Stay classy, Slashdotters.

A recent Slashdot forum provided an update on Terry Childs, the San Francisco network engineer currently held in prison on $5M bail, after locking all network administrators out the city’s new municipal computer system other than himself.

This isn’t really about that. It’s about this:

Oh Slashdot, how I love thee.

Previously.

I love Slashdot. They cover a lot of topics that interest me, and it is a rare occasion that I come away from reading the subscriber comments without additional knowledge or a perspective that I had not previously considered.

Slashdot has been beta testing a tagging feature (for some time now). This feature allows subscribers to submit keywords that describe what a given article is about. Given the nature of the sorts of people who comment on Slashdot, it was inevitable that tags would become an additional platform for expression, particularly humor.

Courtesy of a recent article regarding Google’s stance on the potential acquisition of Yahoo! by Microsoft, my new favorite company name: