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September 11, 2006 4:12 PM   Subscribe

Things are good.
posted by Melinika (27 comments total)
 
Via, ironically, This is Broken.
posted by Melinika at 4:13 PM on September 11, 2006


See, I had heard that they're bad.
posted by padraigin at 4:17 PM on September 11, 2006


gag
posted by Flashman at 4:20 PM on September 11, 2006


[this is good]
posted by loquacious at 4:20 PM on September 11, 2006


Things I hate.
posted by Effigy2000 at 4:24 PM on September 11, 2006


much better than this
posted by bob sarabia at 4:26 PM on September 11, 2006


"show your support by wearing a blue hat!"

that was worth crashing firefox.
posted by Citizen Premier at 4:29 PM on September 11, 2006



posted by monosyllabic at 4:53 PM on September 11, 2006


Questions from the "dropping knowledge" post, where top global minds converge to answer posted questions:
“why is clean water more expensive than gasoline in many countries?” joshua dharma , 34, suratthani, Thailand

“Self serving global corporations are not held accountable in any real sense of the word for their actions, how can this be changed? ”

Good question....
posted by uni verse at 4:57 PM on September 11, 2006


"Via, ironically, This is Broken."

Why ironically? Maybe it's good that it's broken.
posted by Second Account For Making Jokey Comments at 5:01 PM on September 11, 2006


Hooray For Everything!
posted by kimota at 5:03 PM on September 11, 2006


Should it not be, though, grammatically: "Ironically, via ThisisBroken?"
posted by DenOfSizer at 5:03 PM on September 11, 2006


i like it..thanks mel : >

It really is up to us make things good--primaries are occurring all over the country as i type and there's an election in Nov--keep it in mind.
posted by amberglow at 5:16 PM on September 11, 2006


Today’s good news about Darfur comes from people wanting to help the region through action. Show your support online by wearing a blue hat!

I wore a blue hat today, and I didn't even realize I was helping Darfur! What is this all about, now?
posted by languagehat at 5:43 PM on September 11, 2006


Happy News
posted by euphorb at 5:52 PM on September 11, 2006


Show your support online by wearing a blue hat!

On the internet, nobody knows you're wearing a blue hat.
posted by padraigin at 5:54 PM on September 11, 2006


*runs off to buy thingsarekindameh.com*
posted by Cyrano at 5:59 PM on September 11, 2006


Broken.
posted by Joseph Gurl at 6:50 PM on September 11, 2006


PHP is no good.
posted by IshmaelGraves at 6:56 PM on September 11, 2006


uni verse, thanks for pointing out that post. I thought that the concept sounded fantastic, so I went to check it out. Here's a direct link.

I think that the idea really holds a lot of promise, but is unfortunately held back by the clunky and hard to navigate site. There really needs to be someplace where people can not only ask these questions, but actually receive answers on the small things we can do to alleviate some of these issues.

It's also slightly misleading, as the Things are Good post (which is broken at the moment, so can't double check it) makes it sound like users ask questions to people that are currently involved in the various fields, but it seems as if anyone who signs up can answer, which makes it more like a specifically focused AskMe.

...okay, after poking around the news portion of the site, it seems that they held an event in Berlin, in which they asked 112 people to answer 100 questions, and then opened it up to the people on the website. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find any sort of transcript to the event... but since it was only held 2 days ago there may not be one yet. The site definitely needs some usability checks, which hopefully will happen as the content seems to be good.
posted by wander at 7:37 PM on September 11, 2006


aside from wearing a blue hat, I am happy to see this site . Snarking is a lot easier than trying to make things better, to state the obvious.
posted by kozad at 8:39 PM on September 11, 2006


It is simultaneously ironic and not ironic that the link www.thislinkisbroken.com doesn't work.
posted by Citizen Premier at 9:07 PM on September 11, 2006


And irony of ironies, I forgot to make that a link^
posted by Citizen Premier at 9:07 PM on September 11, 2006


Hurrah, it's working again!

Things are good!
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 9:34 AM on September 12, 2006


Nope.
posted by Greg Nog at 8:06 PM EST on September 11 [+] [!]

Well, stylistically, it should be.
posted by DenOfSizer at 11:35 AM on September 12, 2006


BAH! Thank you. This is going to melt our servers...
posted by generichuman at 2:27 PM on September 12, 2006


Is there anybody daring enough to post a whole lotta nothing?
posted by grateful at 11:45 AM on September 14, 2006


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