mise en abyme & pointless recursion & Blogging & WAAGNFNP Posted by JP Stormcrow, 27 Mar 2007 04:38 am
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***BREAKING*** *** Web Only Exclusive*** ***BREAKING***
By KIRBY ALTHOUSE, Associated Press Writer
PALO ALTO- Cyber-researchers at the Hoover Institution on Massively Redundant Sucking and Blowing** are tracking the emergence of yet another Internet White Hole.
This represents the third Cyber-wormhole to emerge in recent months – the first one appeared here in January, while its nearly identical (but somewhat flawed) twin followed soon after here. As with the prior two, researchers traced the source of the White Hole via the Internet tubes to a much more significant Internet Black Hole (it looks black if you close your eyes) that had developed several months previously in L’Internet Français (see comment #287 here.) It took a number of weeks for this new White Hole to fully develop, and researchers are still unsure as to the amount of energy from the original Black Hole that will be transferred to the new one. Although lacking the characteristic wormhole signatures, it appears that significant energy from the same Black Hole is being emitted at the faith-based group blog Pandagon, as well as from a singularity at Crooked Timber. To further understand these developments, The Hoover Institution has contracted with a noted-topologist-who-must-not-be-named (who is currently exploring the essentially toroidal nature of the human body from the inside.) to “Discover the Network through the Looking Glass”.
A shadowy group known as the WAAGNFNP (We Are All Giant Nuclear Fireball Now Party) took credit for all three wormholes, although two splinter groups, the People’s Front for the GNF and and The GNF People’s Front disputed the claim. A spokeswoman for the WAAGNFNP said that the new location would operate as an “irony-free zone”, and that no obscure in-jokes, or literary or pop cultural references would be allowed.
Their use in the past has been off-putting and often led to a failure to communicate, someone has to put their foot down and that foot is us.
Another WAAGNFNP official refused to elaborate saying only:
That was a terrific statement. She said exactly what I was thinking but phrased it much more elegantly and graciously than I ever could. I thank her so much for saying it!
While a third helpfully added:
We say everything twice!
More information on the development may be found here.
[** As the Hoover Institution at STANFORD UNIVERSITY is filled with ninnies and self-important blowhards, the careful reader will take anything they say with a grainboulder of salt. After establishing that it did not represent a money-making opportunity, Dinesh D’Souza of the Hoover Institution at STANFORD UNIVERSITY, rejected the notion of being parodied in this article.
We are serious people. Ed Meese is a Fellow of the Institution. I will be damned if we will serve as some kind of a pointless unreliable narrator device for Amateur Hour on the Internet, and I won’t dignify it with a response.
Milton Friedman was unavailable for comment.]
Pray my Dear, have you not forgot to wind up the clock?
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on 27 Mar 2007 at 4:53 am 1. JP Stormcrow said …
Credit where credit is due.
Kirby Althouse, indefatigable AP reporter, Internet White Holologist and AI, was born in somebody’s mind but not in mi-ine. Kirby’s first appearance was in this thread at Creek Running North. (which also featured the mysterious Indigenous people you portrayed in Earth Island Jo and somebody (not Chris Clarke) posing as Kirby Olson.)
As a result of a scientific experiment involving the recombination of DNA, I have created a hybrid of Kirby Olson and Ann Althouse. I believe this new creature will be funnier and more improved than both the original subjects combined.
He is not a she. She is not a dog. No–this magnificent IT is the new Kirby Althouse!!
However, as the comment itself was posted by “Kirby Althouse”, I’m beginning to suspect that things aren’t quite what they seem. Nonetheless, I’d like to give the “real” Kirby Althouse this opportunity to stand up and be measured, while noting that outright theft is the waymost sincerest form of flattery.
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on 27 Mar 2007 at 7:42 am 2. christian h. said …
What a great picture! And post… loopy loop.
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on 27 Mar 2007 at 10:31 am 3. Jams said …
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on 27 Mar 2007 at 10:45 am 4. JP Stormcrow said …
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on 27 Mar 2007 at 11:39 am 5. Chris Clarke said …
Insert off-topic pharmaceutical trade name here.
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on 27 Mar 2007 at 11:59 am 6. peter ramus said …
…But, but, puppets are groovy!!
Insert sorry wrong thread here.
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on 27 Mar 2007 at 12:35 pm 7. Oaktown Girl said …
Insert off-topic meta rant here that completely misses the point of the post and violently accuses JP of aiding and abetting the right wing agenda.
In other news…
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on 27 Mar 2007 at 1:28 pm 8. The Constructivist said …
Insert blog-whoring link to metacommentary on metarant here.
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on 27 Mar 2007 at 1:31 pm 9. The Constructivist said …
Insert off-topic story about where the WAAGNFNP Hound has run off to in the last few days here.
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on 27 Mar 2007 at 1:51 pm 10. Oaktown Girl said …
“Selling Religion” update:
[Insert blog update here:]
Before Zeus’ comment gets bumped too far down on the “recent comments” list, I wanted everyone to know that he has placed a new comment on his “Selling Religion” post here.
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on 27 Mar 2007 at 1:52 pm 11. JP Stormcrow said …
Insert all the meta-comments from this Pandagon thread here.
Insert the more than 1000 meta-comments from that “ultimate meta-thread that MB linked to sometime in the past, but I cannot find right now” here.
Conclude with a devastatingly brilliant synthesis that triggers the Death of the Net as we know it.
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on 27 Mar 2007 at 2:18 pm 12. spyder said …
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Insert: ~ senseless horror movie soundtrack theme
Open cold fusion containment vessel
Take a big sip….
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on 27 Mar 2007 at 3:54 pm 13. Hattie said …
Am I understanding the concept correctly? Could white hole distortions, for instance, have led to the Ann Althouse meltdown observed on the Internets?
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on 27 Mar 2007 at 5:08 pm 14. Oaktown Girl said …
Insert off-topic story about where the WAAGNFNP Hound has run off to in the last few days here.
Has our Hound been gone more than a day? Things have been rough since we had to do a re-install of WP. I just sent an email to our tech guy asking to restore our pup and fix the text in our blogroll.
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on 27 Mar 2007 at 7:31 pm 15. Jams said …
I think Ann Althouse should be given an honorary position in the WAAGNFNP. After all the good work she’s done, I can almost taste the GNF.
I propose that, at the soonest possible opportunity, our swiftest rider deliver the WAAGNFNP’s most sincere gratitude for the fine efforts Ann Althouse has made toward universal incendiarism.
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on 27 Mar 2007 at 7:34 pm 16. spyder said …
I had the Hounds out on a training exercise. It has been awhile since they had participated in a huntdown of a fugitive who needed to be immediately detain and brought to the Ministry of Justice. They are back in their humble mansion and rotating through regular security duties.
spyder
Minister of Defense and Offense
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on 27 Mar 2007 at 7:52 pm 17. Oaktown Girl said …
I can almost taste the GNF.
Hee hee!
Thanks for the Hound update, Minister spyder. Giselle (our MOOAD Hound who’s runs Guard Duty on the WAAGNFNP blog here) is supposed to leave a note when she goes out on training runs with pack. I guess she was so excited that she forgot to do it this time.
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on 27 Mar 2007 at 7:59 pm 18. JP Stormcrow said …
Could white hole distortions, for instance, have led to the Ann Althouse meltdown observed on the Internets?
Yes, these disturbances in the tubes could be behind all manner of strange phenomena. For instance, in addition to Queen Ann’s meltdown, there is the delay in the arrival Jonah Goldberg’s eagerly awaited Liberal Fascism, and most suspiciously the cover of David Horowitz’s latest book being basically a mirror image of WLATLA.
Then again, the common theme could just be that all of these people are assholes. We report, you decide.
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on 28 Mar 2007 at 3:21 am 19. Hattie said …
Yes, I was struck by that resemblance. Obviously Berube’s cover was a lame imitation of Horowitz’s, unless in some parallel universe Berube’s book was published first.
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on 28 Mar 2007 at 9:00 pm 20. JP Stormcrow said …
Insert off-topic pharmaceutical trade name here.
Insert belated drug spam image idea in response to Chris’s comment above, below.
Blogs are too fast!
