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A Scientist Takes On Gravity - NYTimes.com
Example of NYT content-free science journalism
science  nyt  gravity  blather 
july 2010 by maciej
Einstein's Field Theory -- Printout -- TIME
crazypants 1929 time article on Einstein. I particluarly like the use of 'lolling"
lol  einstein  relativity  what  blather  time  archive  ha 
april 2007 by maciej
Scientific American: The Truth about Online Dating
dumbass article on online dating
blather  sciam  sex  relationships  internet 
february 2007 by maciej
Devil's Advocate
christ what an asshole
blog  no  solarlander  blather  writing  worst_practices 
december 2006 by maciej
Chaos in U.S. foreign policy is nothing new. - By Anne Applebaum - Slate Magazine
Another completely specious article by applebaum. Who hired this woman?
blather  writing  politics  hungary  idiot  us 
october 2006 by maciej
Matthias Herrmann Textpieces, Codpieces , and the Martial Arts: The Artist as Warrior.
a small masterpiece of bad writing. There is nothing you can remove from this article without improving it
blather  art  idiot  ha  writing 
october 2006 by maciej
The Atlantic Online | October 2006 | When North Korea Falls | Robert D. Kaplan
windbaggy, rather stupid analysis piece about the future of the korean penninsula
asia  japan  korea  mil  politics  north_korea  blather  atlantic 
october 2006 by maciej
Why Writing is Harder than Programming (Paul Graham)
I thought hacking was like painting, but now it seems *writing* is like painting. So confused!
paulgraham  blather  ha  meatblogging 
october 2006 by maciej
Rands In Repose: Russian History
what a wordy weenis this guy is
blather  paulgrahamism  management  idiot  russian  lit  ha 
september 2006 by maciej
Five years after 9/11, question is: Could it happen again? (9/1/06)
utterly inane article in the ARE YOUR CHILDREN SAFE? vein
9-11  terrorism  fearmongering  aviation  war_on_terrah  blather 
september 2006 by maciej
Space Shuttles Bound to Technologies of the Past
archived copy of 2003 wapo article
space  nasa  shuttle  wapo  pasta  blather 
august 2006 by maciej
. . . Heal My Broken Heart . . .
CITIZEN JOURNALISM of breakups at all age levels courtesy of livejournal
relationships  sex  doom  blather  blog  noboundaries  aargh  ow 
august 2006 by maciej
Romeo's Bleeding Part 4 - When Love is a Four-letter Word-by R. Melton,MA,MFT,CEAP
a Redbook-style article remarkable for its really, really, really, really bad metaphors.
writing  wow  blather  howto  relationships  obgyn  ha 
august 2006 by maciej
A Moment Mel Would Understand
particularly masterful example of the standard American 'criticizing Israel = anti-Semitism' political essay
blather  israel  politics  sophist  grr 
august 2006 by maciej
Headius: On Coding
self-parody, thy name is LOL
programming  software  idiot  blather  ha 
july 2006 by maciej
Maryamie: Personal note to all geeks: You should be at Blogher
because you'll meet hot blog chicks! but wait, you're supposed to be valuing their minds! but they're still hot! and empowered! MY EYES ARE UP HERE, ASSHOLE
creepy  blog  wtf  sex  no  blather  mack  ugh 
july 2006 by maciej
Writing words vs. writing software - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
another asinine identification of software development with a fundamentally dissimilar creative activity
inspiration  sofware  writing  howto  idiot  paulgrahamism  blather  no 
july 2006 by maciej
CJR Daily: About Those Photos of Little Girls and Artillery Shells …
twisted exercise in apologetics
blather  tendentious  ugh  israel  media  war 
july 2006 by maciej
Xiaxue.blogspot.com - Everyone's reading it.
horrible but apparently really popular singapore weblog, illustrates a certain kind of shallow materialism now moving into china
blog  aargh  blather  singapore  no 
july 2006 by maciej
contrarian quarterly: Food and Drink
craptastic writing about nyc restaurants that reads like self-parody. "yellowtail (hamachi) with coffee-infused water chestnuts, chorizo powder, plantain gnocci, a bright orange puddle of nasturtium flower soup and strips of light spicy nasturium leaves.
blather  nyceatblog  mubot  ugh  review  -1 
june 2006 by maciej
The Amateur Gourmet
another nyc food blatherblog
mubot  nyceatblog  blather  recipe  -1 
june 2006 by maciej
A Finger in Every Pie
crappy writing having something to do with new york restaurants
blather  nyceatblog  ugh  -1 
june 2006 by maciej
Newswise | Backs to the Future
really stupid sapir/whorf-type article about a language in the andes where people gesture behind them to indicate the future. Considering how memory works, this is actually quite logical - you can only see the past
lang  blather  grr  linguistics  chile  etym 
june 2006 by maciej
Ben Casnocha: The Blog
amusingly pompous kid blogger
blather  blog  libertarian  solar_lander  usa  idiot 
june 2006 by maciej
GAM3R 7H30RY
a masterpiece of academic drivel. It looks like English, it sounds like English, but it will actually suck the knowledge out of your mind
academics  self-parody  mellon  etext  sophie  no  drivel  blather  wow 
may 2006 by maciej
Boompa.com Launch Postmortem, Part 1: Research, Picking a Team, Office Space and Money || kuro5hin.org
smug HOWTO from guys who have just started up their own company. Paulgrahamism taken to next level.
startup  advice  howto  blather  jusqu'ici-tout-va-bien  schadenfreude  smacked-by-the-invisible-hand  flooz 
may 2006 by maciej
LJ from horror writer, trophy wife and general nuisance
a promising addition to the daily hate rounds
blog  hack  no  blather  lj  aargh 
may 2006 by maciej
Family kicked out of chinese buffet restaurant (reddit.com)
silly story notable for the spectacular inanity of its reddit comment thread
reddit  ha  web2.0  self-parody  solar_lander  blather  dicuss 
may 2006 by maciej
Twelve Virtues of Rationality
an entertainingly horrible piece of writing
blather  deep_thoughts  geek  ha 
may 2006 by maciej
How to write well (by someone who can't)
amusing and sententious essay on improving your writing by someone who should be fired into the sun
christ_what_an_asshole  writing  blog  blather  howto  ha 
may 2006 by maciej
RussellBeattie.com - The Last Page
pompous deblogging; good riddance
blather  blog  relief  idiot  tech  whew 
april 2006 by maciej
Why I shut down my blog. By Sarah Hepola
christ what an asshole
blog  no  blather  aargh  slate 
april 2006 by maciej
Boiled Shrimp and the Sunk-Cost Fallacy
christ what an asshole
econ  idiot  blather  grr 
april 2006 by maciej
After the bath [dive into mark]
Mark Pilgrim is back and again he is blogging about Dave Winer
blather  blog  aargh  parentporn  stop  no  thegogglestheydonothing 
april 2006 by maciej
Creating Passionate Users: How to be an expert
a nice example of the american self-help myth
dumb  self-help  web2.0  blather  ha  diagram 
march 2006 by maciej
Blogject manifesto
kill it with fire
idiot  blog  ha  manifesto  blather  artspeak  kill_all_humans  aargh 
march 2006 by maciej
The 50-30-20 Rule
A good example of the kind of post now infesting del/popular
idiot  selfhelp  blog  blather 
december 2005 by maciej
» GestureBank | Steve Gillmor's InfoRouter | ZDNet.com
possibly the purest source of blather known to man. Gillmor is the new Mayfield
blather  ha  idiot  meatblogging 
december 2005 by maciej
Philosophy Now - Talking About God (dude from the Fashion Institute of Technology sounds off on Thomism)
Exhibit A in why all philosophers should be forced to take mathematical logic courses before being allowed to speak
idiot  blather  religion  fashion  ha  logic  time 
october 2005 by maciej
The Open-Source War - New York Times
Probably the most asinine OSS analogy so far
software  idiot  politics  us  blather  open_source 
october 2005 by maciej
Nutshape - Brain Guppy
Paul Graham's woman, hard at work on a book (!) describing the accidental wit and wisdom of the Summer Founders
meatblogging  blather  ha  grocklebar 
august 2005 by maciej
HierarchyVersusFacetsVersusTags
angry fruit salad demonstration of why facets are the new tags
chandler  drivel  blather  idiot  software  visualization  cs 
july 2005 by maciej
The Confidence Man - Books & Culture
in which we introduce "blather", the new tag for utterly incomprehensible prose
blather  jeebus  econ  books 
july 2005 by maciej

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