"Outrage is communicated in a particular code made of 1's, which
represent logical fallacies, and 0's, which represent jokes told slyly
enough that the immediate response is someone clumsily explaining the
joke, often with a comment like ``you may have thought you were joking,
but'' as introduction. This produces a sense of outrage in the person
whose joke has just been fumbled over, raising the amount of outrage
transmitted through the Internet while simultaneously hastening the
speed at which IP addresses run out, and allowing for more efficient
transmission of both the 1's and the 0's. Thus simply by existing the
Internet forces itself into a powerful exponential-growth curve, which
is why it does so very well for itself." --
austin-dern,
2008-01-11