miles (7/21/2000 2:35am)
This is a test of KMOedit. If you are reading this miles has just gained 5,000 XP and a sword +1 of PHP/SQL

but if this worked the steve just gained a +3/+3 enchanted talking short sword (for bugfixing and making admino-soft more useful for FCS-domain)
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miles (7/18/2000 10:57pm)

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scott (7/18/2000 12:03pm)
Miles sent me this link: rant

I really disagree with this guy. To summarize, he seems irritated that the web is becoming flooded with weblogs and crummy websites. He states that programs like blogger have made it too easy for people to make website, thus lowering the overall quality of most websites, since they don't require thought or skill to produce.

I've heard this argument before. They said it when programs like Quark Xpress and Pagemaker came along, referring to page layout. They said it about the web when WYSIWYG editors came along. They probably said it about the printing press.

The fatal flaw with this logic is the idea that bad websites (and I'm not arguing that there is a staggering number of them) lower the overall quality of the web experience. If you don't like a site, the solution is simple: don't look at it. Just because you personally don't like a website doesn't mean that person should be allowed to have one and enjoy the experience. Just because the only value a website has is personal (to the person who created it) doesn't invalidate that website's value.

Several of my friends over the years have made comments along the lines that they don't have a personal web site because they don't think they're worthwhile. "No one wants to see another site about you and your puppy and photos of your girlfriend."

I have a personal website. It consists of stuff about me, photos of me and my girlfriend and links to other sites. It's a typical home page. I enjoyed making it, and I enjoy having it available on the web. Therefore, it has value. If you don't like my website, you may feel free to not visit. I don't particularly care one way or another. But don't try to tell me that I can't have a personal site, or that my site is lowering the overall quality of the internet experience.

The point is made in the article at the top that by making it easy for everyone to have a website, the web has been reduced to the lowest common denominator. I would be willing to be money that even the man who designed the website that article is on started somewhere with a really crummy website that had no original content. By going through the learning process and starting at the lowest rung, he learned the hard way what's good and what's not. If someone had stopped him from having a site because he had nothing interesting to say, or no good way to present it, he would never have reached the point he's at now.

You can't expect people to start out experts in a field. I see a great number of crummy websites in the internet, but it doesn't irritate me, or make me feel that the overall quality of my experience was lowered. I just go to look at a better site, and make some notes on what not to do on my own.
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miles (7/17/2000 12:24pm)
Man... all the most twisted ideas I can come up with (without being artificial) appear in the paper eventually. Today there was an Edge about some idiot who got hospitalized for a tarantula bite on his penis, incurred while he was "admittedly under the influence of crystal meth."

compare: like_you_never_thought_of_it

And one of the CoDC pages has a text file where this (alleged) phone sex operator complains about a certain caller's "bizarre fascination with frogs and death."

compare: armies_in_her_hand

What is it with these people? I thought I was making this stuff up. Does this, like the discovery of life on one extraterrestrial planet, imply the presence of similar phenomena everywhere?

WITNESS THE COINCIDENCE THAT OCCURS WHEN YOU DON'T THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE CREATING
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scott (7/16/2000 11:27am)
Welcome to KMorg (that's our horrible abbreviation of KillingMachines.org, for those of you who don't understand).

What is KMorg, anyways? One answer would be that it's a weblog of sorts. What's a weblog?

"Weblogs are regularly updated Web sites featuring links to other sites, usually with commentary for each link" (as defined by FTrain).

Weblog examples: rat bastard and apathy.

However, this is not just a site collecting links to other sites, though you'll probably see plenty of that. This site is where the three of us who run this site (myself, Steve, and Miles) will post whatever we feel like.

Some days it will be entertaining, some days it probably won't.

Wait, what am I saying? It will always be entertaining! How could you not be entertained by three charming fellows such as ourselves?
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