A Blast From The Past: Ass Chaps Man A piece of classic American Webiana, still hilarious after all these years. Does anyone know of other classic Web pieces that somehow missed the MeFi front page, probably because they were so well known at the time? [
With thanks to quonsar. Safe for work, I'd say, but a close call.]
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Jun 9, 2003 -
23 comments
The Anglosphere: This has been floating vaguely in the memesphere for a year or so, and is ready to pop. Seems we Anglophones are not nations separated by a common language anymore, but "a distinct civilization in [our] own right."
Western in origin but no longer entirely Western in composition and nature, this civilization is marked by a particularly strong civil society, which is the source of its long record of successful constitutional government and economic prosperity. ... [its] continuous leadership of the Scientific-Technological Revolution from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first century stems from these characteristics and is thus likely to continue for the foreseeable future.
It is not, however, a return of " the racialist Anglo-Saxonism dating from the era around 1900" ... he says. The author was
profiled in Industry Standard in August 2001. His company provides "sovereignty services" — i.e., moving wealth offshore.
posted by hairyeyeball
on Apr 12, 2003 -
9 comments
Journalists response to the web wide debate sparked after their
interview with Jamie Kellner CEO of Turner Broadcasting. Where he likened not viewing the adverts to theft.
It's a story I was very interested in and it seems it caused a fair amount of
debate. Other than the
'Osama is evil' explosion what's your favorite meme with legs ?
posted by mrben
on May 30, 2002 -
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All your
desperate to be the next wacky webcraze links are belong to MetaFilter.
posted by Kino
on Jun 21, 2001 -
15 comments
I was reading this article about the
new breed of modern airships when I stumbled over the line "Not your grandfather's airship". That started me off thinking about the "Not your father's X"
meme that's been part of the journalistic background noise for a while now. It seems to me to evoking something oedipal, a male child's revulsion of his father and his father's way of doing things. It's usually juxtaposed against technology or at least things that aren't all that old to begin with. Does anyone know who used it first? A
quick search of Google reveals it in everything from "
Cuba: not your father's stagnant nation" to "
XML: Not your father's HTML". Anyone got any favorites?
posted by lagado
on Jan 4, 2001 -
19 comments
