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Stuff White People Like
Personal blog · stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.comculturewriting
Stuff White People Like is a personal blog at stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com about culture and writing. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2010, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's numbered posts on topics such as The Wire, indie music, not watching TV and popularity, usually as bare links or quick asides. No comment judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This blog is devoted to stuff that white people like
Most-linked posts?
- /2008/01/26/28-not-having-a-tv/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-05-09
What Hacker News says?
Also, since this is Harvard: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/98-the-... And because the students taking this course probably aren't physics majors: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/47-arts...
Comment linking /2008/02/01/47-arts-degrees/
on “Why We're Teaching 'The Wire' at Harvard”Submitted A guide to the ways of rich, white customers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAlthough, don't we sometimes unfairly criticize entities that are popular only because they are popular? http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/40-indi...
Comment linking /2008/01/30/40-indie-music/
on “Never Hate. Only Ever Destroy.”Submitted Ode to Apple fans as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttp://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/28-not-...
Comment linking /2008/01/26/28-not-having-a-tv/
on “My No TV”"It's a fact" makes it sound like some actual facts supporting the title would be in the article. Alas, no. Noticing this was from sfgate.com, I suspected this was a Mark Morford piece even before clicking through. Morford is such a perfect exemplar of bien-pensant San Francisco thought, and of what passes for wit among the orthodox politically correct, that I sometimes wonder if he's real. He's like a character fro…
Comment linking /2008/01/26/28-not-having-a-tv/
on “How to stay very, very dumb. It's a fact: TV sitcoms destroy your brain.”
