Comment Re:Persons, papers and effects... (Score 2, Informative) 161
I'd mod this +1 Insightful if I had the points.
Comment Re:I don't think I get it... (Score 5, Funny) 549
If it was such an easy answer in the first place that it could occur just in the description of the link, of course!
This is like the cheap way local news stations get you to watch the whole 11pm news.
7pm: There's a food that might kill you already sitting in your fridge. Find out tonight at 11!
8pm: There's a food that might kill you already sitting in your fridge. Find out tonight at 11!
9pm: There's a food that might kill you already sitting in your fridge. Find out tonight at 11!
10pm: There's a food that might kill you already sitting in your fridge. Find out tonight at 11!
11pm: There's a food that might kill you already sitting in your fridge. Find out on this show!
11:08pm: And coming up soon, There's a food that might kill you already sitting in your fridge. But first weather.
11:30pm: Coming up after the break, 8pm: There's a food that might kill you already sitting in your fridge. Stick around.
11:59pm: And, if you eat spoiled food at the same time your murdered, you might die!
Roll Credits
You better believe if i can find the information before news outlets decided when I am allowed by all means I will.
Even on a page of search results, the answer to a question found in a link preview STILL is more readable that some of the junk clogged websites many news organizations have.
Comment The Neighborhoods (Score 5, Interesting) 427
My favorite part about Geocities, in 1996, was the themed Neighborhoods. The internet seemed so much smaller back then, like the number of pages could have fit into the multiple neighborhoods of Geocities.
RIP Times Square
Submission + - The "Amazon Rank" Google-Bombing Campaign (smartbitchestrashybooks.com)
paleshadows writes: The girls that run the smartbitchestrashybooks blog were rather
enraged by
Amazon's new policy to cull "adult" books
from their search system. They have therefore
decided to retaliate
by introducing the term
"Amazon Rank"
to the lexicon (as underscoring Amazon's shortminded censorship and
inconsistent policing of what ought to be accessible to the
book-buying public), and by requesting their readers to create a
link to
http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/amazonrank
with "Amazon Rank" as the anchor text, with the explicit goal of
turning their definition of the term to be the top most ranking in
search engines. (A practice known as
Google bombing.)
Remarkably, the campaign seems to indeed be successful: the new
definition is currently
number one in google results.
Example of usage: "I tried to do a report on Lady Chatterly's Lover for English Lit, but my teacher amazon ranked me and I got an F on grounds that it was obscene."
Alternate usage: "My girlfriend wanted to preserve her virginity, and I was happy to respect that, then she amazon ranked and decided anal sex was okay"
Example of usage: "I tried to do a report on Lady Chatterly's Lover for English Lit, but my teacher amazon ranked me and I got an F on grounds that it was obscene."
Alternate usage: "My girlfriend wanted to preserve her virginity, and I was happy to respect that, then she amazon ranked and decided anal sex was okay"
Scientists Begin Mapping the Brain 129
Raindance writes "A team at the University of Utah has unveiled a system to map and digitize brain tissue — thus fulfilling one of the long-standing holy grails of neuroscience and enabling for the first time in-depth analysis of how mammalian neural networks function. So far, maps for the entire retina and related neural networks have been released; no ETA on a full-brain digital reconstruction yet. (One of the lead authors hangs out here on Slashdot.)"
Comment Slashdot Reference (Score 1, Offtopic) 231
Check out today's comic on xkcd. There is a slashdot reference on the mouseover.
