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A Blogging Masterpiece

by JoAnne Hewett

While procrastinating on my taxes, I stumbled across this (courtesy of Bitch Ph.D.). If you haven’t yet seen it, you simply must take a look and wade through the comments. A blog must-read. Could be a classic.

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April 15th, 2006 12:26 AM
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9 Responses to “A Blogging Masterpiece”

  1. 1.   Clifford Says:
    April 15th, 2006 at 2:25 am

    Excellent find!

    I suppose I should say something like:

    Best. Post. Ever.

    ;-)

    -cvj

  2. 2.   Clifford Says:
    April 15th, 2006 at 2:29 am

    And gosh….. you started early on your taxes….. Aren’t they due until Monday?

    -cvj

  3. 3.   JoAnne Says:
    April 15th, 2006 at 2:34 am

    Clifford, I didn’t say that I had actually started….

  4. 4.   Cynthia Says:
    April 15th, 2006 at 7:42 am

    This “Blogging Masterpiece” exemplifies pure randomness emerging from pure nothingness. Rephrased more succinctly, this “Blogging Masterpiece” reveals the absolute weirdness of the quantum universe. Rephrased yet again, this “Blogging Masterpiece” displays the micro-world of quantumness infiltrating into the macro-world of classicality.

  5. 5.   John Branch Says:
    April 15th, 2006 at 12:42 pm

    Looks like a diminishing-returns principle was at work there. The self-referential post and comments were gems; the comments that only abstracted familiar responses offer a typology of blog comments, but they wore me out long before I reached the end (805 and counting when I visited).

  6. 6.   spyder Says:
    April 15th, 2006 at 1:26 pm

    Clifford, I didn’t say that I had actually started evidence for which is that she was reading the linked blog, offering a useful alternative tax preparation strategy.

  7. 7.   Chris W. Says:
    April 16th, 2006 at 9:04 pm

    This is off-topic, but given the topic I don’t suppose that is so bad:

    Amazon Mechanical Turk

    That Amazon.com would even attempt this is fascinating. I’ll be very interested to see what (if anything) develops out of it.

  8. 8.   Spatulated Says:
    April 16th, 2006 at 9:45 pm

    an “i have nothing to add” comment

  9. 9.   Cynthia Says:
    April 18th, 2006 at 1:00 pm

    An excellent example of creative accounting!





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