Tag: memes

  • Drawing a bead

    Happy Mardi Gras. The beadcam shows a pretty tame daytime scene at this moment, but it may get more interesting this evening. [via MZ]

  • Just noticed

    Get Your War On’s tribute to Mr. Rogers.

  • Curious juxtaposition No. 2

    1997: 2003:

  • But did he?

    Cory Doctorow quotes himself in BoingBoing: Doctorow on Gibson in Mindjack My review of WIlliam Gibson’s Pattern Recognition is up on Mindjack today. The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” This is, after all, the man who coined the word “cyberspace”… Ah, but did he? My understanding…

  • Once more, from the top

    Sing along with the vocal stylings of the spongmonkeys as they regale you with their acoustic guitar rave-up We Like the Moon.

  • 'I get it' meme update

    We’ve recently started an independent blog conference on the Well, and Salon blogger Bruce Umbaugh reminded me of a klog-related epiphany I wrote about in an entry back in August called I get it. At time I asked people to link to it as “xian gets it” but while I was correcting the permalink and…

  • Gulf War II simulation

    Posing as an interactive game (there’s really only one choice, about halfway through, and I suspect it’s a Hobson’s choice), this Flash animation projects a worst-case scenario for the upcoming (ongoing?) Gulf War. [via Nick Denton]

  • Homeland security specialist

    Watching late-night TV (Ask Rita), I saw an add for a Homeland security specialist program at NIT schools’ San Jose campus. It started with an American flag and a voice over talking about how 9/11 changed everything. Quick cut to a man in a suit introducing himself and calling himself the “Director of Homeland Security.”…

  • While you were out (protesting)

    The war has already started. The Pentagon was leaking all over the place yesterday that we already have special forces inside Iraq. For example, the Washington Post reported: U.S. Special Operations troops are already operating in various parts of Iraq, hunting for weapons sites, establishing a communications network and seeking potential defectors from Iraqi military…

  • Just can't leave it alone

    I’ve already overcommented on the Burningbird: Boys with Toys thread (and related) at BurningBird, but I went back and read the three entries and their tails of comments again and I still feel that the various points of view are largely talking past each other, partly because they (we) are also having a metaconversation. The…

  • My work here is done

    I can die happy now. I’ve been noticed by the blogeur.

  • InstaOnion

    The Onion creeps closer to reality with its headlines today, including North Korea Wondering What It Has to Do to Attract U.S. Military Attention and this brief item: Saddam Enrages Bush With Full ComplianceWASHINGTON, DC—President Bush expressed frustration and anger Monday over a U.N. report stating that Iraqi president Saddam Hussein is now fully complying…

  • Meticulous paranoia

    From MZ comes this link to the Elite Network that controls our lives… uh, yeah. So how come the EU shows up in two different parts of the org chart?

  • Sit back and enjoy the rest of the flight

    Hello, this is your captain speaking.

  • Radically reinterpreting the pornographic soundtrack

    Today in artsflow: A musician friend told me over lunch at LMNOP in Oakland the other day that PornOrchestra had launched. The project involves composing and improvising new soundtracks for existing porn films. I interviewed PornOrchestra spokesmodel Shannon Mariemont to find out more about where this idea comes from and where it’s going. Here are…

  • IMMEDIATE ATTENTION NEEDED:

    HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL FROM: GEORGE WALKER BUSH DEAR SIR / MADAM, I AM GEORGE WALKER BUSH, SON OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH, AND CURRENTLY SERVING AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THIS LETTER MIGHT SURPRISE YOU BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT MET NEITHER IN PERSON NOR…

  • IMMEDIATE ATTENTION NEEDED:

    When I get memejoke mail from both my merry punsters list and my antiweb list, I figure it’s circulating pretty widely. This one in fact has already made it to the mass media so I’m probably a good few weeks late on this at least: HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL FROM: GEORGE WALKER BUSH DEAR SIR / MADAM,

  • Superbowl ads – tbd

    Well, I only made it to half-time before real life intruded. I will annotate these images (and there’s one more “roll” to follow) on the next go ’round:

  • Superbowl ads – McDonald's / Gameday

    Then there was an amusing McDonald’s ad in which a father and son compare their hectic days: Mom suggests McD’s and the punchline is the son saying, “That’s what I love about that woman.” This was followed by an ad for the premier of the Jimmy Kimmel show and one for the Al Bundy version…

  • Superbowl ads – What you talkin' about, Willis?

    The next ad was for Tears of the Sun, a new Bruce Willis movie…

  • Superbowl ads – roadtrip / football fans

    First ad I tuned in for was a cute ad about a roadtrip, for Honda Element. Amusing, but no sale. Next up was an ad for watching football. Heartwarming.