There is a Usenet group dedicated to finding kooks on the net. Often kooks are identified by the content of their Usenet posts, and when identified, they're made infamous by someone posting their kooky post to alt.usenet.kooks.

One surefire way to get yourself reposted to alt.usenet.kooks is to make some enormous leap of association, by attempting to associate some current-day thing with the king of all kooks, Hitler. There's even a theory that a usenet thread can't go beyond, say, about 20 followups before someone brings up Hitler, making that followup a prime candidate for induction into the alt.usenet.kooks arena, where it becomes a mockery of itself.

I'm going to go out on another limb and assert that we have a computer-geek version of the Hitler faux pax, and that is the irrational desire to draw parallels between everything bad in life and Microsoft. I hithertoforth nominate all bad Microsoft analogies for alt.perlmonks.kooks.

Of course by making this point, I myself have broken all the barriers of kookiness, by mentioning Hitler and Microsoft in the same rant. That is the catch-22 of kookiness; just involving yourself in a kooky discussion creates a guilt by association. To this end, I must nominate myself as well. Sorry.

Not everything tragic in life should be trivialized by mentioning it in the context of some large software manufacturer. A lot of people died in those Tsunamis.... please, a little respect.