Tag: memes

  • Who's blogging the Super Bowl ads?

    It might be fun to sit there with my ‘puter during the Super Bowl and snap digital pix of the ads as they debut and log little posts about each one or about anything that’s noteworthy, mightn’t it?

  • How much proof do you need?

    There’s no use denying it any longer. Elijah Wood is very, very gay.

  • Left-wing conservatives and right-wing liberals

    The political spectrum here in the U.S. has become increasingly muddled over the years. Conservatives adopted the lingo and some of the verities of liberal progressive thought and more recently the rump of the left has toyed with attempting to coopt the aspects of right-wing thought it finds least unpalatable. We’ve got a darling of…

  • Bashing SF/NY/LA getting tired

    Gawker has published another round of SF sucks/no it doesn’t. It’s kind of a weird obsession, and somehow it seems related to the dashed dreams of the dotcom crash. Growing up in New York, we never even thought about any other cities. We took for granted that we were at the center of the world.…

  • Back of an envelope

    I’m sure the Gettysburg Powerpoint is already a well circulated meme, but it’s new to me, and such a perfect send up of the reductive power of slideshows as communication tools that I could not resist linking to it here.

  • Back of an envelope

    I’m sure the Gettysburg Powerpoint is already a well circulated meme, but it’s new to me, and such a perfect send up of the reductive power of slideshows as communication tools that I could not resist linking to it here. [via X-POLLEN]

  • For what it's worth

    To the people I referrred to in Outrage over Pete Townsend, who are busily debating the story over in the discussion area of my Pete Townsend reviews Kurt Cobain’s diaries entry, I feel that I should pass along this report from the Smoking Gun, which lends at least some credence to Townsend’s vapid-sounding defense that…

  • Have you seen this man?

    WANTED for MURDERING time Make your own composite sketch at Ultimate Flash Face, a Russian site. Put up flyers of your friends, or fiddle together a self-portrait. People who know me will realize that the likeness above is pretty crude, but I think if I’d been willing to spend a lot more time tweaking it,…

  • More love for the Bay Area

    Instapundit graces another (well deserved) link to the Devil’s Excrement today with a gratuitous swipe at Berkeley. I’m not sure I get the subtext. Is it that the perennial protesters here in the East Bay don’t have as much fun as Venezuelan protesters do? This follows the continuing S.F. sucks theme at the Gawker (and…

  • Outrage over Pete Townsend

    Here’s something odd. Back in November I posted a link to Pete Townsend’s review of Kurt Cobain’s diaries. Now that the pedophile (or paedophile, for British readers) arrest story has broken, it seems that people must be Googling his name and somehow finding their way to my old post. Even though it was written about…

  • Which is worse, rape or murder?

    Scot Hacker has posed a provocative thought-experiment to his readers who defend video games that depict killing. In his post entitled Just Pretending he asks which is worse, rape or murder. Then he asks whether it would be OK for children to play rape games. This has spawned an active discussion, at the birdhouse and…

  • Outrage over Pete Townsend

    Here’s something odd. Back in November I posted a link to Pete Townsend’s review of Kurt Cobain’s diaries. Now that the pedophile (or paedophile, for British readers) arrest story has broken, it seems that people must be Googling his name and somehow finding their way to my old post. Even though it was written about…

  • Another fine meme-tracking site

    One day I’ll need to come up with a big list of sites that track memes, especially those that do so automatically or semiautomatically (as opposed to sites like Metafilter and half the weblogs in the universe that track memes all the time by virtue of their infectious passing of memes from one to another).…

  • Another fine meme-tracking site

    One day I’ll need to come up with a big list of sites that track memes, especially those that do so automatically or semiautomatically (as opposed to sites like Metafilter and half the weblogs in the universe that track memes all the time by virtue of their infectious passing of memes from one to another).…

  • When did 'demagogue' become a verb?

    Just asking.

  • When did 'demagogue' become a verb?

    Just asking.

  • Sushi, cognac, and coke

    Elizabeth Spiers does some original reporting for the Gawker, getting to the bottom of how the cocaine business really should be run. Maybe what these dealers need is a good CRM implementation. The article, long for the Gawker, runs in the form of a taped interview with a ditzy-but-funny Wall Streeter: Of Wall Street’s obsession…

  • I'll send Haldir or something. He's expendable.

    The condensed parody version of the Two Towers is densely witty. Here’s a snippet: TREEBEARD: We have opted, hoom, not to do a damn thing. PIPPIN: I didn’t expect that. PEOPLE WHO HAVE READ THE BOOK: Neither did I… I still kinda like the Humphrey Bogart version (also at iFilm).

  • I'll send Haldir or something. He's expendable.

    The condensed parody version of the Two Towers is densely witty. Here’s a snippet: TREEBEARD: We have opted, hoom, not to do a damn thing. PIPPIN: I didn’t expect that. PEOPLE WHO HAVE READ THE BOOK: Neither did I…

  • If you can make it there…

    Nick Denton continues to bash the San Francisco bay area, now discerning a brain drain going on in the form of an exodus of notable bloggers: So Dave Winer, a Silicon Valley institution, is moving to the East Coast. Winer, an influential independent developer, as influential as he is crotchety, is taking up a fellowship…

  • WSJ 'Birdfeeders bad' meme deconstructed

    A recent forwarded newspaper article singing the ills of birdfeeders had us going for a while. If we had read more closely or paid more attention to the source (the Wall Street Journal), we may have more easily seen it in the light presented by Laura Erickson’s Wall Street Journal Bird Feeding Article Distorts Truth.…