Slashdot Announces Idle Section 281
For the last few months we've been beta testing Idle.slashdot.org, our offtopic humor/meme/viral video/pictures section. Like many of you, we spend most of our waking hours on-line seeking stuff to entertain our brains, but most replicators out there pick so much content that it's incredibly boring filtering through the mediocrity to find the funny. We intend to fill our idle section with a very small collection of the very best the net has to offer, making it the most efficient way to waste your time. Some of this content will make it back to the Slashdot mainpage, but much of it will be new content that we wouldn't dare soil the precious Slashdot mainpage with. We are also using it as a test bed for new functionality on Slashdot — currently the page is a reasonably dynamic/interactive experience with various voting controls and filtering options. Finally you will see occasional original content, starting with a recurring special feature today where Samzenpus shares some real tech support email from some of our most intelligent readers. We hope you will enjoy wasting a slice of your day with us, and in addition will submit content through the usual channels, but put it into the 'Idle' section so we know not to take it seriously. Now go about your day — it's mid August, so I'm sure everything you do is urgent, exciting, and oh-so-interesting.
Natural order (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I come to Slashdot because it *isn't* Digg. (Score:1, Funny)
If I want actual Intellectual articles with in-depth discussions, I come to slashdot.
Oh, man. That's quality entertainment right there. Looks like you're new here. Welcome aboard. :D
Re:Natural order (Score:5, Funny)
I hate examples written in Perl.
Re:Anyone else... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm confused. When did Slashdot do funny April Fools?
Re:a Slashdot article aboutSlashdot (Score:4, Funny)
Great... (Score:3, Funny)
I can smell the pink slip from here!
Re:Anyone else... (Score:5, Funny)
That wasn't funny. That was terrifying.
Oh, and thanks for reburning that shade of pink into my retinas. I just managed to recover, you jerk!
Re:Can you feel the excitement? (Score:5, Funny)
You forgot "Wikipedia-linking".
Viral? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Can you feel the excitement? (Score:5, Funny)
[citation needed]
Re:Natural order (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Can you feel the excitement? (Score:5, Funny)
Indeed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Wikipedia#Usefulness_as_a_reference [wikipedia.org]
Re:Can you feel the excitement? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Can you feel the excitement? (Score:4, Funny)
Wikipedia? Bah, I do my research using Uncyclopedia! [uncyclopedia.org]
Hope you've got a big ramp... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Can you feel the excitement? (Score:5, Funny)
Nah, I think we've all pretty much settled on the correct answers to those (vi, Firefox, KDE, and Picard of course).
Re:Can you feel the excitement? (Score:1, Funny)
Farkdot - enough said
Re:Can you feel the excitement? (Score:5, Funny)
* If you don't know what LCD stands for in this context, you should turn in your geek card. Assuming you had one to begin with...
Liquid crystal display, naturally. Now what about the posts with titties in them? It was made quite clear that there would be titty.
Re:I come to Slashdot because it *isn't* Digg. (Score:5, Funny)
Boy, are you in the wrong place. You were supposed to take a left turn at Albuquerque.
Re:Conspiracy Theory! (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, it's every other new feature of Slashdot that we hate. This one we actually think is fun.
Re:Conspiracy Theory! (Score:5, Funny)
I suspect you to be an agent of the Psychic Friends network.
Re:Conspiracy Theory! (Score:5, Funny)
We have an Idle section now?
Re:Conspiracy Theory! (Score:5, Funny)
Please enjoy the shiny and click on our ads.
Re:Can you feel the excitement? (Score:5, Funny)
It's vi, Firefox, Gnome, Kirk you mouth-breathing idiot. Go back to idle.slashdot.org!
Re:Can you feel the excitement? (Score:5, Funny)
You mean such as:
Yes, I see what you mean.
No all of those issues have been settled once and for all.
The correct answers are:
Pico
Lynx
FluxBox
Janeway
Now if you'll excuse me I have to go settle this little scuffle in the middle east.
Re:Conspiracy Theory! (Score:5, Funny)