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Re:Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot by phillmv on Thursday August 25, 2011 @11:27AM (#2925188)
I'm fairly certain it was mentioned by a character in an issue of Neil Gaiman's Sandman. It's had reverberations across the geek ethos.
Re:Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot by hemos on Thursday August 25, 2011 @03:26PM (#2926085)
It was; Neil and I actually talked about that at one point. Our first email exchange ran something along the lines of me saying my (then baby) first born had a Sandman mobile above her crib; Neil's reply "And my son's home page is Slashdot"