David Murphy has a problem. It's not a big problem, but it's a problem. It's his license plate. A lot of people think that, after looking at it, he's a troll. Wrong! His license plate, which reads "TROLOLO," is actually in reference to Mr. Trololo, the onomatopoeic nickname of Eduard Khil, a Russian crooner turned internet meme. And Murphy, a tech writer in Silicon Valley, has a singing voice that resembles Khil's, which prompted his pals to give him the personalized plate for his birthday. Sweet, right? Well, not to the many rabid Reddit readers who foolishly mistook Murphy's plate as a proud proclamation of a trollism. more ›

SFist commenter Mike informed us that, after SFist posted this article about an Obama supporter allegedly beaten on Monday for his left-leaning ways, said supporter wasn't all he seemed. The nerve. Mike proudly writes, "As misreported by KCBS, the SF Examiner, SFWeekly, and SFist, here are the Larouche cultists who set up shop outside the Buena Vista Bank of America branch and trolled some girl into ripping up their sign. Shockingly, they called the cops and managed to spin the story as an assault on an Obama supporter. Touché, guys, touché." more ›

Chronicle film critic turned amateur psychologist Mick LaSalle has a lot to say about those filthy peons known as commenters. Mainly, that they suck. Hard. In his post "The Real You is the Anonymous You," LaSalle boasts that he never reads his stuff online, only in print. (In between leafing through a well-worn copy of Finnegans Wake, no doubt.) But by random chance, it seems, he ended up reading remarks on his year-end review piece, and was "struck by the belligerence and the willful stupidity of some of those comments." (Welcome to the club, angel. Can we get you a drink?) While he had initially dismissed comments as vessels for which people could play a character, LaSalle now reads them kernels of readers' true selves. more ›

Yeah. This is a day late. Digesting solid food was a fresh and exciting experience for us, so most of our Thanksgiving was busy doing that. Anyway. more ›