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2007: Year of the dingbat

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Posted in Bootnotes, 24th December 2007 13:03 GMT

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"I like to consider Wikipedia my non-kid touching, molestation free drunk uncle of information."

Responding to Cade Metz's Reg story, Slashdot user "FBodyJim" gives the strangest defence of Wikipedia we've ever heard.

"It's fun to talk about oral sex."

Microsoft's Santa chat agent, to two young girls. The MSN bot, aimed at children, was pulled after we revealed its predeliction for gutter talk.

"Once every 100 years, the way that media works fundamentally changes."

23-year-old CEO Mark "I'm CEO, Bitch" Zuckerberg, at the launch of Facebook's swiftly-withdrawn creeptech advertising system, Beacon.

"DON'T TASE ME, BRO!"

University of Florida student Andrew Meyer, immediately before being tased by campus authorities.

"My site is no different to something like Google."

Alan Ellis, admin of invite-only BitTorrent music network OiNK, after his arrest in October on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud. He is yet to be charged with any offence.

"This is YouTube material!"

Hartlepool resident Anthony Anderson gets into the User Generated Content craze. Anderson urinated on a dying disabled woman, filming his efforts to "wake her" on his cameraphone. He was jailed in October for outraging public decency.