I would have posted this to one of the other Digg-related threads, but I can't do this right now (see also the previous JE's title), so I'm posting it here. According to some guy, Digg did not beat Slashdot in April but only in late June.

That must be one of the most interesting birthday presents someone's ever given to me.

n/t

According to Microsoft adCenter Labs, there's a 33% chance that a Slashdot reader is female. It also says that about 9.8% of Slashdot users are under 18 years old.

Curiously enough, the same statistics apply to Digg. What's even more interesting, however, is that the age group distribution of Slashdot and Digg users corresponds exactly to that of people searching for 'porn'.

Here's an interesting article from American Scientist Online about the famous story of Carl Friedrich Gauss and the schoolmaster who gave his class the tedious assignment of summing the first 100 integers. The author thinks that "only one kind of student would ever be likely to add the numbers from 1 through 100 by performing 99 successive additions --

I know most of you don't probably read the front page anymore, but there's a front page article I'd like to turn your attention to. It's titled Immaturity Level Rising in Adults . The article itself isn't really good or interesting (just this short bit from Discovery News about a study that has supposedly shown that "a growing number of people are retaining the behaviors and attitudes associated with youth". I

Here's something I would have posted in my journal half a year ago, had I not been busy trying to get (and have) a life. Now that I've totally given up on this (it was, at best, a feeble attempt anyway), I feel like I owe you at least this much. So, if any of you still haven't seen this, then here's Kafkamesto, a point-and-click adventure based on Franz Kafka's life and works. I have to warn you, though, that if you haven't read Kafka,

As Soren Kierkegaard once noted (somewhere in his journals), "People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have, for example, freedom of thought; instead they demand freedom of speech as compensation." I find this to be true for many, if not most, of the people on the Internet. They demand the freedom to express themselves in any way, yet they rarely put any thought into what they say -- only emotions. "This sucks!" "You suck!" "omgwtflol!!" And so on. If their thoughts are be

Is anyone else here using the experimental interface thingy (aka University of Michigan Testing)?

One morning, when Daniil woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into Franz Kafka..

Everyone knows by now that Internet debates are entirely futile. They usually result in exactly nothing and only serve to waste the time of those participating in them. There is no positive result. There can't be one, as the "rules" or the structure of an Internet debate simply don't allow it: all the debates pretty much boil down to two people yelling "NO, you're wrong!" at each other. No new information

I just wanted to say that I realized today that I am, in fact, a three-legged duck. That's it.

Err, hi.

I wasn't going to post anything here anymore, but someone asked about this, so I thought I'd better let you all know why I'm leaving -- for this is what I'm about to do. I'm going to leave. I'm going to leave this account mostly "as is", though, for I have grown so attached to it -- to this mask -- that I just can't force myself to delete it... Which is kind of funny. It's as if it was a part of me, when in fact, it isn't. It's just a mask. A lie -- it has been all along. But I

You really shouldn't be reading this. Please don't read this JE.

It is said that Emperor Nero once gave birth to a little green froggie. He kept the frog in his palace, ordered a special room to be built for it to live in, fed it salad leaves and flies. The flies had all been caught live by a slave of Nero's. The frog would never eat dead flies.

You ask me why I shiver?

Out of the black void of the bloated net I received a hideous JPEG attachment, a single glimpse of forbidden eons which chills me when I think of it and maddens me when I dream of it. That glimpse, like all dread glimpses of truth, flashed out from this godless email I received. If I live, I shall never knowingly supply a link in so hideous a thing.