Valleywag was Slashdotted twice over the weekend. Thanks for the traffic, but scanning the site's comments makes me wonder if there's a mathematical relationship between the parochial, presumptive arrogance of a site's readership and the sheer volume of their yappy remarks — wait, make that surface area, because volume implies depth. Most of the posts can be summarized as, "I'm in IT or grad school, so I could probably teach David Pogue at The New York Times a lot about his job." In this respect, Slashdot reads like a massively parallel Scobleizer.

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