April 2011
“Straight Male Gamer” told to ‘get over it’ by... →
lizlet:
This is WONDERFUL. Go BioWare!
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The Douglas-Fershleiser Story
1. Rach sends me a link to “Whoring Out Jezebel,” a post where Nick Denton says he’s selling the site to Conde Nast.
2. I believe it.
3. Rach mocks me, points out that tomorrow is April Fool’s Day.
4. We both realize that this post is from 2008.
On top of the zeitgeist, y’all.
March 2011
“In a particularly telling example, the study showed how the phrase “Yo...”
– Time Between Thing Being Amusing, Extremely Irritating Down To 4 Minutes | The Onion
Time Between Thing Being Amusing, Extremely... →
Those of us immune to the phenomenon will have a special name: professional bloggers.
“I can tell you, anecdotally, that for our Twitter feed, @niemanlab, one of the...”
– “Like,” “share,” and “recommend”: How the warring verbs of social media will influence the news’ future » Nieman Journalism Lab
“Publishers who want their content to go viral need to stop thinking about it as...”
– HuffPo co-founder [Jonah Peretti] explains the secrets of viral content | VentureBeat
“The story that General Electric did not pay federal taxes last year was widely...”
– On NBC, the missing story about parent company General Electric - The Washington Post
Do you like New York Mag's Approval Matrix?
Is there anything else you’d compare it to? What makes it so magical?
“Canv.as is aiming to be SFW, [4chan founder Chris] Poole has said.”
– Betabeat
I’m not yet convinced that this isn’t a bad decision. I know he has real reasons to make such a decision! But I think it runs counter to Canv.as’s strengths, and if he commits to moderating the site, he’s gonna squash one of his few real advantages against his many...
I added some lines that got crunched by Tumblr
So you gotta go re-read Prayer Rug Post 1 and Prayer Rug Post 2 cause they’re funnier now.
I still have the rug, I’m keeping it as a pet, what should I do with it now?
@MayorEmanuel gets a book deal
“Dan Sinker’s THE F***ING EPIC TWITTER QUEST OF @MAYOREMANUEL, an at-the-time anonymous, fake Rahm Emanuel mayoral campaign Twitter feed, annotated and to include Sinker’s first-person account of the phenomenon that has attracted loads of followers and media, with a Foreword by co-founder of Twitter Biz Stone, to Brant Rumble at Scribner, by Seth Fishman at The Gernert Company in...
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“Wordless books have been put into many forms for easy use and insertion into...”
– Wordless Book - Wikipedia
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Possible Proof Of Trump U.S. Birth Uncovered | The... →
“Discovery could quell concerns of growing ‘Trumper’ movement”
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Great interview with Mikala Bierma, creator of... →
Gail the Goldfish: The thematic decorations of... →
The 9 Most Meta Things to Do on Websites -... →
Waaaaay too much work went into this one. By Jed Stoneham, who deserves more freelance work.
“Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. You’ll see this phrase several times over the...”
– reddit
“According to the IMDb, her final film role was in Balto II: Wolf Quest.”
– Mary Kay Bergman - Wikipedia
“The play explores various possibilities.”
– A helpful gloss of Copenhagen in Michael Frayn’s Wikipedia page
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Me: I love you.
Rach: Shut up.
Nick: What?
Rach: You have a unique way of saying ‘I love you’ to mean ‘You’re an idiot.’
Where do you get desktop wallpapers?
