So I was walking around the internet today, and I saw this fantastic piece of art someone had scribbled on the wall. Perfectly subtle, yet strangely compelling.
It was odd though: only about 4% of my fellow web-destrians were inclined to stop and wonder at this beauty.
I could say:
"WTF??"
or I could say:
"Genius!"
or I could say:
"This page intentionally left blank."
or I could say:
"I couldn't have said it better myself."
We won't get a creationism debate out of this unless it has already been deemed appropriate by the intelligent designer. Don't dream to be at HIS level.
Don't think me unkind
Words are hard to find
They're only cheques I've left unsigned
From the banks of chaos in my mind
And when their eloquence escapes me
Their logic ties me up and rapes me
De do do do de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do de da da da
Their innocence will pull me through
De do do do de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do de da da da
They're meaningless and all that's true
Poets, priests and politicians
Have words to thank for their positions
Words that scream for your submission
And no-one's jamming their transmission
'Cos when their eloquence escapes you
Their logic ties you up and rapes you
De do do do de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do de da da da
Their innocence will pull me through
De do do do de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do de da da da
They're meaningless and all that's true
A gorgeous, minimalistic display commenting on the temperorary nature of the blogosphere. Mark's lack of words try to point towards the danger of filling the blogosphere, the lovely tubes, with so much meaningless junk.
But the commenters insist on filling it, treating it as a truck. Refrain! For I have felt a great disturbance in the Intarwebz, as if millions of trolls cried out in terror, and were suddenly deleted.
I see what you're doing! This is a "white space only" post where there are no letters (ie BLACKS!) allowed! Way to take us back to the 1950's you bigot!
Thanks to Google cache, we can see that this post was at one time a very disturbing, yet hilarious, yet brilliant joke involving Isaac Asimov, the FCC vs EFF, kittens, Condi Rice, a tugboat, a broken Amazon Kindle, photographers rights, and -- very oddly for this blog -- anal sex. The brilliant part is that the joke was written with words entirely made up of vowels....
@88, GEMMA, How funny that you and I should have the same comment. I just posted mine and saw yours come up when I refreshed... unless I'm sometimes GEMMA?!? Yes of course, it all makes sense now!
There came to take the A first I didn't comment
Then They took B I didn't comment
Then They took C I didn't comment
Then They took the Vowels I didn't comment
Thn Thy tk th thrs, I culdn't mnt
It's an attempt to disprove that bloke's law? Umm the one who said that as the number of comments increases the likelihood of someone bringing up Hitler approaches 1?
Will an empty post break the record for number of comments? So much from nothing, I love the implications of this. . . Maybe we can solve the energy crisis by applying this philosophy to the laws of physics.
the freedom-loving, peacable, easy-going Government of the People's Republic of China vehemently objects to the hurtful lies and false sayings of this post and hereby announce our intention to sue for billion, jillion, zillion dollar - ah, Euros in fair compensation for our hurt feelings and to buy ponies for all the people of the Voluntary Chinese Province Formerly Known as Tibet.
Your untitled post makes me very angry! I do not like it when people abuse me by not giving me a title! I don't care that it's blank, I just don't like that it's untitled!
Don't think for a minute Mark didn't know exactly what he was doing here. This post is a blatant attempt change the sex of Boing Boing's mascot. Start with the first word "Untitled." "Un" meaning "not." "Tit," a vulgar term for breast. "Led," invoking Mark's intent to draw women away from their womanhood -- as if we didn't already understand his real intent. Seriously people, can't you see what Boing Boing is trying to do? "Untitled = No breasts going forward." And it's just the first step, otherwise why include "1" after "Untitled." God only knows where this will end. Sick.
This seems like a test of what would happen if the internet had no leaders. Instead of many people responding to one initial topic, they are left to communicate what ever they wish without any initial focus. I think it is safe to say that in the event that we, the common folk, are left to ourselves, all hell breaks loose, and chaos ensues.
Or Mr. Frauenfelder could have accidentally posted an empty article.
Everyone is dissecting your eloquent post and trying to find some way to turn it against you. It's all just "Gotcha!" games. They're gonna take your words and try to twist them so that they sound like you were saying something bad, which I know you weren't. Why are they doing this? Do they hate you? Are they against hope itself?
I find it very amusing that this post has more comments than anything else on the front page right now, by over 100 comments. You've outdone yourself, Mark.
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I was sitting in a bathroom stall the other day at my college. The walls had been painted over, marking that day as the third time I'd ended up vandalizing fresh pain over graffiti. It seemed to me that bathroom stall graffiti had become quaint, an almost archaic notion of a simpler time. After all, the internet is the wall everyone writes on with anonymity - the physical object stands as a reminder of old days, like a dial phone complete with cord, or like a do-it-yourself radio kit. That era is done.
It figures, then, that the appropriate response is to the internet as a modern repository of the vulgar and the trite would be to post blank space.
Congrats, Mark. You have just won the internet. Everyone else can pack it up and go home.
Well I dreamed there was an island
That rose up from the sea.
And everybody on the island
Was somebody from TV.
And there was a beautiful view
But nobody could see.
Cause everybody on the island
Was saying: Look at me! Look at me!
Look at me! Look at me!
dude it's sooooooooooo deep the artist has made us create the post by commenting [ten minute pause] yeah we are the post man were all like one and stuff. [another long pause] yeah that's awesome, this post's makin' me hungry.
Oh and no i am not making fun of Jimh
to some extent he may be right...
I am writing to express my Frank Disgust and Deep Indignation at the content of your publication. In my day, We Had An Empire. There were Standards. I am Shocked, Shocked and Disgusted at this state of affairs, further, Something should be Done.
There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away
We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Now that I think about it, I'm not really surprised that this post has gotten such a huge reaction. It's like when a kid gets a really big, fancy present, he/she usually most enjoys playing with the empty box.
I think 160 and 163 are on to something... the post has some essence that evades attention, I keep refreshing it, trying to catch it unawares, trying to trick it into revealing its true, hidden content...
#216: that's what makes this so great, and likely why it's been allowed to stand.
People are seizing the opportunity to goof off and be silly in the extreme, while harming no one. I would certainly say that qualifies as a "wonderful thing." ;)
If you read every single comment in under two one minute and thirty seconds it leaves an after image in your head that allows you to view the original post as it was intended which is a simple but detailed explication of the meaning of life the universe and everything, no not not the book by Douglas Adams (though it does make several references to it), but the real meaning of life the universe and everything but if it takes you two minutes and thirty one seconds, hello.jpg will be permanently seared into your retina and that's the only thing you'll ever be able to see forever until you die.
I'm late with jumping on the bandwagon, and I've been a reader of BB for what seems to be years now. Never before have I posted, or even had a login here, But now. I feel compelled.
This posting spoke volumes to me, it evokes emotions suppressed since childhood, rattles long forgotten memories, and brings out the pet lover inside me. How can I not post, to applaud such elegance, such sheer evocative power of symbolism?
My hat off to you, Sir. This post, changed my life.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
-- Thomas Carlyle
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Mr. Freunfelder, listen to me, and listen good. I am a research scientist in the field of memetics. 10 years ago I wrote a paper called, "Memes that could destroy the Internet, and possibly the whole of modern civilization." It was this paper that led to the successful quarantine and subsequent eradication of the Numa Numa meme.
In the aforementioned paper, The No-post Blog Post was on the top of a list of the 4 most dangerous memes which if released to the net could eradicate the intarwebs as we know it.
Just imagine, boing boing, youtube, slashdot, salon, all inundated with contentless content.
And it won't just stop with the internet; Movies, television shows, music, even your MIND -- all left in a Zen-like tabula Rasa. And it gets worse, there will be... There will be... I... I can't think.... mind... going.... blank...My god, it's already begun!
For the love of god, Fraunfelder, delete this post while you still have the chance! While we still have an Internet!
This seems like a good time to tell you GREETIINGS BELOVED I am John Mumbaw, barrister, of the Republic of Freedonia. Forgive me for sweetest contact inall manner possible but I have a business transaction for to offer...
This post has been found to be an effective decay preventive dentifrice when used in a conscientiously applied program of rectal hygiene and regular professional care.
"The National Day of Silence brings attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools. This year’s event will be held in memory of Lawrence King, a California 8th-grader who was shot and killed Feb. 12 by a classmate because of his sexual orientation and gender expression. Hundreds of thousands of students will come together on April 25 to encourage schools and classmates to address the problem of anti-LGBT behavior."
The Tao that can be called Tao is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth.
The named is the mother of ten thousand things.
Ever desireless, one can see the mystery.
Ever desiring, one sees manifestations.
These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gate to all mystery.
Untitled and unwritten?
Untitled 1?
Generic reply.
Succinct, and yet jejune.
Snarky note 0.
witty, meta-comment
great article, leaves it open for a sequel
This post fills me with ennui.
There's a subtle hint of Sarcasm that strikes just the right cord. Nice post!
hell YES untitled! WOOOOOOO
Maybe it's symbolic...
No comment.
tl;dr
This has been our weekly dose of web zen.
Bloody minimalists!
just glad it's not another TED post
I demand that you not pay attention to me!
Ommmmm.
¿
Love it. We all pay attention :)
<meta-snarky response />
Very refreshing, after reading some of the long-winded, or would that be long-fingered?, BBGadgets posts. I think 2.jpg would make great cover art.
One way or another I'm sure we will still get a creationism debate out of this.
So I was walking around the internet today, and I saw this fantastic piece of art someone had scribbled on the wall. Perfectly subtle, yet strangely compelling.
It was odd though: only about 4% of my fellow web-destrians were inclined to stop and wonder at this beauty.
I'm not sure how to respond to this ....
I could say:
"WTF??"
or I could say:
"Genius!"
or I could say:
"This page intentionally left blank."
or I could say:
"I couldn't have said it better myself."
But I'm not going to say any of those things.
OGC
t lst! n ntllgnt pst.
@22,
We won't get a creationism debate out of this unless it has already been deemed appropriate by the intelligent designer. Don't dream to be at HIS level.
This has been our moment of Web Zen.
Aren't we all?
Pure Nihilism. No ferrets involved.
Very Dada.
Comment 32.
Wow, these secret decoder glasses from a 1987 Happy Meal really DO work. And here I was about to give up hope...
tough to argue with that sort of thinking.
Number 9...number 9.
Google...?
Don't think me unkind
Words are hard to find
They're only cheques I've left unsigned
From the banks of chaos in my mind
And when their eloquence escapes me
Their logic ties me up and rapes me
De do do do de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do de da da da
Their innocence will pull me through
De do do do de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do de da da da
They're meaningless and all that's true
Poets, priests and politicians
Have words to thank for their positions
Words that scream for your submission
And no-one's jamming their transmission
'Cos when their eloquence escapes you
Their logic ties you up and rapes you
De do do do de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do de da da da
Their innocence will pull me through
De do do do de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do de da da da
They're meaningless and all that's true
Cowicide,
Rule 34, word rape. (Clippy!?)
Be quiet. EVIDENCE or IVA BIGGRUDGE will hear you.
Boingboing already posted this 1987 March
Steampunk!
I love that 20 people have already favorited this.
Dude!?
Dude?!
Snrky cmmnt tht gts cnsrd by th mds at Bng Bng.
Hw vry mt.
WHOA!
Steady on there Mark, we're all friends here.
There are opinions, and then there's just base slander, and you sir, are veering very close to the line indeed.
I shall away, and bid you good day sir!
Straight to the point. I love it.
this post has a liberal bias
typical
Why do I sense this as a ploy for BoingBoing readership to create the content of BoingBoing?
* claps *
Well played Frauenfelder... well played...
I love that "nothing" can cause so much of a reaction. We are the 4% who stop to look at the painting.
OK, I guess I can't delete this now! :)
~ or ~
Citation Needed!
IT'S PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME!
Usually I like Boing Boing. It's smart, it's witty; it speaks to me.
This posting however is brilliant! Think about it, a posting entitled "Untitled 1". It's poetic almost.
Mark has really outdone himself with this one.
I like turtles
Mark sought a moment of quiet
The comments created a riot
Ne'er missing a beat
They turned up the heat
And dared Mark to try and deny it
Ha ha, u did it WRONG. There's spose to be wurds in there.
That which is often dumped in response to an internal error
Hm. Before I comment, I'd like to see your artist's statement regarding this post.
John Cage would be proud.
So much for the moment of silence. sigh.
yarr!
I'm looking forward to Untitled 2.
Kierkegaard himself couldn't have done a better job of expressing the value of negative communication.
what??!!!
Favourited :)
Ceci n'est pas un post.
A gorgeous, minimalistic display commenting on the temperorary nature of the blogosphere. Mark's lack of words try to point towards the danger of filling the blogosphere, the lovely tubes, with so much meaningless junk.
But the commenters insist on filling it, treating it as a truck. Refrain! For I have felt a great disturbance in the Intarwebz, as if millions of trolls cried out in terror, and were suddenly deleted.
getting to the very essence of what a blog posting is... untitled1!
OMG A STEAMPUNK [insert any object, literally any object at all, I don't see why this is so bloody fascinating]
There, now we have a topic.
no comment
Is this about the Sigur Ros song?
Best. Post. Ever.
I see what you're doing! This is a "white space only" post where there are no letters (ie BLACKS!) allowed! Way to take us back to the 1950's you bigot!
Old meme.
Old absence of meme is Old.
In before lock.
An epic meditation on intangibility
Hello World!
I like the new Mini Clubman, it a cool looking little car.
Cool Ads too.
it's the internet equivalent of a Rorschach Test
I looked for a secret message in the source code, but no avail.
I should just appreciate it for what it is.
Well, when there's nothing more to say, it's time to go down to the pub.
Mine's an Adnams Explorer please.
Post Submission Error
Your post submission failed for the following reasons:
Text entered was wrong. Try again.
Its the internet!! THIS ARTICLE WAS CENSORED BY THE NEW WORLD ORDER. What if this article was the last hope of humanity? Now we will never know.
....in all seriousness is this a Boing Boing blog experiment to see what happens when you post a blank blog?
Thanks to Google cache, we can see that this post was at one time a very disturbing, yet hilarious, yet brilliant joke involving Isaac Asimov, the FCC vs EFF, kittens, Condi Rice, a tugboat, a broken Amazon Kindle, photographers rights, and -- very oddly for this blog -- anal sex. The brilliant part is that the joke was written with words entirely made up of vowels....
You know what happened....
this reminds me of being at work :)
I'm clapping, but with only one hand.
[*]
comment 90
anyone ever see the movie Pootie Tang?
@88, GEMMA, How funny that you and I should have the same comment. I just posted mine and saw yours come up when I refreshed... unless I'm sometimes GEMMA?!? Yes of course, it all makes sense now!
Blankpost is blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaank.
This is some sort of social experiment, isn't it?
Fake.
[yelling "theater" in a crowded firehouse]
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear,
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't
I love good viral marketing, but I hate when I can't tell what the product is. Is this for the new Batman movie?
I HATE THIS POST, I LOVE IT SO MUCH.
pithy.
Calling attention to the spatial aspects of bloging. very good. We too often look at the substance and ignore the form.
Taking Joel's lead, cementing my place in internet history with a simple comment.
I posted this to digg and reddit... more people need to know about it.
There came to take the A first I didn't comment
Then They took B I didn't comment
Then They took C I didn't comment
Then They took the Vowels I didn't comment
Thn Thy tk th thrs, I culdn't mnt
Blogspam. Buried as such.
I remember when content is king.
But in a nihilist sort of way, no content is king of kings.
It's an attempt to disprove that bloke's law? Umm the one who said that as the number of comments increases the likelihood of someone bringing up Hitler approaches 1?
Oh crap - I guess I just brought him up.
damnit.
photoshopped
made you look!
monkees always look!
- .... . -.-- - --- --- -.- -- -.-- -... ..- -.-. -.- . -
Pics or it didn't happen.
pics or it never happened!
OBNOXIOUS CRITICISM
FOLLOWED BY
ELITIST COMMENT
You're Doing it Wrong!!!!
** Way too late to get read but commenting anyway
m s sck f hrng bt nttld... hnstly, whn wll t nd?
my anxiety is through the roof because of this post. i can't grapple with existential nothingness.
s lng s t's nt pst by xn.....
Ceci n'est pas une post.
Maybe the post date/time has significance?
-also-
This should actually be called "Magic Window"
(boc forever)
This post is useless without pictures.
Wow! Was this some sort of cyber experiment to see what would happen? Apparently we'll comment about anything, or nothing at all.
unable to form an opinion, but I thought I'd share it anyway...
Screen. Mind. Both are blank ...
Tuscan Milk.
Fake! The post is clearly titled!
I am distressed by how this post has been hijacked by people with private agendas
I like ponies.
Also, bacon.
Will an empty post break the record for number of comments? So much from nothing, I love the implications of this. . . Maybe we can solve the energy crisis by applying this philosophy to the laws of physics.
Maybe not.
Content is overrated.
I find this to be a very cromulent blog, which embiggins me.
the freedom-loving, peacable, easy-going Government of the People's Republic of China vehemently objects to the hurtful lies and false sayings of this post and hereby announce our intention to sue for billion, jillion, zillion dollar - ah, Euros in fair compensation for our hurt feelings and to buy ponies for all the people of the Voluntary Chinese Province Formerly Known as Tibet.
It's a Big Bang of a blog.
Your untitled post makes me very angry! I do not like it when people abuse me by not giving me a title! I don't care that it's blank, I just don't like that it's untitled!
I am on the edge of my seat, waiting for Untitled 2.
Don't think for a minute Mark didn't know exactly what he was doing here. This post is a blatant attempt change the sex of Boing Boing's mascot. Start with the first word "Untitled." "Un" meaning "not." "Tit," a vulgar term for breast. "Led," invoking Mark's intent to draw women away from their womanhood -- as if we didn't already understand his real intent. Seriously people, can't you see what Boing Boing is trying to do? "Untitled = No breasts going forward." And it's just the first step, otherwise why include "1" after "Untitled." God only knows where this will end. Sick.
Crap. Everyone beat me to the Nihilist and Minimalist comments. Well...
Like Mr. Frauenfelder here, I guess I don't have much to say.
Gluing a couple of gears onto a title doesn't make it "Untitled". This is an insult to real untitled posts. Pathetic!
( )
poo! ass!
Absolutely Beautiful
*reloads
This is old. Posted like three months ago on Neatorama, Muchosucko, Cute Overload and even Fark!
The blogging equivalent to 4:33.
Best
Post
Ever
Bacon IS a Vegetable! Dammnit!!
IAWTP
Aw, Jim Henley was all over this topic two years ago.
blank is the new black, so chic
" "
The post is obviously photoshoped.
Out of the quantum foam of emtpy space spawned a new universe of negative information.
</signed>
1st comment in 3 years.
-i, anonymous.
i am intrigued by your ideas, sir,
and i wish to subscribe to your RSS feed...
Word!
BLAMM!!!, dang, missed
I want to know why no-one has asked "what is so Wonderful about ..."
Ah, Boing Boing ran out of Internet to blog about. :)
Hey, I'm new to this web2 thing. What should I comment here? Someone help me, please??
**applause**
Thanks, guys. You've restored my faith in the internet, for the time being at least.
Needs more steampunk...
So, can i put this on my blog o it is copyright protected ??
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Is this usable under a Creative Commons license?
And has anyone seen my keys?
This post definitely warrants commenting, but... I'm not really sure what to say.
This seems like a test of what would happen if the internet had no leaders. Instead of many people responding to one initial topic, they are left to communicate what ever they wish without any initial focus. I think it is safe to say that in the event that we, the common folk, are left to ourselves, all hell breaks loose, and chaos ensues.
Or Mr. Frauenfelder could have accidentally posted an empty article.
When you're not reading it, this post is in German...
please stand by
Wenn Sie nicht lesen, es ist nur in englischer Sprache
ah, but when you look away from this post,is it alive or dead?
I blame Bush.
Everyone is dissecting your eloquent post and trying to find some way to turn it against you. It's all just "Gotcha!" games. They're gonna take your words and try to twist them so that they sound like you were saying something bad, which I know you weren't. Why are they doing this? Do they hate you? Are they against hope itself?
This post reminds me of an amusing anecdote.
Well done, Neo. You can see there is no post. Now, what are you prepared to do with this knowledge?
ALXNDR
This
Somehow it seems so appropriate. I'll have to think about that.
מנא ,מנא, תקל, ופרסין
Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David pitched Seinfeld as a "show about nothing,"
need... unicorn.... chaser......
Will there be sandwiches?
I can has invisibul poast?
/I'll get off the stage now...
:-(
the horror
All your post are belong to me...
It is said that "No news is good news."
Enough of your verbosity!
FIRST!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, not even close, but this thread deserved one.
177
much ado about nothing.
motherfucker!
shite!
asshole!
dookie!
ooops, sorry, wrong thread! #blush#
"the giver" emoticon:
))E03((
or
/-{}-\
or
-)*(-
Votes? Other ideas?
I find it very amusing that this post has more comments than anything else on the front page right now, by over 100 comments. You've outdone yourself, Mark.
Someone let their cat jump around on the keyboard while logged into BoingBoing ...
Posting in an epic thread!
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...you'll beg.... YOU'LL ALL BEG!!!
Lemon Curry?
I was sitting in a bathroom stall the other day at my college. The walls had been painted over, marking that day as the third time I'd ended up vandalizing fresh pain over graffiti. It seemed to me that bathroom stall graffiti had become quaint, an almost archaic notion of a simpler time. After all, the internet is the wall everyone writes on with anonymity - the physical object stands as a reminder of old days, like a dial phone complete with cord, or like a do-it-yourself radio kit. That era is done.
It figures, then, that the appropriate response is to the internet as a modern repository of the vulgar and the trite would be to post blank space.
Congrats, Mark. You have just won the internet. Everyone else can pack it up and go home.
I say it's spinach and I say the hell with it.
palimpsest
Well I dreamed there was an island
That rose up from the sea.
And everybody on the island
Was somebody from TV.
And there was a beautiful view
But nobody could see.
Cause everybody on the island
Was saying: Look at me! Look at me!
Look at me! Look at me!
--Laurie Anderson
I, for one, welcome our non-posting overlords.
So say we all.
comments are the new blogs
dude it's sooooooooooo deep the artist has made us create the post by commenting [ten minute pause] yeah we are the post man were all like one and stuff. [another long pause] yeah that's awesome, this post's makin' me hungry.
Oh and no i am not making fun of Jimh
to some extent he may be right...
Dear Editor, Sir:
I am writing to express my Frank Disgust and Deep Indignation at the content of your publication. In my day, We Had An Empire. There were Standards. I am Shocked, Shocked and Disgusted at this state of affairs, further, Something should be Done.
I am, Your Obt. Srvt.
Horace Q Thumblywaite III
Post Script: God Save The King!
How is this about Objectivism? This is a perfect example of groupthink!
comment 'til you puke!
Untitled 42
FTW!!111!BBQ!!11!
This is the best article
I approve of this message.
CAKE!
I agree with #70
http://www.zeitgeist.net/public/Boing-boing/bbw3/boing.boing.html
I can imagine this being performed on a stage like a play.
now I feel like doing cocaine
This is absolute proof that LESS really is MORE. The less/least content in the original post, the more comments it produced. Brilliant!
If less is more, I am pleased to offer you: Infinity.
you're welcome.
I've been reading boingboing for about two years but this is the *first* time I have felt the need to comment.
Of all the blog posts in all the blogs in all the internets Mark, you *had* to write this one.
Why?
It is impossible to make an off-topic comment on this post.
Is this what the hippies called a happening?
why?
http://www.esnips.com/doc/d42d8411-6b5c-4b6b-9af1-72c56bf39207/As-Time-Goes-By
There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away
We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
No matter how hard they try, this crew can't make a mistake. Silly and the Boingers.
http://www.lotus.org/images/religions/lg/Lotus420W.jpg
Now that I think about it, I'm not really surprised that this post has gotten such a huge reaction. It's like when a kid gets a really big, fancy present, he/she usually most enjoys playing with the empty box.
What's all this brouhaha?
Pictures, or it didn't happen.
Ceci n'est pas une post
I think 160 and 163 are on to something... the post has some essence that evades attention, I keep refreshing it, trying to catch it unawares, trying to trick it into revealing its true, hidden content...
help...
Followings 115's template.
Ahem.
A post about nothing.
90's redux.
God it's great to be part of something really meaniningful.
#216: that's what makes this so great, and likely why it's been allowed to stand.
People are seizing the opportunity to goof off and be silly in the extreme, while harming no one. I would certainly say that qualifies as a "wonderful thing." ;)
If a blog post is empty in a forest and no one is around to hear it... oh nevermind.
strcpy(blog, "\0")
You need to respect the post. Cause life is precious. And God. And the Bible.
If you read every single comment in under two one minute and thirty seconds it leaves an after image in your head that allows you to view the original post as it was intended which is a simple but detailed explication of the meaning of life the universe and everything, no not not the book by Douglas Adams (though it does make several references to it), but the real meaning of life the universe and everything but if it takes you two minutes and thirty one seconds, hello.jpg will be permanently seared into your retina and that's the only thing you'll ever be able to see forever until you die.
i heart Untitled1.
This makes me think of fromage.
Thank You Mark.
I had a teacher that told us than in the field of marketing and information "Less is More".
But this is way too much less... or more? or maybe...
Well, I should say that "Less is more confusing".
#88 posted by Gemma , April 24, 2008 4:02 PM
@58 Sister Y
You gave the clue, but you forgot the topic... or am I reading too much into the fact that it was both cryptic and italicized?
Should we consider this the "open post" Teresa mentioned for The Game?
It IS a unicorn chaser. Only the virgins can see it tho....
I'm late with jumping on the bandwagon, and I've been a reader of BB for what seems to be years now. Never before have I posted, or even had a login here, But now. I feel compelled.
This posting spoke volumes to me, it evokes emotions suppressed since childhood, rattles long forgotten memories, and brings out the pet lover inside me. How can I not post, to applaud such elegance, such sheer evocative power of symbolism?
My hat off to you, Sir. This post, changed my life.
You smell purdy. Can I touch your hair...?
Why does mark have to put 1 down like that?...last i heard his/her full title was Number 1.
I strongly disagree with Mr. Frauenfelder.
www.boingboing.net/2008/04/24/untitled-1.html
ls myb t ws rlly sppsd t b pst bt ths chck
http://www.flckr.cm/phts/mrtbsrn/2409278379/
I look forward to the rest of this series.
Most comments ever. I'm with the spider (#232) on this one.
this post cleansed the palette nicely
That's no moon. It's a Untitled 1.
The rest is silence.
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Mr. Freunfelder, listen to me, and listen good. I am a research scientist in the field of memetics. 10 years ago I wrote a paper called, "Memes that could destroy the Internet, and possibly the whole of modern civilization." It was this paper that led to the successful quarantine and subsequent eradication of the Numa Numa meme.
In the aforementioned paper, The No-post Blog Post was on the top of a list of the 4 most dangerous memes which if released to the net could eradicate the intarwebs as we know it.
Just imagine, boing boing, youtube, slashdot, salon, all inundated with contentless content.
And it won't just stop with the internet; Movies, television shows, music, even your MIND -- all left in a Zen-like tabula Rasa. And it gets worse, there will be... There will be... I... I can't think.... mind... going.... blank...My god, it's already begun!
For the love of god, Fraunfelder, delete this post while you still have the chance! While we still have an Internet!
Film at 11:00.
All right folks, move along. Nothing to see here.
YAY!
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
etc.
+1
I, for one, welcome our new
Looking forward to Unitiled 2
It's slightly amusing that this is the most attention I've ever paid to a blog posts' comments.
At last.
Proof that Open Source is better.
Dugg!!!!!
I heard "Untitled 2" is going to be about a steampunk diy Disney Ride made out of really interesting couches released under the creative commons...
Oh! At first I thought it said Untilted.
This probably the most comments they've gotten so far.
That's an awesome Interpol song.
404
FAIL
What you do not say will not stay!
Peace!
"Untitled" looks like Mark is crosspolluting memetics and (anti)SEO.
The post is the message...
How zen. There is a post and yet there is no post.
This seems like a good time to tell you GREETIINGS BELOVED I am John Mumbaw, barrister, of the Republic of Freedonia. Forgive me for sweetest contact inall manner possible but I have a business transaction for to offer...
Eggs are good for you, and you should eat more of them.
"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion" --Democritus
This post has been found to be an effective decay preventive dentifrice when used in a conscientiously applied program of rectal hygiene and regular professional care.
A day early, but: http://www.dayofsilence.org/
"The National Day of Silence brings attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools. This year’s event will be held in memory of Lawrence King, a California 8th-grader who was shot and killed Feb. 12 by a classmate because of his sexual orientation and gender expression. Hundreds of thousands of students will come together on April 25 to encourage schools and classmates to address the problem of anti-LGBT behavior."
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The Tao that can be called Tao is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth.
The named is the mother of ten thousand things.
Ever desireless, one can see the mystery.
Ever desiring, one sees manifestations.
These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gate to all mystery.
I, myself, am the Wild 1.