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25Jun/090

Michael Bay Facts

Michael Bay

Awesome.

It seems a successor to the ubiquitous Chuck Norris Facts meme has arisen. The target? Action movie director Michael Bay.

In the wake of the new Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie a stream of Michael Bay Facts has been pouring out of twitter, and as with Chuck Norris Facts, most are hysterical.

Since Michael Bay Facts mock their target rather than revere him (he really is a shitty director, though I loved Transformers: ROTF), and since Michael Bay will never be bad-ass like Chuck Norris, I'm sure this meme will be quite short lived. With that in mind, get them while the getting is good. I see io9 has posted some of their favorites, and I'd like to do the same.

11Jun/096

Why Facebook Steals Potential Tweeters

I had a brief little convo. with my bff John Nels (who's an excellent musician: johnnels.sad-machine.com) about Twitter and facebook. Rather than summarize I'll just paste it here:

Thomas: Its funny, people complain about twitter being pointless, but I have SO MANY people on facebook that update just as if it were twitter, all day long
John: i know
Thomas: they're twittering without twitter basically lol
John: but the do more on facebook
Thomas: yeah. its cause they're already on facebook doing tons of shit; playing games and stuff
John: right
Thomas: that was a brilliant move on facebook's part
John: why do it on a site that just does updates then?
Thomas: exactly. They make twitter obsolete for lots of people.

What do you guys/gals think? Amirite?

25Apr/081

ROFLCON: Lulz From Afar

ZOMG TEH HAX0RZ!!!1

If you're like me... then you really need some help, dude. But kidding and warped sense of humor aside, if you're like me then you a) love internet memes, and b) cannot make it to ROFLCON 2008 *ARRGGG*!

Fear not, dear friends, for you needn't An Hero nor sit at home alone in the dark all weekend. Instead, you can sit at home alone on the internet, watching live footage and updates and picture from ROFLCON all weekend!!!1SHIFT How fun?

Sauces include live video from ustream, a flickr pool, twitters, and bright kite. So as not to whore out other's hard work, go to roflcon.org for the links to these delicious little media morsels.

I'll be on most of these services as euicho, on and off over the weekend. If you see me on there, say hi!

14Nov/070

Twoosh Spotter: A Greasemonkey Script


EDIT (10/6/2009): Twoosh Spotter is now up to v2.0. I've fixed it so that the tweets shown after hitting the "more" button get checked for twooshes, and also fixed a bug where "&" was converted to "& a m p ;" and counted as 4 characters instead of 1.

I recently came across a new portmanteau on Twitter called a "twoosh" (TWitter swOOSH)!

Coined by rentzsch, A twoosh is a twitter that hits the 140 character limit exactly on the nose. This is just one of those fun little oddities that people like to play with, but unless the poster follows up their twoosh with another post pointing it out, the twoosh goes unnoticed by all but the equally twoosh endeared... and those with OCD.

5Feb/071

Knowledge Is Only a Few Clicks Away

The internet is truly amazing. Check this out:

I was on twitter and read the following on the public timeline (a list of all public updates):

"the song 'so much' by spill canvas is amazing"

I thought to myself, "I wonder what that song sounds like."