Happy Birthday Slashdot! The site you love to hate (or barely understand at all), where News for Nerds gathered a group of erudite anarchists and elitist hacker wannabees and molded them into one of the first, best sources of sci-tech news on the planet. The moderation system on comments is to this day one of the most innovative and effective solutions I've ever seen for the "chaff vs. wheat" problem of community management. They're one of our "blog parents", even though they (*sniff*, *sniff*) never call anymore.

They even managed to keep Katz quiet for, what, nearly six months now! Woo-hoo!

Update: Turns out yesterday was mellie's blog's birthday. Melbernai was the first blog to link to ours, an old friend from on-line days. Happy blog-day all!