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Johnny Fusion (658094)
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http://www.joltfinder.com/
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Born in 1972, Johnny is one of the younger of the old-school hackers, or one of the older "whiz kids", take your pick. He wrote his first program in BASIC on an Apple II when he was 6 years old. On September 23, 2004 he took the community-built database experiment / project Jolt Finder http://www.joltfinder.com out of Beta. He's pretty proud of it, and hopes it takes off.
Journal of Johnny Fusion (658094)
Wow that was fast
Here is the rejected story:
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It appears that Jolt Cola has changed their product line. Instead of old fashioned 20th Century era plastic bottles, Jolt will now be found in a high-tech 21st Century "battery can". The new can has interesting features such as a "power meter" made of thermosensitive ink that let you know how much Jolt is left in your battery. With the new cans come a new logo. I will miss the old one.
The flavor line up has changed as well. The five flavors are Jolt Cola, Blue, Cherry Bomb, Ultra, and Red. I have not been able to find a press release from Wet Planet, so I do not know if the well loved flavors of Citrus Climax, Orange Blast, and White Lightning have been discontinued.
My web application Jolt Finder might be able to help you locate this hard to find cola, but its not likely.
Jolt Finder is an experiment in community-built databases, much like the The International Book List. The idea is to get many, many people to register as "Jolt Finders" and enter into the database the location(s) where they buy Jolt Cola. Then anyone can come along later and search for locations that sell Jolt where they live (or perhaps where they are visiting, or passing through on a road trip). Since I started collecting data on September 23rd, a mere 21 locations have been registered. I suspect the users of slashdot can help Jolt Finder uncover many more.
If you cannot find Jolt in your area you can always Buy it online, and These guys sell it online too.
Jolt Finder Promo
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Lets face it, Jolt Cola is not the easiest product to find. Sure the Jolt Cola web site does have a Product Locator, but it is unable to give actual store locations, just the contact information for the distributors in your state. It is up to you to then contact the distributor yourself, and figure out with them where Jolt is sold closest to your house (or job, or social club, or whatever). This can have mixed results.
Because of this, I wrote a web application called Jolt Finder. Jolt Finder is an experiment in community-built databases, much like the The International Book List. The idea is to get many, many people to register as "Jolt Finders" and enter into the database the location(s) where they buy Jolt Cola. Then anyone can come along later and search for locations that sell Jolt where they live (or perhaps where they are visiting, or passing through on a road trip). Since I started collecting data on September 23rd, a mere 9 locations have been registered. I suspect the users of slashdot can help Jolt Finder uncover many more.
If you cannot find Jolt in your area you can always Buy it online, and These guys sell it online too.
Meta-Modding
One of my favorite thing to do on slashdot is to find unfair mods of "troll" in meta-moderating. I have one -1 Troll post, and I think it unfair, so I take glee, when I see an unfair rating of troll, I really do.
Jolt Finder story is still pending.
Interesting
Story about Jolt Finder: Still Pending after three weeks.
Just sayin....
Agony of waiting revisited
OK, 10 days and still pending. This is a GOOD sign, right? RIGHT? I mean if they hated it, it would have been rejected by now....
BUT WHAT ARE THEY WAITING FOR?
*sob*
