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What do you mean? Like an area of the 'bakery itself? |
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[hippo] baked my anno idea. |
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Yes phoenix, that is what i mean. |
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I think there are two reason why this would be valuable. |
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1) we'd finally have a place to say "I told you so" when a
silly idea actually works. |
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2)we'd be inspired by the fact that some of the sillier
ideas can become a reality. |
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That said, Im not really looking for a big payoff personally
from this thread. My only Halfbakery idea to be baked was
pre-distressed shoes, and permanently distressed/wrinkled
clothing as compliments to our worn out blue jeans. And
Obviously from the look of this trend in real life, my idea
was clearly a mistake! |
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sorry - I meant that to mean that very, very few ideas here ever get developed so it would be a sort of empty place... |
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It might motivate people to put things into practice. |
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I've seen several ideas from this site baked after being posted, and I like the concept of a repository for ideas that made it to the real world, but rather than making extra work for the site can't we just link them to this idea? |
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I've also seen several ideas from this site baked that are no longer here because of account deletions or the crash or whatever, so finding those might prove difficult. |
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Is there definitely a causal relationship? It could be either a Zeitgeist thing or people might get inspiration from here. I think there's a tendency for people to express ideas whose time has come, so others think of them at the same time. It's like Swan and Edison or Darwin and Wallace. |
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I think that's about right. When it's an ideas time, any number of people could have it.
I also believe though that those who know how to profit from a good idea are not necessarily innovators themselves, and that sites like this one are watched rather closely. |
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I've also seen humor and fragments of conversations from the halfbakery showing up in sit-coms, talk shows and broadcasts like Myth-busters and Daily planet.
This might be a total coincidence but I don't thinks so. I know that if my job was to constantly pump out new and interesting written material of differing perspectives, this would be one of the grounds I'd be keeping an ear to. |
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It's really hard to tell when it's just something in the air and when it's copied, if it ever is. Which brings me to a question which has bugged me for years: how well-known is this place? I know i can look at sites which rank its popularity, but they don't give me an accurate impression. |
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I've known a couple of people who became moderately famous, and what happened was that i began to notice they were mentioned increasingly often in newspapers, on TV and the like until i suddenly realised they were actually famous. I couldn't see it because i was too close to them. I sometimes wonder if the HB is like that. |
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There's definitely more mythbusters material on the halfbakery than there is halfbakery material on the mythbusters (if any - I've never talked to anyone there). The Bay Area in particular is full of artist-constructors who build their own stuff (all those weird art cars at Burning Man are coming from somewhere); they have their own markets and magazines and fairs.
Amidst all that, the halfbakery is neither central nor unusual - it looks mostly like a place with an unusually large contingent of Brits, some of which write really funny stuff, if you bother to read it, which most people don't. |
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We're like a minor D-list celebrity. Our mom would be proud, there's a wikipedia entry, but don't mention us a at a dinner party and expect to not have to explain what the thing is - and it's good that we still have that job waiting tables. |
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Thanks, [jutta], that's brilliant. One of my failings is inability to see certain things from the outside, and this is one of them. So, in rock music terms we're Prefab Sprout? In movie terms, what are we? Shaun Of The Dead? |
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I also wonder whether that status is equal globally. It seems to me there are more Australians than in some other places. |
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No no no - we're not nearly "Shaun of the Dead". We're just about "Leningrad Cowboys go America" (link). |
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More like an obscure, independent, low-budget, direct-to-divx fan movie like "Return of The Ghostbusters". |
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Re: sitcoms etc, what specifically have you heard, [2 fries]? |
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The Radio Four programme "Genius" is a copy of the entire concept of this site, though this was to some extent acknowledged and open. |
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No specifics really [Textile]. I think I've seen a few one liners and some suspiciously familiar run-on pun fests on Two and a Half Men off the top of my head, as well I remember an episode of Grey's anatomy where the case of the penis fish aired shortly after the link was posted here.
hmmmm, what else?
Cirque du so-Lame became a Leno punchline one night not too long after I tag-lined it.
um, swimming up a clear tube of water held suspended by negative pressure ended up on Fear Factor after it was posterd here. |
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Crap, I dunno, I just read the most fascinating topics discussed by some of the smartest wittiest minds it's been my privilage to encounter, showing up in real life after they've been anylized and every bit of humor and tangental topics have been wrung from them here first...
and almost never the other way around. |
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