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Maddox
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Maddox writes The Best Page In The Universe., a personal blog at maddox.xmission.com about culture and writing. Since 2008, 38 different Hacker News readers have linked it 39 times, most often “Maddox - I hope SOPA passes”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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The Best Damn Web Page in the Universe
Most-linked posts?
- Maddox - I hope SOPA passes20 people · 20 mentions · first linked 2010-12-30
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-11-24
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-05-15
- /c.cgi?u=iphone/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-09-08
What Hacker News says?
Maddox was the originator of this style afaik. He's been at it for over 20 years. https://maddox.xmission.com/
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on “Please don't mention AI again”Submitted Maddox - I hope SOPA passes as a story · 569 points
HN discussion> Does anyone remember when you they stumbled on a new website written by some guy and read his first article, then clicked back to his homepage and saw he had a list of similar articles that looked like they'd be just as interesting. Or, more likely, you clicked "back" on the "navigation bar" and it would 404 because the author messed up the links, since it was all hand crafted HTML. Funny stuff aside, there are st…
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on “Does anyone remember websites?”Submitted The Best Page in the Universe as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAgain, no. You completely somehow forgot tech in late 2000s lol. The internet on anything mobile was pretty painful when it launched in general. Websites weren't optimized for mobile, mobile data was unusably slow. Most people who wanted portability were using things like netbooks, which you could actually multitask on. Blackberry was the goto for actual phone because it was much easier to type on due to the best ke…
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on “Apple Vision Pro review”Submitted The Best Page in the Universe as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWell, there's always http://maddox.xmission.com
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on “Txt.fyi”Submitted Hollywood Needs YouTube as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNot sure what this does on HN. Perhaps people don't know Maddox? Here's an old classic where he's judge art work done by other kids on the internet; http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=irule Random hate mail; http://maddox.xmission.com/hatemail.cgi?p=1
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on “Maddox - I hope SOPA passes”The Best Page In The Universe is pretty cool: http://maddox.xmission.com/
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on “Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?”The best page in the universe is still up! http://maddox.xmission.com/ Like it or not it is a historical monument.
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on “Why there’s so little left of the early internet”Compare and contrast to https://maddox.xmission.com/ "The Best Page in the Universe"
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on “The Worst Website in the Entire World”This comment reminds me of Maddox and his 90s' style html blog: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net http://maddox.xmission.com/
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on “What Web Can Do Today”I'm okay with this instance but I really don't want to see a habit of linking directly to images. I assume we did this time because this image was an update to an existing post already on HN (front page yesterday) [ http://maddox.xmission.com/ ]
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on “MPAA lied to Congress about the jobs number”That's because the infographic is highlighting the fact that 25% of the much-touted jobs created by the movie industry are menial positions primarily staffed by high schoolers that would probably not flat-out disappear even if the movie industry did. The actual BLS report[1] he's citing does indeed include all those categories you're talking about, and that's where the 361,900 number comes from. I agree, though — th…
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on “MPAA lied to Congress about the jobs number”I don't mean to be crabby, but the infographic explicitly mentions that some of the jobs are from the service industry. If you look at the infographic in context[1], it lists the source[2]. Also, while I generally agree with your point about this meriting a very detailed and thorough analysis, I do not believe that it was "intentionally" misleading any more than my disagreement with you indicates that you are also b…
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on “MPAA lied to Congress about the jobs number”> In other words, I can tell that there's a potentially poignant idea about web design in this post, but it was a little drowned out because of the way it was presented. I think it would be difficult to find an idea in this post that hasn't already been more poignantly formulated on [0] or more funny and even less respectfully on [1]. I really don't see the point. [0] http://www.useit.com [1] http://maddox.xmission.…
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on “Motherfucking Website”The AirPods are the best recent example of people who haven’t tried the new thing crapping on it saying the old ways work fine. Multiple times people have crapped on the AirPods and I gift them one and they realize how amazing it is to not have wires at all. Last time this happened was with the OG iPhone of course. Still remember Maddox’s tear down of the iPhone lol. https://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=iphone/
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on “AirPods Pro (2nd Generation)”This is the same xmission as in http://maddox.xmission.com/ a wonderful tribute to the first amendment.
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on “Small Utah ISP firm stands up to ‘surveillance state’”The second I hear "XMission", I remember Maddox's website ( http://maddox.xmission.com/ ). Maybe I spend too much time on the internet.
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on “Small Utah ISP firm stands up to ‘surveillance state’”Here is the link for people that understand satire: http://maddox.xmission.com/
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on “Perfect Motherfucking Website”This form of banter reminds me of Maddox from the early 2000s, which funnily enough is still active at https://maddox.xmission.com/ I agree its relatively played out at this point. Really this page is just a showcase of HTML features for web developers who don't have much experience with HTML, and I think the insulting attitude and comedic approach may hold reader's interest than a more dry technical presentation of…
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on “Just use HTML”This guy reminds me of Maddox ( http://maddox.xmission.com/ ).
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on “The Oatmeal (online cartoon) earns ~$1000/day”The asshole aspect of deeplinking, I thought the atrociousness of incessant linking had been explained perfectly almost a decade ago: http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=banish
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on “Twitter? It’s Not Fun Anymore”Reminds me of old net, Maddox. How to kill yourself like a man. https://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=manly_suicide"%3B>... It's from 2004 and dark humor.
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on “A cryptography expert on how Web3 started, and how it’s going”Interestingly, this downvoted link resulted in 63 hits to Maddox's page from this referer. http://maddox.xmission.com/statistics/statistics.html
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on “How to make wifi work at tech conferences”I don't agree. I've never thought of it before, but to be honest, in my 25 years of life, I've never seen the kind of behavior Linus is famous for on the part of anyone besides Europeans. Really? Does Lenny Bruce qualify? How about Dennis Leary? (Well, he is of Irish descent, I'll give you that). Hani Suleiman, of the Bile Blog fame? http://javablogs.com/views/ViewBlog.action?id=11454 Definitely not a European. How…
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on “Linus torvalds on security”Reid's official statement on his .gov website ( http://democrats.senate.gov/2012/01/20/reid-statement-on-int... ) said the movie industry alone 'supports' 2.2 million Americans. A claim Maddox humorously pointed out was clearly wrong even if you factor in the "related" jobs like food service: http://maddox.xmission.com/
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on “Senator Harry Reid Caves: PIPA Postponed”Try this: http://maddox.xmission.com/
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on “If blacking out your website, return status code 503 to avoid an SEO hit”According to the article, they want to do it "the lean startup way". So... why does it have to be self-balancing? Just add a third wheel and it's always stable - no need for gyros and complicated electronics. And as a by-product, you have immediately lowered the price massively: it's just a few motors then instead of that balancing magic. My price lowering guess would be between 50% and 80% lower. That would be real…
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on “Meet The Double (YC S12), A Teleconferencing Robot With An iPad For A Face”
