Don’t Wait! Order The CHEAPEST MEDICATIONS NOW » Cialis Professional Online Without Prescription http://goesping.org/archives/2007/02/01/snotty-vs-snappy/ Pinging stuff I care about. Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:01:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Don’t Wait! Order The CHEAPEST MEDICATIONS NOW » Cialis Professional Online Without Prescription http://goesping.org/archives/2007/02/01/snotty-vs-snappy/comment-page-1/#comment-9296 mph Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:44:47 +0000 http://www.goesping.org/archives/2007/02/01/snotty-vs-snappy/#comment-9296 Yeah ... I was trying to make this distinction a while back by calling people like Wonkette (or the reporter at Salon) "cool" and comparing them to, say, Snappy, who is warm. Cool is about staking out the territory around a thing and looking in. Warm is about being part of the territory and looking around. When Tycho and Gabe bitch about a game at Penny Arcade, that's cool because they're being warm about it. They care and they're invested. When the Salon reporter wanders off to a protest march and comes back complaining about all the smelly hippies, that's cool. And it's not very cool. Yeah … I was trying to make this distinction a while back by calling people like Wonkette (or the reporter at Salon) “cool” and comparing them to, say, Snappy, who is warm.

Cool is about staking out the territory around a thing and looking in. Warm is about being part of the territory and looking around.

When Tycho and Gabe bitch about a game at Penny Arcade, that’s cool because they’re being warm about it. They care and they’re invested. When the Salon reporter wanders off to a protest march and comes back complaining about all the smelly hippies, that’s cool. And it’s not very cool.

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