Comments on: About the snowclones database

By: Links 5/12/12 « naked capitalism

Links 5/12/12 « naked capitalism — Sat, 12 May 2012 10:57:41 +0000

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By: A Humble Beginning | Re-Fuse

A Humble Beginning | Re-Fuse — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:28:55 +0000

[...] If you are interested in reading more about snowclones, start here. For now, I’d like to switch gears. I would actually like to contest the status of that last one on the list (If by X you mean Y) which is up on the queue at The Snowclones Database. [...]

By: Chris Radcliff

Chris Radcliff — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:35:32 +0000

The X is a lie!

By: Wesley Tanaka

Wesley Tanaka — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:05:22 +0000

Im in ur comments loving ur database!

By: Joe Clark

Joe Clark — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:55:14 +0000

Possible list of would-be snowclones at Cardhouse’s auxiliary brain, Macros2000 (best envisioned as pronounced half in French: “Macros deux milles”).

By: snowclones

snowclones — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:27:16 +0000

The crossed-out list is updated (mostly) every time I add a new entry, so until I put together a linked index, that can tell you which snowclones have entries, after which you’ll have to page through the blog to see the entries themselves. I do this with the “previous entries” link at the bottom of the page. (This would be slow if there were a lot of entries, but it’s only about four or five pages’ worth so far.)

I’ll look into putting together an index–that’s a good idea, and something that bothered me early on that I then forgot about.

By: Jay Levitt

Jay Levitt — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:00:42 +0000

Yep, that’s exactly what I was asking – thanks. Believe it or not, that wasn’t so obvious! Or, rather, I thought that the blog might itself be the database, but when I couldn’t find any sort of index, I started questioning it.

I saw the Queue, but it says it’s an index only of things that haven’t yet been added. There are some crossed out entries, which presumably have been added, but I couldn’t tell if that was back-dated to the beginning of the blog, or if that was only from the time the entry was written, or what. There’s no timestamp on the page, but since the first comment was in September, I’m assuming it was written around then. And since the default WordPress layout doesn’t have any sort of entry index, there’s no way to look at a list of snowclones without reading every page of the blog.

In your copious free time, if you should so happen to feel like maybe adding an index page for the snowclones category, it’d make it easier to understand what’s going on. (I have no idea if that’s easy or not in WordPress; I’d volunteer to help if I knew how.) If not, it’s all right, I’ll sit in the dark…

Thanks for a great resource.

By: snowclones

snowclones — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:05:30 +0000

@Jay: I'm not sure what you're asking, but this blog is the database. Each individual post is an entry in the database. If you want to see a list of snowclones, look at the Queue.

By: Jay Levitt

Jay Levitt — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:33:42 +0000

I clicked on “About the Snowclone Database” and got to this page. Then I read this page. It tells me about snowclones, and it tells me about who’s responsible for the snowclone database, and it tells me about what’s not in the snowclone database yet.

And then it shows me some comments on “About the snowclones database”, and then it lets me leave one. Which I am. Leaving one, I mean. Not “one”. Though I am one. Hmm.

But I don’t see anything about the snowclone database. That makes me sad. Which is a catchphrase, and maybe a cliche, but not a snowclone. If it were, it would be in the database. Wherever that is.

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Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:37:31 +0000

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