Tag: memes

  • All Jon Ames all the time

    It’s a small web but I wouldn’t want to paint it. Yesterday I get notifed that Jonathan Ames, a friend from way back, will be appearing on David Letterman (again) tonight (Wednesday, July 30). In that message he also mentioned that his website has been updated (I liked his old Flash animation, though) and that…

  • Complaining about free boobies

    Careful with that crop, Eugene. Metafilter deconstructs the accidental peepshow Tech TV’s Cat Schwartz unleashed on the Web. I’m waiting for the conspiracists to suggest that she did it on purpose to release deniable cheesecake. TechTV nerdgrrls are definitely an improvement over camgirls and girlybloggers. About that “bicubic interpolation,” maybe it could help with my…

  • New York Times scoops Slashdot

    Dog bites man. Film at 11.

  • Nice pad, cool threads

    Jack Mottram, posting in his new TypePad beta-blog This Pad Kills Fascists predicts that ‘pad’ will replace ‘blog’ as the term of art for these personal-journal-weblog-chronologged sites we write: I’m sure that Pad is destined become a standard synonym for Weblog. This is a good thing on two counts: firstly, since it means both ‘home’…

  • This post kills fascists

    Over at Raster.org, I saw a tag, “this website kills fascists” and it reminded me of how Levi Asher put “this website kills fascists on one of his early sites, possibly Queensboro Ballads. So I did a little simple memetracking at Google. A basic search on “kills fascists” yielded a page full of links to…

  • This post kills fascists

    reprinted from memewatch: Over at RasterWeb, I saw a tagline, “this website kills fascists,” and it reminded me of how Levi Asher put “this website kills fascists on one of his early sites, possibly Queensboro Ballads. So I did a little simple memetracking at Google. A basic search on “kills fascists” yielded a page full…

  • Internet pundit fantasy camp this summer

    IPFC, Inc. announces the launch of the Internet Pundit Fantasy Camp, and a chance to be among the presence of such luminaries as Jason Kottke, James Lileks, Doc Searls, Glenn Reynolds, Esther Dyson, Cory Doctorow, Christopher Locke, Clay Shirky, Xeni Jardin, Scott Rosenberg, Joi Ito, Marc Canter, John Dvorak, Dan Gillmor, Andrew Sullivan, Dave Winer,…

  • Lies, lies, lies, yeah

    I’m looking forward to reading Al Franken’s new book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. Here’s the BuzzFlash interview that whetted my appetite.

  • On shutting up

    Men are encouraged to dominate conversation without even thinking about it, says Dan Spalding, who has another suggestion: shut up already. Elizabeth Lane Lawley makes a similar point, and asks women with strong voices, “What do you think women should be doing to start getting their voices heard?”

  • Album-cover knockoffs

    Michaelz send along a pointer to the knockoff project, which documents album covers and the biters that bit them.

  • Album-cover knockoffs

    Michaelz send along a pointer to the knockoff project, which documents album covers and the biters that bit them.

  • Origin of 'off the hook'?

    I first heard “off the hook” meaning “totally wild” or “out of control (in a good way)” a few years ago. (Example: “We’re hiring bellydancers and fire jugglers for the party – it’s going to be off the hook.”) Like so much innovative American language, it seemed to arise from the African-American community. But it…

  • Pavlov's slug

    Well, this LiveJournal post showing pictures of a slug navigating a maze of salt have been circulating now for months but it only just hit my inbox yesterday.

  • Layoffs at Boston archdiocese

    I was reading B headlines from the Times this morning and I saw that in the wake of the priest-molestation scandals the Boston archdiocese is announcing a fiscal crisis and impending layoffs. “They’re going to lay off Jesus,” I said. “No,” said B, “they’re going to lay off some disciples.” “That’s right,” I said. “Actually,…

  • Weee're back

    Well, that took longer than expected. I’m still getting things re-configured and re-set up at ol’ Open Publishing / ezone / x-everything industries, but most of the sites are at least now visible, and I may hope that we’ve cured the hacked-so-easily problem we had going there. In the meantime, off the air, I found…

  • Saddam family values

    Iraqis agog at Saddam family video: Jaber Qazem was buying a copy for his family, thinking they would prefer it to their usual favorite

  • Bass player offenses/fines list

    No saw like an old saw: bass player offenses and fines

  • Decisions, decisions

    She’s Actual Size, Nationwide, Believe asks the musical question, “Seriously, though, if some horrible situation came up where you had to either have sex with a cat or sex with a monkey, which one would you choose?”

  • 'Dead' to sell instant morning-after

    ‘Dead’ to sell instant morning-after shows. (via Sue W.) dead.munckmix.com? Welcome to an exciting new offering from The Dead. For the upcomingSummer Getaway 2003 tour, the band is printing and selling CD recordings from most of the tour concerts as soon as each respective concert is over. The concert recordings, called “Official Concert Recording Series”,…

  • Keeping beer cold in the

    Keeping beer cold in the sun. Per Arnesen has come up with a device for keeping beer cold on hot days. We like his choice of Guinness for the test brew.

  • Keeping beer cold in the sun

    Per Arnesen has come up with a device for keeping beer cold on hot days. We like his choice of Guinness for the test brew.