It’s Just XML. You people are so superstitious.

Jon expresses my frustration at people angry at Google for switching from RSS to Atom:

The fact that we are now going to have a war over formats that are separated by a trivial XML transformation is almost as depressing as February in New England.

Going back to the classic story of George Leroy Tirebiter:

I don’t know why you people seem to think this is magic. It’s just this little chromium switch here. You people are so superstitious.

– The Janitor, in Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers, The Firesign Theatre

And yes friends, there’s a blog named for that line.

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