FWIW, as a long time subscriber of NTK, I will only say that since these 
guys are pretty techncially savvy, their biting wit tends to bite a bit 
more sharply when the critique tech news.  In small doses it's funny. 
 Additionally, they do not hesitate to sharply bite themselves on 
occasion as is appropriate.  Not to mention they have, by far and away, 
the best "web bloopers" I've seen anywhere in the "Memepool" section. 
 Finally, they're English - try not to expect too much of them ;-)

Bob Ingria wrote:

> At 11:17 AM 8/19/2002 +0200, Bruce ONeel wrote:
>
>> NTK is at www.ntk.net.  It's fairly funny most of the time.
>
>
> Methinks you confuse wit with humor.  The two are quite distinct, and 
> Mr. (?) NTK is clearly aiming for jaundiced, world-weary, biting wit.
>
> I have to ask: who is this coprocephalic (and, I might add, 
> coproencephalic*), such that I should give a good goddamn about his 
> oh-so-superior, isn't everyone else so stupid compared to my infinite 
> wisdom, attitude?  I browsed through some of his previous stuff, and 
> it's all in the same monotone: infinite self-love combined with 
> infinite scorn for everything and everyone else out there.
>
> If I want a dose of that kind of 'tude --- unbounded sense of 
> entitlement coupled with zero actual accomplishment --- I can get it 
> in spades on MTV, VH-1, the WB, and various other tee-vee preserves of 
> the terminally clueless.
>
> I know, I know, I should lighten up and not take it so seriously.  
> It's not the criticism of Squeak, or anything else in particular, that 
> infuriates me, it's the unearned sense of superiority, which keeps 
> cropping up in various media personalities with what seems to be 
> increasing regularity.  It's a knee-jerk negativism that seeks to pawn 
> itself off as critical thinking and reasoned skepticism.  It's all 
> pose and no content (no thought, either).  And, by a kind of 
> Greshamite law, bad thinking drives out good, so the continued 
> viability of NTK & co. as media fixtures bodes ill for real thought, 
> about anything.  So meditate on *that* at second level.
>
> * "Benefits of a classical education."
>         --- Alan Rickman, as Hans Gruber, in _Die Hard_
>
>
> -30-
> Bob Ingria
> As always, at a slight angle to the universe
>

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