OT: If you post on more than 1 forum read this.....

[trekgeezer]

I link, therefore I am

[odinn7]

OH. MY. GOD. I'M. A. DEAD. MAN.

[onionhead]

What?? I can't read it. What? What? What?
Is it illegal?  Does yer motherboard fry?  Do yer ears hang low, or wobble to and fro?

[Susan]

I'm eating a bowl of cereal as a type this. Years ago I used to work on compuserve so i was on the pc 24-7 dealing with message boards, i always brought food. That is so sad it's almost funny

[Mr Hockstatter]

I imagine now all computers will come with warning labels.

[Neville]

I imagine people suing their Internet providers because they didn't tell them they would starve if they became addicted to surfing the net. And I imagine them wining.

[raj]

How much money does Andrew have. . .

[Scott H.]

As I began to read, I thought this article was a publication of The Onion. A man dying of starvation from overactive computer usage? It seems such a product of the times! Aside from the man who was eaten by the cannibal after contacting him online, could this possibly be the first internet related death? Will the internet soon push obesity and cigarettes out of the top slots for preventable causes of death? I can see the next version of Se7en featuring "sloth" as a nerd forced to sit through internet porn and countless blogs and message boards without food until he either starves or kills himself. This topic is funny, just like fat people and smokers are funny. It's okay to laugh at because he did it to himself.

The best part of this story is the last lines of the story

"...and [he] was expected to start an online column about the impact of interactive communications on health, when he died.

A virtual memorial service will be held online at a date to be determined."

Too funny!!!

-Scott H.-

p.s.
I write this immediately after returning from the beach without internet. And I'm hungry.