Hey MonkeyBrain, your mother was a hamster!
And your father smelled of elderberries! So there.
Check out our new project, HeyMonkeyBrain.com, a lightweight little debate site that packs a serious punch.
Mashable has a great writeup about it, and there are some neat conversations happening over on Digg.
HeyMonkeyBrain is a simple, free way to post an argument and invite your friends, colleagues (and nemeses) to join in. You can add links, books, videos and other tools to make your case, but the centerpiece of the page is a two-column thread of diverging views. Inspired in part by Scott Adams’ brilliant book and blog, in part by the presidential primary debates, and in part by the Flying Spaghetti Monster, HeyMonkeyBrain takes the long-standing tradition of online arguments and perfects them.
Start an argument about who you’re voting for in November, make a case for why NOT to buy the iPhone, sound off on global warming, rant about why Britney Spears is actually dumber than a dolphin. HeyMonkeyBrain puts you in charge of the debates that matter to you.
Better than comments on blogs, less Draconian and gated than Wikipedia, funnier than The Colbert Report without its writers, HeyMonkeyBrain isn’t just about picking a fight. It’s about championing opinion and passion, it’s about acknowledging that consensus is hard, it’s about sticking up for your beliefs and changing the web (and the world) a little bit every day. (And, oh yeah, you can raise money for charity along the way, just like all Squidoo pages).
Some may argue that this has been done before. The brilliant minds already running debates at HeyMonkeyBrain beg to differ. It’s never been this easy, this elegant or this persuasive. If you disagree, hey, you can always let us know.
Here are some great debates that are just getting started on HeyMonkeyBrain. Tell ‘em what you think. Or pick your own fight.
Audio books are better than radio.
Smoking should be banned in all public places.
Steve Jobs is an arrogant prick.
Tofu or Bacon: Which side are you on?
Zazzle beats the pants off CafePress
Paper or Plastic?
PHP or Rails?
Faith is more important than religion.
Vinyl is better than Digital.
Pow!