Social stuff, Thoughts and aphorisms, Electronic relationships

Trolls nanoHOWTO

Posted Tue, 2010-06-08 18:35 by ivan
  1. Considerate di spostare tutto in /dev/null _subito_.
  2. Qualora non sappiate proprio resistere aprite una lista separata trolls@[...] da ridirezionare a /dev/null nei maggiori momenti di sconforto.
    Spostare la discussione in personale è equivalente al punto 1, a voi trarne le conseguenze.
  3. Se proprio ci tenete a condividere con la comunità che vi ospita le vostre frustrazioni aggiungete un header al messaggio o un prefisso al subject di modo che sia facilmente ridirezionabile in /dev/null.

Are geeks rich-media impaired? or why HTML emails are evil (especially on ML)

Posted Tue, 2010-06-08 18:17 by ivan

The usual discussion about HTML email sparkled in the usual ML. A sentence about "different talent" for diagrams, pdf and colors captured my attention.

[snipped here and there]
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:56:51 -0800
"Joshua D. Drake"  wrote:

> I know many perfectly intelligent people that are better served
> through diagrams, pdf and color than a mailing list. Most of them
> make sure geeks like us, *EAT*.

> Does that mean they are not intelligent or perhaps that there
> talent set is just different?
...

The whole email is worth reading since I skip the funniest part ;)

Actually some of us jerky Open Source geeks do actually appreciate diagrams, colors, images and layout that goes beyond skipping a line to divide paragraphs and using monospaced fonts.
We don't enjoy them for or just for esthetic reasons, we enjoy them because they improve communication. Have you ever notice how much fancier is the layout of a Chemistry book compared to "War and Peace"?

Panties black hole (uh!)

Posted Tue, 2010-06-08 17:58 by ivan

Sto ancora cercando di porre rimedio a un fenomeno paranormale che si verifica in tutte quelle case dove un maschio e una femmina condividono una lavatrice: mutande femminili da tutte le parti e mutande maschili che sembrano inghiottite da un buco nero.

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