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It's possible that, if you really wanted inform us of the merits of cheese weasel day, you shouldn't have linked to a badly maintained site circa 1995 that prov

by jemmons 18y ago

It's possible that, if you really wanted inform us of the merits of cheese weasel day, you shouldn't have linked to a badly maintained site circa 1995 that provides no information apart from: o there's cheese involved, o it's on April 3rd, o it has a song, but... o the author doesn't know it The quality of the link is often projected on to the quality of the submission.

DanielBMarkham 18y ago
Yep. The submission sucked. Sorry about that. I should have taken the extra time and found a better Cheese Weasel page, perhaps like this one: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cheese+weasel http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cheese+weasel or this one http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/04/03/happy-cheese-weasel-day/ http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/04/03/happy-cheese-weasel-day... or this one http://www.bigwidelogic.com/index.php/2006/04/03/happy-cheese-weasel-day/ http://www.bigwidelogic.com/index.php/2006/04/03/happy-chees... Unfortunately, I was not happy with any of the few links I clicked on for Cheese Weasel Day. There is, regrettably, a paucity of Cheese Weasel celebratory material to share during this season of dairy and rodent festivities. So I just picked whatever came up first in Google. My point was, however, that there is a place between Erlang innards and Defending IE6 where an article can be funny/enjoyable and yet also have an interesting side. If Cheese Weasel wasn't cutting it, apologies, but the point still stands.
- jemmons 18y ago
  Why not create a wikipedia entry collecting available information, then request the hacker community's input? There's nothing about Cheese Weasel day that makes it inherently ungratifying to intellectual curiosity (unlike april 1st posts, pictures of kittens, stories on politics, crime, sports, etc.) But the burden of highlighting a subject's interest lies with the submitter.
  - DanielBMarkham 18y ago
    Since this is a hacker group, I did one better -- I registered the domain CheeseWeasel.net I'll fill it out and submit the page as a link on Friday (which is officially CWD) Who knows, I might make my $15 back in AdWords.

by jemmons 18y ago

DanielBMarkham 18y ago

Yep. The submission sucked. Sorry about that. I should have taken the extra time and found a better Cheese Weasel page, perhaps like this one: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cheese+weasel http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cheese+weasel or this one http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/04/03/happy-cheese-weasel-day/ http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/04/03/happy-cheese-weasel-day... or this one http://www.bigwidelogic.com/index.php/2006/04/03/happy-cheese-weasel-day/ http://www.bigwidelogic.com/index.php/2006/04/03/happy-chees... Unfortunately, I was not happy with any of the few links I clicked on for Cheese Weasel Day. There is, regrettably, a paucity of Cheese Weasel celebratory material to share during this season of dairy and rodent festivities. So I just picked whatever came up first in Google. My point was, however, that there is a place between Erlang innards and Defending IE6 where an article can be funny/enjoyable and yet also have an interesting side. If Cheese Weasel wasn't cutting it, apologies, but the point still stands.

jemmons 18y ago
Why not create a wikipedia entry collecting available information, then request the hacker community's input? There's nothing about Cheese Weasel day that makes it inherently ungratifying to intellectual curiosity (unlike april 1st posts, pictures of kittens, stories on politics, crime, sports, etc.) But the burden of highlighting a subject's interest lies with the submitter.
- DanielBMarkham 18y ago
  Since this is a hacker group, I did one better -- I registered the domain CheeseWeasel.net I'll fill it out and submit the page as a link on Friday (which is officially CWD) Who knows, I might make my $15 back in AdWords.