Saw this posted on one of my email groups:

http://techfaux.com/2008/06/17/peta-targets-computer-programmers-with-string-of-bizarre-protests/

Quote :

"Django, the company best known for its agile development framework that competes directly with Ruby on Rails, is perhaps known secondly for their monthly programmer get-togethers. The parties are usually a great deal of fun, and many in the Python community in Lawrence, Kansas bring along their projects for debugging and showing off. Fun is one word to describe what happened at last night’s hackathon. Bizarre is another. As more and more people started to show up after the doors were opened around 8PM, a group of roughly 25 to 30 white women began to form around the office, dressed in ubiquitous trench coats. Then, at exactly 8:15, the women undressed from their trenchcoats and stood wearing signs reading “How many lives just for a coat?” and “Snakes are Animals, and Animals are People!” The perplexed programmers came back outside when they saw what was happening. “What the hell is going on? This is fucking incredible.” Jacob Kaplan-Moss said. Kaplan-Moss is the chief architect of Django and said nothing like this had ever happened before. “They’re all naked, and these chicks don’t shave anything!” I decided to put on my best investigative journalist face and asked a woman holding a sign (pictured above) what they were protesting. “We know what they’re doing in there. They’re hacking pythons. It’s barbaric and we won’t leave until the last snake has been saved.” When I asked Guido Van Rossum, the inventor of Python, what he thought of the women protesting, he had questions of his own. “What’s a woman?” he asked."

6/23/2008 4:27:50 PM

Sounds like someone was hoping to increase web traffic

Not bad, but they could have made it a little more realistic

I mean seriously, fun in Kansas, sheesh

[Edited on June 23, 2008 at 4:34 PM. Reason : s]

6/23/2008 4:30:25 PM

6/23/2008 4:36:53 PM

heh was posted in the lounge originally - so i sort of figured it was real during my first read

6/23/2008 4:38:01 PM

I want to believe this actually happened so badly. But I'm not sure I can do it.

6/23/2008 4:39:02 PM

techfaux.com

[Edited on June 23, 2008 at 4:51 PM. Reason : ,]

6/23/2008 4:50:26 PM

I can believe it.

6/23/2008 4:50:31 PM

I mean...the name of the website is techfaux.

Y'all didn't actually believe this was a real story did you?

[Edited on June 23, 2008 at 4:53 PM. Reason : ^^heh. yep]

6/23/2008 4:52:30 PM

if it was a real story, I don't think a guy would say "fucking incredible" when there are 30 unshaven white women from Peta. God knows most girls are hippies and don't shower...

6/23/2008 9:42:55 PM

the thing is, though, i COULD believe it if it happened...peta people aren't terribly bright

6/24/2008 9:37:42 AM

Quote :

"i COULD believe it if it happened...peta people aren't terribly bright"

agreed

6/24/2008 9:44:01 AM