based repository for photos and images (not porno, just anything)?
I wonder how many people noticed that those were actually about half numbers/letters and half backwards katakana (Japanese phonetic characters usually used for foreign words, like italics in English).
I did.
I was wondering if those were Unicode streams or something...
Jay (=
Actually, Playboy is a bad example, since only about 10% of the magazine has "nekkid wimmin" - the rest are mostly insterviews and articles, very well worth reading.
Not to mention that their models are healthy and well-formed, and very little focus is given to genitalia - unless you count the "mammalian portruberences" (Zappa-term) as genitalia.
What it boils down to is that men's sexuality is more driven by the visual aspects than the female sexuality, and porn is normally expressed using visual media.
(Hum. Could musk-based perfume for men be called porn in the sense that its purpose is to arouse women? :-))
belbo
--
"Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple."
it's a spoof.
http://members.tripod.com/~tzimisce69/
yes, www.dotcomforwardslash.com is my real URL.
I thought this was a wonderful parody, but as I read it, I kept having nagging doubts that maybe this person was serious.
Oh please, anyone who can come up with the "36 of D" line just can't be serious. Religious nuts like that simply don't have this type of a sense of humor.
As far as I can tell, these cases do not exist yet. (And there's been some speculation on the Pilot newsgroup that they never will.)
Happy birthday!!
-earl
I don't have a link for it, but you can look it up via freshmeat.
RinkRat
Much of what is said on that site is sadly true. I know that many horrific things have been done "In the name of God". However, I believe that this should not be confused with Christianity. If there was a group of Homosexuals who went out to kill all Heterosexuals, would you be so quick to mock and attack Homosexuals?
Even in the New Testament Jesus attacks the current "Religious leadership" as hypocrits. (This is actually what got him in so much trouble). Christianity, which is based on Jesus' teachings, teaches Tolerance and loving. (Hate the sin, not the sinner). It is my belief that Homosexuality is a sin. However, I have had homosexual friends. I never made any direct attacks on their lifestyles, and if asked, would simply answer: "I do not believe in your lifestyle, nor do I believe in MY right to choose your lifestyle". Jesus teaches that each person has to make thier own choice.
Let there be no mistake about it: Those who kill abortion doctors are sinners, and NOT CHRISTIANS. They are not doing ANYONE any good. On the other hand, Planned Parenthood (and other associated groups) explicately attempts to arrest parental controls away and talk teens into abortion without giving other options/choices. They are even more wrong, they are preying on the weak, and taking advantage of a bad situation.
Also, for those who threatened to Sue the site: You are really confused, The Bible explicitly tells Christians not to sue people. (I wish I could remember the verses, but alas I do not have my Thompsan-Chain(tm) Reference with me).
For those who have been ridiculed by those who call themselves Christians, for those who have been looked down on by those who call themselves Christians: I am sorry, it is wrong, Jesus loves you, and so should we.
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."niv
Matt 22:36-40
-- Keith Moore
This sig is the express property of someone.
Yes, it is a spoof...
from the root page (http://members.tripod.com/~tzimisce69/):
"Jesus came ##### times and stained the sheets."
the scarier thing is that people like this really exist in the world...
example:
http://www.delphi.com/PerilousTimes/
even scarier is their polar opposites (just as conservative, just as scary, but a-religious/"a-theist")
...
IMHO, once again the Star Wars stuff is superior
I disagree. The Star Wars page is much more cartoonial with the edited images. The Star Trek page seems much more sinister, and a much more convincing parody. It actually resembles some of the web pages I have seen around the 'Net. But the Andy Gibb-esque depiction of Jesus on The Force=Satan had me laughing more than anything else on either page.
Logic ... merely enables one to be wrong with authority. -- Doctor Who
Exactly.. In fact the entire series "Silicon Follies" was a welcome intrusion on work tonight.
The coding installment was so on target, I wasn't quite sure if it was fiction or documentary material. A more palatable, less sensationalized John Katz article if you will.
As to coding in vampire, is it just me, or does it just seem easier to code through the night?
Nah. The network had broken down, not the web server :)
mine? thanks!
Lisa
we all love ya...
Can't really explain his music. You'll have to hear it to understand it. It's a real bitch to play for the untrained player, and a real bitch to listen to for the untrained ear.
Many happy returns, and may you also find a Rickenbacker 12-string with a Fender Pro-Reverb Tube amp under your Birthday tree as well
-- Life: Hate the Game... Love the cereal
Funniest thing i've seen in a while. I think I will make a Bill Clinton one out of the same materials ;)
--- May the Farce be with you
I thought this was a wonderful parody, but as I read it, I kept having nagging doubts that maybe this person was serious.
When I saw the Inquisition graphic I thought, okay, definitely parody. Then after all the bible quotes I began to doubt that hypothesis.
If this guy is serious, he is a poster child for intolerance and religious bigotry. Thank God I'm an atheist!
I think the best thing about the site is its ambiguity. Real or parody? Does it matter?
A dyslexic man walks into a bra.
read this sellers comments. and look at his other auction:
e m&item=101249405
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIt
Quizbekistan, a former province of canada hehe
James
Oh, puleeeeez! Calling that porn is laughable.
WWWebster defines pornography as:
If the miniature images on that page were seen in their original full-size form they might qualify as pornography. At a size that small, they simply don't. How could anyone would find any 27x27 pixel image as "depicting erotic behaviour intended to cause sexual excitement"?? The only reason that we humans are able to recognize that the images in that mosaic depict women in erotic positions is that our brains are amazing at filling in missing information. If you don't believe me try blowing up some of those images to 5 times their original size.
But the real issue isn't the 27x27 pixel tiles, it's the image itself, which is undeniably art. It may be art that nobody finds interesting, it may even offend some, but it is art, and while it might be considered erotic art, it's not pornographic.
Was Rob wrong to post this? Well it isn't news for nerds and it surely isn't stuff that matters but I'm sure I'm not the only one who found it interesting and, yes, I admit it, cool. I'm glad Rob chose to share it with us. I don't even think there's any reason he should have to warn people about the image.
Try The Force=Satan to see why.
IMHO, once again the Star Wars stuff is superior.
Funny, but not nearly as funny as all the comments, there are some REALLY sick folks out there (and they lack that sixth sense...humor)
+&x
I wonder how many people noticed that those were actually about half numbers/letters and half backwards katakana (Japanese phonetic characters usually used for foreign words, like italics in English).
^_^
Cryptic Allusion - New Mac and Dreamcast Games!
Rob! You thought you slipped by us, eh?
:)
Well, belated is better than never.
B-Day boy, where's your B-Day wish?
Maybe we'll take up a collection and buy you a beowolf cluster.
Damn.
BTW Happy B-Day Rob
The ship sank. Get over it. (This sig was cut out from another's shirt and painstakingly hand-posted)
That way people can filter it out if they don't want. Pretty sensible.
"If one is really a superior person, the fact is likely to leak out without too much assistance" -- John Andrew Holmes
Reading over all of these posts that apparently take this site seriously, I have to ask: Are you really missing the blatantly obvious parody, or are you just extending it by pretending that you think the site is genuine? Yes, there are a load of fundamentalist Christian nutballs on the 'net. This page, however, is not run by one of them, and it seems like it should be pretty obvious.
We're going down, in a spiral to the ground
Waitaminit. This guy (not dave) is serious!!! It's not hilarious at all. These are the kind of people that go around shooting abortion doctors coz they think they're on a mission from God.
Today's Kevin & Kell ( http://www.herdthinners.com/kk990511.html if you don't see this 'today') is the first instance of an eBay mention I've seen in a comic strip - it captures the mentality of the eBay community nicely though.
--- Gary McClellan
I think that the folks running e-bay have a /. alarm on their systems. When the see a bunch of browsers referred-to by slashdot, they go yank the page. Might even have a big red rotating light in the SysAdmins office.
:-)
Of course, if it's a Chris DiBona bid, it should probably be yanked milliseconds after posting anyways. Otherwise I might bid on it
the AntiCypher
Hemos is like...sci-fi fans;he thinks technology is cool, but he hasn't bothered to understand the science it's based on
I laugh my a#$ off every time I see a false item up for bid on ebay. Any company that welches out of any responsibilty for the items sold on their site like ebay deserves to have stuff like this done to them.
I have saved a couple of the pages with these items just for fun. Anyone know if there is a site with a collection of these fake items?
-pika