Things That Are Meta

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.