Tag: memes

You’ll hate this test but it gets more accurate with each submission. It was 86% sure I’m a man, close to my own level of certainty. A somewhat girly man perhaps (fairly near the middle on the linear scale — must be that preference for a blue bedroom over white), but a man nonetheless. Hear…

Too lazy to pad out to my front drive and pick up the Sunday Chronicle, I’ve been reading New York Times op eds and now skimming Slate. There’s a tight little William Saletan article from Thursday, Wise Counsel – Edwards copies Clinton’s message—in invisible ink, that makes the point that John Edwards has mastered the…

It looks like Slate launched a feature called Meme Watch back in November and refers, semifacetiously, to a MemeTracker™ device. Hey, as long as they pay us royalties! No, honestly, the more of us tracking memes the better. Timothy Noah’s latest column observes the ups and downs of the “Lucky Duckies” meme.

Another incorrectly dated post (actually from 12/24): Drowning Mona. About 5 minutes before the end of this movie, Danny DeVito’s character says, “Know this….” A good example of lame Hollywood writing, a crutch-phrase I’ve never heard anyone use in real life….

Leading up to Christmas this year I was several times sent chain mail claiming that the lyrics to the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas” encoded forbidden Catholic catechistic information under Anglican repression. Something smelled fishy about this, not least because it was presented without any evidence, and the correspondence seemed fairly weak for most…

GWB HOTLINE 202-456-1111 1 PHONE CALL EQUALS 10-20 PEOPLE WHO DIDN’T CALL, PLEASE PASS ON TO FRIENDS {source this?}

Tip of the iceberg. I’ve been wondering when the Lott flap would lead to a more comprehensive investigation of how the old Dixiecrat movement became the Goldwater/Nixon “southern strategy.” To quote Lyndon Johnson when he signed the 1964 Voting Rights Act, “I think we’ve just delivered the south to the Republicans for a long time…

If you want to know what the wired globe cared about or thought about, or more exactly, searched for using Google in the past year, then check out Google’s 2002 Year-End Zeitgeist wrap-up. Naturally they filter out pr0n searches which would swamp everything else. (“You’ve got the most popular non-porn website on the Internet,” says…

Check out The Unknown Hinson Jukebox for samples of such instant classics as “I Make Faces (When I Make Love)” and “In the Trunk of My Cadillac Car.” And who can forget these immortal stylings from “Put Out or Get Out”: I was in prison for 30 years, babyYou learn a lot when you’re in…