One of the more annoying memes of the past few years is the wave of blog articles in which the title follows the "Is _____ dead?" naming convention. These titles are meant to get us into such a tizzy that we just must click on the story so that we can get in there and give the author a piece of our minds in the comments section. Then we read the article and realize that it was mostly likely used in an ironic way, and that we took the bait hook, line and sinker. Anyway, here is a very small sampling of particularly stupid titles.
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Yeah, all those banks and hospitals finally saw the light, and they're finally rebuilding their mission critical systems with PHP.
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I'm not a heavy RSS user, but for some reason I doubt this. RSS is a great way to feed data accross various sites.
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Yeah, and so is Java.
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Ha.
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CNN, 1998! Excellent work, fellas.
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Not bloody likely. It just learned to crawl, and pretty soon it's going to be running (your life).
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Not too surprising. In a couple of years this title will be rather appropriate.
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This wack-job compares google to a hooker, then tries to get you to download some file called "ZIP2PROFIT". I don't suggest it.
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Yes, and half the internet disappeared with it. |
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Ok, this guy gets a free pass!
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