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November 28, 2005
Pace, Patterico
Something seems to have snapped in Patterico's brain. In his quixotic quest to be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, just to make the point that any yotz can "achieve" such an honor, Patterico now wants people to "Google-bomb" his name (Patterico), linked to the Nobel Peace Prize committee URL -- which is http://nobelprize.org/peace/nobelpeacecenter/index.html.
Sorry, Patterico; I refuse to play such infantile games. You have to get your Peace Prize with no help from me.
P.S. Can someone explain to me what a "Google-bomb" is, and why Patterico would make such a weird request?
Hatched by Dafydd on this day, November 28, 2005, at the time of 11:43 PM
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The following hissed in response by: karrde
good article on Google Bombs:
http://www.microcontentnews.com/articles/googlebombs.htm
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at November 29, 2005 5:47 AM
The following hissed in response by: pbswatcher
Patterico's mission is simple enough and worthy enough. He would like to embarrass the Nobel organization by pointing out how disconnected from reality they are. The mission is also impossible. The Nobel prize committee has already proven beyond a reasonable doubt, in fact beyond any doubt, that they are immune to embarrassment as well as to reason and logic.
The above hissed in response by: pbswatcher at November 29, 2005 7:14 AM
The following hissed in response by: Patterico
Heh.
The above hissed in response by: Patterico at November 29, 2005 7:25 AM
The following hissed in response by: matoko kusanagi
yup. Patterico is mocking the Nobel Peace Prize.
A "good" use of google bombing happened last spring when the GeneExpression community pushed an embarrasssing Jared Diamond paper onto the front page. The paper contradicted parts of Diamond's latest book, Collapse.
IMHO, Patterico's campaign is a "good" use of google bombing.
The above hissed in response by: matoko kusanagi at November 29, 2005 11:22 AM
The following hissed in response by: Patterico
Btw, pbswatcher, Dafydd is engaging in very subtle humor here. The joke is in the links.
The above hissed in response by: Patterico at November 29, 2005 1:34 PM
The following hissed in response by: pbswatcher
I get the joke. But it's pointless. Inside jokes and arcane nerdgames have no influence with these people. They have the courage of moral superiority and are immune to logic and embarrassment. It is a secular religion for them. The people who nominated Tookie think they were doing a good thing. The prize committee has a huge PR machine which they use in the service of their political beliefs. They are perfectly sincere. ElBaradei was no joke to them.
The above hissed in response by: pbswatcher at November 30, 2005 7:12 AM
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