News and Discussion

Various sites for keeping up to date and talking about what's happening:

• Slashdot is good for news but the discussion is inhabited mainly by trolls and idiots, which is why there's...
• kuro5hin (k5), which is notslashdot; a much better discussion site, with stories written by users and posted based on votes; take a look at my stories or comments.
• The Register has many good articles, including the new BastardOperatorFromHell series.
• Perl Monks carries news, questions, answers, wisdom, and insanity related to all things Perl.