I had the same reaction. Ass... mud... dinosaur... basketball... *headasplode*

Seriously, how did this get approved? It has nothing to do with the article.

The actual newsworthiness of the article is that the fossil prints are the first found of a meat-eating dinosaur's front limbs. No fucking basketballs anywhere in the article.

Please don't approve any more submissions from "Gre7g" until he gets his substance abuse problem under control.

That's actually an O-Ring

And in an off-topic comment... WTF Slashdot? Ads for "Learn Biblical Hebrew online?" It's not April 1 yet.

I agree, the context matters.

I just built a website for my church using a Wordpress install. I had it done in a day (found a nice, free pre-made template and customized it with my own graphics, had some PHP plugins from the previous incarnation from the site that just needed some tweaking.) Best of all, I was able to, in half an hour, train someone at the church office to use the Dashboard so I don't have to upload everything myself (although they need some lessons in ascending versus descending order). It's great and for a code neophyte like me it didn't give me nightmares.

I would say Wordpress is great for small businesses (without online storefronts, although I don't think this is impossible with Wordpress) non-profits and charities, but Joomla has more appeal and features and modules for medium-large businesses and organizations, or people with more time and skill to invest in setting it up.

I looked at Joomla but having a vague familiarity with Wordpress because of my blog, I chose the one I knew.

I recall a remote-controlled cockroach in this movie...

Kind of gives new meaning to the "this room is bugged" cliche.

It's an interesting theory, and could tie in to Middle Eastern flood stories. There has been some scientific research done suggesting that the Black Sea at one time was dry, until the swelling Mediterranean burst through the Bosphorus and wiped out the settlements in the valley and creating the coastlines that would one day become the playgrounds of Russian communists on holidays.

Meanwhile, an old dude in a boat was bobbing around aimlessly, and after he landed one of the first things he did was get really, really drunk.

Exactly.

If you're really concerned, make your own website and put its link in your resume/cover letter. Don't give it any further thought. By strongly trying to disassociate yourself from search engine results, you may be sending the wrong message.

A bunch of this crap already fell through the skies in Canada and hit the Atlantic Ocean on Friday. And NORAD phoned ahead to warn Calgary it was coming. So the collision might be unprecedented but the falling space junk is not...

I'm not trying to make a judgment here but the American media frenzy is an interesting contrast to the Canadian "whatever, eh" reaction.

And the scariest thing here is how bad their math was, predicting it would hit somewhere in Alberta and then having it land off the coast of AFRICA. Someone move a decimal place?

Anonymous libel/slander does not equal free speech.

And it's kind of funny you posted AC.