jawtheshark's Journal: Coolness Meter....

I just visited the OpenDarwin website and it features a "Coolness meter". WTF? I assume it detects your operating system and/or browser and gives it a rating.

Wanna bet that Safari on OS X Tiger ranks the highest "Coolness". Not that I can try.

Since I currently have no "alternative" system at hand, my "coolness" is down the gutter with only one red section highlighted. I thought they would at least give me some credit for using Firefox but IE6 rates the same. (Running Windows XP).

I quickly fired up lynx on OpenBSD over SSH and my "coolness" rating jumps up to [=====---], but I find out later that it's just the ALT attribute in the image that they use.

Soooo.... how is your "Coolness Rating" according to the OpenDarwin website?

I went and tried it

[Em Emalb]

It said based on the slashdot handle you use, + Mozilla Firefox, we give you the highest rating we can, "Em Emalb cool".

I don't really know what that means.

Re:I went and tried it

[jawtheshark]

I'm not all that surprised... After all Em is the coolest guy on slashdot, eh? ;-)

Re:I went and tried it

[Em Emalb]

I think there's a guy named "frigid" who's a bit cooler. ;)

and sharks have been known to be able to handle really cool waters...

very OT

[tuxette]

Is there anything cool to do and/or see in Luxembourg? The travel bug got me again, and my big webbed feet are itching real bad...

Re:very OT

[jawtheshark]

Well, it entirely depends what you like. If you like historical buildings and pretty landscapes, you'll be served well. If you want exitement and adventure, it's not really the place to be.

I can recommend our capital, which has a lot to offer. I prefer to show it to visitors in the spring or summer, but winter can be fun too ;-)

Furthermore you can go to Vianden which is a pretty medieval city with a kick-ass castle. Also you have the wine-road near the Moselle. Echternach is a pretty city too.
If

Re:very OT

[tuxette]

I love castles and wine routes... and I wouldn't mind drinking beer with a shark ;-)

I'm just looking at different possibilities for long weekends here and there. I could combine Luxembourg and Belgium since there seems to be a lot of cheap flights to Brussels these days...

not here

[ceejayoz]

A one out of four here on OSX Tiger with both Firefox and Safari.

Re:not here

[jawtheshark]

That's exceptionally strange. I wonder what it means then.... I didn't find anything in their FAQ.

Nothing.

[myAmygdala]

I don't think it means anything. It reminds me of back awhile ago when this girl was writing poems and crap on her website, and I assumed everything she was writing was about me. But it wasn't.

"coolness"

[subgeek]

i think it's funny that as soon as i saw "coolness" i thought of macs. not because i think they're so cool, but because of the attitudes of some of their prophets. and the site ends up being the darwin site. it's like they're a caricature of themselves.