MeFi post: Boing Boing Finds 21st Century Trotsky?

Ppl cn d wht thy lk, bt t th xtnt tht wht yr dvctng pprchs grfng, pls dn't. N mf-vs-Thm brnstrmng, pls.

Let's barnstorm them! Who's with me?
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 2:48 PM on June 30, 2008

(we *are* referring to that hymen barn, right?)
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 2:53 PM on June 30, 2008

masturbatory circle jerks

was that a tautological repetition of the same thing?
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 4:18 PM on June 30, 2008

So circle jerks may leave you more radiant.

And they're always preferable to love triangles.
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 4:33 PM on June 30, 2008

I'll be disappointed if this turns out to be just Violet Blue Blue.
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 7:14 PM on June 30, 2008

(but I'll be impressed if it turns into a violent blue)
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 7:16 PM on June 30, 2008

By command of His Most Merciful Excellency, your lives are to be spared.

crowd: WEWEASE QWONSAW!!!
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 7:25 PM on June 30, 2008

Well, it's the most interesting thing on the site for years, so who would blame them?
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 3:41 AM on July 1, 2008

(i mean, the R was broken on the keyboard when they registered their domain name, right?)
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 3:43 AM on July 1, 2008

Broing Broing.net is currently down for the count.

In the meantime, may we suggest:
Boing Boing.net
The New York Times

Oh, NYT, how shameful of you!
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 4:00 AM on July 1, 2008

Too good not to repost from the Making Light fustercluck

Is that something I'd need to care about - let alone have heard of - to understand?
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 5:49 AM on July 1, 2008

I know it's running with their motto and perhaps that simply lead to some shoehorning of a less-than-perfect phrase into a pithy rhetorical thrust

In what sense could anybody use BB as a directory, anyway? The motto itself is far more figurative than literal in the first place, and less than perfect for describing what the place is about at all.
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 10:35 AM on July 1, 2008

stfu, Artw.
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 10:37 AM on July 1, 2008

^that was supposed to be some kind of play on "ppl can be too shy to comment for fear of being attacked"
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 10:40 AM on July 1, 2008

And they accuse us of being low-class?

I considered commenting in that ML thread, but the comments were so voluble & aggressive, and so full of ad-hominems that I was too intimidated to join that cut-and-thrust.

Best to stick around here where it's safer & less arrogant, preachy & elitist.

On the other hand, this sentiment sounds like a great way to help the shy find their... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 3:06 PM on July 1, 2008

Anyone who thought the BoingBoing of 2008 was the BoingBoing of 2002 missed an awful lot of examples why this wasn't the case. It was a fun place to read for a while. Here's hoping the next big junk drawer blog doesn't go downhill so quickly.

Hear, hear. Once upon a time it was a site that - like MeFi - could be relied upon for digging up a day's worth of quirky links to read.

Then it degenerated into something extremely... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 4:44 PM on July 1, 2008

man alive, if teresa nielsen-hayden's comment has anything to teach us, it's that we should be happy and proud to have jessamyn and cortex.

What? I thought we were already.

*pockets one get-out-of-jail-free card*
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 6:09 PM on July 1, 2008

Well, if they're talking about Xeni, she has always been at war with Censorstan.
posted by wonderemptyperson at 12:36 PM on July 2 [8,972 favorites +] [!]
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 6:22 PM on July 1, 2008

the discussion and core community is like a pack of marauding, shrill seagulls descending upon a sole chip.

hey, there's a chip on that guy's shoulder! back off, i saw it first!

*squawks raucously*

oh - there's a longboat! think i'll follow it for a while...

*veers off towards longboat, poops on boingboing in passing*
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 7:21 PM on July 1, 2008

What's interesting is that there seems to be a day/night pattern here. Lots of snark during the 'day' and lots of more reasonable discussion at 'night'.

Remember that we're not all in the same timezone.

Assuming that 'day' = US day:

Day pattern: USians & Canadians mostly at work; less time to read, digest & comment in a way that leads to 'reasonable discussion'. Hence, a lot of one-line snark... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 11:02 PM on July 1, 2008

the output of Boing Boing is of higher value than just about anything I see from just about anywhere else that employs that few people for that small of a budget and that size of output.

that makes total sense, if your pigeon is DRM, things made of Legos, Cory's novel, and nothing much of interest otherwise, other than web phenomena that you'll see elsewhere, a week or two earlier. as i and several others argued earlier, BB ceased being interesting... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 7:48 AM on July 2, 2008

you missed one, j. ^

also, i was only riffing. i honestly have no idea what xeni looks like.

*this comment will self-delete in one minute*
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 5:52 PM on July 2, 2008

It's offensive to the robot kind.
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 12:09 AM on July 4, 2008

did that really take you more than 18 minutes to type, wendell?
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 12:30 AM on July 4, 2008

has the government issued our jetpacks yet where you are, dersins?
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 2:38 AM on July 4, 2008

wait, i'm across the international date line. those jetpacks were issued *yesterday* plus nineteen minutes ago. *FUCK* they'll be out of stock by now!
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 3:23 AM on July 4, 2008

Hitler Kitten.
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 5:35 AM on July 4, 2008

ah, so they're not robots or andoids at all, but shapeshifting aliens?
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 12:49 PM on July 5, 2008

apparently her loose tongue is what kicked all this off

heh.
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 12:50 PM on July 5, 2008

MeFi post: I Never Drink Water, Fish F**K In It

How is bottled water any more stupid than the caffeinated, carbonated, sugar water that we've been happily guzzling?

It's not. Both are equally fucking ridiculous.
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 11:47 AM on July 5, 2008

MeFi post: Being slightly evil ensures a prolific sex life

wow. as soon as this thread got framed in terms of "nice guys" v "jerks" it turned into the bizarrest mishmash of projections, strawmen & pop psychology, highschool gripes & stereotypes. thanks to kyrademon for returning a little sanity to the proceedings.
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 9:17 PM on July 3, 2008

hehe - next song up on shuffle after i posted that comment was Nick Cave & Grinderman: The No Pussy Blues.

My face is finished, my body's gone.
And I can't help but think standin' up here in all this applause and gazin' down at all the young and the beautiful.
With their questioning eyes.
That I must above all things love myself.

I saw a girl in the crowd,
I ran over I shouted... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 9:23 PM on July 3, 2008

Hm, I recall that I was never without a pretty girlfriend and even had reserves queueing up in the wings when I was an incredibly arrogant, generally emotionally distant & uncommunicative bastard.

These days I like to think I'm reasonably emotionally balanced, communicative & considerate (whatever you call it when you mature a lot, without resorting to the "nice" label), and the interest from women seems much fewer & further between.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 12:18 AM on July 4, 2008

MeFi post: iPhone 2.0

If I was running that phone company, I'd try to build the cost of the iphone into the plan somehow.
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 10:39 PM on July 3, 2008

MeFi post: Bozo the Clown dead at 83

:O(
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 4:47 PM on July 3, 2008

MeFi post: "Why not put the girls to work?"

Isn't that a corset?
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 3:32 PM on July 2, 2008

I like how the author of the second link seeks the advice of a certain Professor Wang.
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 3:46 PM on July 2, 2008

(and just to raise the fark level a bit, why have they ignored the obvious - wind powered underpants?)
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 4:11 PM on July 2, 2008

That's not the point, unless somebody harnesses and taps you.
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 8:32 PM on July 2, 2008

MeFi post: Are you a witch, or are you a fairy, or are you the wife of myself, Michael Cleary?

Sounds a lot like a schizophrenic or psychotic delusion.

There's even a clinical name for it: the Capgras Delusion.
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 8:59 PM on July 1, 2008

Hm, interesting point.

I am not a psychiatrist, but there's one in the Wikipedia article in which a woman thought her husband had been replaced by a clone / impostor / android / shapeshifting cuttlefish, but he was the only member of her family who she felt had been replaced.
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 3:21 PM on July 2, 2008

orthogonality: maybe try Merrin & Silderfarb: "The Capgras Phenomenon", Archives of General Psychiatry, v33, 1976, pp965-8 for a husband-only Capgras presentation.

(excerpted in Antonio Melechi: Fugitive Minds (on Madness, Sleep and other Twilight Afflictions), p69)
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 7:26 PM on July 2, 2008

MeFi post: Now, here's the way I work...

this Dmipshit dosen't concern me. I was more responding to the whole 'manipulation in the name of getting laid! Gasp! Horrors!' I was hearing here. We're all adults, I think we realize that very few people are innocent on that score.

i hear you, jonmc. in fact, i've lost count of the number of times women have approached me, said what a catch they were - astrophysics phds and all - told me i was specially sought out because of my macho gait, then... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 4:03 AM on June 29, 2008

It would have to come down to the intentions of the particular guy, P.oB. I can see truth in what you say; I just think I'm describing the cynical end of the spectrum, whereas you're talking about the hopeful end.

It might be the difference between the pickup as an and in itself, as opposed to being a means to an end (ie becoming more comfortable, with a relationship possibly in mind), respectively.
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 2:06 PM on June 29, 2008

While men reported feeling more content, sexually satisfied and confident after meaningless sex, women were more likely to worry about feeling used and "letting themselves down".

Some of the their reasons for the encounters were because they felt there was the possibility of a longer term relationship.

Which is exactly why I feel that many of these PUAs & their followers are probably acting unethically. If... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 8:18 PM on June 29, 2008

"In any interaction, there are at least six people involved: each person as they see themselves; each person as the other sees them; and each person as they really are"
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 10:13 PM on June 30, 2008

Thanks for that, LordSludge. Your comment added some much-needed balance to my perceptions of the PUA guys. Especially this bit:

Good "pickup" should be a positive experience for everybody involved. It should be two people meeting, clicking on a deep emotional level, and... whatever from there, whether a hawt one night stand or a cute story of How I Met Your Mother. If it's a negative experience for the woman, there's something wrong with the PUA's approach.
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 11:32 PM on July 1, 2008

MeFi post: Viking invasion ends

The Sea Stallion From Glendalough? The name alone would have caused their enemies to die from sheer terror.
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 11:57 PM on June 30, 2008

MeFi post: A History of Techno

I guess if you wanted to go out & buy yourself 25 generally decent & listenable electronic albums, this list wouldn't be so bad as an introduction to the genre.

However, if it's supposed to represent the most 'important' albums, I'd expect less of the late 90s & much more of the 70s & early 80s, and more of the European acts who really kicked things off, not the big British dance groups who capitalised on the groundbreakers.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 6:15 PM on June 29, 2008

I have the time and energy to snark on this (admitedly shite) list of 25 'electronic' artists, but not to produce a similar list myself.

well, fuck. when i have a paid job as a music journalist, maybe i'll spend an hour or two putting together a list like this, but until then, what's my incentive? being thrown to the snarks?
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 4:41 AM on June 30, 2008

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