How can they have an article about purple potatoes without showing a picture? I wonder if it is the peel that is purple, or if they are actually purple all the way through.
At first I thought maybe this was some genetically modified thing, but I'm under the impression now that it's not. I remember a couple of months ago I was watching a cooking show on the Food channel, and a lady had about seven different kinds of potatoes...one of them *was* deep purple on the outside, and more pinkish than normal on the inside. I wish I could remember what she called it... Since they said this one was extremely rare though, it probably wasn't the same thing. The purple potatoes she had were very small and more round than what you typically think of.
Wish I could remember. I read this article last night and had been trying to think of it then, too.:(
but wouldn't this energy be better spent trying to solve existing problems instead of opening up a whole new can of worms?
People are dying of disease, the world is going to run out of fossil fuels, the earth is warming up and animals are dying out, and some scientists are jacking off trying to make a black hole in a lab. Blah.:P
I absolutely cannot believe that you posted this today. You could have at least waited a few days for people to recover from the shock before you got on your Slashdot soapbox and started rambling about your usual crackpot ideas.
It figures you'd find some way to work a technology theme into a plane hijacking. E-mail probably had very little to do with this attack, but you'd love to find a way to work it into your self-appointed role as representative for the geek community, wouldn't you? Technology Armageddon? What on earth does that have to do with a plane running into a building? Maybe if some 7337 h4x0r script kiddies hijacked the plane...then MAYBE. These guys are reputed to have been using knife-like weapons. Those are hardly cutting-edge tech, Jon. And people willing to die to make a point go back a long, long way.
I was proud and grateful for Slashdot for the first time today...it was the only site I could get news on this morning for several hours, and in between Hemos and Taco's work, along with the/. posters, I knew more about what was going on than anyone else when I went into work. However, I find myself extremely sick to come home and have read this. I don't blame you for being upset, Jon, (we all are) but did it ever occur to you to post a comment like everyone else about it? What makes you think your personal little tech-explains-everything rambling deserves front page status along with the ACTUAL NEWS ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING?
I agree with the other poster who said this was absolutely inappropriate for posting today. You should be ashamed of yourself.
I drew a picture of how I feel to calm myself down, in spite of the fact that I sliced my thumb open yesterday and writing makes it bleed around the stitches. Please print it out and hang it over your monitor for the next time a major tragedy like Columbine or this act of terrorism occurs. I feel like I'm going to throw up now.
I have long suspected that Starbucks is, in fact, putting some sort of illegal substances in those things.
It's the only way I can think of to explain the fact that I don't just crave any coffee, but that mocha frappacino is exactly what I must have.
I've tried all the fake ones from other coffee shops... and nothing is the same. Anyone know what's in these things? Crack? I told a cop to go check them out once, but he just ignored me.
That's the stupidest thing I ever heard. QPT has a girlfriend already. He just likes trying to make me look bad... or whatever it is he's trying to do. Besides, I'd expect anything I got from him or one of his friends to be broken and/or unusable. He seems like the type that would do something like that.
My computer is a crappy little HP thing that crashes daily. Someone donated a hard drive, some RAM and a CD-R to me, but this HP case is so small I don't think they will fit, and anyway all the components are MS specific so I can't learn Linux yet.:( So now I'm looking for a case to build a new machine. Anyone in Houston able to help??
I really do think that's a good idea. When I redesign my splash page, I think I'll be adding something like that to it. I'm afraid things like this are just going to get worse, and even if I beg for money, I'm still proud of the fact that there aren't any obnoxious banner ads on my site.:)
It's just that getting traffic to your page is so hard when every site links to Salon.com or the New York Times. No one pays attention to little banner ads any more, and unless you have a fortune to spend on advertising (if I had that, I wouldn't need to advertise) you're out of luck. I have alot of places linking to me, but 50-60 hits/month from them doesn't do much to help. I'm stuck right now trying to write submission letters to art magazines and dead tree media because I've pretty much hit a dead end on getting my work around online.
I'd say the web is more eclectic than ever...it's just getting harder and harder for people seriously promoting unique and original material to get their name/URL out there. Until I get brave enough to write my URL on my body and streak through some major metropolitan area... well, nevermind. I'll always have my.sig.
Will there come a point where I have to write a notice on the front page of my site that it contains no third-party advertising and/or banner ads... and that anything that might appear of that nature on the page was not put there by me?
Come to think of it, maybe that's not a bad idea...
I saw the chaser for this on the evening news tonight, proclaiming "free internet access for all Houstonians." But then my dad changed channels to a Simpsons rerun, so I didn't watch the actual story.
When will someone make a Final Fantasy style airship? It couldn't possibly be that complicated...most of them seemed to be just wooden cabins in the shape of a small boat, with propellers and a big air sack providing the lift. I'm sure it wouldn't cost that much, relatively speaking...not much more than a blimp or a plane... maybe do this as a promotion or something? There are hobbyists with hot air balloons...
One would think that if there was a cult of Mac users that nearly everyone knew about, it would be rather obvious when all the Microsoft-run stuff shut down, that the Mac computers weren't affected. Seems to me that'd be enough to have people switching systems...at least if it was a crisis on this scale...
...isn't that one of the major problems w/ Linux, that most people just don't know it exists? I know I didn't have a clue what it was until one of my friends got me to start reading Slashdot. And if this guy ever thought that MS would be able to over-run the alternate-OS crowd that frequents this place... well, I don't believe that's possible.
You'd better hope the clothing doesn't involve too much targeted advertising.
There'd be nothing quite like seeing an ad for Viagra flash across your girlfriend's ass right as you're undressing her to be intimate for the first time. (At least there she might not notice it...)
I keep seeing you guys post "Oh, haha, let's make clothes that you can hack to turn into a micro-bikini or see-through..."
Screw that,what about the big hairy Yeti-rednecks with a gut hanging five inches over the waist of their jeans and a wife beater tanktop. Can you hack these things to cover that UP and keep people from going blind?
I'm not sure, but you might even be able to get federal funds to research doing that as a community service.
Actually, I was trying to troll my troll, but I guess he's not around to post his usual Olsen Twins reply [to anything I say]. Slashdot doesn't have any of my old comments online any more with his comments attached.
Hey buddy, you awake?
I don't know anything about this, but my site's routers or switches or something were down for like two days and I couldn't get my e-mail or anything. It really sucked.
Slashdot Mirror
You just made my night. Thanks. :)
I already want to go there. I swear all of Europe is conspiring against me while I'm over here in America. :)
How can they have an article about purple potatoes without showing a picture? I wonder if it is the peel that is purple, or if they are actually purple all the way through.
At first I thought maybe this was some genetically modified thing, but I'm under the impression now that it's not. I remember a couple of months ago I was watching a cooking show on the Food channel, and a lady had about seven different kinds of potatoes...one of them *was* deep purple on the outside, and more pinkish than normal on the inside. I wish I could remember what she called it... Since they said this one was extremely rare though, it probably wasn't the same thing. The purple potatoes she had were very small and more round than what you typically think of.
Wish I could remember. I read this article last night and had been trying to think of it then, too. :(
but wouldn't this energy be better spent trying to solve existing problems instead of opening up a whole new can of worms?
People are dying of disease, the world is going to run out of fossil fuels, the earth is warming up and animals are dying out, and some scientists are jacking off trying to make a black hole in a lab. Blah. :P
I absolutely cannot believe that you posted this today. You could have at least waited a few days for people to recover from the shock before you got on your Slashdot soapbox and started rambling about your usual crackpot ideas.
It figures you'd find some way to work a technology theme into a plane hijacking. E-mail probably had very little to do with this attack, but you'd love to find a way to work it into your self-appointed role as representative for the geek community, wouldn't you? Technology Armageddon? What on earth does that have to do with a plane running into a building? Maybe if some 7337 h4x0r script kiddies hijacked the plane...then MAYBE. These guys are reputed to have been using knife-like weapons. Those are hardly cutting-edge tech, Jon. And people willing to die to make a point go back a long, long way.
I was proud and grateful for Slashdot for the first time today...it was the only site I could get news on this morning for several hours, and in between Hemos and Taco's work, along with the /. posters, I knew more about what was going on than anyone else when I went into work. However, I find myself extremely sick to come home and have read this. I don't blame you for being upset, Jon, (we all are) but did it ever occur to you to post a comment like everyone else about it? What makes you think your personal little tech-explains-everything rambling deserves front page status along with the ACTUAL NEWS ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING?
I agree with the other poster who said this was absolutely inappropriate for posting today. You should be ashamed of yourself.
I drew a picture of how I feel to calm myself down, in spite of the fact that I sliced my thumb open yesterday and writing makes it bleed around the stitches. Please print it out and hang it over your monitor for the next time a major tragedy like Columbine or this act of terrorism occurs. I feel like I'm going to throw up now.
Jon Katz: Truly Insensitive Jackass
Kennedy Space Centre and Cape Canaveral are in Florida; that's where they launch...mission control and the Johnson Centre are in Houston.
I work right down the street from NASA, and I caught on the television the tail end of something weird going on down there...
You geeks wouldn't happen to be trying to overcompensate for any personal insecurities, now would you?
I have long suspected that Starbucks is, in fact, putting some sort of illegal substances in those things.
It's the only way I can think of to explain the fact that I don't just crave any coffee, but that mocha frappacino is exactly what I must have.
I've tried all the fake ones from other coffee shops... and nothing is the same. Anyone know what's in these things? Crack? I told a cop to go check them out once, but he just ignored me.
That's the stupidest thing I ever heard. QPT has a girlfriend already. He just likes trying to make me look bad... or whatever it is he's trying to do. Besides, I'd expect anything I got from him or one of his friends to be broken and/or unusable. He seems like the type that would do something like that.
My computer is a crappy little HP thing that crashes daily. Someone donated a hard drive, some RAM and a CD-R to me, but this HP case is so small I don't think they will fit, and anyway all the components are MS specific so I can't learn Linux yet. :( So now I'm looking for a case to build a new machine. Anyone in Houston able to help??
I really do think that's a good idea. When I redesign my splash page, I think I'll be adding something like that to it. I'm afraid things like this are just going to get worse, and even if I beg for money, I'm still proud of the fact that there aren't any obnoxious banner ads on my site. :)
It's just that getting traffic to your page is so hard when every site links to Salon.com or the New York Times. No one pays attention to little banner ads any more, and unless you have a fortune to spend on advertising (if I had that, I wouldn't need to advertise) you're out of luck. I have alot of places linking to me, but 50-60 hits/month from them doesn't do much to help. I'm stuck right now trying to write submission letters to art magazines and dead tree media because I've pretty much hit a dead end on getting my work around online.
I'd say the web is more eclectic than ever...it's just getting harder and harder for people seriously promoting unique and original material to get their name/URL out there. Until I get brave enough to write my URL on my body and streak through some major metropolitan area... well, nevermind. I'll always have my .sig.
Will there come a point where I have to write a notice on the front page of my site that it contains no third-party advertising and/or banner ads... and that anything that might appear of that nature on the page was not put there by me?
Come to think of it, maybe that's not a bad idea...
a link from /. to submit me to a big ugly Microsoft XP ad. For shame...
It's called a .jpg. Maybe you've heard of them?
I saw the chaser for this on the evening news tonight, proclaiming "free internet access for all Houstonians." But then my dad changed channels to a Simpsons rerun, so I didn't watch the actual story.
Certainly neat to see it on /. though...
I don't want any of the people like this getting any more special privledges than they might already have.
When will someone make a Final Fantasy style airship? It couldn't possibly be that complicated...most of them seemed to be just wooden cabins in the shape of a small boat, with propellers and a big air sack providing the lift. I'm sure it wouldn't cost that much, relatively speaking...not much more than a blimp or a plane... maybe do this as a promotion or something? There are hobbyists with hot air balloons...
Damnit, I want my airship!
Wow...even poor college students can afford a better computer than me.
One would think that if there was a cult of Mac users that nearly everyone knew about, it would be rather obvious when all the Microsoft-run stuff shut down, that the Mac computers weren't affected. Seems to me that'd be enough to have people switching systems...at least if it was a crisis on this scale...
...isn't that one of the major problems w/ Linux, that most people just don't know it exists? I know I didn't have a clue what it was until one of my friends got me to start reading Slashdot. And if this guy ever thought that MS would be able to over-run the alternate-OS crowd that frequents this place... well, I don't believe that's possible.
I like the bit about the Frosted Flakes though. :)
You'd better hope the clothing doesn't involve too much targeted advertising.
There'd be nothing quite like seeing an ad for Viagra flash across your girlfriend's ass right as you're undressing her to be intimate for the first time. (At least there she might not notice it...)
I keep seeing you guys post "Oh, haha, let's make clothes that you can hack to turn into a micro-bikini or see-through..."
Screw that,what about the big hairy Yeti-rednecks with a gut hanging five inches over the waist of their jeans and a wife beater tanktop. Can you hack these things to cover that UP and keep people from going blind?
I'm not sure, but you might even be able to get federal funds to research doing that as a community service.
Actually, I was trying to troll my troll, but I guess he's not around to post his usual Olsen Twins reply [to anything I say]. Slashdot doesn't have any of my old comments online any more with his comments attached. Hey buddy, you awake?
I don't know anything about this, but my site's routers or switches or something were down for like two days and I couldn't get my e-mail or anything. It really sucked.