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| Articles about Sarcasm |
| The Science of Sarcasm | | 2008-06-05 07:08:03 | | From the New York Times:
There was nothing very interesting in Katherine P. Rankin’s
study of sarcasm — at least, nothing worth your important
time. All she did was use an M.R.I. to find the place in the brain
where the ability to detect sarcasm resides. But then, you probably
already knew it was in the right parahippocampal gyrus.
What you may not have realized is that perceiving sarcasm, the
smirking put-down that buries its barb by stating the opposite,
requires a nifty mental trick that lies at the heart of social
relations: figuring out what others are thinking. Those who lose
the ability, whether through a head injury or the frontotemporal
dementias afflicting the patients in Dr. Rankin’s study, just
do not get it when someone says during a hurricane, “Nice
weather we’re having.” | | By: MindMods CogSciTech Biofeedback & Neurofeedbac | | |
| | Sarcasm, Harry Potter and Satanism, Oh My! | | 2008-02-21 20:51:46 | | Bear with me while I conduct a little experiment.I've noticed that the traffic on this site has taken a significant drop over the past week or so. Analyzing my stats, I see that I'm not getting nearly as many hits from Google image search any more. This isn't necessarily a bad thing; what I'm interested in is readers, not people looking for Britney Spears pics (and yes, in answer to yesterday's questions, I did actually post one picture of Britney before yesterday -- in my Britney/Paris Hilton caption contest).Anyway, this discovery prompted me to do some experimenting with Google image search, and sure enough, I'm no longer the world's leading authority on sarcasm. If you look hard enough, you can find my sarcasm motivational poster, but on someone else's site. What's up with that?Same thing with "Harry Potter Satanism." My "Satanism for Dummies" book cover pops up, but on someone else's site.And the form that I tore out of the back of a Harry Potter book to request more informat | | By: Mattress Police - Antisocial Commentary | | |
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| World's Foremost Authority on Sarcasm | | 2007-11-21 10:47:00 | | Lately I've hinted -- not very subtly -- that I'm now working for Google. I'm technically not a Google employee, but I'm working onsite at the Google headquarters on some internal projects for them. I didn't want to say too much at first because I wasn't sure how much I could tell you without getting in trouble. In fact, now that I think about it, I'm tempting fate with this post, as I was once fired from a job over an email that I sent the day before the Thanksgiving weekend. I won't go into detail on that now, but let's just say that I came into work the next Monday and couldn't log in to my computer. Some people just don't appreciate the fact that I'm the World's Foremost Authority on Sarcasm.Presumably, though, Google knows this about me, as they are the ones who gave me the title. If you look up "sarcasm" on Google, you'll see my picture. Well, ok, not my picture, but a picture I made. Seriously. Go to Google Image Search and type in "sarcasm." The number on | | By: Mattress Police - Antisocial Commentary | | |
| | | Enough sarcasm to sink a boat or two. | | 2007-04-14 20:00:12 | | Okay.
My test center was at Cortland, right? Cortland Jr-Sr School. Valley View Dr. And I got directions from Mapquest and my parents looked them over and were like, “Oh hey, we’ve been there before!” (And they have. When I was in sixth grade and in All County Chorus, or was it for NYSSMA? Whatever. It’s been five years, give or take.)
So, from approximately 7:41-8:00 AM, my parents and I were trying to figure out where the fuck the school was because the directions we got led us to a Valley View DR with a dead end. (Much to our relief, two other cars in front of us bearing kids Obviously Not From Cortland were also WTF-ing because hi, school? Totally not there.) My parents and I looked at each other and for several moments, we thought that if we stared at the dead end long enough– it might magically appear. (Hey, it worked with Grimmauld’s Place in Harry Potter.)
Finally, my dad pulled over and asked a nice man for directions (men, really, we shoul | | By: the cloudy dreamer/stacy | | |
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