Month: June 2007

There’s a condition afflicting bloggers the world over known as Meditabellae desiderium or ‘Midpost Regret.’ Midpost regret occurs when a writer has started writing or nearly finished writing a post and realizes that their post was: a) poorly thought out. b) poorly executed. c) inappropriate or uninteresting. d) required a different emotion/state of consciousness/timeline e)…

People are weird. This is my favorite story about the ‘scene‘ It doesn’t matter what scene it is or who is in it or what it’s about. It could be mac users ragging on PC users or star wars geeks ragging on star trek nerds or punk rokkers ragging on emo kidz. The bottom line…

(If memetics is going to claim to be the analogue of genetics, it’s got to be ready for a few harmful mutations every now and then. Luckily, in memetics, unlike genetics, you can purposefully mutate a meme. So seven instead of eight it is.) Players have to post these rules before we give you the…

Two questions: If you caught what you thought was a father beating his child, would it make it more or less acceptable if he said, “It’s okay, it’s not domestic abuse: I’ve never seen this kid before in my life!”? Seriously, I know you’re never supposed to put a punctuation mark outside of quotation marks,…

Why do you hate visitors? Do you think we smell bad? Are we jerks? Do we take all of your jobs? Or do you just think we’re going to bring rabbits into you and watch them wreck havok? I know you worked hard to provide information for people who want to visit, but all of…

(boy, I wonder how that turns out) Is it possible for a blog to have too many features? I argue it’s not. Old-timey visitors (from the 1920s or even from just yesterday) will note a few spectacular changes on the site. First of all, you can now rate comments. I tested it out on T-Rob’s…