Paul: Engadget for gays. I've lived too long. Dex: You're only 30. And I love Homotron. It's got the coolest name. Paul: I'm just saying it shouldn't be necessary. I mean, why can't Engadget report on the gay gadgets of the world? Dex: Gadgets have sexual orientations? Paul: Did Engadget point out that one player flicks the remote to make Mario impersonate Wonder Woman, and the other player flicks the remote to shoot gay-ass rainbow wonder stars? Dex: What's the Japanese word for "gay-ass rainbow wonder star?" Paul: Wii. Dex: Gizmodo reported on Homotron's launch. Paul: Really? Good for Gizmodo. Dex: They said it had the coolest name. Paul: I just don't like this self-segregation we've got going on. I mean, gay bars, gay vacation packages, gay Olympics, gay gadget blogs. Can't we, you know, integrate with the rest of society? Dex: Have you ever tried doing a YouTube search for "gay?" Paul: No never. Dex: Exactly. Once you get past all the porn spam, and the twelve-year-olds who think "gay" is a synonym for "stupid", and all the straight people talking about how not gay they are, then you might find a video that's an actual gay person talking about their life or politics or whatever. Just not on the first page of results. That's why we have things like Homotron, to sift through the cruft for us. Paul: That doesn't mean I have to like it. Dex: What we really need is a gay search engine. [Paul's eyes go wide in awe.] Paul: I never would have thought of that. Dex: Oh God, what have I done? Paul: It wouldn't even be hard. Dump the output of Heritrix into a Hadoop cluster and use any of the garden-variety ontological systems to separate "gay-as-stupid" from "gay-as-gay"... Dex: Dear, you already have three full-time jobs... Paul: ...we could even invert PageRank to filter out the porn... Dex: How much is this going to cost? Paul: We only need three thousand nodes. And a staff of one hundred. Dex: Great, I'll just add those to our Amazon wish list. Paul: Nah, EC2 isn't really meant for always-on services... Dex: Wait! I've got it! Paul: I know, but botnets are just a pain the butt to manage... Dex: We'll sell porn! Paul: ...I guess we'd need a gay AdWords too... Dex: Why stop there? How about gay web mail? Paul: We'll call it Gmale! Dex: Gmale beta. |