It’s the perfect revenge.
An eBay user attempts to auction his PowerBook laptop on eBay. A bidder attempts to scam him out of the laptop by luring the seller into using a hokey escrow service. The seller catches on and has a little fun with the would-be scammer.
[Editor’s note: For purposes of contextual coherence, it may be useful to know that this post originally appeared on the hand-coded homepage of synthetik.org. -KM]
I stumbled upon quite a scary website today. Here’s an excerpt:
Dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there. Prolonged exposure to its solid form causes severe tissue damage. Symptoms of DHMO ingestion can include excessive sweating and urination, and possibly a bloated feeling, nausea, vomiting and body electrolyte imbalance. For those who have become dependent, DHMO withdrawal means certain death.
Check out www.dhmo.org for more information.
Anyone familiar with the rave scene can find humor in the following quote. It’s absurdity was what made it so effective in 1989, however today it comes off as just plain ironic.
Games don’t affect kids. If Pac-man had affected us, we’d all be sitting in darkened rooms munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.
– Kristian Wilson (Nintendo Inc., 1989)
The irony here is that clubs and raves, quite popular in urban scenes, are characterized by their dark dancefloors with laser and strobe light illumination. Techno music (also known as electronic music because it is produced entirely with drum machines, synthesizers, and other such sound-generating equipment, hence the “repetetive electronic music”) is played very loudly, and the aforementioned pills would be “Ecstacy,” the dangerous drug of choice for many clubgoers.
I dunno. Maybe this is one of those things where if you have to explain the joke, it’s no longer funny…