You can view the original article here [edit: well, it was…] if you desire. Or, you can go read the actual short stories, “A Sound of Thunder” and “The Veldt”. Special thanks to Jzimbert, who broke the story on the Get Outta My Head forums.
Category Archives: Idiocy Online
And now a quick break for some stupidity.
We’ll get back to the plot Tuesday. Jzimbert sent me this gem Saturday, and I couldn’t resist pointing it out — but I didn’t want to wait until March (which is where the current queue sits). Tuesday, we’ll get back to Lila and Cole and Daisy.
Whacko AOL Headlines III
Bad wave! No cookie!
Nighthawk spotted this one on his My Yahoo page Saturday. Can you imagine spending all that time writing an article on the relief efforts only to have some nut put a headline like this on your work?
I guess they’re still testing the emotion chips, then.
I took the screenshot that this is based on back in February of 2004. It’s been sitting in a bunch of files waiting to be processed.
Blurring the lines between journalism and fiction
Those of you blessedly immune to America Online’s web services may not be aware that they run news services and other portal-page information as soon as you log on. One “feature” of the portal is a slide-show style montage of headlines that flip every three seconds or so. They’re always of the format:
Highly Significant Headline A
– Unrelated Headline B
…which is backwards from the usual headline standard the planet’s journalists use:
Highly Significant Headline A
– Subheadline for related story B
The end result is sometimes pathetic and sometimes funny. Today’s is pathetic.
Psychic Spam?
One thing that I can always count on, being a client of free web mail, is that some of the strangest stuff on the earth will eventually make it to my mailbox. Spamusement handles this subject with more grace and humor than I, but I’ll take a crack at it on occasion.