Overlord humor
Just now I went from a librarything blog entry on database (mis)management (by the way, my recorded collection is slowly growing) to a similar entry on slashdot detailing what happens when the number of comment parents (or their ID numbers, I suppose) gets too big. They had gotten up to 2^24 comments, the upper bound for a mySQL “unsigned mediumint” sort of number, and so no more comments could be posted until the database was changed. When it was, one poster remarked,
I for one welcome our 2 to the power of X overlords.