Comments on: Time to unleash a plague

By: The Unrepentant Individual » The Future of Liberty

The Unrepentant Individual » The Future of Liberty — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:04:46 +0000

[...] The internet is a medium with little or no cost of entry. It requires nothing more than a will and a message to get your voice out there. Of course, unlike the current television media, finding people to listen to that voice is not easy. On the bright side, however, compelling information has a way of ensuring that it is heard. The terms “meme” and “blog-swarm” express just how quickly and widely information can stretch their legs. Last year, when I was (I still am, of course!) a small-time blogger, I started a meme, and checked back on it every month or so using technorati. The meme was going strong for months, finding its way to corners of the blogosphere that I would never have known to exist. And blog-swarms are feared by those in power. A couple of bloggers uncovering problems with documents ignited a blog-swarm which destroyed the credibility of Dan Rather and seriously injured that of CBS. It eventually grew large enough to force the major media outlets to cover the story. [...]

By: Do Or Do Not.

Do Or Do Not. — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 02:29:46 +0000

[...] t to my attention about this particular meme. Brad Warbiany at The Unrepentant Individual started up the meme on June 1 as his method of “fighting back” a [...]

By: The Pilgrim's Pots and Pans

The Pilgrim's Pots and Pans — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:38:24 +0000

Childhood Food Memories

Oh no no no! I will not track this meme although what Ana did to the Cookbook Meme and Nicky to the Cook Next Door meme appeals to my obsessive-compulsive tendencies. But just between you and me, I just had to know how this Childhood Food Memories …

By: The Unrepentant Individual » The Plague has spread

The Unrepentant Individual » The Plague has spread — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 02:50:13 +0000

[...] ckback

Back on June 1, while fed up at the incessant memes I had been struck with, I decided to start my own. Not sure if it would ever go anywhere, I’ [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 21:16:20 +0000

Hehe, jumping comopetitions. I used to do those all the time. Lots of skinned knees and lots of insanity.

By: KJ

KJ — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 17:24:40 +0000

I will have a response up later today.

By: TF Stern

TF Stern — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 13:41:56 +0000

…left off “distracting the gate guard” at the swimming pool to sneak in. It was the next neighborhood over’s pool and you had to have a wrist bracelet thingy to get in. We would time our assault by distraction and before getting caught jump in and swim all afternoon. I don’t think the guard really wanted to stop us after having watched us standing outside the fence for an hour. He may have wanted to go swimming too.

By: TF Stern

TF Stern — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 13:31:48 +0000

Lucy said Iâ€™m exempt from this as Iâ€™m still a kid and have to grow up some day butâ€¦

We used to have jumping competitions at the playground from the swings to see how high and how far we could catapult ourselves. Insane.

Play sandlot baseball with my friends until it got to dark to see the ball.

Take our bikes anywhere we wanted as long as we got home before our parents got home from work. Going downtown was neat, cutting in and out of cars and giving drivers heart failure.

I saw a piece of nostalgia on tv the other night, a Mr. Softee ice cream truck going through a neighborhood. You could get vanilla or chocolate for about a quarter or for 50 cents both on a cone.

Fireworks, and making bombs from a block of firecrackers. The excitement of knowing that a pile of silvery gunpowder was there and waiting to be lit, pouring it into ping pong balls and setting a fuse was way fun. We liked lots of noise and blowing things up.

â€¦some day I might look back and wish I could do that again, if I ever grow up. (second attempt to post this comment )