Wish I could get away with doing something like this at work. Some HR genius has commissioned a Corporate Social Network, and while they apparently can't order you to join up, they seem to have licence to nag you about it ad infinitum.

When did you ever have to pay for YouTube? Or GMail, for that matter?

16-year-olds who've just discovered Orwell are only slightly less annoying than 14-year-olds who've just discovered Ayn Rand. :-)

So when the Grim Reaper comes for you, you'll offer to hold his cloak for him so that he has both hands free for the scythe, right?

You should learn what words actually mean. I am pretty sure that would help.

In other words, you just this past week learned about an issue that some of us have been aware of for about... 30 years.

Very good! Perhaps I should have more faith in the up-and-coming generation.

Now, about that apostrophe...

No.

Some of us prefer to live in a different novel.

That, when they replace the current crop of summary writers, the monkeys will be able to distinguish singular and plural.

*shudder*

(I am an editor: the shudder is real.)

Does the subscription include 3 martinis daily? If so, I might also be interested.

And so is Swatch Internet Time, thank goodness.

These are the same users who supposedly knew the difference between Java and JavaScript...?

Wait---they never did... so I guess some /. traditions remain safe, eh.

Back in the day, the Merry Pranksters used to drive around SF Bay in a van marked International Cocaine Importers & Exporters SA / San Francisco - Ciudad Juárez - Lima.

A real-life public defender instead of a Saul Goodman?

I don't get it.