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From a CNet story about blogs at the nominating conventions:
“You’ve got to closely watch what they do,” a political consultant recently told me, adding that campaigns can’t afford to adopt a casual approach to blogs that pop up during races. “Some of them are really crazy.”
Oooh! Oooh! Miiiiister Kottah!
Sorry, I was introspecting and taking a Horshack test, and I saw in it that I am one of the crazy bloggers.
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Looks like some punk has exercised his first amendment rights to expression through vandalism on Hugh Hewitt.com:
Isn’t that little bastard precocious? Unfortunately, there are some segments of society who would see this as a justifiable protest.
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Pop-Up Mocker updated. Come on, guys, sometimes the posts are kinda amusing, ainna?
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I can’t believe I read skimmed the whole thing.
I bought this book at Downtown Books in Milwaukee for a couple of dollars, and I took a flier on it because I was in the throes of bibliophilic bacchanal, where another two dollars here and another two dollars there, and suddenly there’s no room in the trunk of the Eclipse for luggage. So I paid $2.95 for this, over ten times its value.
For starters, it’s printed in some comic sans serif font that looks funny informally, is bearable in short doses on the Web, and annoys the hell out of someone trying to read 200 pages of a computerized impersonation of barely-legible handwriting.
Also, its cartoons and cartoonish drawings by a slumming Bruce Tinsley (Mallard Fillmore) are derivative, ultimately limited by the material itself which is centered around the fictitious online journal of “Bill G.” who writes a computer friend who’s supposed to go out into the Internet to find who the best geek is. Or something. I’m not to clear on what’s supposed to tie this collection together.
I mean, there are sections where Bill Clinton is learning from Dale Carnegeek about how to influence geeks, and a section about how to date geeks, and throughout the book asks the reader to tabulate his or her geek quotient through a series of questions. So each chapter revolves around a macro-question and its component subquestions, which appear at the top of each page or so, and meanwhile the chapter is some banter or running storyline about Dilbart (a cartoon cross between Dilbert and Bart, for no particular reason) or Bill G. interacting with his computer bot friend, or the computer bot exploring the Internet cloud.
When it comes right down to it, there’s nothing funny in the book. Not a single chuckle, no matter what state of inebriation I was in while reading it.
I am sure it was hipper, edgier, and more timely in 1997, when the publisher could make a buck on anything with Internet in the title, or geek.
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Funny, Frank Herbert, J.R.R. Tolkien, and R.A. Salvatore don’t suffer from the literary persecution John Norman does. Here’s section 8d of BraveNet’s terms of service:
(d) Associate Bravenet and any Products and Services with any adult material of any sort. This includes, but is not limited to, such things as nudity, any site, page, image or service requiring any adult verification service, anything that users to be 18 or older to view or join or access, and any text, image or likeness suggesting sexual and/or inappropriate and/or illegal acts of any sort. Without limiting the foregoing, you may not use the Products and Services to store, use, contain or display pornography, adult novelties, adult toys, XXX material, escort services, Gorean, bondage, BDSM, bigotry, racism, hatred, profanity, or any material which may be insulting to another person(s) or entity;
No Counter-Earth fan pages for you, children.
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Read the new updates to Pop-Up Mocker. It won’t hurt too much.
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Brian J. Noggle, Internet Pin-Up.
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In a post, we see how Kim du Toit fails his test to attain the 9th Dan of Paranoia:
…we Baby Boomers know all the tricks, and I am even more paranoid than Blackfive.
Listen, students, when your shidoshi of paranoia speaks: You never know all the tricks. You are ready ascend when you realize you must know most of the tricks, and you know that anything you do not recognize as a known trick might, in fact, be a trick.
Doubt even this post, my students.
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Belatedly, Michael Williams learns a devastating drawback to blogging:
One of the difficult things about hanging out with people who (occasionally) read your blog is that they’re already familiar with all of your A-list material (and, let’s face it, I use most of my B- through M-list material here, too).
Reminds me of this one time I stood beside a former rugger who was busy popping the heads off of crawdads….
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Examined at Pop-Up Mocker.
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Michelle Malkin has a blog.
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Pop-Up Mocker programming.
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Kelley, who does the Suburban Blight blog, has been posting audio clips.
When the Blog Radio Revolution occurs, listen for her daily show.
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Again. I’ve got nothing better to do than to make fun of pop-up ads. Sad.
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Don’t forget to check out my snarky site devoted to the worship of pop-up ads. If you’re smart and using one of the newer browsers or some other suppressent techologies, this might be the only way you get to see these peculiar forms of art.
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You gentle readers who do not pay much attention to the chatterings of the blogosphere or the might have missed the story of Wankette and Wankienne, two taste-challenged, promiscuious women based in Washington, D.C. One posts semi-obscene, semi-profane gossip nuggets and the other has sex with married men for money and then talks about it. The whole thing turns my stomach, so I’ve tried not to think of it.
So for the uninitiated, read what Michelle Malkin has to say about it to get an inkling of how much the Washington Post and those coastal connected types laud the duo, and keep in mind that when one of these coastal-take-all-comers types claims that people from the middle of the country are overrepresented in the government, whether through Senate representation or the Electoral College system, these women are among those who are purportedly underrepresented.
(Link seen on Nealz Nuze.)
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I got nothing today. Go see what’s new at Pop-Up Mocker, now endorsed by the Marshall (Minnesota) Adult Education program, sorta.
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Well, probably not, but I have updated Pop-Up Mocker.
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A link to a story about a spyware maker whose pop-ups were previously mocked and a new pop-up reviewed. Why don’t you just click this link now: Pop-Up Mocker
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