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I'll take the noise thanks

Friday January 27, 2006

There is a blogger who I know reads this blog once in a while (not that I'm bragging), whose blog I commented on today, who might think this post was inspired by his post but it's not and if he doesn't think this post was inspired by that post then good, I am glad we settled it three sentences from the end of this paragraph. No, there was another, much holier than thou, post that inspired this post but I don't want to directly link to the post because they have about 10,000,000 more readers than me and I am scared. And so, to the blogger who might think I am blogging because of his blog and having a rant at him, I am not. I am glad we cleared that up, I'll carry on then Garrett! ;-)

Hitler, now he was a nice man wasn't he? In the world of signal versus noise, our man Hitler was a signal man all the way, no space for noise in his view of the world.

The Chinese government, they don't like noise; in fact so much so they are having those nice people at Google filter all unwanted noise, technology is great isn't it?

Eddie Izzard, he makes a load of noise. I mean really, the guy talks absolute crap and makes a fortune doing it but fuck it makes me laugh and when I laugh some happy chemicals are released and I feel fine.

Fucking, and I don't mean swearing, I mean a good vigorous work out in the old horizontal gym, that makes a lot of noise, or at least it should do in my opinion.

So there we have it signal versus noise, I know which I choose.

  1. Anton

    1504 days ago

    Brilliant. That’s all I have to say about that.

  2. Martin Smith

    1504 days ago

    Are you drunk Mr. Oxton Sir?

  3. manuel

    1504 days ago

    dont think that matt wants you to think how he thinks, i think he thinks what he wants and so shall you, fellow oxton.

    i call this “too much noise about a personal signal”. i could have ‘passed’ to comment, but wtf, eh? :D

  4. Rob Wilmshurst

    1504 days ago

    Not drunk!? You should be dammit!

    I think they’re just upset that nobody tagged them ;)

    It’s all in the name. A ‘bullshit tout la monde’ wouldn’t get any stick about, erm, noise v cygnets.

  5. Rob Wilmshurst

    1504 days ago

    erm, yes, damn merlot. that’d be a ‘bullshit tout la monde’ blog.

    ahem.

  6. Justin Perkins

    1504 days ago

    I like the noise. I need it. When was the last time an article about standards (web standards, I hope?) and web development brought a chuckle and a smile? I should hope never.

  7. Jon Hicks

    1504 days ago

    ;)

    Their feed was removed from my NewsFire tonight. I’m with you brother.

  8. Joshua Tuscan

    1504 days ago

    Agreed. Nothing worse than someone that acknowledges their own self worth blatantly.

  9. Justin Perkins

    1504 days ago

    Are we really talking about a real person, I’m so lost. I tried to figure it out but couldn’t. I’m either a daft mofo or this is another one of those UK things.

  10. Paul Smith

    1504 days ago

    I did think that was a bit up its own arse – as with a fair bit of other stuff from the same mob lately.

    If I ever get that anally retentive about anything, I authorise the readers of this blog to shoot me. No really.

    And I AM drunk (It’s Friday night for christ’s sake…)

  11. Graham Bancroft

    1504 days ago

    I’m not sure what’s going on (for a change) but I would have to say…no, no, no, no…yes!

    But I am also a bit frightened, is the world about to end?

  12. jordan

    1504 days ago

    Yeah, that’s just about enough of them.

  13. JD

    1503 days ago

    I, for one, love it when people post anything regarding a “meme” to their blog. I have way too many subscriptions and crap like that makes it terribly easy to decide who to unsubscribe to.

    That being said, I’m about done with designers who blog altogether. Most of them are big morons. Just my $0.02.

  14. Andy Hume

    1503 days ago

    Owww… someone tell me what this is about?

  15. jordan

    1503 days ago

    Andy: Key words are `signal’ and `noise’. ;)

  16. anonymuis

    1503 days ago

    u know what, i visited that site when i still had the earphone in my ears after doing a podcast, and that site is just uff damn it …

  17. jacob

    1502 days ago

    I found them both!
    Could it be that they just don’t have anyone to pass the meme on to? Or are insulted it reached them only now, after all the good answers are already taken? :)

    Bring on the noise!

  18. Justin Perkins

    1501 days ago

    Thanks to a certain hick, I finally, finally get this post. I’ve been a little slow on the uptake lately, obviously.

    You sneaky man, John, reading this post was like the Da Vinci code. A message within a message to guide me to the real message.


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