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More tips on winning an argument
2007-05-27 12:31:00 Author and all round aussie Rebecca James is the latest in a round of fine contributors to take good old fashioned pen to paper and join in on the winning an argument meme. Well, she’s actually decided to do a graph anyway. It regards ‘googling’ ones own name and it’s rather funny. ... More About: Tips , Winning
Second Life - go on convince me?
2007-05-24 15:00:00 posted by cloop Now i’ve tried to enjoy spending time in Second Life … believe me i’ve tried. i’ve spent a laborious, painful hour or two trying to summon up the enthusiasm to create an avator… only to be reduced to admitting defeat and wandering around looking like one of the generic types… i flew around a bit ... More About: Second Life , Econ , Vince
Hot Google Trends
2007-05-24 13:15:00 posted by ploop So, the US is at war in Iraq, Canada is looking for a school gunman and Bush wants to whack heavy sanctions on Iran. Now, I’m not making any judgements here, because if this exercise was done in Europe the results would probably be the same. BUT, in light of all of the ... More About: Google , Trends , Google Trends , Ends , Trend
Emptiness - Hilton, Bush and Putin
2007-05-24 11:57:00 posted by ploop TechTags Plugin [ Paris Hilton | George Bush | buddhism | zen | putin ] © %FIRST - get over to the plooptionary for more glass half empty content. More About: Putin , Ness
Winning an argument meme - some terrific submissions
2007-05-24 10:41:00 Posted be ploop Frankly an argument is a damn site more fun than a nice chat. Arguing is great. It rocks and so do some of the latest submissions. The Comma has approached the winning an argument meme in a pleasingly intellectual and graphical manner - he’s just launched part 2 and I feel ominous and his ... More About: Meme , Sion , Mission , Terri , Winning
Christopher Hitchens - saint or owl?
2007-05-23 21:10:00 Posted by cloop Our thanks to Jake Mayle for putting this in our path and forcing us to trip over it. Now Christopher Hitchens may, in many respects, be the most objectionable of men - pompous, arrogant, insufferably smug to name but three of his qualities - but there’s no denying that sometimes he is a national ... More About: Saint , Chen
ploopology - mystical star signs for busy execs
2007-05-23 14:47:00 Ploopology - the weekly slot of quick, at-a-glance star signs that can be taken on board by the time -tarved executive on the run. They can be sent via SMS to board directors worldwide - allowing them to make ill-informed decisions based on their birth signs. Power sentence astrology for the time hungry executive (week two - ... More About: Signs , Star , Ology , Busy , Loop
Winning an argument meme - Nursemyra
2007-05-23 11:56:00 mmm - not sure I’d want to be a patient in the GimCrack Hotel although Nurse’s 2nd tip for winning an argument is to always “wear a corset and fishnet stockings” … She’d certainly beat me like that! TechTags Plugin [ gimcrack hotel | plooptionary | winning an argument meme ] © %FIRST ... More About: Meme , Winning , Semy
Winning an argument meme - Chinglish Style
2007-05-21 13:10:00 The terrifically funny team over at chinglishness have picked up the winning an argument meme and run with it like good ‘uns. I urge you to pop over there this second and take a look at how one of the remarkably impressive graphs uses regression analysis to show significance while others are simple - like the ... More About: Meme , Style , Winning , Chinglish
plooptionary - absurd phrases used by idiots (13 of 100)
2007-05-20 21:21:00 Plooptionary ? utter bollocks from the mouths of people (usually management consultants, people in the media and marketing) with nothing useful to say. Gun crime is plain wrong. There is never a justification for taking someone else life by blowing chunks of their brain from their skull onto the nearest McDonald’s window. I will however make ... More About: Idiots , Absurd , Opti , Phrases , Absu
Winning an argument meme
2007-05-20 17:45:00 Well, well and to a lesser extent, well. The ‘winning an argument meme’ has taught me one thing - there’s not a single cynical reader of this blog that I could beat in a fight argument. I thought my weary, generally pissed-off and pisstaking approach to life made me pretty rare. Now, it appears, I’m ... More About: Meme , Winning
Tips on how to sell
2007-05-19 14:05:00 TechTags Plugin [ selling | sales | how to sell | ploop | business ] © %FIRST - get over to the plooptionary for more glass half empty content. More About: Tips , Sell
Amazing ?cloud art?
2007-05-18 12:43:00 This man does some wonderful artwork with clouds - they are absolutely fantastic and I want one on my wall! © %FIRST - get over to the plooptionary for more glass half empty content. More About: Amazing , Loud , Cloud
Twitter - scientifically speaking
2007-05-18 12:41:00 Twitter - for those of you who don’t know, is an online ‘conversation’. Lot’s of people have a twitter box on the side of their blogs to say what they are doing (you can update your blog by SMS - which makes it very useful if you are away from your computer). nb: In Malawi for ... More About: Twitter , King , Speak , Call , Speaking
Weight loss and celebrity - sorted by Mayle
2007-05-18 11:10:00 Mayle popped over a fantastic weight loss graph the other day. What it lacked in picture quality it certainly made up for in wit. So i’ve done it in good old fashioned pen so you can all read it - so you can stop emailing me (you know who you are) to ask for a ... More About: Celebrity , Weight Loss , Weight , Loss , Sort
How to win an argument meme
2007-05-17 21:51:00 Well this one’s taking off really well - I asked “what advice do people have for winning an argument?” (the full intro is here). The idea was to answer it on your own blog and tag some other blogs so they could answer the question themselves. The first few entries have been total winners … J ... More About: Meme
Ridiculous deaths
2007-05-17 14:22:00 There’s no doubt, there are cool ways and naff ways of injuring yourself. A black eye is a cool black eye if it’s gained helping an old lady from being mugged. A black eye is a naff black eye if you got it because you walked into a door. They are the facts in the good versus naff injury ... More About: Deaths , Culo , Ridiculous
Weight loss - the science
2007-05-17 10:35:00 Regular commenter and all round ideas man Jake Mayle has fired another graph to ploop @ plooptionary.com. What a fine one it is to, I’m sure you’ll agree. The ‘How to Win an Argument Meme’ is coming along well - I’ll summarise some of the points so far later on today. TechTags Plugin [ weight loss | paris ... More About: Science , Weight Loss , Weight , Loss , Eight
Winning an argument - group project meme
2007-05-16 11:21:00 I am working on a graph and I need help. I am wanting to look at the ability to win arguments and I have my own theories. The more intelligent you are perceived to be - the more likely you are to win an argument … that’s the hypothesis I’m working on. If I drink copious ... More About: Meme , Project , Group , Winning
Linebuzz - What an app ?
2007-05-15 12:05:00 Linebuzz.com is just about the coolest application for blogging I’ve come across for a while (thanks to Darren at Problogging for the tip off). Bascially it lets viewers of blogs hilight certain words or phrases and comment specifically on them. So if, during a paragraph I say Tony’s got no wriggle room - you could ... More About: Line
Crackpot diets - the science
2007-05-15 10:57:00 © %FIRST - get over to the plooptionary for more glass half empty content. More About: Science , Diets , Crack , Rack
1st step in easy online design
2007-05-15 10:55:00 Go to www.customroadsign.com … © %FIRST - get over to the plooptionary for more glass half empty content. More About: Design , Online , Sign , Easy , Line
The Z-List
2007-05-14 21:43:00 After reading the very compelling dosh dosh blog I’ve been alerted to the z-list. It’s an attempt by bloggers to change the ‘world order’ of the top 100 and garner some juicy technorati ranking! Take a look over at the wiki to find out more - it’s hugely long but there’s something pleasingly ‘community’ about it ... More About: List
The science of masturbation - sorted by TFI
2007-05-14 19:20:00 TFI (seen commenting here) has submitted yet another graph! This one deals with masturbation and age. I’m not sure I’m entirely on board with this one (and it doesn’t refer to women). However, like comments, I feel I should post such scientific breakthroughs without editing: © %FIRST ... More About: Science , Sort , Masturbation , Mast
BBC reporter losing the plot interviewing a Scientologist
2007-05-14 10:23:00 If there’s one video clip you watch today - make it this one now immortalised on youtube! John Sweeney a BBC reported loses the plot entirely with a member of the Church of Scientology during an interview. It firstly uncomfortable to watch and then you think - well, we’ve all wanted to do it frankly! If it’s ... More About: Sing , Wing , Repo , Reporter , Porter
Britblog roundup 117
2007-05-13 23:22:00 For those of you so remarkably busy that it’s worth having ‘top line’ roundups go to The Dustbin of History © %FIRST - get over to the plooptionary for more glass half empty content. More About: Roundup , Round
Most popular posts
2007-05-13 21:50:00 A rash of posts tonight because I’ve been looking at ways to get more readers for the plooptionary. The reason for this is that I was tipped off about this site and it pointed me to a wordpress plugin that showed the most popular past posts - it’s on the right in the sidebar and it’s ... More About: Popular , Most , Posts , Pula
Imagine being Google ?
2007-05-13 21:38:00 One minute you’re creating some really decent search site and the next this happens. Effectively they are having to broker deals between different Governments … you ever get the feeling you’ve rather just run away? TechTags Plugin [ google ] © %FIRST - get over to the plooptionary for more ... More About: Google , Bein , Being , Googl , Imagine
ploopology - executive stars for the time starved
2007-05-13 20:27:00 In a new, and frankly not all that remarkable, new venture ploop is continuing to cash in on astrology. Ploopology is a weekly slot of quick, at a glance star signs that can be taken on board by the time starved executive on the run. The can be sent via SMS to board directors worldwide ... More About: Stars , Time , Executive , Ology , Loop
It had to happen ?
More articles from this author:2007-05-11 17:43:00 As one of the many journalists who got ‘Campbelled’ it’s great to see the Newsnight clip on YouTube getting so many viewings. I got my link from the hugely entertaining chicken yoghurt TechTags Plugin [ Alastair Campbell | Michael Howard | newsnight ] © %FIRST - get over to the plooptionary for ... 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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