Jess IMmed me a second ago telling me there was an outbreak of an emergent plague on World of Warcraft last night:
so Blizzard came out with a new dungeon in the patch
in the dungeon, there is a boss who gives you a disease which does 250 damage every second for three or four seconds
and the disease spreads to ANYONE of your own faction who is near you
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I was pleased to find out that my batshit insane media studies professor, who, you will notice, has at one point in his life been considered AN EXPERT IN HAND GRENADES AND EXPLOSIVES, is asking us to bring three questions a week to class for discussion. A useful exercise, which Sarah tells me will ultimately come to nothing, as the man rambles ceaselessly.
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While developments in Movabletype over the past few years have gone a long way towards helping me clean out comment and trackback spam, it still accumulates with regularity. I believe we need a more extreme solution. Could we develop a separate Internet for the people looking for V!0xx, Ph3nt3rm!n3, pr0n of various varieties, TX h0ld-3m, and the other informational plagues which are visited on my site by variable IPs from Russia?
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Is the word “leet” OSPD valid? See for yourself. For the same reasons it’s listed in the Jargon File/Hacker Dictionary? Nope. Uh, wait. It’s not listed in the Jargon File. Screw you, Eric S. Raymond!
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Jess and I had an argument earlier this summer over whether advertising was on the whole good or bad. She came down on the side of it being more or less harmless, while I (after some wragling and apologizing and admitting I don’t really think it’s wholesale evil) thought it was universally composed of lies. A little addendum as a means of illustrating what I mean when I say it’s lies:
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