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03 Nov 09

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Terrible Poetry Jokes.

You have to be a poetry geek, perhaps, but a few of these made me laugh out loud. The exchange between Whitman and Pound is priceless.

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22 Aug 09

Tweeting Too Hard

Where self-important tweets get the recognition they deserve.

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24 Feb 09

Everything is amazing, nobody is happy...

Louis CK explains why we're all spoiled... including, but not limited to, our expectations of technology

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01 Feb 09

YouTube - Yo Comments Are Whack!

We like proper English and we cannot lie
You YouTubers can't deny
That when illiterate kids start hating on your vids
With ignorant crass replies
You're ashamed, of your fellow man

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28 Jan 09

YouTube - Dramatic Donkey Cigarette Dispenser - Archie McPhee

Not sure which is more disturbing, the end of the video, the design of the product, or the fact that they still make cigarette dispensers. wtf? via @courosa

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14 Dec 08

All My Internet Friends

We're remaining interwoven / We're a net, and we have chosen / To be knotted tightly to each other / You be client, I'll be server / We won't ever have to be alone

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11 Dec 08

Top 12 Tech Embarrassments in 2008

Some sad, funny, and ridiculous events in technology over the last year. Via @MLx

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10 Dec 08

Let me google that for you

Didn't realize how useful this was at first... I'll use it a lot to kindly point people in the right direction for Googleable questions. via D'Arcy Norman

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Broken Koans and other Zen debris

Zen is like a finger pointing at the Moon; once you've seen the Moon, there is no longer any need for the finger. Unless you have to scratch yourself or something.

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12 Oct 08

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: An Open Letter to the Burglar of 244 Wicker Avenue.

O P E N L E T T E R S
T O P E O P L E O R E N T I T I E S
W H O A R E U N L I K E L Y
T O R E S P O N D

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08 Oct 08

The Institutional Path for Change in This Age: Andragogy, not Pedagogy

Professor Van Winkle of MIT emerges from years of slumber to give the stump speech many of us have been giving for a long time. We're saved! Gotta love how he helpfully defines 'ontology' in the very first sentence.

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01 Oct 08

It Isn't Easy Being a Genius - New York Times

Within days, I began to receive requests from family, friends and strangers to evaluate various pet theories, some well founded, some half-baked, ranging from the therapeutic benefits of magnets to the location of the missing dark matter in the universe.

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Hotel Wikipedia - Meta

"Welcome to the Hotel Wikipedia / Such a lovely place / So much empty space"

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30 Sep 08

Poetry Bailout Will Restore Confidence of Readers

Let there be no mistake: the fundamentals of our poetry are sound. The problem is not poetry but poems. The crisis has been precipitated by the escalation of poetry debt—poems that circulate in the market at an economic loss due to their difficulty, incompetence, or irrelevance.

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