Reading and Language 14 May 2006 09:03 pm

Blank is the new blog

$70 is the new $50. The location field is the new command line. Water is the new oil. Fake is the new real. Awake is the new sleep. Sleep is the new sex. Death is the new pornography. Ignorant is the new educated. The individual is the new group. Death is the new sex. Blue is the new green. Green is the new black. Orange is the new black. Pink is the new red. Blood is the new black.

10 Responses to “Blank is the new blog”

  1. on 14 May 2006 at 9:04 pm 1.Cam Sculpin said …

    All these via Google, except $70 is the new $50 via The Oil Drum.

  2. on 14 May 2006 at 9:14 pm 2.brandon said …

    Google is the new Microsoft

  3. on 14 May 2006 at 9:17 pm 3.brandon said …

    It turns out that:

    Google is the new Microsoft
    Microsoft is the new IBM
    IBM is the new Sun
    and “Sun is the new *” does not yield interesting results.

  4. on 14 May 2006 at 9:30 pm 4.oddangel said …

    Blood is the new black.

    Good stopping point, because apparently “black is the new black” according to Google.

    Dogs are the new black, too, btw.

  5. on 14 May 2006 at 10:03 pm 5.Wim said …

    Other new blacks include anal sex, domain names, and ugliness.

    Laps Are the New Desks
    Tag clouds are the new mullets
    Web Logs Are the New Bulletin Boards
    Thumbs are the new fingers
    Dermatology websites are the new porn
    Portals are the New Newspapers (from late 2005 — “portals” were thoroughly dead by then, I’d thought)
    Ethics are the new craft
    Men Are the New Women
    the media are the new dictatorship
    Graveyards are the new payphones (?!)
    Triathlons Are the New Golf
    friendly, nice people are the new cool

  6. on 14 May 2006 at 10:12 pm 6.Cam Sculpin said …

    brandon: It also turns out that Yahoo is the new Google, and that Google is the new Yahoo. Doubleclick is also the new Yahoo.

    oddangel: Some other things that are the new black:, fat, folk, modest, ugly, horizontal, transformation, innovation, apricot, brainy, bitter, and blacker.

    Dogs are the new black; cats are the new dogs; rabbits are the new cats; beavers are the new rabbits; penguins are the new beavers; owls, seals, and gay cowboys are the new penguins; hummingbirds are the new owls; butterflies are the new hummingbirds; peacocks are the new butterflies. Aiiee.

  7. on 15 May 2006 at 6:27 am 7.Grouchy Chris said …

    The oracle at Google would also have us believe that…

    There is no new Black Panter Party.
    There is no new Einstein.
    There is no new version available in unstable.
    There is no new campus news today.
    There is no new physics in the mutiplicative anomaly.
    There is no new Fidel.
    There is no new civil rights movement.
    There is no new Germany.

    And saddest of all, there is no New Orleans.

  8. on 15 May 2006 at 10:03 am 8.oddangel said …

    All is one.
    All is twenty.
    All is truth.
    All is vanity.
    All is normal.
    All is forgiven.
    All is full of love.
    All is silent.
    All is good.

  9. on 15 May 2006 at 11:00 am 9.Cam Sculpin said …

    Nothing is impossible.
    Nothing is true.
    Nothing is ridiculous.
    Nothing is sacred.
    Nothing is everything.
    Nothing is loved by everything.
    Nothing is inflammable.
    Nothing is forever.
    Nothing is happening.

  10. on 16 May 2006 at 6:18 am 10.Rechercher said …

    Cam is the new Morissey. ;)