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Brand Tags
Tag a brand/logo and see what others have tagged it. Because "whatever it is they say a brand is, is what it is", depending on what your meaning of is is, I guess. Or
play the reverse tag game and identify brands by their tags.
And now, there's
Celeb Tags!
This will not wendell.
posted to MetaFilter by wendell
at 4:43 PM on May 11, 2008
(38 comments)
"Only Nixon could go to China," and only
ex-Republican ex-Senator Lincoln Chafee can explain how George W. Bush set out "to preempt the Congress... on every issue", "turned his back on (his) bedrock campaign pledges", and become simultaneously America's most powerful and least popular President (and why there could never be a "surely this..." moment). NOT just another OMGBUSH commentary, this should be required reading for anybody who
honestly wants to know what went wrong.
posted to MetaFilter by wendell
at 11:59 AM on May 2, 2008
(46 comments)
Craig ("Who?") Ferguson at the White House Correspondents Dinner:
Part 1,
Part 2, and
Part 3. (it's a Three-Link YouTube Post!) Not as pointed as Colbert but lots of funny and acouple moments of OMG. SOME JOKE SPOILERS WITHIN...
posted to MetaFilter by wendell
at 10:47 PM on April 27, 2008
(33 comments)
The Drug Addiction Paradox
"The plants should never have developed toxins that reward animals for eating them, and humans should never have developed a reward mechanism for toxic plants"... De-evolution or Idiotic Design?
posted to MetaFilter by wendell
at 3:30 AM on April 17, 2008
(65 comments)
Enough bad news, enough gloom and doom. You remember that
Asteroid 99942 Apophis that we were afraid might hit Earth in 2029? Ain't gonna happen. But it will get close enough for Earth's gravity to alter its orbit and there's a chance it could hit the next time around in 2036.
But only a tiny chance: "
less than 1 in 45,000 using standard dynamical models". according to NASA. Oh wait... NASA just got
skooled by a 13-year-old German Astronomy Geek who says the chances are more like
1 in 450. Still a tiny chance, and the official numbers were only off
by a factor of 100. Oh yeah, we're doomed.
posted to MetaFilter by wendell
at 12:55 AM on April 16, 2008
(60 comments)
The Rather Difficult Font Quiz
Do you know your Birch from your Bembo from your Bauer Bodini (Hey! Where's Bookman?) At the moment, 34 fonts to identify with more coming soon. A fun way to spend 2-3 minutes and learn just how much a font nerd you really are. (I only got 25 out of 34? I'm ashamed!)
posted to MetaFilter by wendell
at 5:09 AM on April 14, 2008
(39 comments)
If you love the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (and who in their right mind doesn't?) and enjoyed the Japanese version of Smoke on the Water, you might just barely tolerate
this.
Warning: contains five minutes of repackaged progressivepretentious rock and images of cello-based dorkiness. I gave it 98/100.
posted to MetaFilter by wendell
at 1:46 AM on April 13, 2008
(26 comments)
Typematching:
Can Mistral find love with Papyrus? Who cares? Scroll down to find out which of these 6 stereotypical fonts is
your type...
"But...but... I can't be Comic Sans!!!"
posted to MetaFilter by wendell
at 8:59 PM on March 13, 2008
(47 comments)
Got Questions About the News? Ask AP (Associated Press)
All you have to do is "send your questions to newsquestions(at)ap.org, with "Ask AP" in the subject line. Then keep an eye out for installments of the new Q&A column, where you'll finally get some answers"... maybe... if they feel like it. Instant Analysis: No threat to Ask Metafilter.
posted to MetaFilter by wendell
at 7:40 PM on January 10, 2008
(13 comments)
10cc was
NOT "The Worst Band in the World", but they played one on TV. And just about every song they recorded that
didn't have 'Love' in the title (
"I'm Not in..."), tested the limits of '70s Pop Music Oddness, starting with the stand-up/sit-down/doo-wop
"Donna" (sitting by the telephone).
posted to MetaFilter by wendell
at 4:34 PM on January 9, 2008
(46 comments)
Happy Introvert Day
A Single-Link Op-Ed because... well, this link would just like to be alone, OK?
posted to MetaFilter by wendell
at 1:45 PM on January 2, 2008
(72 comments)
"This year, in a gesture of humanitarian relief, the (Lake Superior State University Banished Words) committee restores "truthiness," banned on last year's list, to formal use.
This comes after comedians and late-night hosts were thrown under the bus and rendered speechless by a nationwide professional writers' strike. The silence is deafening."Of course, "
(thrown) under the bus"* is on this year's Banished List, along with "
perfect storm", "
webinar"*, "
waterboarding", "
post-9/11", "
wordsmith", "
back in the day", "
surge", "
x is the new y", "
give back" and other seemingly "
random" words and phrases.
*One of the requirements for a Banished Word or Phrase is that it has been used as a title for a Blogspot or Typepad blog.
posted to MetaFilter by wendell
at 11:42 AM on January 1, 2008
(102 comments)
NoSo
[embedded audio] is the next stop on the self-referential satire train of Web 2.0.* Going beyond
Useless Account, inspired (kinda) by Flash Mobs, Fight Club ("the first rule..."), and MeFi Meetups, it allows anonymous users the opportunity to organize "NOevents" where members can congregate in selected physical locations
without using their technological connectivity devices and
NOT engage in communication with each other. That's right, no talking allowed at a NOevent. Reading books is OK. You may go home and blog about it, but NO live blogging. Organized by
a San Franciso art group that
may just be using it to get people to show up at their installations (aha!), and who violate the Fight Club rule
in an interview with R.U. Sirius.
(viablame TechCrunch) *Plagiarized with attribution from bhouston.
posted to MetaFilter by wendell
at 5:24 PM on August 27, 2007
(11 comments)
If you enjoyed
Supermarket 2.0, you'll love
brgr, aka
Burger 2.0! Yes, it's your basic "if your hamburger were like a website/web celebrity/software product/tech company/buzzword" schtick, but
some of them are funny. My faves [inside].
posted to MetaFilter by wendell
at 5:01 PM on August 26, 2007
(14 comments)
The Official Berkeley Breathed Website
[warning: ComicSans] announced that the weekly
"Opus" comics for August 26th AND September 2nd*
"have been withheld from publication by a large number of client newspapers across the country, including Opus' host paper The Washington Post." The reason? Making jokes aout Islam. And just the week before, Opus was thoroughly ridiculing
the late Jerry Falwell. BB recommends catching his missing strips in
the Salon.com comics section. But it being the Internet, somebody has already found and posted
tomorrow's "Opus". Let's hear it for Fatima Struggle!!!
Berkeley Breathed is no stranger to controversy. Even his latest children's book, "Mars Needs Moms", was declared "Politically Incorrect". He is no stranger to me, either, although my last email exchange with him was over 3 years ago and I had nothing to do with this recent interview at MSNBC.com.
*Comic strip trivia: Most newspapers have their Sunday comics printed weeks in advance; that's why Kudzu ran Sunday strips two weeks after the dailies ended when Doug Marlette died.
posted to MetaFilter by wendell
at 4:43 PM on August 25, 2007
(48 comments)
In honor of the 8th Anniversary of MetaFilter, here are 8 YouTube links to...
CAT SCANS
Oh, what heck, here are 8 more...
LOL SCANS
posted to MetaFilter by wendell
at 12:00 AM on July 14, 2007
(23 comments)
Hundreds of 'new' words in the new edition of the Collins English Dictionary
(Reuters story), also via
BBC,
AP and
the Fox Television Stations (headline with no story, surprising since its publisher is another Rupert Murdoch subsidiary... but I digress). Some are obvious: hoodie, wiki, POTUS, plasma screen; some reflect our times: Gitmo, Londonistan, extraordinary rendition, carbon footprint; some are absolutely slangy: celebutante, McMansion, muffin top, man bag, disemvowel, barbecue stopper, girlfriend experience... Also in the book: ho. And not the version Santa Claus says. The new dictionary is available
"online, on mobiles, as a desktop application or integrated with Microsoft Word" - when you buy the deadtree edition.
posted to MetaFilter by wendell
at 1:04 PM on June 4, 2007
(22 comments)
Bud BlueBlew It
With a typically punny Hollywood Reporter headline, the news is out that Anheuser-Busch's new video site with Original Content (launched during the Super Bowl, naturally) is not nearly as popular as expected. The promoters blame the registration/age-verification requirement for discouraging users (noted
here earlier today), but
21 State Attorneys General say it's not discouraging enough.
But is the content any good? Here are
a couple reviews.
No, I didn't link or even mention the site's obvious address. I don't want anybody to think I actually encourage stuff like this ;)
posted to MetaFilter by wendell
at 2:53 PM on March 18, 2007
(23 comments)
Shut Up Tape
It's what all the fashionable abusers are putting over their spouses' mouths these days. Of course, there are more socially acceptable uses, like in movie theaters or anywhere cell phones are overused. And police departments are buying it by the case for crowd control. Don't put guests with opposing viewpoints on your talk show without it!
posted to MetaFilter by wendell
at 4:51 AM on March 17, 2007
(37 comments)
Remember today as the day that Blogging jumped into the shark's mouth.
Spam blogs,
fake blogs,
celeblogs,
fake celeblogs,
moblogs, miliblogs,
lawblogs, catblogs,
dogblogs*, everybody's got a blog and if they use
WordPress, it came with a prepackaged post and comment from
"Mr. WordPress". Well, the inevitable has happened.
Mrs. WordPress has a blog.**
*because on the internet, no one knows you're a dog unless you tell them
**and based on the picture on the front page, Mr. WP's first name may be Waldo
posted to MetaFilter by wendell
at 5:52 PM on February 16, 2007
(21 comments)
Truthiness Makes the Trifecta!
As I predicted, the
Classic Colbertism that won two Word of the Year awards has made it onto the
32nd L.S.S.U. List of Words and Phrases Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness.
Other linguistic losers for 2007:
"Awesome",
"Gitmo",
"chipotle",
"undocumented alien*",
"pwn",
"search**" (effectively replaced by Google),
"gone missing",
"gone bad" (applied to things already bad, i.e. 'drug deal gone bad'),
"ask your doctor***",
"now playing in
theaters" (Dept. of Redundancy Dept.) and
"healthy food" (
healthful is healthier), as well as shorthand couple names like
"TomKat" (Would Bogart and Bacall have been
"BogCall"?),
"i-anything" (lucky for Apple they didn't get that 'iPhone' trademark), men saying "
we're pregnant" and
"boasts", as in 'boasts
amenities'. (
Previously)
posted to MetaFilter by wendell
at 1:13 PM on December 31, 2006
(65 comments)