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1,259 insults on one page

As a human being with a soul in there somewhere, I've avoided blogging about the Xeni-Violet scandal. But as a wannabe comedy writer, I found myself obsessively poring over the 1,200-plus Metafilter comments on our report. I'd forgotten why I love-hated Metafilter: It's a boyzone of spiteful, pseudonymous insult comics, but many are snappy with the English language. "Instead of calling it what it is, they're going to clown us with semantics." Red meat for you guys at MeFi: The "homophobic" headline on yesterday's post was added by big gay Owen Thomas himself. Discuss.

3:00 PM on Wed Jul 2 2008
By Paul Boutin
1,698 views, 6 comments

valleyspeak

Social nerdwanking

Coined by R. Stevens in his webcomic Diesel Sweeties, "social nerdwanking" means lording your social-network superiority over others, which is secretly the only reason you bother with Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, Orkut, and every other social network. Except your legitimate if fruitless use of Adult FriendFinder.

6:46 AM on Mon Dec 10 2007
By Nick Douglas
2,414 views, 2 comments

john battelle

John Battelle owns the Internet

So Google counts over 23 billion pages on the Internet — who cares? Nothing's really online until it's been "Dugg," "Farked," and "Boing Boinged." And when your new quirky blog post ("Meta-Katamari George Bush MacBook Pro Naked") gets passed around the memepool, it'll be surrounded by John Battelle's ads. More »

8:25 PM on Fri Jun 2 2006
By Nick Douglas
402 views, Comment

jason kottke

Jason Kottke and Meg Hourihan wed: Most Flickr'd ceremony ever

The blogging power couple that conquered Metafilter (and some rag called the New Yorker) makes it official. Ex-SFers Jason Kottke and Meg Hourihan say "I do" tomorrow in NYC. More »

7:34 PM on Fri Mar 24 2006
By ndouglas
147 views, Comment