Stop: Quickies Time

Kodi wrote in to tell us that MozillaZine is holding a vote for the new Mozilla throbber (free membership required). Also the LinuxWorld Expo call for papers deadline is July 6. They're also doing a $25k award for a community program at the show. hzo wrote in to note that you can now hack furby with your Palm V. cpfeifer has noted a Yoda Got Milk parody. rhet sent us a web based jar-jar-gonizer if you aren't overloaded with the wretched beast. Kurt Weinschenker wrote in to tell us that the 99 Darwin Awards nominees are online. S|ack noted that you can now get adminspotting t-shirts. Scorpeye sent us an article about Bachelors in the Silicon Valley and comments about eligible bachelorettes in NY and LA... hmmm... Finally, some articles about the Andover.Net acquisition of Slashdot: Here's Upside, wired (thanks Evro) Salon (thanks Super_Oogie). There were a few more too, but after I've read two I realize I say pretty much the same stuff each time anyway, so its hardly interesting ;)

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Our little baby's all grown up *sniff*

[Analog]

Ah, I still remember the big announcement on Chips n Dips about Rob's secret new project. And the time he posted the news about Slashdot being mentioned on another site (unheard of at the time) from class while taking a test. The first try at message boards and the poll about whether or not to keep them. And a thousand other little things that have become Slashdot. A quick look at whois shows that it's been less than two years. It's come so far it seems like it must have been much longer.

All the best, guys. It's been a fun time thus far, and I'm sure it will continue to be. Thanks!

Jar Jar is smarter than I thought

[Tim Macinta]

Whoa! Check out what the Jar Jargonizer translate's "Microsoft" to. I typed kmfms. com into the url translator and was pretty surprised at what it spat out. Jar Jar is growing on me.

Something just happened to me

[aheitner]

My browser couldn't find the internet due to momentary enormous stupidity, and decided to pull up its last cached copy of /., from late last year IIRC when I was at home and still used this machine.

Jon Katz was ruminating unpopularly in the first of his articles playing with a linux machine and how weird and confusing it was.

GNOME vs. KDE flamewars were going on fast and furious in the unmoderated comments.

No one had heard of, or cared about, Linux the Holy OS or Open Sourceness or User Friendly or anything.

Man, we've come a long way since then. I've been reading /. since nearly the beginning, but even I couldn't have imagined the community that grew up around the little Nerd News sight.

I've posted a few stories myself. I've wasted a lot of time writing comments, and searching out comments by resident cool, funny guys Bruce Perens and Alan Cox.

Now, it ain't news unless it's on /. You can wear the hat and the tshirt. I start my day off in the office with /., then UF. Everything I need in life is a /box. When we won IGF, the first thing I did after seeing the news in a more-or-less reputable story I could link to was skip class (251, no less) and post it on /.

I'd be interested to see if anyone has a copy, HTML or PS or hard copy or whatever, of the earliest /. page we can find.

This is user # 3273 ... I'll be back tomorrow morning, as always... man, I really am a nerd :)