Comments on: What's up on the Internet: Yaka-wow! http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:41:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-866828 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-866828 Yaka-Wow! vinyl sticker auction on Ebay! http://tinyurl.com/22rxn22 #yakawow 3 hours left! Yaka-Wow! vinyl sticker auction on Ebay! http://tinyurl.com/22rxn22 #yakawow 3 hours left!

]]> By: ViolettVerq http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-764946 ViolettVerq Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-764946 So it's "faila-wow"? Or "fayla-wow", "failah-wow". Can't decide. Too breezy right now. Oh look - a squirrel! So it’s “faila-wow”? Or “fayla-wow”, “failah-wow”. Can’t decide. Too breezy right now.

Oh look – a squirrel!

]]> By: johnny payphone http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-764951 johnny payphone Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-764951 She's certainly right about the Twitter. Whenever I hear of some "threat" to humanity like this, it always seems to be overlooked that 1) a huge section of society is usually too poor to adapt whatever it is that is going to ruin us all, and 2) the people who shape and change the world don't waste their time on that stupid stuff anyway. She’s certainly right about the Twitter.

Whenever I hear of some “threat” to humanity like this, it always seems to be overlooked that 1) a huge section of society is usually too poor to adapt whatever it is that is going to ruin us all, and 2) the people who shape and change the world don’t waste their time on that stupid stuff anyway.

]]> By: Man On Pink Corner http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-764731 Man On Pink Corner Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-764731 Oh ye who go about saying 'Yaka-wow' Dost thou know the magnitude of thy sin against thy Gods? Oh ye who go about saying ‘Yaka-wow’
Dost thou know the magnitude of thy sin against thy Gods?

]]> By: jeligula http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-764490 jeligula Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-764490 Matt Parker is my new hero, replacing Sire Richard Francis Burton. However, he fails to understand that the Yaka-Wowsers lack that kind of physical coordination. It is not video game-controller-oriented. We had an attempt to turn back the tide of this phenomena way back when in the US. It was called the Presidential Fitness Challenge. It failed miserably. Hackey Sack did more than that ever did. I think Mr. Parker is a closet Hackey Dude. Matt Parker is my new hero, replacing Sire Richard Francis Burton. However, he fails to understand that the Yaka-Wowsers lack that kind of physical coordination. It is not video game-controller-oriented. We had an attempt to turn back the tide of this phenomena way back when in the US. It was called the Presidential Fitness Challenge. It failed miserably. Hackey Sack did more than that ever did. I think Mr. Parker is a closet Hackey Dude.

]]> By: fergus1948 http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-764766 fergus1948 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-764766 This woman does sound to have a rather extreme view of the effect of the online world on young brains but let's face it, she's right about Twitter isn't she? I thought her description of it was quite witty. (moves chair away from computer anticipating vicious slapback.) This woman does sound to have a rather extreme view of the effect of the online world on young brains but let’s face it, she’s right about Twitter isn’t she?
I thought her description of it was quite witty.

(moves chair away from computer anticipating vicious slapback.)

]]> By: mkultra http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-765022 mkultra Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-765022 She isn't necessarily right about Twitter. If you really think that Twitter is terrible and causing the downfall of civilization or whatever, that's just a sign that you're not subscribed to the right feeds. There are tons of feeds by brilliant, creative people like Peter Serafinowicz who really use the medium to its true advantage. The feed shitmydadsays, for example. Also, if you have a small group of family and friends who have been scattered to the four winds for the usual reasons, it's a lovely way to be connected to them daily in an asynchronous, casual way. Perhaps you're lucky enough to have everyone you care about in the same time zone, but a lot of us are not that fortunate. She isn’t necessarily right about Twitter. If you really think that Twitter is terrible and causing the downfall of civilization or whatever, that’s just a sign that you’re not subscribed to the right feeds.

There are tons of feeds by brilliant, creative people like Peter Serafinowicz who really use the medium to its true advantage. The feed shitmydadsays, for example.

Also, if you have a small group of family and friends who have been scattered to the four winds for the usual reasons, it’s a lovely way to be connected to them daily in an asynchronous, casual way. Perhaps you’re lucky enough to have everyone you care about in the same time zone, but a lot of us are not that fortunate.

]]> By: Sekino http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-764513 Sekino Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-764513 "It's not going to destroy the planet but is it going to be a planet worth living in if you have a load of breezy people who go around saying yaka-wow. Is that the society we want?" I... think that didn't sound nearly as bad as she intended it to... “It’s not going to destroy the planet but is it going to be a planet worth living in if you have a load of breezy people who go around saying yaka-wow. Is that the society we want?”

I… think that didn’t sound nearly as bad as she intended it to…

]]> By: johntheobscure http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-765538 johntheobscure Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-765538 I do not see Bell writing about this on either her own blog or her recent guest blog re: Greenfield. Could you provide a direct link, or clarify that you got these quotes from some type of interview? I do not see Bell writing about this on either her own blog or her recent guest blog re: Greenfield. Could you provide a direct link, or clarify that you got these quotes from some type of interview?

]]> By: Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-765034 Maggie Koerth-Baker Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-765034 I would agree with that. And add that Twitter has been invaluable for me, in that I'm able to build casual friendships and share information with colleagues who I'd probably never talk to--except to maybe send them a pitch letter--otherwise. It makes it a lot easier to participate in the science journalism community, while being able to live in a place (which I love) that isn't really a part of that community. Yaka-wow, indeed! <em>If you really think that Twitter is terrible and causing the downfall of civilization or whatever, that's just a sign that you're not subscribed to the right feeds.</em> Yes, yes, yes. It doesn't work as a second Facebook. Don't just add your friends and family. Add strangers who talk about topics you're interested in. Pretty soon, they won't be strangers and you'll be having some great, smart conversations (as well as participating in silly memes). I would agree with that. And add that Twitter has been invaluable for me, in that I’m able to build casual friendships and share information with colleagues who I’d probably never talk to–except to maybe send them a pitch letter–otherwise. It makes it a lot easier to participate in the science journalism community, while being able to live in a place (which I love) that isn’t really a part of that community. Yaka-wow, indeed!

If you really think that Twitter is terrible and causing the downfall of civilization or whatever, that’s just a sign that you’re not subscribed to the right feeds.

Yes, yes, yes. It doesn’t work as a second Facebook. Don’t just add your friends and family. Add strangers who talk about topics you’re interested in. Pretty soon, they won’t be strangers and you’ll be having some great, smart conversations (as well as participating in silly memes).

]]> By: invictus http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-764785 invictus Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-764785 tboy, I'm (almost) positive the original comment was heavily sprinkled with diced sarcasm and organic irony. tboy, I’m (almost) positive the original comment was heavily sprinkled with diced sarcasm and organic irony.

]]> By: jimh http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-764534 jimh Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-764534 Breezy ppl ftw. yakawow. Breezy ppl ftw. yakawow.

]]> By: Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-765558 Maggie Koerth-Baker Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-765558 John, Alice Bell emailed me her summary of the yaka-wow story. The quotes from Bell come from that email. All the quotes from Susan Greenfield come from stories that are already linked in the text of this post. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article7097817.ece and http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/digitalrevolution/2009/09/susan-greenfield-is-the-web-ch.shtml John,

Alice Bell emailed me her summary of the yaka-wow story. The quotes from Bell come from that email.

All the quotes from Susan Greenfield come from stories that are already linked in the text of this post.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article7097817.ece
and
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/digitalrevolution/2009/09/susan-greenfield-is-the-web-ch.shtml

]]> By: Forteto http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-764541 Forteto Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-764541 Uh.... A world of people saying yakawow is better then a world of people shooting each other and smoking. Allot like kumbaya. And what's wring with bring in the future? This women seems like a bit of a hippocrit. I didn't spell that right did I? Uh…. A world of people saying yakawow is better then a world of people shooting each other and smoking. Allot like kumbaya. And what’s wring with bring in the future? This women seems
like a bit of a hippocrit. I didn’t spell that right did I?

]]> By: flappy http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-764546 flappy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-764546 FCY-W, bree-z's! n + nothin'! FCY-W, bree-z’s!
n + nothin’!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-764547 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-764547 Yaka-wow motherF**ker ...it seems Die Hard worthy. Yaka-wow motherF**ker

…it seems Die Hard worthy.

]]> By: tboy http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-764549 tboy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-764549 <blockquote>This women seems like a bit of a hippocrit. I didn't spell that right did I?</blockquote> "Hypocrite", but that's cool. We're not going to harsh your #yakawow.

This women seems like a bit of a hippocrit. I didn’t spell that right did I?

“Hypocrite”, but that’s cool. We’re not going to harsh your #yakawow.

]]> By: Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-764553 Maggie Koerth-Baker Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-764553 The presence of Yaka-wow creates mellowness in all comment threads. The presence of Yaka-wow creates mellowness in all comment threads.

]]> By: Quothz http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-764554 Quothz Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-764554 I can't get past the resemblance to a porn soundtrack. *Bowm-chika-yaka-wow, bowm-chicka-yaka-wow* I can’t get past the resemblance to a porn soundtrack. *Bowm-chika-yaka-wow, bowm-chicka-yaka-wow*

]]> By: Boomshadow http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-765323 Boomshadow Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-765323 We can't uninvent it, huh? This seems like something Faith Popcorn would have come up with in the early 1990s to sell more bogus trendspotting/self-help books. Someone wake me when we have a word to express my viewpoint of this type of trend-astroturfing. It needs to be a much stronger, more emphatic version of <i>meh</i>...sort of an <i>ultimeh</i>. <i>Ubermeh?</i> <i>Hypermeh?</i> We can’t uninvent it, huh?

This seems like something Faith Popcorn would have come up with in the early 1990s to sell more bogus trendspotting/self-help books.

Someone wake me when we have a word to express my viewpoint of this type of trend-astroturfing. It needs to be a much stronger, more emphatic version of meh…sort of an ultimeh.

Ubermeh?
Hypermeh?

]]> By: Terry http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-764558 Terry Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-764558 I could have sworn Yaka-wow was that guy who got his arm cut off by Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Mos Eisley cantina. I could have sworn Yaka-wow was that guy who got his arm cut off by Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Mos Eisley cantina.

]]> By: phoomp http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-764567 phoomp Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-764567 I'm a fairly heavy Internet user: forums, blogs, facebook, twitter. This article is the first time I've seen "yaka-wow". I’m a fairly heavy Internet user: forums, blogs, facebook, twitter. This article is the first time I’ve seen “yaka-wow”.

]]> By: Raj77 http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-767133 Raj77 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-767133 She was fired for the fundraising combined with the growing levels of crazy, I believe. And no, that wouldn't be defamatory. The UK is the only jurisdiction whose defamation laws I know inside out, though. She was fired for the fundraising combined with the growing levels of crazy, I believe.

And no, that wouldn’t be defamatory. The UK is the only jurisdiction whose defamation laws I know inside out, though.

]]> By: Boomshadow http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-765342 Boomshadow Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-765342 Wait a MINUTE! I've had a major neuroscientific break-in. Through! Break<i>through</i>! "Yaka-wow" is the very latest iteration of "baaaaaaaa." I feel better now. I'm getting a sort of apres-<i>meh</i> feeling and that feels good. Wait a MINUTE! I’ve had a major neuroscientific break-in. Through! Breakthrough!

“Yaka-wow” is the very latest iteration of “baaaaaaaa.”

I feel better now. I’m getting a sort of apres-meh feeling and that feels good.

]]> By: DylanMorgan http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-764839 DylanMorgan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-764839 People don't say "yuck" and "wow" anyway. They say "fail" and "win." Clearly this woman has no idea what she's talking about. People don’t say “yuck” and “wow” anyway. They say “fail” and “win.” Clearly this woman has no idea what she’s talking about.

]]> By: friendpuppy http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-764584 friendpuppy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-764584 I would find it interesting for video games to be made that include division of attention exercises ala Gurdjieff. I'm not talking about the vernacular use of the word "multi-tasking." True division of attention. I would find it interesting for video games to be made that include division of attention exercises ala Gurdjieff. I’m not talking about the vernacular use of the word “multi-tasking.” True division of attention.

]]> By: blueelm http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-764585 blueelm Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-764585 Oooh... technological changes cause cultural changes. Scary stuff. It's ok. I'm breezy. Yaka-Wow! But yeah, if I hadn't read the article I'd have been thinking porn. Well rule 34 and all... Oooh… technological changes cause cultural changes. Scary stuff. It’s ok. I’m breezy.

Yaka-Wow!

But yeah, if I hadn’t read the article I’d have been thinking porn.

Well rule 34 and all…

]]> By: Nonentity http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-764842 Nonentity Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-764842 Easy, breezy, beautiful.. yaka-wow girl? Easy, breezy, beautiful.. yaka-wow girl?

]]> By: arkizzle / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-764590 arkizzle / Moderator Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-764590 Yeah, it got invented last Thursday.. Yeah, it got invented last Thursday..

]]> By: Neill S Mitchell Esq. http://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/whats-up-on-the-inte.html#comment-764846 Neill S Mitchell Esq. Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-764846 I feel a little crestfallen seeing & hearing some of the things Prof. Baroness Greenfield (CBE, Légion d'honneur) is saying. I'm hoping she is being misquoted as I remember being enthralled when she followed in the footsteps of Michael Faraday, Frank Whittle, Carl Sagan & Richard Dawkins in presenting the 1994 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (Journey to the Centre of the Brain). It really turned me on to Biological Sciences. I feel a little crestfallen seeing & hearing some of the things Prof. Baroness Greenfield (CBE, Légion d’honneur) is saying. I’m hoping she is being misquoted as I remember being enthralled when she followed in the footsteps of Michael Faraday, Frank Whittle, Carl Sagan & Richard Dawkins in presenting the 1994 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (Journey to the Centre of the Brain). It really turned me on to Biological Sciences.

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