Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Too Poor to Buy 2600? Here’s linear’s Article From Vol 26, Issue 1 for Free.
Remember a few updates back how we talked about linear’s article being published in 2600 Magazine? Well now that the article has been published for a few months and you’ve all blown the allowance that your parents give you on buying the magazine, we feel it’s acceptable to post it up here for free, suckers. [...]
June 28, 2009
Posted in: Ezine, General 
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Teen who made prank calls writes letter of apology
I came across this article that describes how a young kid had to write an apology letter about some prank calls he made. That story itself is somewhat funny, but what makes the article hilarious is that it includes the full-text of his apology letter, which is a grammatical atrocity. There are over 20 errors [...]
May 11, 2009
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Things be all fucked up.
Hey kids, the website hasn’t been working right for the past few days ever since our (yet another) server move. We’re in the process of fixing it up a bit. Please be patient and we’ll let you know when it’s back to 100%.
UPDATE 5/7/2009: Shit no longer be fucked up, as far as we can [...]
May 5, 2009
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linear Published in 2600
In the Spring 2009 issue of 2600 Magazine (volume 26, issue 1), linear has an article published on page 24 titled “Network Neutrality Simplified.”
Does the article sound a little familiar? it just might - - About three days after UPL030 was released, this same network neutrality article mysteriously disapeared from within it. The reason for [...]
April 6, 2009
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A bunch of shitbags try to stuff themselves into a phone booth. The same bunch of shitbags fail.
From an article found at: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/26/DDGQ16N0HD.DTL
History calls, but kids can’t beat ‘59 record
Steve Rubenstein, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, March 26, 2009
But it did, and with the Plexiglas went the dreams and aspirations of a whole lot of St. Mary’s College students.
Some said they were disappointed. Some were too squished to say anything.
What happened Wednesday on the [...]
March 26, 2009
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Help UPL Win!
UPDATE 2/21/2009: WE FAILED. UPL did not win the contest. But it wasn’t because of lack of high ratings! The contest organizers swicthed the rules up without warning and decided to award the win to a video with lower ratings and fewer views and no humor even attempted (even though the contest was based on [...]
February 16, 2009
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10-year Anniversary of UPL Ezine - A Decade of Dumb!
Even though the UPL technically started in late 1998, we didn’t release the first issue of our ezine until January 27, 1999. That was 10 years ago this day. That’s an entire decade of dumb, friends. The ezine started as single-article issues, but progressed quickly into multi-topic, multi-author issues and through them we’ve shared a [...]
January 27, 2009
Posted in: Ezine, General 2 Comments
The Old PLA/UPL Email Discussion List
While poking around the net looking for old UPL things long forgotten, I stumbled upon an archive of an old email discussion list that was setup so phoneloser types could discuss useless shit all day. This was when the PLA had no message board so to communicate we primarily used the list. The discussion list [...]
January 21, 2009
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Miscellaneous Updates
There’s a new section on the site, the UPL Source Code Repository! It is where we store all of the source code that has been submitted to us for the UPL ezine. You can also submit new code if you’d like.
Speaking of the ezine, The HTML versions of our old issues all got a makeover. [...]
July 26, 2008
Posted in: General, Site Maintenance One Comment
No Pants and Other Updates
Though it took me a long time because I am super lazy and hate all of you, I finally finished some of the pages that I have been neglecting, including the support us page, the links page, and an all new section for all the press and honorable mentions we’ve received over the years.
But more [...]
June 25, 2008
Posted in: General, Site Maintenance One Comment
