Ourobourean Insult Games
Regardless of how you personally feel about, Dave Winer (I'm kind of on the fence), you have to admit that RageBoy has just set a fiendishly clever and quite splendidly nasty little trap over here (caution: NSFW - but then, what the heck is these days?).
In Chris's own words: "...OK, now here's how the game works. Simply place the exact string "that asshole, Dave Winer" somewhere on your blog. The quotes and comma are optional. Then wait. Google will eventually find all such references, and as they are added to the global index, the new search button I've provided near the top of the right column (see it over there?) will serve as a day-to-day measure of Dave's fast-growing popular appeal..."
There's tail-eating, diabolical cleverness in his vitriol.
Just imagine you were on the receiving end of something like this? How could you possibly resist the urge to check your own stats at least once every couple of days?
Which means, if you're anything like me, you'd be searching on "that asshole [your name here]" every couple of days, watching the numbers tick up, as the steam billowing out your ears grows hotter and denser day by day.
Evil, but delicious.
In Chris's own words: "...OK, now here's how the game works. Simply place the exact string "that asshole, Dave Winer" somewhere on your blog. The quotes and comma are optional. Then wait. Google will eventually find all such references, and as they are added to the global index, the new search button I've provided near the top of the right column (see it over there?) will serve as a day-to-day measure of Dave's fast-growing popular appeal..."
There's tail-eating, diabolical cleverness in his vitriol.
Just imagine you were on the receiving end of something like this? How could you possibly resist the urge to check your own stats at least once every couple of days?
Which means, if you're anything like me, you'd be searching on "that asshole [your name here]" every couple of days, watching the numbers tick up, as the steam billowing out your ears grows hotter and denser day by day.
Evil, but delicious.
