with style, style, style -- DONE

Well, I probably failed that exam. But who cares??? I PASSED THE CLASS, BABY!!!

(For the curious, following the abysmal exam, I received my paper, on which I had received an A grade with the comment that it was one of the most insightful papers in the class. Unless I bombed this exam way worse than I think I did, I still get a C for the quarter.)

And now, an interlude:

I found the following while browsing books in the Core. The bookstore, you see, did not have the book I needed and neither did the library. So I did some time-killing while my nerves kept me all jittery about the upcoming exam. The book was some journalist's collection of essays about blogging.

(to the tune of "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel)

Jeffrey Zeldman, Scripting News, OnFocus, MemePool
Accidental, Wendell Wittler, Pith and Vinegar
BluishOrange, Robot Wisdom, Windowseat and Television
MetaFilter, Yuppier Slayer, Whim and Vinegar

Slightly North, Strange Brew, Lake Effect, RandomFoo
WebWaste, 2xy, RandomWalks, and Flutterby
Calamondin, MetaScene, Ribbit, and MTHology
David Gagne, Wockerjabby, Little Yellow Different

(chorus)
We didn't start the weblogs
They were always thinking
Of good sites for linking
We didn't start the weblogs
No, we didn't incite 'em
But we're trying to write 'em

RiotHero, Medley, Chrish, Looka, Danelope, and Jish
Hack the Planet, Mr. Barrett, Ethel the Blog
Planet Jon, Donkeymon, Day 17, Gammatron
/Usr/Bin/Girl, and SurvivorBlog
MegNut, Kottke, Saturn, Weblog Wannabe
Swallowing Tacks, Anthony, Thoughts at Random, Entropy
Geegaw, EatonWeb, Caterina, EvHead
LinkinLog, Openlog, Electric Biscuit

(repeat chorus)

LOL, Webmistress, Mermaniac, Hit or Miss
Geeknik, Blog by Night, Touched By an Impudite
RasterWeb, Montreal, Craig is Periodical
Psionic, Other Side, KarenH is hard to rhyme

Inessential, BradLands, Packet Monkeys, Mister Pants
SixFoot6, Baylink, Not So Soft, and ThinkDink
LarkFarm, PeterMe, Moronic and Apathy
Mellifluous, Techno, Ctrl-Alt-Ego

(repeat chorus)

Hemisphere, Swirlee, What's On It For Me
Wetlog, BrainLog, NeoFlux, and Stuffed Dog
Somnolent, Jauteria, Re-run, Netdyslexia
Dan Says, CamWorld, PlasticBag, MetaGrrrl
Harmful, Bits, and Q, Rebecca, and MetaCubed
NTK, My Latte, Fiendish Thingy, and Array

(repeat chorus)

ThinkHole, NeilAlien, Dack and Senior Citizen
GeneHack, FastHack, Kestrel's Nest, Tomalak
Bump, Harrumph, and Backup Brain, IRC on Wednesdays
Andrew Abb is in Japan, Prol is in the Netherlands
South by Southwest, stuff to buy, Power Bloggers, junior high
Weblog rings, filter things, ads, cams, some can sing
Blogger formats them for you, Manila and Pitas too
Beebo ratings, blogger wars, I can't link them anymore

(repeat chorus x 3 to fade)

Bonus points for actually recognizing any of these. The song must have been written around 1999, the Primordial Ancient History of weblogs, and most of the A-listers who's names are here shamelessly dropped date that year or *gasp* earlier. The song is credited to Nikolai Nolan.