Crake

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A little about me...
Influences: Daniel Dennett, Karl Popper.

Strengths: Typing, being meta.

Weaknesses: N/A

Member Since: April 21, 2008
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dag says...

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I haven't visited Everything2 in years - it was started by the Slashdot guys, no? I'll check it out. Weird that it pre-dated wikipedia by so much, but never caught on to the same extent. The web is a fickle thing.

In reply to this comment by Crake:
Do you know Everything2.com ?
it's like a wikipedia with articles like "the melancholy you get while making tea in the late afternoon and it's raining"... nah, doesn't quite explain its appeal, but it's a nice site, very well written.

Anyway, they have a user-made list of related articles, used and abused with often hilarious results. just saying, if you made a full list of potential ads available to input for a given video, it would almost certainly get abused. Don't know if the advertisers would like it, but it would probably be fun .

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That's a neat idea - if we could find an advertiser to play along. We're definitely going to try integrated ads again.

In reply to this comment by Crake:
To expand on Kevin143's idea about integrated ads, could they be user-calibrated too? so one could *edit the *ad field to make it relevant and/or non-annoying?

also, I'll chip in in 2-3 business days, which is what paypal tells me it will take to verify my credit card... it's only fair, since I am an ad-blocking, firefox-using meatbag

dag says...

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That's a neat idea - if we could find an advertiser to play along. We're definitely going to try integrated ads again.

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To expand on Kevin143's idea about integrated ads, could they be user-calibrated too? so one could *edit the *ad field to make it relevant and/or non-annoying?

also, I'll chip in in 2-3 business days, which is what paypal tells me it will take to verify my credit card... it's only fair, since I am an ad-blocking, firefox-using meatbag

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dag says...

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I think I pictured James Franco as Crake for some reason. And me for Snowman - seriously look at that bearded under-achiever visage in my profile. You could paint some children blue for the crakers.

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I'm not sure what to respond to that, having related so heavily to Crake... hmmm... i don't know who would make a good crake though... I suppose it would depend on who played Snowman. and Oryx (Shannyn Sossammon? except she doesn't act very well).

Also, the dancing, indigo-penised crakers would definitely never make it to film.

In reply to this comment by dag:
He would make a good Crake. I'd love to see a movie version - even though they'd have a hard time doing it justice.

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Well I can never help relating to the young brooding villain.

Except if he's played by Hayden Christensen.

dag says...

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I think I identify more with Snowman. Waiting for the Pigoons and Rakunks to get me.

In reply to this comment by Crake:
Exactly!

I thought Crake was the coolest character ever, so I stole the name.

I promise not to bring about the apocalypse though

In reply to this comment by dag:
Do you like Margaret Atwood? That was a fantastic book.

In reply to this comment by Crake:
my question is the same as i asked after watching The Matrix: Couldn't they just have the Moon?
Lots of silicon, lots of sunlight, no pesky corrosive oxygen or water.

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