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:
“Too many existing classrooms for young children have this overriding goal: To get the children ready for first grade. This goal is unworthy. It is hurtful. This goal has had the most distorting impact on five-year-olds. It causes kindergartens to be merely the handmaidens of first grade.... Kindergarten teachers cannot look at their own children and plan for their present needs as five-year-olds.”
—James L. Hymes, Jr. (20th century)
“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)
“The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.”
—Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)