Of Video Games, and Slashdot

First, Sony reports that most of its online gaming community plays between 5 and 11pm. The jist of this is that many people are playing games instead of watching TV.

That's pretty much right on for me. Since I don't even have cable, I never watch TV, and end up playing games from about 5:00 till when ever i decided to fall asleep.

Next, the Slashdot effect is well known, it basically sends 100's of thousands of people to a site, effectively slowing the site to a crawl for a day or two. Most people bring down their site in a few hours, till the demand goes away (the slashdot crowd has a short memory span). NASA did something else with a recent story about the deepest image that Hubble has taken. They set up 3 mirror sites on the link to the story. So what does an impatient person like me do? I immediately open all 3, so I get the one that is still working! Doesn't seem like I'd be the only one doing that either, as all 3 were about as slow as the main story page.