Tag: memes

Scot Hacker: Next person to say “boxen” when they really mean “computers” gets a wedgie. Also, he points out this utterly hi-ho Flash animation for Panasonic.

From Cal Godot (via antiweb) comes this link to an interactive “before and after” view of Seattle’s skyline.

EGBG, in the Netherlands, provides this anti-telemarketing counterscript: Telemarketers make use of a telescript — a guideline for a telephone conversation. This script creates an imbalance in the conversation between the marketer and the consumer. It is this imbalance, most of all, that makes telemarketing successful. The EGBG Counterscript attempts to redress that balance.

This is probably all over the net, but I just got it in email from JG:

I noticed Dave Winer posting about Googlism today and I’ve seen the reference riding up the meme charts but only realized after following his link that someone has wired up the Google api to automate the searching-for-“Your Name Here is”-and-posting-the-results-to-your-blog meme. (I did “xian is” at bodega back in June.)