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Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)

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Re: Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)

#61

From the same era of the internet I recall a site called the "Large Hardon Collider" making fun of the very common subtle typo. IIRC it had a light blue background and crude (in more ways than one) pencil diagrams. I can't find it now and I wonder if anyone else remembers it?

https://web.archive.org/web/20170814124609/http://largehardo... (NSFW, obviously.)

Ha, thanks, I should have remembered the URL

Re: Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)

#62

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It's only impressive if you've become accustomed to the unfortunate trend of forced obsolescence and the desire of many to justify useless recurring "maintenance" busywork. Basic HTML and CSS will always work.

Maintaining a working server over that time is the challenge.

What makes you think the owner of this site maintain a server?

A quick look at the ip show that it is owned by hostgator.com, a web hosting company.

The key here is renting the domain indefinitely and moving to a new web hosting company if one goes bust.

Re: Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)

#64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maintaining a working server over that time is the challenge.

What makes you think the owner of this site maintain a server? A quick look at the ip show that it is owned by hostgator.com, a web hosting company. The key here is renting the domain indefinitely and moving to a new web hosting company if one goes bust.

I think the challenge is also caring enough to keep paying money to host a site for no clear purpose or gain. And moving hosting providers since guessing hostgator didn't exist back then. Based on the modified times on some assets on the site I'd guess it was last moved in Oct 2015. So glad they kept it up!

Re: Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)

#65

Meanwhile Dolph Lundgren has an actual MA in Chemical Engineering. It's a pity we can't get him to do something like this in earnest to teach engineering concepts.

Brian May (Queen) has a PhD degree in astrophysics :)

Greg Graffin, lead singer for punk rock band Bad Religion, has a PhD in zoology [1] and is a frequent university lecturer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Graffin

Re: Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)

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I don't see much connection here between miss BS and semiconductor physics. It's just a physics book that happens to have pictures of the popstar in it.

A joke is like a soap bubble. The act of explaining a joke pops it and reveals it to have no substance. The essence of humor is simply surprise. Once the surprise is gone, or if it never was surprising, it seems flat or silly. Some people enjoy humor with deeper meaning, and explaining that meaning might be illuminating. But that’s lipstick on a duck.

If I share the OP's objections, which I think I do, the problem isn't with the joke attempt itself, it's with the execution. The joke isn't tied in to the content at all, it's literally just the title, and nothing else.

If the author had tied song references into the text, for example, that would make it a much better execution.

Re: Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)

#68

Meanwhile Dolph Lundgren has an actual MA in Chemical Engineering. It's a pity we can't get him to do something like this in earnest to teach engineering concepts.

Brian May (Queen) has a PhD degree in astrophysics :)

Dexter Holland (The Offspring) has a PhD in molecular biology [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_Holland#Science

Re: Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)

#69
I thought .ac was the Academic TLD, and was wondering how this domain was registered, but it is just a ccTLD (2 letter, so has to be). .ac just happens to be the academic second level TLD of choice for many countries.

Apparently, you could have gotten a .edu before 2001 without being an accredited institution in the US.

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