So I saw this SEO copywriter joke a bunch of times yesterday. I love it: “So this SEO copywriter walks into a bar, grill, pub, public house, Irish bar, bartender, drinks, beer, wine, liquor” (If you don’t know what SEO copywriting is, it means writing with specific keywords in certain orders to help sites rank [...]
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I worry I enjoy ambiguity, irony, “meta” and satire a little too much. I’m worried my last post about copyright laws might seem too resentful (it is somewhat resentful — regretfully) because I genuinely sympathize with all sides. In the case of copyright, I appreciate the economic [and social!] stability it enables, and I want [...]
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Whenever I do a ‘humour’ post like my last one I worry for a moment about whether people will continue to take me seriously. Usually I overcome those reservations with the thought that anyone who would dismiss me for being funny (I mean, for trying to be funny) aren’t the people I’d appeal to anyways. [...]
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Buridan’s ass is a figurative description of a man of indecision. It refers to a paradoxical situation wherein an ass, placed exactly in the middle between two stacks of hay of equal size and quality, will starve to death since it cannot make any rational decision to start eating one rather than the other. The paradox is named after [...]
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It’s becoming apparent that my video persona is incurably idiotic – perhaps to compensate for the over-seriousness of my writing… Or maybe it’s simply the idiocy of my non-writing persona (i.e. the real me). MPG
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by Brian on 02-09-2009
in art
That’s right: it’s time for some social media fun! This is where the proprietor of a website solicits participation from the crowd, preferably in a way that’s both reality-based and irreverant. So here it is… As you can see on the immediate right, I – that’s me in the picture, btw – I have a bandage on my face. If [...]
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