09
May
i am mashing “Cancel” over and over again, but nothing’s happening
via altlitpressI’ve been storifying up a whole mess of stories on my storify account lately:
- Brendle and Virgil Pitch the History Channel The incomparable Brendle and I draft some reality TV show pitches
- White Wednesday: goofin on bitcoins Just some classic raggin’ on Bitcoins with a bonus exchange between Lowtax and a guy threatening to kill him (with Bitcoins)
- Virgil’s Rules of Order A self-proclaimed “Wikipedian by night” very seriously argues with me over my Air Bud joke about a dog raising a motion under Robert’s Rules of Order.
- Cow Start-ups I write several cheesy taglines and names for start-ups if they catered to cows.
Enjoy!!!
08
May
List Of People And Things Described On Wikipedia As “Surreal Humor”
American Dad!
Dave Chappelle
David Letterman
Demetri Martin
Dennis Miller
Drawn Together
Emo Philips
Family Guy
Futurama
George Carlin
Green Acres
Homestar Runner
Louis CK
Mad TV
Mitch Hedberg
Night Court
No Pants Day
Planet Sheen
Rodney Dangerfield
Sinbad (entertainer)
South Park
The Cleveland Show
The Dennis Miller Show
The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
Will Ferrell
07
May
Twitter gave me $100 in free advertising credits, so I spent them all on this tweet.
This lady responded, and I think that’s wonderful, bless her heart:
06
May
A Twitter follower, @Birdbassador, used my Yelp Post Office reviews in an academic presentation about sentiment analysis “as an example of where the stats make your reviews look ‘normal’ if you don’t let ppl read them.” Apparently, the sentiment analysis robot can’t figure out whether my reviews are positive or negative. In his words: “the subway review in particular is sentiment-wise statistically indistinguishable from the other reviews of that subway.” So basically my dumb Yelp reviews broke a writing analysis robot and made it flail its robot arms around and yell “ERROR ERROR.” Score one for humans!
You can read the Subway review in question here. It’s also still up on Yelp (most of the others were deleted — possibly by angry robots — so I mirrored them all here). You can also check out @birdbassador’s paper “Quantity Estimation in Visualizations of Tagged Text.”
03
May
Some Newsweek writer got really mad and blocked me on Twitter because I called out his bombastic article about him “infiltrating” a bunch of “radical jihadist” Facebook pages. I don’t even think it’s that bad of an article — and he clearly knows something about the terrorism beat — it’s just really hysterically written. Money quotes:
“I would spend seven days creeping through the Internet using disposable IP addresses, inhabiting the milieu of radical sites and Facebook pages.”
“I took to squinting at my laptop, deliberately blurring my vision; when the fuzzy contours of a child appeared, I jerked my head away from the screen and kept scrolling. But when my eyes returned, another lifeless kid was always waiting for me.”
“The horror,” cried Kurtz as he summoned the strength to type “I WISH THERE WAS A DIS-LIKE BUTTON” on the I Think Terrorism Is Cool Facebook group.
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Check me out: I’m surfin’ the web in style with the Ziggy browser skin! (click for big)
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Mar
Rebel Girl NYC · 3/20 · La Sala @ Cantina Royal
New York friends,
Please attend this special Twitter-pertinent reading and performance event we’ve assembled for you this Wednesday 3/20 in Williamsburg. The venue is La Sala at Cantina Royal at 58 N. 3rd, doors at 7, 18+.
The shockingly talented line-up includes:
PONCHO PELIGROSO (@ponchopeligroso), 2011 Poet Laureate and alt lit author-turned-feminist stand-up comedian
KATIE NOTOPOULOS (@katienotopoulos), doyenne of the BuzzFeed set and curator of innumerable brilliant Tumblrs.
LIHAN LI (@leh0n), poet and author of the sincerely funny “…”
JOE RUMRILL (@2tonbug), Slacktory contributor and one of the most manifestly talented people I’ve seen on a New York stage
LEON CHANG (@leyawn), proficient Twitter participant and founder of eBay
with a special live performance of
WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE (@nightvaleradio), the genius, surreal podcast set as “community radio for a small desert town”
headlined by
SATELLITE HIGH (@satellitehigh), San Francisco-based rapper and all around awesome guy, on the last stop of his East Coast tour
hosted by your own
VIRGIL TEXAS (@virgiltexas), internet user
Many thanks to those who have helped us get the word out so far. We think the facts speak for themselves. So wise up already and attend REBEL GIRL this Wednesday, March 20 at Cantina Royal. We’ll be there… will you?
19
Feb
Okc_ebooks: Pick-up artists trying to chat up a robot horse
I wrote a piece for Slacktory about PUAs desperately hitting on an OkCupid account that spits back meaningless @horse_ebooks quotes. Okc_ebooks (a Tumblr you should follow right away) provides an excellent case study for how scripted PUA routines by design objectify women. When PUAs plow through scripts written by other PUAs with women whose responses are irrelevant, how is that in any way actual interhuman communication? Replace the woman with @horse_ebooks, and you’re left with two robots talking to each other.
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