Tag: memes

Crummy.com ate my word endings. [via Zeldman]

I’m getting tired of these “anti-blog screed so please, bloggers, all link to me” pseudcontrarian protobacklash articles. Most of them are as glib and boring as the worst blogs and they don’t tend to even get their facts straight. For example in, Blog eats blog, the author talks about ETCon and A List bloggers, writing…

Geoff Faulkner has posted an informative article describing how he set up a computer-mediated entertainment center. His solution converges the functionality of his TV and stereo system with a computer for controlling everything.

Jeff Green, who’s been on a roll lately, has some choice words for us about iLoo. I suggest he go back and read my “Information pooper-highway” entry from The Internet Dictionary (Sybex, 1994, now sadly out of print). Weirdly, just a few weeks ago I was riffing with another friend about the idea of putting…

Promoters of regime change in the US who run the fooled-ya GATT.org website have developed an alternate deck of cards for quick identification of their most-wanted list.

I’ve noticed that many people found the declaration by an Iraqi quoted in the New York Times a few weeks ago to be a great slogan for western values of freedom and the pursuit of happiness. I prefer my spelling, in the title above, to the more typical “Whiskey” spelling. Why? Because it echoes the…

What’s Happening is yet another page that comprises a good list of memetracking websites. [via Anil‘s sidebar links]

I thought this Anil Dash weblog entry looked familiar: I’m off to SF for O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference on Tuesday. I’m going against the grain this year by taking my laptop along, “blogging” in “realtime”, and taking digital photos of people. If there’s a box, I am out of it. If you’re attending as well,…

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It’s been over three weeks since this (Who’s leading Who?) appeared in my in-box and it still creeps me out every time I go take a look. I think it’s the phallic nose. And, no, I’ve never thought this conflict was merely about oil, but it still amuses me to imagine the operation named as…

This one keeps showing up on my screen, so I might as well note it. The Dullest Blog in the world is a deadpan satire of inconsequential web journaling. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel. Yahoo’s crack crew of editors can hardly contain their mirth: Web logs have reached critical mass and become ubiquitous…

As I recall, “regime change” first entered the vocabulary back in 1998, when it stood for a stronger position against Saddam’s regime in Iraq than disarmament, essentially promising that post-Gulf War sanctions against Iraq would never be lifted as long as the Saddam Hussein regime remained in power there. There may have been a whiff…

A friend on one of my lists wrote: …found some nasty stuff on C-Dilla – installed as a copy protection tool with Turbo Tax, seemed to cause some nasty stuff on my system running as a system service in Win2000. Searches on various forums turned up some news on it in game software with the…

Measure the buzzosity (suit and geek) of any website.

After attending most of the new media conference at the Berkeley J-school this past weekend I’ve got lots of notes, some photos, and very little time available to transcribe the notes and write up my comments. In the meantime, J-school webmaster Scot Hacker has some first impressions: Pink Is Evil. So much to say about…

I always figured Victoria’s secret was that she was a guy. According to What is Victoria’s Secret? the answer is bulimia.