Nice reference!

There was also a forgotten CD-ROM game in 1995 called Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster, where Tim Curry played Dr. Frankenstein, and his wayward monster wanders the castle, eventually befriending a talking crawling severed hand...

In 2002 Slashdot reader #16,933 remembered asking Farber what he thought of claims that Al vice president Al Gore had invented the internet, "expecting to get a chuckle out of him, because he knew many of the people that might have actually been able to make that kind of claim." He shared Farber's response in a comment on.

"Instead, he got kind of serious, and said, 'Well, no, he didn't create the internet, and I think he's been quoted out of context, but he was absolutely responsible for creating the legislative environment that allowed that type of research to be done, and lead to the creation of the internet.'"

In 2002 Elwood P Dowd reader #16,933 remembered asking Farber what he thought of claims that Al vice president Al Gore had invented the internet, "expecting to get a chuckle out of him, because he knew many of the people that might have actually been able to make that kind of claim". And they shared Farber's response in a comment on

"Instead, he got kind of serious, and said, 'Well, no, he didn't create the internet, and I think he's been quoted out of context, but he was absolutely responsible for creating the legislative environment that allowed that type of research to be done, and lead to the creation of the internet.'"

In 2002 Elwood P Dowd reader #16,933 remembered asking Farber what he thought of claims that Al vice president Al Gore had invented the internet, "expecting to get a chuckle out of him, because he knew many of the people that might have actually been able to make that kind of claim". And they shared Farber's response in a a comment on .

"Instead, he got kind of serious, and said, 'Well, no, he didn't create the internet, and I think he's been quoted out of context, but he was absolutely responsible for creating the legislative environment that allowed that type of research to be done, and lead to the creation of the internet.'"

Wow - good catch!

I've updated the story so it notes all the hallucinations...

That's sort of the point, though. I wanted to hint at the small geographic size of the state, by describing it as "somewhere" (using its own humble local development agency). That's part of the story -- that what could be a promising program is happening at the local level. It makes it that much more impressive that this program is the first of its kind.

It needs to be clear that this isn't all of America, but just a very small pilot test to gather data on whether it makes things better or worse. (Massachusetts is just 192 miles of that coastline, after all.)

Saying "the Northeastern United States" would imply a much larger region than is actually involved...

Slashdot has an international audience -- Australia, the U.K., India...

So I didn't want to assume those readers knew the locations of all 50 U.S. states.

Historic moment. (I corrected that in the submission.)

I see this as the ultimate "bad outcome" for personal technology today. Smartphones, online access... The shiny new technologies of the last decades resulted in... hundreds of thousands of people enslaved, billions stolen, gangland wars, victims around the world...

It's an unpleasant thought. But as unwelcome as this may be: it's all enabled by our new technologies.

"Energy Capacity."

I've added that explanation to the top of Slashdot's story.

Thanks Gravis!

(I just hope nobody skims the headline, and thinks that it's a dupe.) :D

Good catch. I think the reporters at the Salt Lake Tribune swapped in one four-syllable word for another (changing "distribution" to "deviation"!) We'll correct that in Slashdot's excerpt from their article.

What about that guy ">who was married to Betty Boop?

Corrected.