OneAndOneIs2

Every year it's the same.. every news site becomes worthless for a day because they think it's funny to mix infantile drivel in with real stories.

There are some traditions that I could really do without. The pointless clock-changing nonsense that is Daylight Savings is one. The amazingly unfunny 'joke' stories on April First is very definitely another.

Take Slashdot. You've got the patently-absurd stuff like "Warner buys Pirate Bay" and "The 'Mastering the cat command' book", fair enough. But you've also got "Malicious code in IM smileys" which you can't actually rule out since malicious JPEGs have been around for years; and "Fuel cell powered by human blood" sounds like another stupid joke but is apparently legit - a very useful thing to install in machines like pacemakers.

I have RSS feeds to news sites so that I can get all the headlines without having to read and analyse every story. It's bad enough that bias and sensationalism are rampant at the best of times, without having whole days dedicated to making it vital to subject every single story to careful analysis before you know if it's real or not.

Bah humbug.