IM Is Dead, Long Live Telepathic Messagin - Technology Posted by Jeff (Thursday November 15 2007 @ 05:37PM EST)

Hey kids! Guess what Slate discovered? Email is dead! It died a brokenheart because nobody uses it anymore. Email is for Grandpa. All the hep cats are using IM. Newsflash: Email's dead cos because email sucks! When you get it at work, somebody wants you to do something. When you get it at home, somebody wants to sell you a boner pill. Who wants to wade through fifty spams just to get a joke that's been forwarded to you thirty times since 1995? If your spam filter is keeping spammers at bay, then chances are it's eatimg messages from clueless friends. (I'm looking at you, Krazy) My account accepts almost no email. I cranked the spam filter all the way up "Nazi" - not just any Nazi, it's set to "Heinrich Himmler." The slate author is concerned he'll become an email dinosaur. Hint to Chad Lorenz: you already are. Actual dinosaurs died off 65 million years ago and nobody gives a shit. (Can we have an intern check that dinosaur date? I went from memory.) Dinosaurs are gone but the world is fine without them; we'll manage without your stupid email. By the time spammers catch up to IM, most of us will be using something else. In the meantime, I plan to kill the first person who IMs me the Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe.

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By Laird Byron (Friday November 16 2007 @ 08:59AM EST)

If it wasn't for email though I would never have heard of the Nieman Marcus cookie and now it's my favorite. I'll IM it to you later. Or would you prefer a text msg?

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By MattC (Friday November 16 2007 @ 03:37PM EST)

Funny, I was just enjoying the dinosaur exhibit this past weekend at the Smithsonian. I was surprised to learn the Bush Administration hasn't hired people to dress as cave men, riding the T-Rexes, a copy of the Old Testament in one hand, the reins in the other. GeoGiant: we looked at lots and lots of rocks. I mean a LOT of rocks. Some were from outer space, although I'm not sure if that makes the rocks more or less nerdy. We had a moment with the coat check guy, when B pointed out she forgot the Smithsonian was "free". I said, "well not so much free as paid for by your tax dollars." The coat check guy added "one of the good things your tax dollars go for" and I replied "instead of Bush's bombs", which got a nod and a smile.

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By Zell Miller (Saturday November 17 2007 @ 01:39PM EST) You don't like bombs, huh. What do you want our soldiers to fight with? Spitballs???? [ reply | parent ]

By GeoGiant (Saturday November 17 2007 @ 06:13PM EST) Rocks are never nerdy. Space rocks are usually blobs of different metals...... cool. I've seen space rocks, but never touched one. I have some shock quarts from an impact crater that I can show you.... [ reply | parent ]

By GeoGiant (Saturday November 17 2007 @ 06:15PM EST) Ohhhhh noooo. Remove the "s" from quarts and change it to a "z". Doug says hi. [ reply | parent ]

By MattC (Tuesday November 20 2007 @ 12:52PM EST) Heh. The COOLEST exhibit was the one labeled "without a doubt, this is the oldest thing you have ever seen". A magnifying glass was suspended in front of a vial of a milky liquid, within which were crystals. The crystals were actually diamond dust, formed in a stellar explosion, which had been embedded in a meteoroid before our solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago. I also got to fondle some iron meteorites. [ reply | parent ]

By Greg (Thursday November 22 2007 @ 08:42AM EST) You idiot. The universe is only 6000 years old. It's a trap! [ reply | parent ]

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