Christian Crumlish (xian): memewatchblog memes, meme blogsWhat's Sullivan for Instalanche- October 24, 2002 ShortStrings (no permalinks, but it was posted Tuesday, October 08, 2002), says Andrew Sullivan reports that Christopher Hitchens's new book on Orwell went from 1,074 to 4 on Amazon's best seller list after he chose it for his next book club discussion. (More...)http://mediajunkie.com/junkmail/#85598649 What's next The homeless rockstar- October 17, 2002 I remember in that strange Terry Gilliam film The Fisher King that the two homeless guys eventually get pitched to participate in an upbeat sitcom (or was it reality show that's what it would be today) about homelessness to be called "Home Free!" Homeless people have had homepages for a long time now, especially since municipalities such as Santa Monica (which Harry Shearer refers to at the end of each Le Show as "the home of the homeless) started making sure homeless people could get Internet.http://thehomelessguy.blogspot.com/ Send lawyers, guns, and money- October 14, 2002 Hey, my triumvirate of motivations meme is getting legs. I noticed a visitor today referred from a post called Python-Dev Missing symbol in sre.py (Python 2.2.2b1) on what I gather is a list for Python developers).http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-October/029567.html 50 most loathsome- October 10, 2002 The Buffalo Beast names the 50 most loathsome people in America, 2002. Pretty over-the-top (fairly vulgar too), but funny and much of it is hard to argue with.A sampling:13. SEAN HANNITYMisdeeds: Without question one of the most smarmy, vile, hypocritical talking heads on television. Has the uncanny ability to vilify and generalize those who disagree with him, and then state that he's not a partisan person. Exploits his devout Catholicism and patriotism to the point that it makes you think he's.http://www.buffalobeast.com/article.php?article=01_0 Tweney on a mass-amateurization precedent (from my comments)- October 8, 2002 Seems like today is all about followups and conversations among blogs. (For example, Mark Byron noticed my unfisking yesterday and wrote about it in his blog. My response to his response to my response to his original post can be found in his comments.) So I wanted to elevate an interesting thread from my comments. The interesting part is provided by Dylan Tweney, responding to my post about the Shirky article. Tweney suggests another viable precedent for this type of mass-amateurization in...http://rcs.salon.com/rcsComments/comments?u=1111&p=561 'Weblog Handbook' slashdotted- October 8, 2002 A positive front-page review of Rebecca Blood's Weblog Handbook at Slashdot generates a range of responses, most of which we've seen before from this quarter (weblogs are over, the writing is terribleself-indulgent, who cares what you think, what's so hard about updating webpages, etc.). Some choice comments: Why would I care to read your stupid rantings Why would I care to get my daily news from someone with as much authority on the 'news' as myself Are we so in need of entertainment that our.http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/03/1323250 Take the 1990s lyrics quiz- October 7, 2002 from Art of the Mix (via MZ):Do you remember a band called Blind Melon Can you still rattle off the words to "Shoop" by Salt-n-Pepa Visit this site to test your knowledge of pop and rock lyrics from the 1990s. Hint: look out for appearances from a few hip-hop and country crossover artists. From Ace of Base to Alice in Chains, they're all here, along with a few acts you'd probably rather forget. Step back in time. It's harder than you think!I doubt it.http://www.artofthemix.org/writings/lyrics.asp 'We only fisk the stoopid ones'- October 7, 2002 Minnesota columnist James Lileks is a charming writer, if a little flashy (like the guitar soloist who uses volume and speed to get the inevitable cheer from the audience), who understands the web medium mighty well. As I study warblog jargon, I'm fairly confident that his interleaved, point-for-point refutation of a speech by Senator Paul Wellstone constitutes a fisking. It's very Usenet and email, this style of interjected after-the-fact argumentation, very Internet I guess. As someone...http://www.lileks.com/screed/wellstone.html (Untitled)- October 5, 2002 WebCollage: Exterminate All Rational Thoughthttp://blogs.salon.com/0001111/categories/memewatch/2002/10/05.html#a577 |