After (too many) years of reading Slashdot fairly regularly, today I removed it from my feed reader. The signal-to-noise ratio has gotten really, really bad (and has been forever), and I finally got tired of it. Far too often, a story about some piece of technology, or law/policy regarding technology, for example, inexorably leads to hard-left screeds about the Bush, the Republican Party, etc., even when there’s no clear link. And if Intelligent Design is ever mentioned, you can rest assured that people of faith (though ID in no way demands a faith of any kind. More on that in another post) will be betrayed as stupid, buck-toothed, back woods inbred imbeciles. These days, the site is a complete waste of time and bandwidth. I can get the same info, much less noise, and certainly fewer insults from my 100+ feed strong reader.

“Hi. My name is Jason, and I’ve been Slashdot-free for 15 minutes now.”
“Hi, Jason!…”