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Didn't the whole fad of labelling things "extreme" die off back around the year 2003? http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=xt reme_bullshit

Maddox on Podcasting (scroll down)

Excuse me? +5 Funny?!

Because it was so original?

The irony of course, is that here's some more.

Can't come up with your own jokes huh? http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=11 worst

Whales are drinking all our water and eating our sailors.

Because it comes out of Hollywood it must be a true and accurate depiction of how things will turn out, right?

Read more: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=i_ robot

I'm not sure if that Rea guy is troll, flamebait, or just an idiot. Ikaruga, "nothing special"? It is just the best shooter ever! If you don't believe me, believe Maddox!

That's OK. I'll make up for your share.

Now with a correct link!

If these words were people, I would embrace their genocide.

The problem with this layout is that there's too much shit to click on. Seriously, who's ever going to click on all those links? The worst blogs are the ones that make every other word a hyperlink to another website so by the time you finish reading this sentence, you've forgotten what you were reading, or why you were reading it in the first place. Hey, this article is great but you know what would make it better? If I could read another article in the middle of it. Great design, morons.

I think that tells you what we can all make of Time Magazine's exalted choice.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=11 worst

This quote epitomizes U2's pious, holier-than-thou attitude:

"I don't know why, but we always had this belief that there was something sacred about our music, that it was almost holy."

-Bono, pompous asshole and lead singer of U2

Cocky, high-handed, imperial assholes.

Be a responsible parent. Your kids don't listen to you? Beat them.

Maddox said it better!

...damn you neptune!!!

Ah, for a second I thought you were referring to this. :)

(Taken from the article located here)

...damn you neptune!!!

Ah, for a second I thought you were referring to this. :)

(Taken from the article located here)

the "obvious disadvantage" you cite is a "show stopper" (literally) for me. having a story modifed to market some product pisses me off to no end.

for more insight, see maddox's review:

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=i_ robot

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=id aho_blows i hope you have a sense of humor

"Yahoo beat all other sites with 24.9 million unique visitors." what supprised my here was how few people went to the site in a month, there must be at least 300,000,000 different people with net connections, why was the winner so low?... and also, why were the websites which topped the list so boring? lets get http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/ to the top!

You will like this page:

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=ba nish

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=ba nish

Even I'm a (small-time) blogger, and I think this whole thing's just stupid. It would probably do well to read some more Maddox, if you ask me.

Sorry, this is the dumbest buzzword I have heard in years. I can't take your post seriously anymore, it just brings up memories of Maddox.

If these words were people, I would embrace their genocide.

"Blog media"? Is "big media" prohibited from using a particularly annoying buzzword, or what does the story submitter mean?

Then please help the world out and kill yourself. Here is a link that might help:

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=ma nly_suicide

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=ir ule

Here is the solution to preventing idiocy in children: Proper Discipline

Why has nobody else picked up on this yet? It's obvious what Yahoo is doing. They're marketing to a demographic(maddox.xmission.com). It's trying to build an image for itself. Companies do this all the time. They figure out what their target demographic is (in this case, they think their desired audience is a bunch of fun-loving technically-inclined computer users) and they market to that demographic. In this case they're trying to hook on the kind of people which work hard to spread gmail and firefox just out of loyalty. They're just pathetically posturing and pandering to this audience, but they don't even know how to do it. All they can do is just jump around like an annoying 5 year old trying to get attention. And when I say jumping around trying to get attention, I mean something like this: "Hey check out cool we are! We're so hip and funny(slashdot) and in touch with today's teechnology and cool stuff(slashdot), forget gmail, look at us! Look how cool and funny and hip and fresh we are, and how we put a cool, fun spin on technology! Google's just a bunch of old fogeys. But everyone here is just a bunch of cool and smart dudez having a good time!" It's pathetic. They don't even have attention, because they've been so stagnant and moronic and lazy for the past, oh, I dunno, 4 years, that they've lost all loyalty form anyone who's even slightly technically inclined to bigger and better services (and remember, those are the people who really help a website get attention). But Yahoo is finally feeling that it can't just act like a lazy monopolistic conglomerate anymore, because it's realizing that its shares are slipping to the cooler, fresher, more in touch, and much more useful google. Yahoo realizes that if it doesn't get its ass in gear, its going to be losing its members to google soon. So, like the stupid, slow, lazy, and out of touch corporate conglomerate it is, it tries to get the attention that google has from being cool, fresh, and in touch. Yahoo tries to get this attention by making itself out to be cool, fresh, and in touch. By jumping up and down and saying "look how cool I am! I'm so cool!" The difference is, google looks cool without even trying. Google is cool not because it spends time trying to bolster its personal image (although it does focus on image some) of being a relaxed, good natured company. Google is cool because it is a relaxed, good natured company. It doesn't just pretend to have those plastic balls all around, or have that big, open, cafeteria. That 20% of all employees time which must go to projects of their liking isn't all just a hoax. Google is actually a company based on relaxed, good natured principles. But yahoo, which I'm sure is still based around a traditional business model, with CEOs and departments, and 8 levels of management and corporate beauracracy, a company whose goals are mostly sluggish and monopolistic paradigms (such as being the king of online TV(wired.com), which it has now failed miserably at due to iTunes jumping out of nowhere and kicking its ass.), is most obviously not cool and fresh and funny and funky. This is all just showy propaganda. Yahoo's upper management have just given the OK for the marketing department to play up this major 100+ employee corporation as being this cool, fresh, hip group of fun tech guys just cooperating for the heck of it to create good stuff. That is everything yahoo is not. I imagine we'll see more bullshit like this as yahoo makes more and more desperate attempts to get a hold on its slipping popularity, perhaps some of them may work. But all the make-up in the world won't hide the fact that yahoo is an ugly, decrepit, slow moving and out-of-shape hag of a corporation. Unless yahoo chan

...or you could just ask Maddox to give you a sub-blog on his site.

Maddox has a pretty great view on womens suffrage - link

"Oh yeah, I was going to write about how I was going to take away women's right to vote, but that one is pretty obvious since nobody wants women to vote, except for women, and they don't count."

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=ba nish And no... I have never read a blog before, and don't intend to either.

He actually lost me at his praise for I-Robot

I agree. I saw that in the theater and had mixed feelings because I was torn between what the was and what it should have been.

Maddox sums it up pretty nicely.

If you mean purely online, you missed photo streams (aka: blogging with pictures), video blogging and game publishing - not to mention the completely obvious (and so last-decade) free web sites. For simply distributing content, there's always BitTorrent and - my favorite underexploited - "magnet://" style links which can point to content on Peer 2 Peer networks.

On the live front, there's also the whole webcam thing which gave rise to the camwhore movement. Shoutcast type things for "internet broadcasting" your own radio station. You can also creat your own internet television station if you want.

The very latest cutting edge variant on this is peer to peer streaming video, often refered to as CoolStreaming. There's maybe a 2 to 5 minute delay in the stream as it takes a little while to patch together the video before it's decodable. While so far it's popularity seems to be limited to China (where it's used to pirate / rebroadcast regular TV channels), the main advantage is that you should be able to establish your own streaming P2P television channel with an almost unlimited number of viewers - from your existing broadband internet connection.

And finally, where the online world meets the offline, physical items are designed and sold online in virtual stores, then physically published and shipped on demand. Like Cafe Press for stuff with logos - and Lulu for things like books and CDs.

Yeah, commericals have really gotten out of hand. Say what you will about Maddox, but I love this article movie theatres.

You are neglecting some very important details, however. IF YOU RTFBP (Read The Fucking Blog Post), you will see that I begin it by saying, "This came from an anonymous slashdot comment."

I was reposting it, because I thought it was brilliant.

That doesn't mean I'm the one who originally said it.

I don't say things as AC because, unlike some people, I have balls.

(No, that page isn't mine either, but maybe it will entertain you enough to leave me alone. His Christopher Reeve page is hilarious; I highly reccommend it.)
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You are neglecting some very important details, however. IF YOU RTFBP (Read The Fucking Blog Post), you will see that I begin it by saying, "This came from an anonymous slashdot comment."

I was reposting it, because I thought it was brilliant.

That doesn't mean I'm the one who originally said it.

I don't say things as AC because, unlike some people, I have balls.

(No, that page isn't mine either, but maybe it will entertain you enough to leave me alone. His Christopher Reeve page is hilarious; I highly reccommend it.)
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But Maddox already did such a great job for me. http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=ba nish

Seriously, the rise of blogs isn't really waht pisses me off, they are just personal websites basically. Nothing wrong with a personal website, I have one myself. Granted most blogs are really STUPID personal websites, but hey whatever. What pisses me off are all these "experts" who get all hot and bothered over blogs, liek it's something special. No it's not, it's a bunch of people standing on their little soap box. Humans love to talk, this is nothing new. Blogs are just their way of trying to reach a global audience, usually with very limited success.

Get over it.

I'm a crabby old guy resistant to jargon.

The word "blogs", esp. blogger (and all derived words) have rubbed me the wrong way from the beginning -- especially when we have words like "write" and "writer."

Thankfully, I've found this guy who really says it all better than I can.

I have to link to this page or I might catch some shit for these comments.

If there's one thing more tired that whining about how boring and pointless blogs are, it's bloggers whining about how pointless everyone else's blogs are.

Hey, if you're so tired of this shit, pull the plug on your server.

(Wait, no. Leave the comic book covers up. That's some funny shit.)

When he wrote this:

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=ba nish

It's funny how such narrow-minded comments are modded up, when you know very well that if a similar comment was made about some anime, even if it was completely justified, it would be modded into oblivion.

Spirited Away didn't even have a plot. Just shows how pretentious people like this will buy anything as long as it's Japanese.

That would be your opinion.

See here at point two. Thank you.

Read his page on the hot coffee mod...

Thank God. I'll be the first person to download and patch my PC version of "Grand Theft Auto." I want to shoot people in the face, bang prostitutes, traffic drugs, steal cars, and terrorize police officers without this filthy smut in my game.

Wheat Is Murder

See here for why its a bad (and extremely annoying) idea to make every other word in the summary a link.

Football is as necessary as a condom in gay sex. I wouldn't be against football so much if:

* If all the jocks that played it didn't give me shit
* If all the jocks that played it didn't get better equipment than the computer club because football is the schools 'life blood'
* If all the jocks that played it didn't ask me the day before to bail them out of some critical piece of assessment for the third time.

Enjoy

Maddox said it best, when criticizing Matrix Reloaded...

    "I know most of you who liked this movie are probably reading this and saying "STUPID MADOX [sic]! YOU JUST DIDN'T GET IT." Oh no, I got it, it's just that once I got it, I didn't want it anymore. There are going to be websites popping up left and right trying to justify this movie, trying to rationalize everything, but there's one thing all these geeks are forgetting: just because a movie makes sense, doesn't mean it's good."

    And of course...

    "I wouldn't have minded this movie so much if I would have remembered to bring my Game Boy Advance to the theater. At least then I could have practiced murdering vampires instead of being patronized by stupid bullshit about "causality." Good job you shrubs, you've managed to surface the underlying philosophy of just about every other movie in existence. Man I hate people."

    The one for Matrix Revolutions was also great. I agree with a lot of things he said; they were just bad movies. There's something very wrong when a movie bores you on every action scene and can't make you care about the dialog-driven ones.

Maddox said it best, when criticizing Matrix Reloaded...

    "I know most of you who liked this movie are probably reading this and saying "STUPID MADOX [sic]! YOU JUST DIDN'T GET IT." Oh no, I got it, it's just that once I got it, I didn't want it anymore. There are going to be websites popping up left and right trying to justify this movie, trying to rationalize everything, but there's one thing all these geeks are forgetting: just because a movie makes sense, doesn't mean it's good."

    And of course...

    "I wouldn't have minded this movie so much if I would have remembered to bring my Game Boy Advance to the theater. At least then I could have practiced murdering vampires instead of being patronized by stupid bullshit about "causality." Good job you shrubs, you've managed to surface the underlying philosophy of just about every other movie in existence. Man I hate people."

    The one for Matrix Revolutions was also great. I agree with a lot of things he said; they were just bad movies. There's something very wrong when a movie bores you on every action scene and can't make you care about the dialog-driven ones.

Guiltless grill? Is there another kind?
Point being there's always a trade off somewhere down the line.