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Gawker media and all of it’s web sites went blank this week, due to a hideous kludge because some engineer somewhere thought that it might be a good idea to have web visitors download a huge chunk of javascript to save a teeny bit of server resources and perhaps work around the statelessness of the web. At least that’s the only reasons I can think of. Best quote to describe the situation is “whoever set this up this way is a complete fucking moron.”

Getting at the Master Boot Record (MBR) through the network card while compromising Hypervisor, clever person!

Dave Winer is named Person of the Decade by Slate Magazine’s June Thomas for changing the world for good. George W. Bush and Paris Hilton were also named by the other two panelists for people that changed the world for worse or for worse. The latter for demonstrating the smugness of the stupid and the former should need no explanation.