I got into an online argument with a fanatical opponent of free software and copyleft, and I completely ripped him a new one. My arguments were far more cogerent than anything he could muster, and it was just a bloodbath. I sent the transcript to Boing Boing, since they used to be interested in this kind of thing. I was totally prepared to be rejected, since plenty of people rip anti-free-software people new ones every day. It's not really new or exciting, and Boing Boing specialized in new and exciting things. What I wasn't prepared for was the automated reply I got just a few minutes later. It informed me that my submission did not mention "remixed," "transit map," or "anagram," so it wasn't really likely to be a "wonderful thing." It also explained that the Boing Boing staff might eventually get around to reviewing it, but that they were busy recovering from a bout of laughter after reading the remix of LA's Red Line. "`Modest Nuns Tavern!' That's the funniest thing *EVER*!!!1!一!" the message said.

I did some digging on this and I'm going to make sure that everyone out there knows how to make one of these amazing hot new anagram remixes of a transit map or other photo. You'd think it's hard, judging from the attention it is getting on Boing Boing, but with the handy Miss Kitty's Guide to Making Amazing Hot New Anagram Remixes of a Transit Map or Other Photo Guide, you'll be making them faster than the Boing Boing staff can fall out of their chairs with laughter. Here's how you do it.

1. Find an image of a transit map. You might be saying, "No way can I find such a thing! I see why these anagram maps are so hot!" Well, with this handy Google hack, you can find bunches of them. Go to this link: http://images.google.com/images?q=subway+map&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images and you are set. Thank goodness for Google hacks.
   
2. Now go ahead and download that image. Odds are good that it will be in a format that some kind of graphics editing software can handle. If not, you may need to use your mad hacking zkills to convert it into a format that graphics editing software can handle.
   
3. Once you have it in a format that graphics editing software can handle, fire up your graphics editing software. If you don't have any, you can probably find it through yet another Google hack: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=graphics+editing+software&btnG=Search.
   
4. Depending on how much memory (known to people with mad hacking szills as "REM") your graphics editing software takes up, you might want to swap this step with the one above. Anyhow, you'll need an anagram generator. Again, you might say, "But Miss Kitty, don't anagram generators sell for thousands of dollars? Is making amazingly hot anagram maps really worth thousands of dollars?" Well, that might have been true in the bad old days before Google hacking. Now the more perceptive of you will know what I'm going to suggest at this point. Yep, it's another Google hack, and it's so good that pretty soon even the ultra-rich will be throwing out whole drawers full of old anagram generators. However, I'm not going to just post a link to it. That's not fair to you. You should learn to hack Google yourself. Improve your mad Google hacking skzlls! Here's how:
   1. Go to www.google.com
      
   2. Click on the text entry field (to the left of the button that says "Search!").
      
   3. Use your keyboard or other text entry device to enter the text "anagram generator" (with or without the quotation marks).
      
   4. Press the "Enter" or "Return" or some such key on your text entry device or use the mouse to click the "Search!" button to the right of the text entry field.
      
   5. Revel in awe of your mad Google hacking skizzs.
   
   
5. Look at the names on the transit map and type some of them into your newly found anagram generator. Maybe write them down: make a table in which one column is "Words Originally on the Map" and "Anagrams of Those Words" and fill it with words originally on the map and anagrams of those words. You don't need to put much thought into this step. The anagrams you come up with don't really have to be that funny. "Ah jerk thumps" is just as likely to get you Boing-Boinged as the more carefully crafted humor of "Ah jerks thump."
   
6. Use your graphics editing software to cut and paste the letters of the words on the map so that they look like anagrams for those words.
   
7. Submit your map to Boing Boing. How? Well, you might expect this to involve a Google hack. Not so! Instead, you can rely on my mad Boing Boing hacking zzzzzs: behold the instructions!
   
8. Wallow in your new-found Internet fame.