Other Weekend Thread

Apropos of nothing... Jeebus, but am I getting sick of getting into a car and driving for multiple hours. I think that it's time that family members started visiting us for a change.

(pause)

Right. I'm collecting Laws of the Blogosphere. So far I've got Gary Farber's* "Sometimes blogging response is inverse to blogging effort." and two of mine:

Moe's First Law of the Blogosphere
Anything that sounds too good to be true is too good to be true.

Moe's Second Law of the Blogosphere (Law of Intelectual Irony)
The chance that any given post will contain a commonly-avoided spelling error is directly proportional to how much said post attacks the intelligence of other people.

I welcome other entries. As usual, keep 'em nonpartisan. Playing nice: it's not the law, just a good idea.

Moe

*Kudos on his coverage of Abu Ghraib, btw.

Comments

[Jesurgislac]

Appendix to Second Law of the Blogosphere: The chance that any given post will contain a commonly-avoided HTML error is directly proportional to how recently you have demanded that another poster use HTML codes in their comments because "it's so simple".

[Anom]

Whose intelligence do you attack here?

It should read "Intellectual Irony"

[Moe Lane]

Moe's Third Law of the Blogosphere:

There is no such thing as 'too unsubtle'.

;)

Moe

[Edward]

Golden Rule: Humility is ultimately your only defense.

[Gary Farber]

Laws of blogging need to be specific to blogging, I point out. Else they are something else.

"Anything that sounds too good to be true is too good to be true."

Needs to be reworked to be specifically an insight to blogging.

On further comments, deponent sayth not, save that not all fully grasp the concept. Jesurgislac's works well; kudos to it/him/her/them/the ants, ohmigodtheantsgetthemoffme.

Anonymity and silly names? No cost there.

[forgetting]

Sorry, I realize this is off topic and probably breaks one of the cardinal rules about spamming comments sections (never happen again)...

I'm trying to find someone interested in swapping Gmail names. I accidentally got stuck with EUROPE and am experiencing 'unintentional buyer's remorse'.

Again, sorry.

[Jesurgislac]

First and Last Law of the Blogosphere: When the owner of the blog you're commenting on says you're in the wrong, always take more time than you think is necessary to decide whether they're full of crap or they're actually right and you are in the wrong.

Corollary to the First and Last Law: When you know you're in the wrong, apologize.

[BP]

Disagree with that law, Jes. The blogosphere is based on knee-jerkism (that's why I keep coming back for more).

When the owner of the blog you're commenting on says you're wrong, it simply means he disagrees with you. When he starts making snarky, comment-free replies it means your argument was better.

[forgetting]

There are probably plenty of times where a disagreement won't be solved by all the facts and figures in the world, they're just fundamental differences of opinion. Kind of like 'trickle down economics' or any other idea, each side is working with essentially the same information and uses it to make their argument. Worse, probably, are people who just try to provoke.

[Jesurgislac]

BP, I said "in the wrong", not "wrong".

When he starts making snarky, comment-free replies it means your argument was better.

Now that's a law of the blogosphere!

[wilfred]

moe, dahlink... the good thing about visiting relatives is you are the one who decides when the visit is finished. remember that next time your company stays longer than you'd wish!