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user-inactivated · 3118 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Sunday Paper 2015.10.04: The plot against student newspapers - more below the fold.
The McSweeney's game: count the number of words in the article, and then spend that many seconds reading it. But you have to factor the time it took to count. So for their average 16-word hipster list article, that's maybe 10 seconds to count, six seconds to read, consider, analyze and rebut, and then you can move on with your day.Mod mentions McSweeney's. Of course he does. That most precious of vanity houses, where every word is a poem and every layout is an homage to the Farmer's Almanac. Where content is too clever by half and if deprived of its whitespace and linen becomes tawdry and dull.