Impact
During its heyday, it was one of the most popular humor sites on the web. As of May 2011 the site was still the top Google hit for the word "brunching" and was the fifth hit for "shuttlecocks", though while the domain still exists, the website no longer has a home page and instead redirects to Lore Sjöberg's Google+ page. It was among the first sites to be given a "Slashbox" on Slashdot.
Mentions and praise in print media:
- Washington Post
- Newsweek Oct. 27, 1997, p. 12; Dec. 14, 1998, p. 18
- Entertainment Weekly Dec. 1, 2000, p. 107; May 24, 2002, p. 98
- POV Magazine, November 1999, voted one of the 100 best websites
- Jane (magazine) October 2000, p. 104
- The Guardian
Brunching was named as one of the top ten humor sites by Yahoo! Internet Life.
Lore's The Björk Song was played on the Dr. Demento show on May 20, 2001.
Read more about this topic: Brunching Shuttlecocks
Famous quotes containing the word impact:
“As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice—there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community. To discover how scientific revolutions are effected, we shall therefore have to examine not only the impact of nature and of logic, but also the techniques of persuasive argumentation effective within the quite special groups that constitute the community of scientists.”
—Thomas S. Kuhn (b. 1922)
“Television does not dominate or insist, as movies do. It is not sensational, but taken for granted. Insistence would destroy it, for its message is so dire that it relies on being the background drone that counters silence. For most of us, it is something turned on and off as we would the light. It is a service, not a luxury or a thing of choice.”
—David Thomson, U.S. film historian. America in the Dark: The Impact of Hollywood Films on American Culture, ch. 8, William Morrow (1977)
“One can describe a landscape in many different words and sentences, but one would not normally cut up a picture of a landscape and rearrange it in different patterns in order to describe it in different ways. Because a photograph is not composed of discrete units strung out in a linear row of meaningful pieces, we do not understand it by looking at one element after another in a set sequence. The photograph is understood in one act of seeing; it is perceived in a gestalt.”
—Joshua Meyrowitz, U.S. educator, media critic. “The Blurring of Public and Private Behaviors,” No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, Oxford University Press (1985)