The blogstory really falls into the category of hypertext stories, which have been around for awhile. I had a college seminar on hypertext writing three years ago, and at the time everything was focused around eastgate
A great (and free) hypertext story is available here
Subject: Scientists are LAME! From: Teg Pipes Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
The straight line I've been waiting for for the past four years was finally delivered today. In the lab, obviously, four people were there, standing around the water cooler, talking about some heroic genetic screen, nice, pregnant pause after the straight line just begging to be exploited like a coal mine in the south east and I slid my joke in beautifully and...NOTHING! THEY ALL JUST STARED AT ME! FUCKS! I'LL KILL YOU ALL!
POST-DOC:...that was the night that I mated four-thousand pairs of flies.
ME: Boy, you must've been really sore after that!
ME: G'NIGHT FOLKS! DRIVE SAFELY!
I work in a stupid genetics lab for FOUR YEARS waiting for that line, FOUR YEARS! And when it finally comes, I make my joke and EVERYONE JUST LOOKS AT ME! ARRRRRGH! I COULD'VE BEEN DOING BIOCHEMISTRY ALL THIS TIME!
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I remember reading something by Marshall McLuhan that stated that eventually, we would pay just for advertising, not the product. I don't think this is what he meant, but I'm sure he'd be impressed at how far things have gone.
Cesium is due to be released by the end of the year for free, bundled with approximately 200 software applications including HTTP, FTP, NNTP and SMTP servers; a fully functional office application suite; graphics and audio software; and four video games including CesiumQuake.
This is by far my favorite part of this troll: while most people would consider, say, NetHack a noble effort for game porting on a unreleased-brand-spanking-new OS, we're going to release it with QUAKE.
Also note that the performance paper is for JRun 3.0. JRun 3.1 has additional performance enchancements. I'd say a good 25% improvement. Plus the petstore problems noted at the bottom of the 3.0 guide have been fixed.
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Phenomenon was also based on Flowers for Algernon
A great (and free) hypertext story is available here
*digging up old usenet post*
...that was the night that I mated four-thousand pairs of flies.
Subject: Scientists are LAME!
From: Teg Pipes
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
The straight line I've been waiting for for the past four years was finally delivered today. In the lab, obviously, four people were there, standing around the water cooler, talking about some heroic genetic screen, nice, pregnant pause after the straight line just begging to be exploited like a coal mine in the south east and I slid my joke in beautifully and...NOTHING! THEY ALL JUST STARED AT ME! FUCKS! I'LL KILL YOU ALL!
POST-DOC:
ME: Boy, you must've been really sore after that!
ME: G'NIGHT FOLKS! DRIVE SAFELY!
I work in a stupid genetics lab for FOUR YEARS waiting for that line, FOUR YEARS! And when it finally comes, I make my joke and EVERYONE JUST LOOKS AT ME! ARRRRRGH! I COULD'VE BEEN DOING BIOCHEMISTRY ALL THIS TIME!
I remember reading something by Marshall McLuhan that stated that eventually, we would pay just for advertising, not the product. I don't think this is what he meant, but I'm sure he'd be impressed at how far things have gone.
How about Visa?
This is by far my favorite part of this troll: while most people would consider, say, NetHack a noble effort for game porting on a unreleased-brand-spanking-new OS, we're going to release it with QUAKE.
Also note that the performance paper is for JRun 3.0. JRun 3.1 has additional performance enchancements. I'd say a good 25% improvement. Plus the petstore problems noted at the bottom of the 3.0 guide have been fixed.
I'm getting a sinking feeling this isn't over yet.
Cars... I was promised flying cars. Where are my flying cars?