Tag: memes

  • Tweney on a mass-amateurization precedent (from my comments)

    Seems like today is all about followups and conversations among blogs. (For example, Mark Byron noticed my unfisking yesterday and wrote about it in his blog. My response to his response to my response to his original post can be found in his comments.) So I wanted to elevate an interesting thread from my comments.…

  • 'Weblog Handbook' slashdotted

    A positive front-page review of Rebecca Blood’s Weblog Handbook at Slashdot generates a range of responses, most of which we’ve seen before from this quarter (weblogs are over, the writing is terrible/self-indulgent, who cares what you think, what’s so hard about updating webpages, etc.). Some choice comments: Why would I care to read your stupid…

  • Take the 1990s lyrics quiz

    from Art of the Mix (via MZ): Do you remember a band called Blind Melon? Can you still rattle off the words to “Shoop” by Salt-n-Pepa? Visit this site to test your knowledge of pop and rock lyrics from the 1990s. Hint: look out for appearances from a few hip-hop and country crossover artists. From…

  • 'We only fisk the stoopid ones'

    Minnesota columnist James Lileks is a charming writer, if a little flashy (like the guitar soloist who uses volume and speed to get the inevitable cheer from the audience), who understands the web medium mighty well. As I study warblog jargon, I’m fairly confident that his interleaved, point-for-point refutation of a speech by Senator Paul…

  • WebCollage: Exterminate All Rational Thought

    WebCollage: Exterminate All Rational Thought

  • And in the darkness bind them

    Allow me to acquaint you with this moment’s meme: (via plasticbag)