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Morning Cup of Links: Home Pwnership
by Miss Cellania - June 30, 2009 - 3:54 AM
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What if the internet were a musical? It would be called Web Site Story, and would make you snigger at its cleverness.
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Censoring information in the mainstream news media is a lot easier than controlling information on Wikipedia, even when lives are at stake. The case of kidnapped journalist David Rohde is a thought-provoking example.
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Have you ever seen a guy jump out of a helicopter into the ocean to catch a huge game fish with his bare hands? Well, you’re in luck today!
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Words That Changed Their Meanings. Popular usage trumps original usage, especially when “…the actual meaning is the complete opposite of the literal meaning.”
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5 Pathetic Groups That People Think Rule the World. A primer to keep your worldwide conspiracies straight.
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There, I Fixed It collects evidence of “adventures in home pwnership”. As scary as these repairs are, they show the genius of making do with what you have.
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8 Examples of Witty Knitting. If you can visualize it, someone can knit it.

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Comments (9)

  1. Hi, do you mean ownership in your post? I don’t mean to be picky – but I don’t often see errors in this phenomenal blog :)

    posted by Emily on 6-30-2009 at 8:30 am

  2. My favorite word that has flipped meanings in popular usage: Peruse

    posted by EMStoveken on 6-30-2009 at 9:33 am

  3. @emily

    nope. she means “pwnership.” commonly mis-typed words often become accepted as-is in gaming, irc, chat and so on, i.e., teh, pron, pwn, etc. we geeks make no sense sometimes.

    so in this context pwnership means kicking your broken house’s ass.

    posted by nikki on 6-30-2009 at 10:03 am

  4. nikki, thanks. This spelling is used at the site. I took it to mean to home has “pwned” the owner!

    Because that happens a lot.

    posted by Miss Cellania on 6-30-2009 at 10:05 am

  5. I enjoyed the link about words that have changed their meanings. I have always struggled with “could/couldn’t care less”. It’s nice to feel validated.

    posted by K on 6-30-2009 at 10:38 am

  6. I agree with K- and the fact that it came from an Uncle John’s has nothing to do with it.

    posted by Sara in AL on 6-30-2009 at 12:33 pm

  7. I was just thinking the other day that, when I was younger, “tight” meant strict and was used when referring to parents and being grounded, ha, but now it means something totally different.

    posted by Sarah in CA on 6-30-2009 at 2:47 pm

  8. I have had multiple conversations about Alanis Morissette’s “Ironic”. I think she wrote the song like that on purpose. My argument is that the song is ironic because none of the stories in the song are ironic.

    posted by P. Esh on 6-30-2009 at 3:49 pm

  9. Web Site Story was the greatest!!

    I’m glad that Mr. Rohde made it out alive, but it is interesting to see the NY Times engage in secrecy and censorship when it comes to protecting one of their own. I hope they are this careful regarding information that might put our troops’ lives at risk.

    posted by Tex on 6-30-2009 at 4:22 pm

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