http://www.phonelosers.net Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:17:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.phonelosers.net/too-poor-to-buy-2600-heres-linears-article-from-vol-26-issue-1-for-free/ 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.  ... http://www.phonelosers.net/teen-who-made-prank-calls-writes-letter-of-apology/ 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, ... http://www.phonelosers.net/things-be-all-fucked-up/ 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 ... http://www.phonelosers.net/linear-published-in-2600/ 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 ... http://www.phonelosers.net/a-bunch-of-shitbags-try-to-stuff-themselves-into-a-phone-booth-the-same-bunch-of-shitbags-fail/ rbcp was finally able to convince me to migrate over to WordPress. even though i've been using it on many of my other sites already (have you seen my blog lately? eh?), i've been reluctant to use it on phonelosers.net because i liked the SMF message board integration method that ... http://www.phonelosers.net/upl-switches-to-wordpress/ 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 ... http://www.phonelosers.net/help-upl-win/ 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 ... http://www.phonelosers.net/10-year-anniversary-of-upl-ezine-a-decade-of-dumb/ 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 ... http://www.phonelosers.net/the-old-plaupl-email-discussion-list/ The website got a makeover, and now she's the prettiest princess at the ball. Along with redesigning every page, most pages received some minor updates and improvements. Other pages got completely overhauled and are up with brand new content. We put up a bunch more MP3's (and an embedded player ... http://www.phonelosers.net/upl-site-redisgned/