Check out the Google news links on the right side of the homepage. Fashion, sports, politics — seems like every newswriter stuck for a theme is pulling out a 25 Random Things. Most of them, sadly, are short of any “Bests” imnsho.
It’s Valentine’s Day week, so let’s drop another romance-related Thing on the board:
My husband has been doing laundry every single night for an entire month. Yesterday he vacuumed and washed all the carpets. I have fallen in love with him all over again.
Geez. Some Things were meant to stay private, y’know? heh.
But if you are: Genius.
Unlike every other journalist at Time magazine, I instinctively thought we shouldn’t go to work on September 11, 2001. But I was on the thank-you-for-your-work e-mail anyway.
So some people aren’t satisfied with offering up Random Things about themselves. They want to change the world:
I’m a registered Republican who voted for Barack Obama. I blogged about my decision. You wouldn’t believe how many online “friends” and blog readers this cost me. Almost as many as the homeschooling friends I’ve lost because we [...]
Chris Wilson has a really interesting piece on Slate where he follows the growth of the “Random Things” meme among Slate readers and declares it dead. I love the cloud-sourcing he employs to get his data and the epidemiological tools he used to do his analysis. But I think he overreaches with his conclusions.
I think [...]
Since I’m posting bits from so many others for y’all to applaud or sneer at, I figure it’s only fair to put my own 25 up on the virtual dartboard:
1) When I was a little kid the only thing I ever wanted to be when I grew up was an astronaut. That never really changed.
2) [...]
In the beginning was the tribal campfire, where we all heard the same stories.
If that seems like an odd way to start an explanation of a digital meme, hang on for the ride!
For the first 100,000 years or so of human existence, your childhood friends became the friends of your adulthood and old age, if you [...]
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