Bookstore Bingo is apparently a new trend on Twitter where people post some of the silliest things they overhear at bookstores (and libraries?) HuffPost has collected some of the best ones.
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Friday, July 23
Friday Fun Link - Best of Bookstore Bingo: 13 Most Ridiculous Things Overheard in Bookstores (July 23, 2010)
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Jason
on Fri 23 Jul 2010 04:41 PM CST
Thursday, May 20
"Everybody Draw Muhammed" Day
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Jason
on Thu 20 May 2010 07:00 AM CST
Even if you want to make a point about censorship, you can't be too careful on "Everybody Draw Muhammed" Day...
 Wednesday, March 17
I Feel Like A Heineken For Some Reason...
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Jason
on Wed 17 Mar 2010 08:43 PM CST
This clip isn't technically related to St. Paddy's Day but it is a pretty cool little promotional stunt from a company that makes "green" beer so close enough, right?
Wednesday, February 24
FTRW 2010 - ChatRoulette
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Jason
on Wed 24 Feb 2010 08:38 PM CST
It's not book related but nothing says Freedom of Expression like the newest buzz site of the Internet, ChatRoulette. The site is exactly what it says - you hit the site and you see a chat window for yourself and one for a random person somewhere in the world. As soon as you get bored (which is usually fairly quickly - basically as soon as you see the other person's face...or they see yours), you click a button and see someone else. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
(I did it just now and got hung up on about five times in a row, had a brief chat with two guys who were watching the Canada-Russia game and saw one set of fingers making hand puppets. Contrary to my previous experience with web cams way back in the late 1990's - and frankly what I was expecting here - every second person wasn't trying to show me their penis which was nice. Perhaps if I was female?) So it's not all people freely exposing expressing themselves as you might expect - there's humour, love and even puppets! Oh, and you might see the occasional vagina as well. (via MetaFilter) [2010-03-05: The Daily Show adds their hilarious take on ChatRoulette.] [2010-03-15 - Piano Improv ChatRoulette is pretty funny.] Tuesday, October 13
Glenn Beck Rapes and Murders Web Memes
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Jason
on Tue 13 Oct 2009 09:50 PM CST
If you're fortunate enough not to know, Glenn Beck is the latest TV talking head in the US in the Bill O'Reilly/Rush Limbaugh mould (mold?). He's getting a lot of attention recently, posting the largest viewership gains of any cable news host and being the driving force behind the Tea Bag protests ("Hey Bevis, Heh, He said Tea-bagger. Heh-heh. Heh.")
Anyhew, someone decided to turn his "when did you stop beating your wife?" rhetorical style against him by setting up a site called GlennBeckRapedAndMurderedAYoungGirlIn1990.com. This article talks about Beck's attempts to have the site taken down (and why that approach may backfire) as well as providing some deeper thoughts on web memes, trademark law and what is permissible in terms of satire of public figures. Friday, September 11
Friday Fun Link - Funny Facebook Threads (Sept 11, 2009)
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Jason
on Fri 11 Sep 2009 11:23 PM CST
[2009-09-17 - Edit: "b" and "c" aren't that close on the keyboard so I wonder what sort of a Freudian slip it was to type "Facecook" in the subject line of this post originally?]
A minor trend I've noticed lately is people posting screen caps of funny Facebook threads they come across... "Michael Jackson is dead?" "OMG! I HATE MY JOB! My boss is a total pervvy wanker" "Thank-you Michael. I had a great time." (NSFW!!!) Why You Shouldn't Friend Your Parents On Facebook Why You Should Always Log Out of Facebook While At Your Parents' House Why Parents Shouldn't Be Allowed on Facebook in General So stupid... "I split my vag!" (I would hope that the NSFW is self-evident here.) (Hmm, and some surfing around reveals that, of course, there's a whole sub-reddit dedicated to the topic that I'd never seen before!) Wednesday, August 19
"I was in front of him, what happened with my phone?"
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Jason
on Wed 19 Aug 2009 11:34 PM CST
Instead of doing literal translations (word X in English is word Y in some other language), I read somewhere that Google Translations uses its massive processing power to analyze words, phrases and other elements of language in different versions of the same works that are provided on web sites, in scanned poems, essays and books that have multiple translations and so on.
This super-crunching does tend to provide a better "first pass" translation than traditional online word matching techniques. But it's still not perfect. A game that people like to play is to send a phrase into Google Translate and have it returned in another language. Then send it back to the original language. Then repeat this process until the phrase sees no more variations as its passed back and forth. (Here's an automated way to do it using English -> Japanese -> English) And here's an example using a famous Bob Dylan lyric (before you click, can you guess which one just by looking at the subject line of this post?) (via Reddit) Wednesday, August 5
Hitler Finds Out...
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Jason
on Wed 05 Aug 2009 08:45 PM CST
For the last year or so, there's been a web meme going around where people replace the sub-titles in the bunker scene from the German movie "Downfall" with their own interpretation - whether it's "Hitler Finds Out Michael Jackson Died", "Hitler Finds Out The Ending of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" or the following meta-joke, "Hitler Finds Out He's a Joke on YouTube"...
Monday, June 15
Music Monday - "No one can look as good as you/Mercy!
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Jason
on Mon 15 Jun 2009 06:26 PM CST
[Edit: A loyal reader has informed me that edarem, the man who made the video below, is a registered sex offender in two states and has a variety of other creepy habits and histories. That makes this video about a million times creepier if that's possible.]
Seriously, if you scare easy, don't watch this... Friday, February 20
Friday Fun Link - 25 Things I Hate About Facebook (Feb 20, 2009)
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Jason
on Fri 20 Feb 2009 11:29 PM CST
I did a "Seven Things You Don't Know About Me" mini-meme but I haven't succumbed to the pressure to do the full "25 Things" meme that's going around. Apparently neither has this guy...
And you know a meme has jumped the shark when Time magazine is weighing in with their own snark. So there's no way I could do an expanded version now, even if I wanted to. Maybe I'll come back to this in like, eighteen months, with all those trivial stream of consciousness details I know you're all hungering for.  |
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