quiz: how nerdy r u?


You Are 56% Nerdy


You may be a bit surprised with this score, but your more of a closet nerd than an actual nerd.
Stop denying your inner nerd! You’re truly dorkier than you think.

How Nerdy Are You?

On the advice of counsel I have no comment at this time…

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Operation Global Media Domination: Technorati: for all your “faith in civilization” needs

Seriously. I never thought of reaffirming my faith in human nature by checking Technorati (particularly as it refuses to promote me from 18,694th place) but this, actually, is heartening:

Top Searches

  1. Antonella Barba Antonella Barba
  2. Youtube Youtube
  3. Clay Aiken Clay Aiken
  4. Dell Dell
  5. Myspace Myspace
  6. Awp Awp
  7. Libby Libby
  8. Baudrillard Baudrillard
  9. Joost Joost
  10. Matt Sanchez Matt Sanchez

Really, it’s most uplifting. Sure, we’ve got a titty model, a mindless entertainment site, a closeted neo-Gospel singer, a computer, a mindless hookup and boast site, the sound you make when swallowing a too-big vitamin pill, and a popular kind of canned beans, but then we also have, in the top ten blog searches in the world at this time, one of the greatest newly-dead philosophers in the world.

Now, if I only knew what Joost was…is it a Tang substitute?

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photobucket in mourning?

Apparently Photobucket, the free image hosting site, has been so overcome by the death of (choose one)

[ ] Jean Baudrillard

[ ] Ernest Gallo

or

[ ] Captain America

that it has taken all pictures down and substituted tiny crosses of St. Andrew. Normal service will resume shortly…I hope…

technical difficulties: please do not adjust the ol’ raincoaster blog, please just learn to deal with it and move on

Sorry folks, our standard operating procedures here at the ol’ raincoaster blog, wherein our armies of tiny elf reporters surf the farthest tubes of the internets in search of edutainment of suitable refinement for your rarified sensibilities, have had something of a critical collapse in the past 24 hours.

Normal service will be restored shortly. Oh who am I kidding: we’ve never been normal!

Hamlet, Prince of YouTube!

We like to take credit where credit is due, and sometimes where it isn’t, but we at the ol’ raincoaster blog do think we were on this Shakespearean meme first. Still, we welcome the appearance of more classically-trained bloggers.

In related news:

Blogging, Act III, Scene 1

Shakespeare is a Virus

The Most Improbable Meme in the World Soldiers On

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