…and you thought string theory was confusing…
OK, so I’m on Facebook now. Not something that I generally like to admit, but… there it is.
While I’m airing my dirty laundry, I also recently signed up for an account on The Huffington Post.
Anyway… A friend of mine on Facebook, who’s been involved in propagating the “25 things” meme, posted status update (including a link to a Time article), amazed that this meme was getting all this attention.
The article is basically poo, and I’ve kinda thought that Time has been going down hill for a while now… so I decided to comment on her Status Update, saying:
Momentarily disregarding the article’s vapidity, Time has sunk so low as to link to its own irrelevant articles to seem more tasty to search engines. The link to “Top 10 Sci-Fi movies of the 1950’s” is completely irrelevant to the item with which it associated (someone admitting having cried when Spock died in Star Trek II). Star Trek II was released in 1982, and is based on a 1960’s Sci-Fi TV series. Time’s really lost its edge… gotten lazy… next thing you know they’ll just slap a hunk of metalized mylar film on the cover of the magazine, and call the Person of the Year “You”!
Wait… what? They did that? In 2006? This is worse than I thought! Next thing you know, the Supreme Court will install a twelve-stepping Evangelical sock-puppet as President! … Wait.. what?
Me… Get it? ME, Time’s Person of the Year, 2006…
I (a blogger (2006 Person of the Year)) have commented on someone else’s comment on Time’s commentary of a meme circulating on Facebook, a site created by entrepreneurial nerds (also part of the PotY 2006 mob). Facebook, a site I use to keep in touch with friends and family, is also where I deposit links to my own websites, operated on Free and Open-Source software (including Linux, GNU, Apache, MySQL, php, Wordpress and so on), which is also part of the PotY2006 squad… and… just to make it a little more confusing, I’m now blogging (on my blog) about my comment (on Facebook) on a comment on an article (on time.com) which commented on a meme circulating on Facebook, which is an outcropping of the phenomenon encapsulated by Time’s 2006PotY
Next, I will post a comment on Facebook, pointing to this blog post, asking all my friends to comment on this post, no only here, but on Slashdot and Twitter and MySpace and Digg and anywhere else… Let’s crash the Internet in a circuitous web of pointless self-reference! Begin!
Mwooo-hoo-hoo-hahahahah! … ha…