Yearly Archives: 2010

Heavy:Weight::Dense:Deight?

After reviewing the comments on my post about the opposite of the word dense, I began to think more about the possibility of a word like weight to describe the spectrum dense <=> rare. (Weight, of course, describes heavy <=> light.) It occurred to me that dense is probably a latinate word while weight should come [...]

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Wheel of Fortune Before & After Rejects

I don’t know at what point I should consider this embarrassing and stop posting my rejected McSweeney’s lists, but I guess I’m not there yet. Rejected Wheel of Fortune “Before and After” Puzzles LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON OF SAM UNDER THE BOARDWALK OF SHAME YOUR MOTHER IS SO FAT THAT WHEN I SAY SHE SITS [...]

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Giving a Shit About Cheap Shots in the NFL

In response to Drew Magary’s assertion that “No One Gives a Shit About Cheap Shots”: Magary’s obviously wrong to think this was just one weekend of hits followed by some out-of-the-blue media shitstorm. Coverage has been steadily increasing for years, especially this past year, when I’ve read about the issue in the New Yorker, the [...]

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A Like-Button List

Had another list rejected by McSweeney’s, but I like this one enough to show you the whole thing. Without further ado: What I Might Mean When I Click the Like Button Next to Your Comment on My Facebook Status Update I like your comment. I like you, though your comment leaves me disinterested. I like [...]

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How to be Evil: A Lesson from Google on Non-Transparency

For having released a policy proposal (jointly, with Verizon) that pushes transparency as a key element of Internet access, Google’s certainly acting shady on its public policy blog. For starters, Google’s recap mentions only one tiny piece of the spooky Network Management section of the proposal at all. The section includes the monstrous sentence below, [...]

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