Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on November 22, 2006
I seriously thought for a minute that I was going to have start swinging a polemic hammer at David Kepplemeyer, the “CEO” of “The Kepplemeyer Group.” But about two paragraphs into reading this essay at Danaquarium.com I realized it was satire. So when you read, don’t fire off a bunch of indignant comments as so many already have been baited into doing already. The holidays are upon us, people. Have a laugh.
It reminds of another satiric anti-Mac rant, this one which portrayed the Mac as a tool of anti-Christian anti-creationist values. At least I think it was meant as satire.
Ranking right up there along with it is the classic “Is Your Son A Computer Hacker?” which asks if your son has asked to install a computer chip from AMD, which it describes as a “third-world based chip company” and describes “Lunix” as “an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos.” Sometimes its a little tricky to tell satire from stupidity.
I visited the site of what you describe as a satiric portrayal of "the Mac as a tool of anti-Christian anti-creationist values". Try as I might, I couldn't find any evidence on that site to convince me that any of it was meant as satire. I would be relieved if I could buy into your interpretation but, for me, the site seems more disturbing than amusing.
I think Andrew is right -- it is not a satire. Troll around in there and it is amazing. I particularly liked the evidence for pterosaurs in the Bible. The Onion could do no better.
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