Things That Are Meta

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All, Thank you for your readership and interest.  I have loved all the reader input, ideas, contributions - I couldn't have found all these excellent meta-isms on my own. I took a several month break from blogging but now am back in the game! Cheers, Susan

In a fractious free-for-all, rival hackers engage in tit-for-tat attacks on each other, often for no better reason than to outwit the other guy. http://nyti.ms/lWovGt This is a NYT repost. Hackers Select a New Target: Other Hackers In a war of egos, it's one hacker against another. The hackers, calling themselves the A-Team, assembled a trove of private information and put it online for all to see: names, aliases, addresses, phone numbers, even details about family members and girlfriends. But their targets were not corporate executives, government officials or clueless bank customers. They were other hackers. And in trying to unmask the identities of the members of a group known as Lulz Security, the A-Team was aiming to take them down a peg — and, indirectly, to help law enforcement officials lock them up. The core members of Lulz Security “lack the skill to do anything more than go after the low-hanging fruit,” the A-Team sneered in its posting last month. In re...

In honor of Lisbeth's departure from my office - but not from my life - I thought I would reissue one of my favorite blog posts of all time.  Au revoir, Lisbeth and Lisbeth's tiny office within our office! Dear world, meet my coworker Lisbeth. Lisbeth runs a blog about tiny things , so for her birthday, her boss got her a very comprehensive office suite playmobile set. A secret admirer got her a tiny piano for her tiny office, but that's another story altogether. We set up a meta photo shoot so that it could be seen by all as not just a small toy, but also an office within an office . We think we got some good shots - enjoy! The side-by-side; notice the leg anglementation and the white notebook in the right hand:

Guest post by Maria. It turns out Google isn't just awesome, it's meta, too! One of Google+'s new features is called Huddle, which is a group messaging feature.  As far as we can tell, it has no real purpose.  However, two of our friends were caught putting their heads together to try to figure this feature out - in other words, they were huddling over Huddle!  Thanks, Google.

Your mind is about to be blown, what with this 'mind blowingly meta' post from Jade!  Once again, we see an instance of celebrities enjoying their spot in the meta limelight.  This might just be a pattern. Tiffani Thiessen And Justin Bieber Create A “Saved By The Bell” T-Shirt Vortex It all started when Justin Bieber wore a Kelly Kapowski T-shirt to the MuchMusic Video Awards. Shortly after, Tiffani Amber Thiessen, who of course played Kelly on “ Saved by the Bell ,” decided to wear a Justin Bieber T-shirt to the premiere of “Horrible Bosses.” “I’m just trying to show the love back,” said Tiffani. “He’s adorable.” [ NY Mag ] But things got way, way, way more meta from there… Over the weekend, Dustin Diamond , aka Screech, showed up to an event wearing a T-shirt of Tiffani wearing a T-shirt of Bieber wearing her T-shirt. Then Mario Lopez rocked a tank top featuring Dustin wearing the T-shirt of Tiffani wearing the T-shirt of Justin. [ Buzzfeed ] ...

First of all, XKCD is amazing.  Second of all, if you don't know, Douglas Hofstadter is, like, the captain of all things meta.  Thereby making this cartoon funny:

The CAP cap has finally arrived.  (I work at CAP; it's a baseball cap.  It's a CAP cap!  Please tell me you didn't need that explanation, but someone did earlier today.)

THIS STORY BEHIND THE STORY E-MAIL NEWSLETTER FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES NEWSROOM HAS BEEN PREPARED EXCLUSIVELY FOR TIMES SUBSCRIBERS AND IS THE FIRST OF AN ONGOING SERIES YOU’LL RECEIVE AS PART OF YOUR SUBSCRIPTION. How The Times scrambled to report on Osama Bin Laden’s death. By ALISON MITCHELL Mitchell is the weekend editor of The Times and was the hands-on editor closing the paper and ramping up the Web site on 5/1.     It was just before 10 p.m. when Doug Mills, a photographer in the Washington bureau, got a call from the White House press office telling him that President Obama planned to address the nation in 45 minutes. The message was brief and urgent: “Be there.”     In New York, it had been a more or less normal Sunday. We had picked six stories for the front page and had closed the first national edition. On a Sunday night at this late hour there are not often big changes.     I ...

IPABI: "It's Probably A Bad Idea." #IPABI is meta because it's a bad idea (probably) about bad ideas (probably - vote on them to find out if they are actually bad!). --BEGIN-- From: Alex Harris Newest Project: IPABI Hi Friends and Family, I am writing you to tell you about a fun website I have just launched. It is called IPABI.com which stands for Its Probably A Bad Idea. It is a site for doing exactly what you would think, sharing bad ideas. Every bad idea begins with IPABI. For example....IPABI to assume that he knew he was adopted. There are many categories to choose from ranging from Relationships to In the News. My hope is that many people will use the site and get some good laughs from it. The ideal user joins the site, reads bad ideas and votes on them and shares their own. I would really appreciate you taking the time to look at the website, vote and maybe submit some bad ideas or join the site. If you are extra motivated you can follow IPAB...

Thanks Jade.  This is genius/terrible... a repost from White Whine: A collection of first world problems updated daily.

This story is a repost. In his review in the New York Times today, Michael Kinsley calls Page One, the documentary about the New York Times, “a mess.” He’s right, but not in the way he thinks it is. This is a movie about the news industry: of course it’s messy. Director Andrew Rossi leads his audience across the wasted media landscape, with stops along the way, writes Kinsley, at “WikiLeaks; the Pentagon Papers; more WikiLeaks; the survival issue; Gay Talese and his famous book on The Times, ‘The Kingdom and the Power;’ Comcast’s purchase of NBC Universal; the impact of Twitter; the danger of not sending reporters on trips with the president; how ABC has had to lay off 400 people.” Apart from the messiness of the topic itself, there’s something nice about a sprawling approach, especially when our stories so often come in the form of Tweets, updates and headlines designed to be clicked on. It’s satisfying to see a fly-on-the-wall account of the business (and one of its epicenters)...

My friend Sara reports from her Eurotrip: "They had museums for everything in Amsterdam. (They even had a museum museum, Susan Lyon !)" I'll take it!   If you say or read the word museum a bunch of times fast, it starts looking really weird.

Yay toast!

On the betrayal of Anthony Weiner's private photos.  This is so wrong but it's happening.  It's not my fault the author characterized the situation as meta! "But since Breitbart is a liar and keeps his Weiner cock shot on his person at all times (wouldn't you?), he shared it with the guys on his phone. Then they took their own snapshot and put it on Twitter. A meta leak, if you will." More on Weiner at Gawker (where else?).  Apologies for any offended sensibilities.

http://snailmailr.com/ "Is this meta, or just stupid?"  LK asks.  I don't know.