I find it intriguing that the default categorization for WordPress posts is “uncategorized.” It seems as if they should be just not categorized, so that they would not even be seen if you searched by category. “Uncategorized” is a categorization in and of itself; it seems like the ultimate paradox. That is, if it was not just a decision made by a coder without regards to semantics.
Another thing. If you search for images on Google using the keyword “uncategorized” you get many results, that seem to defy categorization. For example (all of these will be hotlinked from the sources – they can be damned – hopefully someone will exchange the picture with something cool like “don’t hotlink pictures” or a picture of genitalia, but I will not be so lucky):
This picture certainly fits into no category, except for perhaps “sucky murals.” I could go to the blog site and find out that it is some famous piece of art, but I do not care (perhaps if it were categorized I would…).
Here is an uncategorized picture of a person in from of an elephant mural… it seems not to fit into a category, but is it uncategorized? I would say it is actually in the category of “random bad murals with people walking in front of them.” You may not think this a good category or tag, but I bet the blogger would use it more than once.
This uncategorized picture is “closer than we think,” but I do not know what we are thinking about, nor do I care. I still think that whatever “it” is in the sentence should probably be the category.
Here is an other image that came-up as uncategorized. At first I thought it was a middle-aged man staring at a half-naked woman, but, upon my hotlinking it, I realize it is the dreadfully unfunny Amy Sedaris.
Middle-aged man staring at an ass = funny and sad, Amy Sedaris doing the same thing = uncategorized (obviously).
I will go with this one as being uncategorized; when is a picture like this ever appropriate?
These pictures clearly show that being uncategorized is an apt fate for elephant-related pictures…
and whatever godforsaken animal this creature may be.
I could scour the web for posts and pages categorized as uncategorized, but, obviously, there are likely millions of unconnected, lazy posts that are growing exponentially as spam bloggers and the disenfranchised start blogs that go nowhere faster than towards coherent or relevant tags.
Obviously there is only one category for this posting, and it may be the first time that it is, in fact, relevant.
