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  Fnord - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fnord is the typographic representation of disinformation or irrelevant information intending to misdirect, with the implication of a conspiracy.
To see the fnords means to be unaffected by the supposed hypnotic power of the word or, more loosely, of other fighting words.
The phrase "I have seen the fnords" was famously graffitied on a railway bridge (known locally as Anarchy Bridge) between Earlsdon and Coventry (U.K.) city centre throughout the 1980s and 1990s, until the bridge was upgraded.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fnord   (417 words)

  
 The Poem: Fnord   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Fnord is the butt-blotting fluid used in diaper commercials.
Fnord is the space in between the pixels on your screen.
Fnord is the odd-colored shingle on the side of a house.
www.holysmoke.org /sdhok/fnord.htm   (477 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Fnord is place where those socks vanish off to in the laundry.
Fnord is the feeling in your brain when you hold your breath too long.
Fnord is the the four-leaf clover with a missing leaf.
www.dumbness.org /fnordlist.html   (480 words)

  
 Fnord
Fnord is a pretty bizzare concept when its used.
Fnord is the lint in the navel of the mites that eat
Fnord is the source of all the zero bits in your computer.
www.trap17.com /forums/fnord-t30072.html   (434 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
I made breakfast in a pretty nasty mood, wondering if I'd seen the fnords, whatever the fell they were, in the hours he had fled out, or if I would see them as soon as I went out into the street.
The first conditioned reflex was to experience the panic reaction (the activation syndrome, it's technically called) whenever encountering the word ``fnord.'' The second conditioned reflex was to fl out what happened, including the word itself, and just to feel a general low-grade emergency without knowing why.
The fnords produced a whole population walking around in chronic low-grade emergency, tormented by ulcers, dizzy spells, nightmares, heart palpitations and all the other symptoms of too much adrenalin.
www-swiss.ai.mit.edu /~boogles/Illuminati/fnord.text   (528 words)

  
 FNORD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Fnord is that funny feeling you get when you reach for the Snickers bar and come back holding a slurpee.
Fnord is the lint in the navel of the mites that eat the lint in the navel of the mites that eat the lint in Fnord's navel.
Fnord is the serial number on a box of cereal.
www.kbuxton.com /discordia/fnord.html   (489 words)

  
 Defining Fnords   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The first one, a fnord, is a peculiar type of pastry that's a cross between a jelly-filled donut and a cinnamon roll, but nobody knows where they come from, all pastry companies deny having the recipe, but they still taste pretty damn good.
The second variety, a fnord, is rumored to be a small furry creature resembling a gopher, but may in fact be Mac Squirrell, and has so far eluded all attempts at capture.
The third variety, fnords, are the results of one of the US governments "Black" projects and is an insidious weapon designed to suck the odd socks out of every washer and dryer in the world and use them to smother anyone at any time, anywhere in the world.
www.chaosmatrix.org /library/chaos/texts/fnords.html   (190 words)

  
 The Chaos Gerbil's Lair [|] The Rant [|] Fnord   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Perhaps they are right, because fnord "is" a kind of nothing--a nothing that exists, a nothing that is there but not quite tangible.
Fnord may have been invented by Wilson as a satire on Government/Corporate/Illuminati propaganda and mind-control techniques, using subliminal "fnords" to scare people away from intellectual and philosophical issues, only letting them take solace in mindless consuming.
"Fnord" is also a cute thing to fnord distribute randomly fnord in your sentences fnord like there are sublifnordminal messages that are creeping fnord out from between the cracks of fnord whatever is being said on the surface fnord.
chaosgerbil.23ae.com /The_Rant/fnord.html   (526 words)

  
 What does Fnord mean to you?
I refuse to answer based on the fact, that, since I don't know what a Fnord is, there is some chance that it may not be a proper noun and therefore should not be capitalized.
The word "fnord" was invented in the "Illuminatus!" trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.
To me Fnord is a word used as a nonesense word as a reply to a nonesense situation.
surveycentral.org /?x&V=12869&ReSort=1   (1049 words)

  
 What is a Fnord?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
However, a mind with the intelligence to experiment with this kind of ruthless manipulation is doomed to regret it, especially when HP Lovecraft’s Cthulu, which holds the distinction of being the greatest evil ever known, is headed toward said brilliant, cruel mind.
Drake, a supporter of the fnords, believed every interaction to be a struggle for dominance, but this mistake caused him to finally realize that he committed what is possibly the only sin: betrayal of himself.
The fnords are neurolinguistic hacking, a term used by Neal Stephenson in Snow Crash, a book in which he portrays ideas as a viral, biological and technological, residing in a host and spreading.
pi.twentythree.us /fnord.html   (2510 words)

  
 Fnord - Uncyclopedia
Fnord is the bucket where they keep the unused serifs for wiki fonts.
Fnord is a Fnord is the noise that a tree makes when it falls and no one is around to hear.
Fnord is a verb related to superstition, i.e.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Fnord   (1096 words)

  
 Fnord   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In essence, a fnord is a word or phrase that stops thought and reasoned analysis.
Upon encountering a fnord, you are expected to stop thinking about the issue and declare it to be either good or bad.
If you continue to think upon encountering a fnord, your motives, your intentions, your intelligence, your common sence, and indeed your very decency as a human being may be called into question.
members.dslextreme.com /users/karl_lembke/politics/fnord.htm   (456 words)

  
 fnord HOWTO
fnord is a small and fast webserver with CGI-capability and has been written by Felix von Leitner.
fnord implements in-place substitution of.gif to.png and of * to *.gz if the file is available and the client supports the mime-type and content-encoding.
If fnord is compiled with CGI support enabled, it will regard files whose names end with ".cgi" as CGI programs and try to execute them.
www.fbunet.de /fnord.shtml   (700 words)

  
 gmane.comp.web.fnord   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Normally, this is not a problem, because fnord exits after sending the response, causing the connection to shut down.
However, when fnord is running with ucspi-ssl, fnord exiting doesn't cause the connection to close, causing the client to wait indefinitely for the response body.
Redirect with slash on directory request Maybe fnord doesn't do this on purpose, but I like it simply because it is convenient: If a request to "/" is received and "/" is a local directory, fnord originally responds with "not found".
blog.gmane.org /gmane.comp.web.fnord   (1643 words)

  
 Define fnord - a definition from Whatis.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Certain words are intended to be undefinable and "fnord" is one of them.
First used in Robert Anton Wilson' trilogy, The Illuminati Papers, fnord has developed a group of devotees that meet at certain pages in cyberspace to celebrate the word's sense of the apparent but indefinite.
Called sticky spots, these spaces are not really blank, but contain fnord, visible only to those privy to heavily guarded secrets and occult powers.
whatis.techtarget.com /definition/0,,sid9_gci212136,00.html   (280 words)

  
 Fnord - once and for all. - Above Top Secret Conspiracy Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Fnord is the serial number on a box of
I made breakfast in a pretty nasty mood, wondering if I'd seen the fnords, whatever the hell they were, in the hours he had fled out, or if I would see them as soon as I went out into the street.
Seriously......the only way to understand what Fnord means is through a personal interpretation via context.........it's a created word for use in the Illuminatus Trilogy and is incorporated into a concept well worth studying.
www.abovetopsecret.com /forum/thread27540/pg1   (1838 words)

  
 Fnord - S23Wiki
Fnord is meant to be used under linux with the diet libc ((K)fnord_id #99))
Fnord is a disinformation mechanism put on the net on various sites to confuse people when searching for illuminati or something like that ((K)fnord_id #67))
Fnords are the non-printed and unspoken words in the mass media that are there in specifically calculated positions to provoke a reaction in the reader/viewer on a subconscious level, especially in the news--making them one of the major tools of the Illuminati to manipulate an unwitting populace.
s23.org /wiki/Fnord   (1128 words)

  
 Fnord?
I marked it offensive just in case someone thought "Now I will have to kill you" was offensive.
The question/title is "Fnord?" It's hard to explain.
magbast: Where fnord is concerned, money is no object.
surveycentral.org /survey/3730.html   (775 words)

  
 Meanderings: Fnord + Blogger = Fnordder? ... Flogger? ... Blnorder?
A fnord is disinformation or irrelevant information intending to misdirect, with the implication of a conspiracy.
I used to have a Fnorder (code that generated Fnords) on my old site (one of these days, I’ll get around to bringing the “lab” back online … maybe), written in PHP.
The quote in fl (above) changes each the page is loaded … and it’s a “fnord”.
sjwalter.blogspot.com /2005/08/fnord-blogger-fnordder-flogger.html   (192 words)

  
 Fnord Linux   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Fnord is a Linux distribution designed to be built from source and maintained manually.
Unlike other built-from source systems, Fnord is not a toy; it is intended as a production Linux system (in fact, Fnord has been running on all of FnordNet's machines since 2000).
Fnord includes a ramdisk-based utility system for initially configuring the target system, a pre-built environment that allows for building the system, full source code for the base system, and source for many other packages.
www.fnordnet.net /linux/fnord-linux   (123 words)

  
 Fnord HQ's bloggy bit
Kitty Meow Meow has started a website to gather some of her work together and show off her unique style of drawing/animation.
I realised that frame is quite similar to this pic which displays the ability of fnords to shake the very essence of the world (or something ;)
A couple of pics from a recent horror meal at a Harvester, don't ever visit one it could be the worst meal in every aspect you ever have.
www.fnord.myby.co.uk /blog/FnordHQ.html   (1296 words)

  
 Steve Jackson Games: Fnorder
It generates a "fnord" string by using random words and inserting them into various grammatical patterns.
This is meant to run on Unix, but should also work on any platform with a Perl interpreter.
You should change line 1 of fnord.pl to be the path to the actual location of perl on your machine.
www.sjgames.com /misc/fnord.html   (199 words)

  
 Fnord-L 93 Nov 14-19
FNORD and Leri articulating the deathwish, goes to both and to zeek, becuz
FNORD must die; zeek of all userids must know, or has no business on the
Sorry Daniel, Leri and FNORD must die a natural death.
www.momonwheels.com /sbla/fnord/fn93nov14-19.html   (4902 words)

  
 SourceForge.net: FMORG/Fnord an OSS RPG and Game Engine
FMORG will be a small scale MORPG using the Fnord Game Engine, which is the first part of this project.
Fnord uses Irrlicht, Audiere, Raknet, tinyXML, OpenAL, and LUA.
Our goal is to build a modern, complete 3d game engine and the first game using it.
sourceforge.net /projects/fmorg   (201 words)

  
 Steve Jackson Games Forums - Fnord?
fnord is what they make vegetarian meatloaf out of without the vegetables
I keep seeing "fnord" and thinking about those funky Norse channels.
I know you've seen the fnords, but what about the ?
forums.sjgames.com /showthread.php?p=705   (623 words)

  
 Fnord Web   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
I'm currently playing with refactoring Fnord to use.NET This should allow for easier project setup and development.
Check out the CVS for a preview of fnord2, which is a redesign and new version of the fnord engine.
One of the new features is a 3d sound source scene node for irrlicht's scenegraph, which uses OpenAL to play sound with attenuation and doppler effect for distance and orientation.
fmorg.sourceforge.net   (227 words)

  
 Fnord   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
You can attach GUI widgets to parameters, and change their values in real time.
Good News (November 2003): Brown University has changed the licence on fnord to GPL so it is finally truly open source.
Thomas Banchoff (who advised its creation) uses fnord to teach calculus, geometry, and topology (see his projects list)
draves.org /fnord/fnord.html   (179 words)

  
 The Straight Dope: Does May Day actually commemorate the birth of the Illuminati?
Now and then, Shea claimed, the word "fnord" will pop up in a news story.
You can't consciously see it, he says, "but it's placed throughout the paper, and you notice it only subconsciously.
Every time you see a "fnord' you feel fear, so that by the time you have finished reading the paper you're in a state of chronic, low-grade emergency paranoia.
www.straightdope.com /classics/a1_043.html   (1411 words)

  
 b3ta.com user Professor Fnord
Home » Users » Profile for Professor Fnord (Back to the messageboard)
What I did on my month off from Fnord when I couldn't log in.
Sing along with the government warning that became a hit song.
www.b3ta.com /users/profile.php?id=498   (322 words)

  
 Fnord httpd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Top > All Packages in Directory > Fnord httpd
'fnord' httpd is a small HTTP server (15k static binary).
Please consider donating to the FSF to help support this project.
directory.fsf.org /All/fnord.html   (220 words)

  
 fnord - Band page with free MP3 music downloads on SoundClick
We split up for a while, but have recently reformed.
Unfortunately I've already sold my soul to james brown - the godfather of soul y'all so check it out
fnord are not allowed into China or Germany for thought crimes.
www.soundclick.com /fnord   (203 words)

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