The Journal of Rockett Science

(xkcd via Cindy)

You’re not doing or saying or thinking anything that’s caught my interest.

You’re pretty interesting, but your content niche is already being filled to my satisfaction by someone else that I’m currently following.

You use Twitter exclusively as a chat room.

You post so frequently that it makes it hard to for me to follow people whose updates I care about more than yours.

You have referred to a woman as a “whore”.

You use caps. A lot.

You provide links so we can Digg your latest blog post.

You have an unsettling degree of enthusiasm for your job, which leads me to believe that you will someday snap and kill your clients/co-workers.

You make a public announcement whenever someone stops following your feed, singling them out by name. See above re: eventual mass-murder spree.

You are a rich, heterosexual, white man who’s complaining about being discriminated against. Shut up, honky.

You are a fictional character. Seriously, why do people continue to feel the need to respond to your attacks? She is a goddamn fictional character, people. It’s like you’re arguing with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.

Another user, Smelly Jen, posted her support of the movement, writing: “I did it! So refreshing! Like ripping off a band aid! It’s gone forever!”

- “Fed Up With MySpace? Join the Club and Delete Your Account”, Wired

I’d like to see more videos of domestic animals industriously destroying large inanimate objects!

This post on Boing Boing seems a little weird to me. Its bloggers normally tend to come out in favor of science, rationalism, logic, etc. against beliefs and practices that they perceive as superstitious and irrational.And yet, we’re clearly meant to be outraged that threats of picketing forced a public library to cancel its summer program of teaching kids astrology, palmistry, numerology, and tarot card reading.

Maybe the library will have to go to Plan B, and expose the kids to science, art, and literature this summer.

(In the original piece there’s also an allusion to a bomb threat. But in context it’s not clear that this was one of the threats that was actually made, or if it’s meant to illustrate how seriously the library takes children’s safety. If there was a real bomb threat, no mention is made of the police being involved.)