Clippy was augmented reality before its time, but its time is now. Clippy is Microsoft's best bet to rule the metaverse, I'd say.

...but it creeps me out that Stack Overflow is recording everything I do on their site.

More specifically, if a line worker, rather than a retired QC guy, in a Boeing union shop had blown the whistle, the union would have defended the worker.

What’s the point of self-lacing bricks anyway?

Maybe they meant Alt-Baba and just misspelled it.

"Apple has charged their Li-Ion and Li-Po batteries to around 85% for like, forever"? You mean, when my iPhone6 says it's 100% charged, it's really only 85% charged? So I actually don't need to worry about overcharging it? I would love to believe this!

After all, the newly merged company will be able to cut down on duplicative lobbyist staffing. Is this a win-win or what?!

Could we have UTF-8, please, on Slashdot? If not for emoji, then for characters in non-European languages? I know people have been asking for this for years now - it's embarrassing.

an unblockable ad delivery system. (I'm looking at you, New York Times, and I do pay you every month.)

Sorry to reply to my own post, but I wrote it before the article header was corrected. For the record, the article's original title was "Sending Angry Emails Just Make You Angrier".

Bad grammar MAKES ME ANGRY!

Coincidence? I think not.

Is it too late to put this thing together as a 2015 summer blockbuster?

This has been going on a long time in China, though there the troll workplaces are decentralized and the pay's a lot lower.

Like most recent technical advances, this is merely a corollary of pre-existing xkcd research.