<![CDATA[Gawker: meta-dumb]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: meta-dumb]]> http://gawker.com/tag/metadumb http://gawker.com/tag/metadumb <![CDATA[Experts: Websites Could Kill People!]]> Popular Mechanics invited top computer security experts to analyze the realism of upcoming techno-thriller Untraceable. Their verdict? The FBI scenes are realistic! The killing scenes less realistic. The bit where the killer takes control of Joan Allen's Diane Lane [Cannot even begin to explain that one -Ed] windshield wipers and speaks to her through her OnStar console is just dumb. The bit with the dangerous website run by a sociopath, registered in a foreign country, built around increasing traffic at any cost to the determent of its many varied innocent victims? Ludicrous! [Popular Mechanics, Related]

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=349031&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Do Websites Kill People?]]> Are these quotes from the historically-telescoping N+1 article about Gawker that allegedly semi-prompted the resignation of my co-worker Emily Gould—or from the upcoming Sony horror film Untraceable?

  • "The more people who visit the site the faster he bleeds."

  • "This website is like nothing we've ever seen before." And: "The public is tuning in at an alarming rate."

  • "OMG"

  • "At times his insults and his humor, in the language he imitated, were so subtly placed that they could be missed completely."

  • "Anything you say will only promote the site and kill him faster."

  • "You get the sense of a young woman who works very hard, whose friends think she's funny, and who's been tasked with impersonating an older, much worldlier gay man."

  • "Any American who visits the site is an accomplice to murder."

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    Answers: Movie, Movie, Movie, N+1, Movie, N+1, Movie. BUT all apply to each equally! Right?

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