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setting breakpoints on online culture
May
26th
Sat
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/me slaps you around with a large trout

WHY WOULD ANYONE THINK OF SLAPPING ME WITH A FISH?!

I think it originated on the Woody Woodpecker show in the Chilly Willy bit where characters often slapped each other with fish. I also vaguely remember Warner Brothers characters doing this act every once in a while.

Another theory brought up by fellow noders is that it comes from Monty Python’s The Fish Slapping Dance.

 - in Trout slapping@Everything2.com

May
25th
Fri
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Microsoft Live Search considers that Vista images are not safe enough for you. I couldn’t agree more. Everytime I look at Vista, I feel nauseous. Try it yourself: http://search.live.com/images/results.aspx?q=vista&FORM=QBIX

Microsoft Live Search considers that Vista images are not safe enough for you. I couldn’t agree more. Everytime I look at Vista, I feel nauseous.

Try it yourself: http://search.live.com/images/results.aspx?q=vista&FORM=QBIX

May
24th
Thu
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birthday cake

birthday cake

May
21st
Mon
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google it!

Properly leveraging Internet search utilities (Google, forum searches, and so on) requires three things:

  1. You have to know the right words

  2. You have to know how to recognize the answer

  3. You have to know how to work a search engine
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(…) monkeys decided that talking got them into trouble, so they evolved to unlearn language.
— in Why Monkeys Can’t Recite Shakespeare
May
19th
Sat
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“Nice restaurant you’ve got here. It’d be a shame if anything happened to it.”

“Nice restaurant you’ve got here. It’d be a shame if anything happened to it.”

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Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last. Every generation—until now.
— in Free Culture, by Lawrence Lessig.
May
15th
Tue
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Office Space: Printer Smash (via z4rkenny)

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Only talk to your immediate friends.
— Law of Demeter
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Twatter

is twitter++!

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