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Ponder the veracity of this timeless wisdom:

How many times have you written an e-mail or text or instant message where sarcasm is lost on the recipient? Millions? Billions? The result of the interaction is confusing and potentially devastating: awkward silence, non-response, your friend thinks that you’re seriously into some hard drugs.  The permutations of potential heinous results are infinite.  If this Internet thing is here to stay, it is only a matter of time before the slow erosion of sarcasm as an art form leads to a final fatal slip from social relevance.

The post introduces the Wielgus Mark (:W), a cheap, easy, painless, open-source punctuation mark for use in all electronic communications to denote sarcasm.  The best part?  It’s cheap, easy, painless, and open-source.  That, and it doesn’t confuse your browser like the old fake HTML </sarc> tag does.

After introducing the Wielgus Mark, and explaining it’s use, the post encourages you to spread the word on this most excellent idea:

Go out of your way….go the extra mile to find and accentuate Sarcasm in your everyday life.  If you have friends, tell them.  If you don’t have friends, tell random people.  If you don’t have friends and have agoraphobia use the Internet (see blogging).

I’ll get right on that. :W