Boring Is Beautiful

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Beautiful, Not Boring

Beautiful, Not Boring 07/09/2004 11:46 AM
Look for solid performers that lack a natural buying constituency.

Boring Boring: A Directory of Dull
Things

Boring Boring: A Directory of Dull
Things 04/03/2005 01:01 AM
Boring!Boring!

hanasiana.com/boringboring
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Cory uses the DMCA against Boring Boring

Cory uses the DMCA against Boring Boring 04/01/2005 02:27 PM
Cory Doctorow: What with the Boring Boring post and my holding such double standards and all, I couldn't help myself. I got EFF's Fred von Lohmann to issue a DMCA takedown notice to the Boring Boring people. Enough is enough, but too much is too much. Ernest Miller has the scoop:

Furthermore, Mr. Doctorow and BoingBoing own all rights in and to the registered mark BoingBoing (the "Mark"), which has been in continuous use in interstate commerce since the world-renowned website entitled "BoingBoing" was first published in 2000. BoingBoing is the exclusive licensee of the publishing and merchandising rights to the Mark in connection with the internet and all related collateral products and services (collectively, the "BoingBoing Properties"). As I am sure you are aware, BoingBoing is quite probably the most famous website ever published. Indeed, millions of pageviews of the various posts on the website have taken place since first publication. As a result of this enormous number of pageviews and the attendant publicity, the public associates the Mark and its distinctive logo solely with Cory Doctorow and BoingBoing.

Lin k (Thanks, Ernest!)

Boring Boring: Awesome April Fool's
parody of Boing Boing

Boring Boring: Awesome April Fool's
parody of Boing Boing 03/31/2005 11:46 PM
Xeni Jardin:

Some anonymous geniuses whipped up this incredibly thorough parody of Boing Boing. I LOLed until my very eyeballs popped out. The detail is frightening (note the "Studious Girls" ads), as is the volume of witty, nuanced little references to actual crap we've blogged. To wit:

HOWTO: De-everybody Boring Boring
Jason Gill says, "Someone has posted a script for GreaseMonkey (a Firefox extension that lets you add your own Javascript code to any website, to remove ads or add features) that automatically removes every post when viewing Boring Boring." We wish we had thought of that.

and

At last, an alternative to Firefox!
Firefox Alternative Chris James sez, "I got so tired of all the updates, lame plug-ins and the W3C evangelism of the Mozilla crowd that I've been looking around for an alternative to Firefox for quite some time. Finally, I've settled on a great free app called Internet Explorer -- and it looks like I'm not alone. According to my site stats, Explorer is running neck and neck with Firefox for marketshare. It's about time somebody gave those thugs at the Mozilla Foundation some competition." Link

Link to "Boring Boring: A Directory of Dull Things." It's a masterpiece. Thanks, smartass(es)!

Update: Looks like their webserver is acting squirrely. If you can't access the site, here's a partial screenshot: Link. Come back, you big tease!

Cue the Boring CEO!

Cue the Boring CEO! 08/04/2004 06:27 AM
Three bosses, three slots on CNBC, three reviews: Who's stiff, who's fake, who nails it.

"Boring Boring"

"Boring Boring" 04/01/2005 10:26 PM

Boring Boring

Boring Boring 04/02/2005 12:06 AM

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Air France + KLM = Boring

Air France + KLM = Boring 02/13/2004 03:52 PM
Two airlines have received a green light to merge into the world's largest.

Backup doesn't have to be boring--really

Backup doesn't have to be boring--really 06/21/2004 01:59 PM
ZDNet Jun 21 2004 4:23PM GMT

Big Profits Not So Boring

Big Profits Not So Boring 08/23/2004 10:57 AM
Revenues, comparable sales, and earnings are all up for Men's Wearhouse.

Boing is boring?

Boing is boring? 04/01/2005 06:17 AM
BoringBoring a directory of dull things. [not via BoingBoing]

Who said Politics were boring?

Who said Politics were boring? 08/27/2004 02:04 PM
If they can't wow you with dirt on the opponent they'll wow you with smut of themselves don't believe...

Boring Biotech?

Boring Biotech? 06/04/2004 12:37 PM
Sometimes, boring's not so bad. Take this company, for instance.

Microsoft is being boring

Microsoft is being boring 07/25/2004 04:11 AM
Telegraph Jul 25 2004 8:40AM GMT

A few boring Barbelith stats...

A few boring Barbelith stats... 04/24/2004 05:03 AM

A few interesting Barbelith (temporarily closed for new members) stats which I compiled the other day whlie trying to avoid work. In the last month there have been 14846 undeleted posts on the site, made by around 900 unique user names. That makes around 480 new posts each day, with each user posting around 0.5 times per day or 16 posts a month. After a (hopefully) brief period of reworking, the site will be open again and I hope to see all you guys there.

Must All Educational Games Be Boring?

Must All Educational Games Be Boring? 08/16/2004 05:00 AM
Some researchers are trying to encourage those on food stamps to eat in a healthier way, while making the food stamps go further. They decided that, since so many young adults like to play video games, they might as well create some video games on the subject called The Fantastic Food Challenge. While it's a nice idea, the games sound ridiculously boring ("place baked beans, tortillas, frozen chicken and other virtual groceries into a cartoon-drawn freezer, cupboard or refrigerator"), and unlikely to attract much attention. While the designers suggest these games are more exciting than typical "eat smart" brochures, they forget that they're not competing against those brochures, but other video games. This brings up the question, then, why must all educational games be so painfully boring?

Boring Best Buy's Boost

Boring Best Buy's Boost 06/25/2004 10:15 AM
News of an increased dividend and buyback program are business at usual for Best Buy.

Boring Boring's story

Boring Boring's story 04/06/2005 09:02 PM
Cory Doctorow: The geniuses behind the awesome Boring Boring April 1 spoof-site have published a post-mortem on their prank:

It has always been the case that I work better when I am under deadline. So once the concept turned into something I was actually doing, I started cranking out material. I tidied up my half-finished logo, and e-mailed it to Jim. Rose suggested I recruit a Web designer friend of ours, Debby, into the project. I knew she'd be an asset, but it hadn't occurred to me how much of an asset she would be until I told her, "Yeah, I don't really know what to do with the jackhammer girl" and she turned around and made her a sleeping girl, complete with animated snoring.

I learned a lot about Photoshop last month. Many of the ad parodies were mine, and making some of them required me to learn new skills (like, I had to make most of the background of the Slep ad transparent when dropping in a new background image, so I wouldn't need to worry about the logo alignment changing; this is something I would not have had any clue about a month ago, so I felt pret-ty smooth about it). It took me several tries to tweak the Suicide Girls logo into something sufficiently studious. Using the logo from the actual BoingBoing ad didn't work, because it was too small for me to modify well enough. So I took the logo from the main Suicide Girls page instead, cropping the hair and adding glasses and a shirt, and left the logo a little larger than usual in the finished ad, the better for people to see the modifications

Link (Thanks, Francis!)

I Feel Like a Boring Little Twit

I Feel Like a Boring Little Twit 02/10/2003 01:08 PM
I Feel Like a Boring Little Twit The title of my PHPCon tutorial is "Getting Started with PHP". Why oh why wasn't I creative like Zak? [_Go_]

Bride, Once Boring, Now Known As Bland
(AP)

Bride, Once Boring, Now Known As Bland
(AP) 08/27/2004 01:59 PM
AP - If going from the sublime to the ridiculous is not your idea of a good time, how about the bride who made the switch from Boring to Bland? While it might not sound very exciting, she and the man she was marrying managed to catch the attention of television talk show host talk Jay Leno even before they tied the knot.

How to debate Creationists without being
boring

How to debate Creationists without being
boring 04/09/2004 04:07 PM
The problem with arguing with Creationists and the like is that it is not worth it and no fun. Who...

Disruptive Technologies Are Boring And
That's Their Secret

Disruptive Technologies Are Boring And
That's Their Secret 05/19/2004 07:17 PM
While most of this article focuses on other elements of conversations between two of my favorite strategic thinks, Clayton Christensen and Andy Grove, there is a great quote where Grove points out the Christensen the problem with talking about how "disruptive technologies" come out of nowhere to surprise established companies: "Clay, I see what's wrong with your idea. You shouldn't call them disruptive technologies, you should call them straight, boring technologies." That sentence alone explains why so many companies still fail to see the threats of disruptive technologies. Christensen's work is now quite famous, and it's difficult to find a tech exec who hasn't (said they've) read it. You also hear execs all the time talk about how they now know to pay attention to disruptive technologies - but you still see them missing the boat, often while exclaiming how vigilant they are in spotting disruptive technologies. Grove's point goes a long way towards explaining that (even if half-jokingly). Most execs ignore disruptive technologies because they don't think they're actually disruptive. They're "straight, boring" technologies that don't seem likely to create a profit. That also corrects that fallacy the disruptive technologies "come out of nowhere." That's rarely true. The reason they seem to come out of nowhere is that established companies ignore them for so long, that by the time they do realize they're a threat, it's too late.

Boring Business Week Articles

Boring Business Week Articles 02/18/2004 02:50 PM
Business Week ran a series of articles about Wi-Fi: Some are pretty basic and don't really cover anything new. But the first article focuses on the need for roaming deals and a simplification of logging onto any network. That seems to be the theme for the year....

Nanotech: The Rebranding Of Chemistry
And Other Boring Sciences

Nanotech: The Rebranding Of Chemistry
And Other Boring Sciences 12/28/2004 02:51 PM
There's been a lot of talk about "nanotechnology" lately, and we've noted in the past that an awful lot of these companies seem to simply be about taking anything "small" that sounds science fiction-like and building up some buzz around it. Business Week is running an interview with a nanotechnology "world leader," talking up the space -- but you have to question what exactly the space really is. When asked about the "hype," this expert claims that all the hype is around nanobots -- which no one is seriously working on. Of course, nanobots seem to be the closest thing to actually being new and innovative compared to the rest of the space. In fact, it's hard to tell from the article how everything else he's talking about is anything other than chemistry, with a shiny coat of marketing hype and dreams of big payouts from investors. Of course, chemistry is considered boring to many, so perhaps nanotechnology is simply how a bunch of chemists and PR people have figured out how to dupe investors out of lots of money that they wouldn't normally invest. At least that would fit with the definition one scientist has given to the field of nanotechnology: "the ability to continue to obtain funding for what you claim is of nano importance."

Board games anything but boring at
museum exhibit

Board games anything but boring at
museum exhibit 01/09/2004 10:14 PM
Others, like the board game featuring Barney Google and his racehorse, Spark Plug, represent a piece of past popular culture. While ...

Safe-keeping guide Backing up your PC is
boring, but you will regret not doing it

Safe-keeping guide Backing up your PC is
boring, but you will regret not doing it 09/17/2004 10:22 PM
BBC Sep 18 2004 1:57AM GMT

Boring Current iTunes Track in Tiger's
iChat?

Boring Current iTunes Track in Tiger's
iChat? 06/05/2005 10:55 PM
When Tiger's iChat has added a feature to display the current iTunes track in your status message, it was pretty...

beautiful day

beautiful day 04/29/2004 07:18 PM
I just got off the phone with Anne. Kris got the results of her biopsy just now . . . and IT CAME BACK CANCER-FREE!! The chemo and radiation have done their thing, and she's safe for at least two years!

big beautiful

big beautiful 06/24/2004 01:22 AM
Every other Wednesday night is D&D night at my friend Cal's, but I couldn't go tonight . . . I wanted -- no, that's not right. I needed -- to stay home and be a dad.

Read the entire entry @ WWdN!

"It's beautiful "

"It's beautiful " 06/05/2005 11:45 PM

A Beautiful Fraud

A Beautiful Fraud 06/04/2004 03:25 PM
Symbol Technologies' execs have a good day. Go figure.

Brown Is Beautiful

Brown Is Beautiful 07/22/2004 04:46 PM
UPS sends current shareholders a gift, but others may not want to pay the postage.

Why Small Is Beautiful

Why Small Is Beautiful 06/03/2004 06:36 PM
The new 12-inch PowerBooks have enough improvements -- extra hard-drive capacity, faster processors, Airport and Bluetooth as standard and faster DVD burning in the top model, to justify upgrading. By Garry Barker, Sydney Morning Herald (via MyAppleMenu)

A Beautiful New Sunrise

A Beautiful New Sunrise 08/04/2004 11:36 AM
The senior-living provider is nearing the end of a major transformation.

Beautiful Mutants

Beautiful Mutants 07/12/2004 02:28 PM
Mark Mothersbaugh's Beautiful Mutants, a slideshow of Rorschach-like manipulated images of faces from long ago set to his music, is currently on tour. I'm checking it out to see how his art compares with his music work in DEVO and movie soundtracks -- hopefully it comes close.

Beautiful saturation

Beautiful saturation 08/10/2004 08:03 PM
The stunning photography of Yann Bertrand.

The Bold & Beautiful

The Bold & Beautiful 04/01/2005 02:15 PM
Computer Power User Apr 1 2005 6:41PM GMT

Not my beautiful PowerPoint

Not my beautiful PowerPoint 12/29/2003 09:16 PM
USA Today Dec 29 2003 8:03PM ET

What To Do With That Beautiful Screen...

What To Do With That Beautiful Screen... 11/18/2003 03:17 PM

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