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When Andrew, somewhat unwillingly ("It's a little mean... but funny.") sent me a link to thingsyoungerthanmccain.com, I got a pretty good laugh out of the idea that McCain is older than pee bee and jays.

What's funnier, though, than being older than that sandwich, is the list of names that reporters have given to this exchange between Michelle and Barack before his speech last week in St. Paul. My favorite? "The fist bump of hope." (Seriously, if you never follow any of the links I include in my posts, follow this one. Funniest article ever.)

super-sweet stuff-stealing skills

One of my former profs posted this entry not too long ago detailing instances of online syndication of an article he wrote for a print journal. Pretty interesting stuff:

"In case you haven't noticed, the web supports some pretty robust forms of syndication. Syndication disrupts how we traditionally think of authorship, in that what is on any given web page is not necessarily written by the author of that page. And I'm not talking only about something being copied from one page to another, but syndicated in the sense that content from one site is hosted on another."

I remember some discussion of forms of syndication in his class. One example we came up with was sampling in the music industry, and particularly in hip hop. I looked into that a little bit more for a project for another class using this article as a jumping off point.

The content I'm hosting below reminded me of those more interesting (at least I think) pursuits, but something about the image of John Mellencamp all like, "Dude! No!" strikes me as funny and definitely worth blogging about.