Got 31 Days?

November 9, 2005 9:36 AM

The grammatically poor 1 days linkfarm starts us off so quickly, on to 2 days of Japanese gadgets. 3 days, then 4 days and 5 days too are just farming links, while 6 days does so with the additon (allegedly) of AdorableCats. 7 days is farming too (but no cats) and The Beatles' 8 Days A Week is co-opted to a copy shop. 9 days will sell your house in 7 days (and keep 2 for their commission, I guess). Circumspection is the name of the game at 10 days and 11 days is back to farming links. 12 Days of Christmas, of course. Unluckily, 13 days is another farm... Gwen offers you 14 days of laminate samples for your library walls. 15 days is a link farm again. 16 Days Design "reserves the right to refuse service to anyone". It might take 17 days to look through Jenny's galleries, but much less than 18 days to realise this is just another link farm. There's "no website configured at [19 days]" - you sure? 20 days - links. You can earn $100,00 in a year - so that's $5,753.42 in 21 days. Try MobZilla for 14 days at 22 days (and do what for the other 8?) 81% of investors fall into The Three Most Dangerous Pitfalls because they didn't spend 23 days checking things out. (24 days is coming soon.) The AlphabetAcademy teaches you one letter a day... for 25 days - which one gets the chop I wonder? You can sell your home in 26 days or get $2,600!!! 27 days is back to linkfarming. In 28 days you might be on Reality TV. Want 29 days of "Internal Cleansing" with Blessed Herbs? NetSol aren't above 30 days of links. And finally, 31 days later, everything stops...
posted by benzo8 (39 comments total)

(I've actively broken all the linkfarm URLs to keep them from getting any benefit from the links being here on MeFi...)
posted by benzo8 at 9:37 AM on November 9, 2005

Huh?
posted by jsavimbi at 9:39 AM on November 9, 2005

you've GOT to be freakin kidding me.
posted by spicynuts at 9:41 AM on November 9, 2005

These are the best inactive links of the web.
posted by jenovus at 9:44 AM on November 9, 2005

And a partridge in a pear tree.
posted by mzurer at 9:49 AM on November 9, 2005

Kick sweet jesus on a moped ass.
posted by tr33hggr at 9:49 AM on November 9, 2005

At the first link I was confused. At the second link I was lost. By the third link I started to get upset. Around the fourth link I began to wonder, but by the fifth link I didn't wonder anymore. Sometime around link six I felt sad. Link seven brought only a dull flat feeling. But luckily link eight brought me back to reality. Link nine told me that I didn't lilke this post much, and link ten confirmed it. Link eleven helped me to understand why. Thats why I'm grateful for link twelve, it brought clarity. Continuing on to link thirteen I realized that I was begining to lose interest. At link fourteen I stopped...
posted by blue_beetle at 9:50 AM on November 9, 2005

artpost

You misspelled wankfest.
posted by Espy Gillespie at 9:51 AM on November 9, 2005

I remember back in the web's paleolithic period, it was fun to randomly type in domain names to see what weird sites would come up. Then link farms came around and bought up everything, and well, it wasn't so much fun after that.
posted by gwint at 9:51 AM on November 9, 2005

I wonder if Andy will ever update his dictionary list of available domain names. My guess is that the link farms scooped up most of these in the last few years. One of the few downsides to cheap domain registars I guess...
posted by gwint at 9:53 AM on November 9, 2005

Reminds me of Amail, Bmail, Cmail, Dmail, Email, Fmail, Gmail, Hmail, Imail, Jmail, Kmail, Lmail, Mmail, Nmail, Omail, Pmail, Qmail, Rmail, Smail, Tmail, Umail, Vmail, Wmail, Xmail, Ymail, and Zmail. [via me]
posted by Plutor at 9:54 AM on November 9, 2005

I take one one one 'cause you left me
And two two two for my family
And 3 3 3 for my heartache
And 4 4 4 for my headaches
And 5 5 5 for my lonelyness
And 6 6 6 for my sorrow
And 7 7 7 for no tomorrow
And 8 8 8 I forget what 8 was for
And 9 9 9 for a lost god
And 10 10 10 for everything everything everything everything



... silly post ....
posted by edgeways at 10:14 AM on November 9, 2005

Seven days....

[in a "The Ring" voice]
posted by Termite at 10:16 AM on November 9, 2005

none of the .linky links work.. or is it just me ?
posted by j at 10:21 AM on November 9, 2005

OK, usually I'm not down with the whole 'is this realle teh best of teh web?' thang, but this is kind of redeculose. You don't seriously expect people to sit around hacking URLs to see if they can figure out what the hell you're talking about, hn?

I mean, being PoMo is so kewl and all, but some of us get cranky when we have to really egregiously waste our employers' time....
posted by lodurr at 10:26 AM on November 9, 2005

none of the .linky links work.. or is it just me ?

The sites are just link farms. He added .linky to the URL so that they wouldn't work.
posted by ludwig_van at 10:30 AM on November 9, 2005

Wouldn't this have been way more interesting if all these Xdays sites were found via google (like 3Days or 4Days or 10Days) versus these boring and pointless link farm links?

And by "way more interesting" I mean "just as dumb."
posted by tpl1212 at 10:30 AM on November 9, 2005

none of the .linky links work.. or is it just me ?

Those are the ones that he actively munged because they lead to linkfarms. Really though, the fact that many of these are just crap instead of actual interesting links make this a conceptually interesting post that fails in the content and discussion departments.
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 10:32 AM on November 9, 2005

And by "just as dumb," I mean "not nearly as great an 'artpost' as we are witnessing here."
posted by tpl1212 at 10:33 AM on November 9, 2005

I sense great lameness within you.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 10:33 AM on November 9, 2005

Interesting concept for a post, but...
posted by shoepal at 10:36 AM on November 9, 2005

Pink Stainless is OTM. This was a good try, with content that just didn't back the concept. Better this than more newsfilter.

Oh, and jsavimbi has posted no links and...
Espy Gillespie has posted no links and...
Spicynuts has posted 2 links (one of them a commercial)
Tr33hugg3r hasn't posted a link in over a year.

If this doesn't meet your high standard, you can always try posting something decent yourself.
posted by klangklangston at 10:43 AM on November 9, 2005

sweet jesus on a moped


posted by quonsar at 10:51 AM on November 9, 2005

Mildly interesting. I appreciate that you broke the links to the link farms. What inspired this post, benzo8?
posted by raedyn at 10:57 AM on November 9, 2005

(emphasis on mildly)
posted by raedyn at 10:59 AM on November 9, 2005

Spicynuts has posted 2 links (one of them a commercial)

And how many call outs have I ever begun? Come on, are you seriously saying this post doesn't deserve a wtf?
posted by spicynuts at 11:02 AM on November 9, 2005

I just wonder why the hell this thread is still open...
posted by lodurr at 11:12 AM on November 9, 2005

Quonsar, the Son of God is riding with no hands. That's reckless. It's also the cause of that high pitched whistling noise as the wind whips through the holes in his hands.
posted by CynicalKnight at 11:17 AM on November 9, 2005

edgeways, yes.
posted by OmieWise at 11:48 AM on November 9, 2005

dadafilter?
posted by kosem at 12:15 PM on November 9, 2005

when we have to really egregiously waste our employers' time....

But...er. Why else would we be here in the first place?
posted by Dormant Gorilla at 12:25 PM on November 9, 2005

raedyn writes "What inspired this post, benzo8?"

Well, I guess it wasn't particularly inspired. I was originally looking for the story of the girl in the desert bootcamp (and you can all just be glad I didn't go all the way up to 63 Days!) and couldn't for the life of me remember the number. I then became spellbound by the fact that every number had been taken, and yet only two actually related to the domain name. I guess I was (delete as you feel): a) harking back to those memorable list-posts from the past of which, I admit, this was a pale shadow; b) making a small statement about NewsFilter; and/or c) being slightly irreverant.

If I've taken on thing from this exercise it's not that all the good domain names have gone, but that people no-longer seem to care whether they're domain name is relavant or not - the land-grab is entirely without thought or meditation - people still just want their spot on the 'Net, whatever and wherever that spot might be....
posted by benzo8 at 1:09 PM on November 9, 2005

artpost

With a capital 'F'.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 1:54 PM on November 9, 2005

i like
posted by jammed at 2:55 PM on November 9, 2005

U R teh suck.

There, now I've risen to the intellectual level of this posting.

Wouldn't it have been more interesting to list all of the different animal + sex domain name pairings? Probably.
posted by Deathalicious at 2:57 PM on November 9, 2005

So, how about getting .linky registered on orsn?
posted by oonh at 4:25 PM on November 9, 2005

"U R teh suck.

There, now I've risen to the intellectual level of this posting."

Another great bit of wisdom from someone no links and 72 comments in.
posted by klangklangston at 5:46 PM on November 9, 2005

k-k, i'm usually a fan, but what's with the harping on people's number of postings? Not everybody is a 'poster' -- in fact, if everyone were, "the blue" would get so cluttered that the Defenders Of MetaFilter would rise up in a unison wail. You seem to be sayign that we have no right to criticise posts unless we've made them. That would be both silly and elitist, and i'd feel obliged to get out my spanking pillow.

This was, by any of the usually expressed standards of "the blue", a crappy post. It's content was entirely contained in the post, and was in that only there implicitly; it consisted entirely of broken links; it was self-indulgent, and contributed nothing to our understanding of anything; and none of the links would have been good links, even if they hadn't been broken.

THIS is the post that dios and the other MeFi Defenders should be harping about , not the Monbiot "repost" on secularism and evil.
posted by lodurr at 7:28 AM on November 10, 2005

it consisted entirely of broken links;
No, it didn't.
posted by raedyn at 11:26 AM on November 10, 2005