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January 29, 2009 12:08 PM

Anyone else see that Neatorama linked to the oval office desk post? Though they don't really give credit where credit is due. link

I suppose asking for a proper MLA styled citation is out of the question.

posted by Toekneesan to MetaFilter-Related at 12:08 PM (23 comments total)

They have a link to the MetaFilter post which in turn does an excellent job of linking to sources.
posted by Science! at 12:15 PM on January 29, 2009

What's really nice is that the first comment to the Neatorama post is a variation on "i saw this alrdy old shit".
posted by yhbc at 12:17 PM on January 29, 2009 [1 favorite]

Miss Cellenia usually gets things right. She's nine kinds of awesome.

Though they don't really give credit where credit is due.
It's delightfully ironic that you'd post this that way, with the 'link' link at the end. 'Cause I had to click through to see what you were talking about. You know, sort of like how Miss Cellenia encourages her readers to follow the link at the end of her post to the MeFi post to read the full story. Hm.
posted by carsonb at 12:20 PM on January 29, 2009

metametacitations.
posted by cjorgensen at 12:21 PM on January 29, 2009

ania, damn.
posted by carsonb at 12:22 PM on January 29, 2009

Now wait a gosh darn minute! Do you mean to tell me that they linked to Metafilter, but that they didn't say where the link came from!? Or, is going to? Or, wait, what do I mean?
posted by studentbaker at 12:34 PM on January 29, 2009

Haven't you heard? We're in a credit crunch! How do you expect to get credit in times like these?
posted by owtytrof at 12:41 PM on January 29, 2009

If you have to explicitly state the name of a site you're linking to, then my blog has rarely given credit where it's due. I'd count Neatorama's entry as entirely polite and appropriate.

This story was also linked on Making Light.
posted by Zed at 12:43 PM on January 29, 2009

"i saw this alrdy old shit"

In this case, the "old shit" in question is Nic Cage.
posted by Rock Steady at 1:00 PM on January 29, 2009

Also on waxy.org's links yesterday.
posted by exogenous at 1:31 PM on January 29, 2009

Congratulations felix on cracking the blogosphere and homesteading the noosphere.
posted by GuyZero at 1:43 PM on January 29, 2009 [1 favorite]

Not to mention waxy.org's link today.

*buffs fingernails*
posted by DU at 2:39 PM on January 29, 2009

I heard David Letterman is going to steal that whole thread for his monolog tonight.
posted by Astro Zombie at 3:11 PM on January 29, 2009

I heard David Letterman is going to steal that whole thread for his monolog tonight.

Cue the kottke post on that new craze: monologging!
posted by defenestration at 3:44 PM on January 29, 2009

Seriously? They linked right to MeFi. No doubt a "via" link would have been ok with you, so what makes this any different?

*yawn*
posted by niles at 3:45 PM on January 29, 2009

You got your logos in my blogos.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 3:45 PM on January 29, 2009

Credit is just a way the squares keep us under their thumb, man.
posted by Pants! at 3:59 PM on January 29, 2009

Do you know what the true cost of web link credit really is?
posted by GuyZero at 4:06 PM on January 29, 2009

Blogos.
posted by languagehat at 5:44 PM on January 29, 2009

Blogo
posted by blue_beetle at 6:00 PM on January 29, 2009

Also, mods, I know you all are hella busy right now, and I don't want to pile on, but that sumbitch should be on the sidebar, when you get a minute.
posted by middleclasstool at 6:03 PM on January 29, 2009

Good lord, do you have any idea how many times folks here have forgotten to mention that what they just posted to the front page came from Neatorama?
posted by mediareport at 6:27 PM on January 29, 2009

Victor Grippo was also interested in deskology (large). The desks have texts scribbled on them, but aren't visible in this picture. Sadly, my whole high-school oeuvre was in pencil; the world will never know it.
posted by ersatz at 8:47 AM on January 30, 2009