One night more than twenty years ago, Mark Frauenfelder and Carla Sinclair fired up the photocopy machine at Mark's work and cranked out the first issue of bOING bOING, the print 'zine.* (Our new/old hand-drawn logotype at the top of this page is from that era!) Since those heady, dot matrix days... More.
I'm in the market for a new MP3 player -- my second-gen iPod Nano is finally dead, and I don't want to buy another iPod, or any other player with DRM built in. I figure that any company that wants to devote its engineers to figuring out how to frustrate my desires doesn't really want my business.
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Freemasonry and the New Age
Guestblogger Arthur Goldwag is the author of "Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies: The Straight Scoop on Freemasons, The Illuminati, Skull and Bones, Black Helicopters, The New World Order, and many, many more" and other books.
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meh.
This made me wonder if a Winblog existed, because that sounded a lot catchier than Succeedblog. Yes it does.
the popup Lego house is pure awesome.
An ideal blog would alternate fail and win posts, perhaps post them side by side so as not to upset the delicate balance of the Universe.
Yup: never saw anyone use "SUCCEED".
Phoar maximim lulz, teh propir kapshun iz "WIN".
The web opposite of FAIL is WIN.
YOU'RE SUCCEEDER! doesn't rly do it.
Domain name FAIL.
Yeah it should've been "Win" but i still just spent ages reading the entire site
The succeed blog has much classier posts than the win blog. Using the designated 4chan antonym is a lower priority for me than classiness.
font fail
Wow, some people have been around 'internet speak' a bit too long... It doesn't matter what it's called. The human jumbotron, the Bon Jovi game dance and the kid with the accordeon are made of awesome.
Awesome would be this coming out last week, and having a paper foot inside the sneaker.
The way to succeed - and the way to suck eggs.
It points out why fail blogs are more common - we agree on failure. To Adbusters, this is a massive fail for kids. For some teachers, in some environments, it's a massive success.