9 month ago
jcgregorio : Dean Edwards: Using Google To Serve Faster JavaScript - "While I’d love to be able to leverage Google’s bandwidth and the increase in simultaneous http requests to my client’s browsers, I still prefer the security of knowing where my data is (and having the only key)." Says the commenter with a
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12 month ago
gleuschk : Urban Legends Reference Pages: Spiders Swallowed Per Year - factoid made up to demonstrate the point that people will believe anything they read on the web ... is almost universally believed beacuse people read it on the web
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14 month ago
Rod Begbie : I Heart Irony - Adult Shirts - Glarkware - I saw someone wearing this shirt last night, My reaction was "I've no idea what it actually means, but I *know* I need to own one." #
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17 month ago
nelson : Irony is over - Vietnam vet gives his Purple Heart to George W. Bush, to honor the president's emotional wounds
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17 month ago
jcgregorio : Re: Slug header encoding - """# Sorry, I don't know how to write "o:" character to this mail."""
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Rod Begbie : Lines From Alanis Morissette's "Ironic," Modified to Actually Make them Ironic - "An old man turned ninety-eight. He won the lottery and died the next day... of chronic emphysema from inhalation of the latex particles scratched off decades' worth of lottery tickets." [via] #
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22 month ago
43folders : Sarcasm mark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Text-only ways to indicate sarcasm and snark. Cf: the French "point d’ironie" (Is there really such a thing?)
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27 month ago
kellan : Merlin's search for the perfect apostrophe. Next up "Procrastination Hacks". - I'd have never noticed the apostrophe, and Jazz would never have stopped until she found the right one. #
jcgregorio : The Perfect Apostrophe on Odeo - How merlin never wrote an O'Reilly Hacks book on productivity.
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30 month ago
jimray : The Real Paul Jones » Geek Irony at NewsWeek - Rad
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41 month ago
jimray : Bush Backer Sues RNC Over 'W' Logo - See, that's what happens when your base is a bunch of money grubbing assholes
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44 month ago
Andy Baio : Patrick Hayden criticizes Boing Boing's "Copyright Communist" parody propaganda - outstanding comments by Cory Doctorow, Charlie Stross, and more [via] [via]
deusx : Electrolite: Memo to Planet BoingBoing. - "The bad guys? basic strategy is to portray themselves as defending the status quo while in fact effecting a revolutionary change."
kellan : Yet more "Think like Gramsci, talk like Debs" advice. - Make sure to read great comments from Doctrow and Stross #
plasticbag : A discussion of the political effects of the Photoshopped "Creative Commons" responses to Bill Gates comparing Creative Commons to Communism... - "The bad guys? basic strategy is to portray themselves as defending the status quo while in fact effecting a revolutionary change. When you, their opponents, allow yourself to be defined as the alien, you?re doing exactly what they want you to do, and
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Charles Miller : Shatner Has Been - William Shatner's new album, Has Been, sounds great! (via boing boing.)
cameron : WILLIAM SHATNER HAS BEEN
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