points of elipses

O II

2008-02-20T21:33:00.000-06:00

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2008-02-20T21:28:00.000-06:00

2008-02-13T16:29:00.001-06:00

I just found this, where "Curly Tales of War Pigs" was the starting point for a game of eight degrees of blog seperation.

Molly Bloom said...

I really, really can't do it. I put a random word into the 'search all blogs' - 'pigs' just for jolly. And then chose 'curly tales of war pigs' cos I thought that was a good name. And I've been stuck in Christian blogs in Minnesota for ten minutes. I couldn't take any more. All they link to is more, more, more Christian blogs.

What happens when you get stuck? Perhaps you just have to persevere until you find an atheist.
July 09, 2006 6:01 PM
Molly Bloom said...

Actually...look...it wasn't ten mins...it was 20...that's frightening. As is the case on Sport's Day..time enters a new level of 'frantic' desperation. 'Hellllp!' Now..where's that egg?

Can't we go 'three legged' and then I won't be so scarred by the experience. Bagsy I go with Patroclus...
July 09, 2006 6:04 PM
patroclus said...

You're on! We're starting from jackpinesavage.blogspot.com, right? And we're getting back to Billy's?

*starting pistol fires*
July 09, 2006 6:13 PM
patroclus said...

YES! Back in eight steps!

http://jackpinesavage.blogspot.com/
http://moderateleft.blogspot.com/
http://www.instapundit.com/
http://samizdata.net/blog/
http://www.bloggers4labour.org/
http://www.iaindale.blogspot.com/
http://pr0lix.blogspot.com/
http://quinquireme.blogspot.com
http://oyebilly.blogspot.com
July 09, 2006 6:20 PM
Heather said...

11 steps! in 11 minutes!

Took me through some interesting *ahem* blogs on the way.

jackpinesavage.blogspot.com
flat_earth.blogspot.com
postmodernbarney.com
innocentbystander.typepad.com
allusion.typepad.com/my_private_i
postmoderncourtesan.com
belledejour-uk.blogspot.com
junkylife.com/heroinegirl
girlwithaonetrackmind.blogspot.com
littleredboat.co.uk
jamesandthebluecat.blogspot.com
quinquireme.blogspot.com
oyebilly.blogspot.com
July 09, 2006 6:39 PM
patroclus said...

Gosh, and you came by a totally different route, as well. All we need now is a genius mathematician and software developer (I nominate Stephen Wolfram; I'm sure he's got nothing better to do) to knock up some algorithms and a visualisation application, and we'll have our blogosphere map and Standard Average Degrees of Separation pronto.

In fact I think I'm going to write a post about this right now.
July 09, 2006 6:46 PM
Billy said...

Blimey, you leave the blog alone for a short while and the comments go crazy! Erm... right.

MJ, I must use that as a title somewhere along the line. I like it.

Ill Man, what about trying to get to someone on your blogroll the most long-winded way possible?

Molly, I was crap at school sports day as well. :) I like to think I'm the Ealing Broadway of blogs, tucked away on the end, often subject to engineering works, but a quick route into the heart of it all.

Patroclus, I really want to see a blog map. I imagine it looking like a circuit diagram. 8 steps too. Nice!

Heather, good job there. 11 steps.

(I got lost and couldn't find my way back, I'll try again later.)
July 09, 2006 7:14 PM
GreatSheElephant said...

A number of ad agencies already have software that maps blog and other new media connections
July 09, 2006 9:50 PM
GreatSheElephant said...

OK, I tried, I really tried. I cannot believe how many blogs don't have blog rolls. It was like a nonstop series of deadends
July 09, 2006 9:58 PM
Molly Bloom said...

Damn...you all went off while I was away...my God...Patroclus and Heather...I'm impressed. How crap must I be getting lost for 20 minutes? And you didn't get messed up with the Christian anti-abortionists either. Sigh. Oh well. I AM that kid that wore those mad 'corrective' plimmies at school after all.

I think P and H deserve a medal. Or one of those really funky, silky rosettes. God...how I wanted one of those...a red one. I'm going to see if I can find a picture of one on Google to sigh over.

Impressive work!
July 09, 2006 10:12 PM
Molly Bloom said...

Still...I did get 3 on the quiz. Yay!
July 09, 2006 10:14 PM
Billy said...

GSE, do you know what these maps are like? I would be interested in seeing one. I think it should be compulsory to have a blogroll.

Molly, I couldn't find my way back very easily. Didn't get lost in the Christians though. ;)
July 09, 2006 10:28 PM
Pashmina said...

I tried doing the "next blog" thing and it was a nightmare. So I went to jackpinesavage.blogspot.com/ and made it back in 7! In 6 minutes!

Excellent game:

jackpinesavage.blogspot.com/
craigwestover.blogspot.com/
ssb.powerblogs.com/
devilskitchen.blogspot.com/
timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/
www.pootergeek.com/
thegrammaticalpuss.blogspot.com/
oyebilly.blogspot.com/
July 11, 2006 6:10 PM
Zippy said...

Six clicks and I ended up having no choice but to go to Google News. What a pinhead. Still this a very clever and entertaining idea. Must fly; I've got a train to catch. (thvsbxjj)
July 11, 2006 7:52 PM
Billy said...

Pashmina, considering I invented this game I seem to be uniformally rubbish at it, I keep getting lost in Swedish blogs.

Zippy, it sure is a fun game. If you find a route be sure to drop in and let me know.
July 11, 2006 8:21 PM
rockmother said...

Don't you think Kevin Bacon despite having a ridiculous name looks like a were-pig?
July 16, 2006 1:30 AM
Billy said...

Rockmother, he's called Bacon for a reason!

2008-02-09T18:23:00.000-06:00

Ernie Pyle

2008-02-03T16:16:00.000-06:00

This photo provided by Richard Strasser, shows famed World War II war correspondent Ernie Pyle shortly after he was killed by a Japanese machine gun bullet on the island of Ie Shima on April 18, 1945. Pyle, 44, had just arrived in the Pacific after four years of writing his popular column from European battlefronts. The Army photographer who crawled forward under fire to make this picture later said it was withheld by military officials. An AP survey of history museums and archives found only a few copies in existence, and no trace of the original negative. (AP/AP Photo/Courtesy of Richard Strasser)

2008-01-23T21:03:00.000-06:00

cat's blues
natoppet
paper planes
mr. grieves (tvotr)
friend of mine
psycho killer
different sound
alma

minus six

2008-01-19T22:12:00.000-06:00

is it the temperature or Quad City rock like Ben Folds Five with a Saxaphone?

it is the temperature holmes

i blame randy whitman

these clouds are real

2008-01-07T22:25:00.000-06:00

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
939 PM CST MON JAN 7 2008

...DENSE FOG TO PLAGUES PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTH
CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN THROUGH TUESDAY
MORNING...

that's a 40 pound flathead caught with a small crappie minnow and jig tied on a lindy rig with a stink stink with eight pound test

2008-01-04T13:21:00.000-06:00

Nice work UpTake.

Thank You Iowa.

2008-01-04T00:53:00.000-06:00

Having been an Obama supporter since the beginning, I hope that your vote translates to the rest of the nation.

Leave it to the Midwest to hopefully get the rest of the nation's collective shit together.

Your move New Hampshire.

-Josh Former Roomie

langue de boeuf 2

2007-12-30T11:01:00.000-06:00

I just took the tongue out of the deep freeze.

langue de boeuf

2007-12-26T13:34:00.000-06:00

Going to be cooking up some beef tongue for New Years Eve festivities.

meh.

2007-12-20T22:00:00.001-06:00

"We would like to return to work with our writers. If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence."
— Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert

i like banjo

2007-12-20T18:04:00.000-06:00

, but I'm not sure if man or hobbit caused global warming.

Dear God, this is priceless.

2007-12-18T08:00:00.000-06:00

Watch Charles Grodin, (he's a comedian for you youngin's) take it to Sean Hannity Monday night. Further proof that comedians might be the only thing that prevent this nation from being flushed down the toilet.

Happy Holidays all!

behind the tater

2007-12-13T13:49:00.000-06:00

Tribune photo by Bill Zimmer

Jerome Petrowske of Willmar is seen Tuesday as he holds a heart-shaped potato. Betty Cole of Willmar, a friend of Jerome and his wife, Barb, recently purchased a sack of potatoes from Johnson Fur in Willmar and came across the odd potato.

Must DVR, or tape, or watch TV?

2007-12-13T08:07:00.000-06:00

I understand Keith Olbermann is to be a guest on "Now With Bill Moyers" tomorrow night on PBS. This should be intriguing.

buried inside your heart-shaped potato

2007-12-12T13:58:00.000-06:00

One eats cats, the other is a culture warrior.

2007-12-03T08:37:00.000-06:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzq8ZRWZCCw

You have to be fucking kidding me. If not for the Writer's Strike, I'd throw Triumph the Insult Comic Dog in there, but seriously....you have to be fucking kidding me.

Yet the bluehairs lap this shit up...........

Enjoy the Season

2007-11-30T11:30:00.001-06:00

Simply absurd.

2007-11-26T08:06:00.001-06:00

Wowiee wow, wow, wow.

They Heart Huckabee.

2007-11-21T07:24:00.000-06:00

First it was Chuck Norris pimping for the former Alabama governor.
Now I learn 16 time World Champion Ric Flair is giving him his endorsement.
What's next, someone electing a professional wrestler to electe...oh wait.

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

famous first words

2007-11-20T11:04:00.000-06:00

"Maybe I can go after, or check Naslund and those Pinky and the Brain twins," Boogaard said.

Bourdain. Listen and learn.

2007-11-20T08:11:00.000-06:00

http://reason.tv/video/show/155.html

While I don't agree with his views regarding foie gras, he does light a fire under the proverbial ass of thought, does he not?

san diego on fire

2007-10-23T20:59:00.000-05:00

The enormity of this event is staggering.