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The Ultimate Blog Post
An anonymous reader writes to mention Lore Sjöberg's 'Ultimate Blog Post'. He goes over the history of the blog (dating back over 2000 years), and conveniently condenses out the perfect blog posts for a few notable sites. From the article: "Boing Boing: Crocheted replica of subway map cracks DRM on collection of old video games. FARK: Drunk frat boy in Florida has sex with underage donkey, sues Strong Bad for negligence. Still no cure for overused in-jokes. Slashdot: AMD, SCO patent MP3 over TCP/IP, sue ATI, EA. Microsoft probably responsible somehow. Engadget: Samsung releases new cell phone/mp3 player/camera/web browser/GPS/game player/wireless hub. Now in gray! Joystiq: Will Wright to design first-person Warcraft shooter for the Wii. Jack Thompson responds with aneurysm."
Dupe anonymous first post is -1 off-topic but insightful because Linux rules and Zonk sucks.
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Boing Boing: Crocheted replica of subway map cracks DRM on collection of old video games.
FARK: Drunk frat boy in Florida has sex with underage donkey, sues Strong Bad for negligence. Still no cure for overused in-jokes.
Slashdot: AMD, SCO patent MP3 over TCP/IP, sue ATI, EA. Microsoft probably responsible somehow.
Kottke: Elwin Festerator is the unsung inventor of the curly telephone cord. "I looked at a straight telephone cord, and I asked myself, Elwin, why can't that be curly? So I went out and got my brand-new curling gun, and I curled the hell out of it." Related link: New Yorker article on the Olympic curling team.
Engadget: Samsung releases new cell phone/mp3 player/camera/web browser/GPS/game player/wireless hub. Now in gray!
Joystiq: Will Wright to design first-person Warcraft shooter for the Wii. Jack Thompson responds with aneurysm.
Groklaw: Transcript of SCO deposition on previous court order concerning applicability of evidence to last year's motion to review earlier statements. Seriously, we love this stuff.
Daily Kos: Bush caught in three-way with Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh.
Little Green Footballs: Bush enjoys triumphant three-way with Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh.
Gawker: Paris Hilton does pretty much anything.
Cute Overload: A kitten licks a puppy while the puppy licks a bunny.
Fleshbot: Same as Cute Overload, only with coeds.
MacRumors: Apple is going to sue us for revealing that Apple is going to sue us.
MAKE blog: How to create a nuclear accelerator using a Flash drive, a Commodore 64 and a guy named Roger.
Metafilter: Unhelpful link text. Extra links added for padding that have little to do with the main topic of the entry. Are extremely loaded rhetorical questions the only thing that can save us now?
Digg: Hey, cool, someone wrote an article about Digg!
This is just a tribute
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Lore is a funny guy who I have found entertaining for nearly a decade, but if this particular nugget of wit was written by some random blogger that nobody had ever heard about, would it really have made the front page of Slashdot?
I mean... It's kinda-sorta funny. I guess.
It doesn't really hold a candle to his "I'm Somebody's Fetish" T-shirts, though.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
So you see, it all depends on the times!
LiveJournal: So, in my desperation and eternal angst, I created another piece of art to put on Deviant Art. Also, Puffy had kittens and I saw a green Volvo on my way to college. I dreamt about horseradish last night.
MySpace: OMG! T0day, me slit wrists again. i so emo! it cuz i make video for knew my chemical romance song! watch it [here]! comment me plz! thx bai!
Xanga: i scraped knee today when goig to kindergarten. dreamt about pony. hope toof fairi gives me $$ so i can bye lickorish. dreamt of ponies lsat night!
sigfault. core dumped.
IIRC 'blog' is short for 'weblog'. I must be tired or something, because I fail to grasp how a WebLog can predate the Web by aprox. 1970 years...
History of blogs getting /.ed after their owners decide to submit an article?
bad publicity!
Not only were they left out, the Romans got the credit for inventing the blog even though the Egyptians were blogging in the pyramids millenia before Rome was even pitched as a VC bid.
In short "Writing stuff down has been around a while".. Real? Wow. Deep.....
God Be Gone
Lore Sjoberg is probably best known for his hilarious, now defunct website Brunching Shuttlecocks, and the "Ratings" column he used to write on that website. You can still read the past columns right here. The ones about classic video games and Dungeons & Dragons characters are especially funny.
There are 2 kinds of people in this world. Those that can keep their train of thought,
RTFA
You won't see a single ad on my blog.
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that your life is not enhanced by trying to always sell crap to everyone all the time?
The best Web 2.0 for me would be a throwback to a time when advetisers had not yet discovered the net. Now there's a concept - an advertising free backbone! Call it Web -2!
"Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair" - George Washington
Is a dead blog post.
... and then they built the supercollider.
I find it quite appropriate that on a story about blogs, all of the comments are below my viewing threshold.
- RG>
Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
While blogging has only reached prominence in the last few years, it was actually invented by the ancient Romans who built a majestic blog in 200 BC from marble, granite and links they stole from the Greeks.
"Blog" itself is short for "weblog," which is short for "we blog because we weren't very popular in high school and we're trying to gain respect and admiration without actually having to be around people."
Oh come on, now. When you consider the fact that a blog is nothing more than someone's diary, posted online, it seems a bit puerile to suggest that it's been around for thousands of years. Well of COURSE it has. It just wasn't called a blog then.
And as he mentioned in the second sentence of the FA, blog is short for WEBlog. Shouldn't he then need to say how the WEB was invented during the last 20 years?
I know, I know, blah blah creative license blah blah, but this just seems like a really cheap writing trick. [/style nazi]
It is funny because it is true. I'm surprised that no mention of Linux was part of the Slashdot ultimate blog entry.
AI Eureka!
With link to what poster believes is really the ultimate blog post, what will jam your browser solid unless you have oodles of RAM were you to open the 2k+ comments at the bottom of said ultimate blog post.
/ 9549
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/7/25/03646
Reminder that poster DID warn you about getting your browser jammed up.
Someone had to do it.
AMD, SCO patent MP3 over TCP/IP, sue ATI, EA. Microsoft probably responsible somehow.
To that, I can only retort with the Ultimate Insult! *starts assembling voodoo talisman*
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
My favorite is:
Digg: Hey, cool, someone wrote an article about Digg!
I'd add to that also, "btw, here's a story from three years ago on the front page!"
This always happens to me. Come to think of it, it seems that 6 is a bit high.
Send email from the afterlife! Write your e-will at Dead Man's Switch.
God Be Gone
bickering about the finer points of spelling, grammar, and some vague point the parent didn't even imply, but is willing to debate at length for the hell of it, since no mod will ever find this thread to mod us offtopic, so who cares about the karma?
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
Dude, I can't believe how wrong you are.
You're off my friends list!
No, the Ultimate Insult is simple: "I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle."
I guess there's nothing for it but to wage terrible war for centuries.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
Spot on. Maybe the thing was crocheted at Burning Man?
I thought the signature was the funniest part:
"Born helpless, nude and unable to provide for himself, Lore Sjöberg eventually overcame these handicaps to become a handyman, a handicapper and a handmaiden."
I think I better put that in my blog! And yes I'm going to be blogging about this!
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.