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• timecube (Score:1)

  by rjbs (4671) on 2007.02.08 9:42 (#53133) Homepage Journal

  I have no opinion on whether Time::Cubic should stay or go. I'm just surprised that it seems that no one realizes this is a joke and reference to http://www.timecube.com/ [timecube.com], a long-standing insane internet meme/site.
  
  See its entries at Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Dramatica.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube [wikipedia.org]
  
  http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Time_cube [encycloped...matica.com]

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  rjbs

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  • Re: (Score:2)

    by jdavidb (1361)

    I'm very surprised, myself. The only hatred I see genuinely expressed in this joke would be hatred of Gene Ray. The rest is caricatures of his statements, and direct quotes.

    If you can't lampoon the loony, batty, anti-semites, who can you lampoon? Although I agree CPAN probably isn't the place for such a joke, unless maybe you want to put it in Acme::.

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  • Re: (Score:2)

    by Mr. Muskrat (4572)

    Had it been put in Acme then maybe I'd believe it was joke but since he didn't, I tend to think that he's trying to push his nutty beliefs on others. After all, there are tons of kooks out there that believe crazier things than this.

    I also can't help but wonder if this is the same Joseph Evers who was banned from Digg.
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by rjbs (4671)

      Of course it's a joke! Good grief. Did you read the license? Also, notice the number of links to Encyclopedia Dramatica, catalog of internet memes and jokes -- Joseph Evers runs it.

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      rjbs
      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Mr. Muskrat (4572)

        No, I hadn't read the license until now because I was distracted by all of the racist/anti-semetic crap. Now that I have I can see that it is the same Joseph Evers that Digg has banned multiple times (under different logins). These types of "jokes" don't belong in a Perl repository.
    • Re: (Score:2)

      by jdavidb (1361)

      I tend to think that he's trying to push his nutty beliefs on others.

      This may be a little late, but I think the point was that those who knew about Gene Ray and "Time Cube" would know immediately it was a joke (unless they had reason to believe it was Gene Ray himself). The fact that the person who uploaded the "joke" was as ignorant of Acme:: as he was tasteless in his humor doesn't alter his intent.

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      J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers