Tag: memes

  • 'Who is our enemy' meme crosses to email

    An old philosophy buddy of mine sent me this e-mail message this morning, with the subject “Help me before I get hawkish”: Despite some fatuous chest-thumping about the greatness of American culture herein, I find this indictment of Arab/Islamist culture hard to argue with, along with the claims about possible Arab responses to the situation.…

  • 'Twas ever thus

    Cracking down on a thing just makes it more desirable. How many readers would have have slogged through Ulysses if it hadn’t have been banned as obscene? It looks like BEACHtechie is getting his day in the sun, following the school suspension re-reported here earlier. (“Yesterday I had more unique visitors to my blog than…

  • The case against (most) weblogs

    Charly Z of Driver 8 tipped me off this morning to a few interesting threads. First is this biting essay called either “Why I Fucking Hate Weblogs!” (according to its top header), “Why I Hate WebLogs” according to its filename, or the punch-pulling “Why I Hate (Personal) Weblogs” used in its title bar. It veers…

  • Raven spikes with tales of Irish Travellers

    In an entry called Candid Camera Raven discussed the Irish Traveller background of the caught-on-video daughter-beater named Toogood. This entry of his shows up on the first page of results of a Google search for Irish Travellers and the like. Hits ensue. Quoth the Raven: The coverage over at ABC news and also at CNN…

  • Cat meme update

    So Essential Blogging has cats on the cover, eh? Is this that the cat meme again? I’ve been trying to note when I see that meme in use these days. In print it’s hard to capture, but I have snagged these arbitrary online appearances of the cat meme: The Blog Phenomenon (PC Mag): The vanity…

  • Law firm out $2.1 million in African fraud

    Collateral damage from the Nigerian scam: The FBI said Poet, a bookkeeper for a small Berkley law firm, embezzled $2.1 million from the firm’s accounts between February and August, after scam organizers persuaded her to wire huge amounts of money to bank accounts in South Africa and Taiwan to expedite the transfer of money to…