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09.05.07 by Widge @ 1:29 am Thanks to everybody who came out to our panels. There are some faces in the crowds that we've been seeing for years now, and we're glad you hardcore folks haven't come to your senses yet. Special thanks to Tuffley for organizing the madness on the ground. If you're new around here, feel free to browse around the site. It's only slightly disorganized, but if you get lost you can always use the Google search bar thingy to find your way out again. If you like what you read here and want to get this in your Bloglines/Google Reader/newsreader of choice, then here's our newsfeed. If you want to interact with folks, the Gabfest is over here. If you want to buy things, you can do that over here at shop.needcoffee.com. And if you want to spread love, then you can read about how to do that over here at help.needcoffee.com. And if none of this makes any sense or you need help, you can always ping me at widge sucks at need coffee dot com. Thanks again! Categorized as: Admin
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07.31.07 by Widge @ 4:22 pm  A quick shout-out to Luke and his compatriot Garrison, who I ran into at the local Borders. They (and the twelve invisible pop culture ninjas we had stationed at their post) were all on hand...just in case. I just want to say that it's our readers and agents on the ground which make Needcoffee.com what it is today...um, whatever the hell that is. Just in case of what? And why do we have people stationed at Borders Stores? Well, as Grant Morrison once said, sometimes the city gives you secret words, but sometimes things are just blatantly obvious. They're called Borders for a reason. I can say no more over an open channel. Stay vigilant. Categorized as: Admin
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07.20.07 by Widge @ 11:53 pm  The latest addition to the Needcoffee.com line of sites designed to waste your time focuses on something that I know a lot of you have a hankering for: mindless violence. So to cater to those of you who appreciate a good flying roundhouse to the cranium, we bring you: The Daily Kicksplode. It's a like a shit-blowing-up-a-day 365-day calendar. So the motto says it all: "No gimmicks. No frills. Just once a day, something takes it in the face. Because this is what you want." This joins Colors Are Overrated as new bits we're cranking out. And we're not done yet. Enjoy. Categorized as: Admin
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07.07.07 by Widge @ 2:36 am  I've been meaning to mention this, although I did so in a podcast a short while ago. I couldn't resist. I'm on Twitter now. I know, I know. Like I needed something else. Categorized as: Admin
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07.07.07 by Widge @ 2:26 am The answer is none. None more black.  My newest blog, folks. Dedicated to your favorite non-color: black. It's Colors Are Overrated. Currently in perpetual beta, bringing you the best of gadgets, gear, and clothing that will never clash with each other: because they're all black. Like all the best things are. Yes, I'm obsessed. Imagine if I wasn't self-medicated. Categorized as: Admin
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05.25.07 by Widge @ 8:19 am  The Technocave has now been successfully moved to its new location. This transition was necessary following an attempt to drill out a new chamber which resulted in the accidental tapping of an underground natural custard reservoir. Now that these fun and games are complete, Needcoffee.com should later today resume its abnormal publishing schedule. Categorized as: Admin
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05.08.07 by Widge @ 4:05 pm If you're a webmaster, you'll give a shit about this. If not, you won't, so as you were. rel="nofollow" should be killed on all Needcoffee outgoing links. If you'd like to know more about how I came to this revelation and why we had the tags in place in the first place, go here. Categorized as: Admin
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04.17.07 by Widge @ 5:26 am Okay, so you might notice upon your arrival, if you were using the http://www.needcoffee.com/updates... directory structure, that you wound up at http://www.needcoffee.com... instead. At least I hope to Christ, Buddha and the ghost of George Harrison that you did. This is all to implement a new WordPress plugin that will hopefully cut our server gyrations in half. Hopefully. If you see anything weird going on, ping me, but all the archival stuff pre-Wordpress that hasn't been moved is still there, all the posts should still be here--everything appears to be working. Knock on formica. All I can say is that it looks like I picked the wrong week to quit snorting Pixy Stix. Categorized as: Admin
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04.13.07 by Widge @ 5:45 am Okay, this is an admin post wherein I will tell you something, then after the jump explain it in detail. If that sort of thing bores you to tears, then read this top part and go on about your business. 1. The site's 500 errors should lessen, I hope, because our caching was simply not working. It appears to now be working. 2. The feed went wonky. A plug-in broke it and now it's unbroke. Feed should be back to normal. There you go. You've been warned. Categorized as: Admin
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04.12.07 by Widge @ 3:59 am Yes, I'm afraid so. As we've told you before, we're apparently the target of a crapload of spambots. And running Bad Behavior, Spam Karma 2, and Akismet on our WordPress install will keep the majority of spam comments from ever seeing the light of day...but they try to get in so often that the server just coughs up a lung. As I might have mentioned before, during the last onslaught they were hitting us twelve times a second. The only way to keep the site from seizing up is to just turn the comments off. Which pisses me off, because I enjoy people thinking that we're a way to get in touch with Dog the Bounty Hunter or Criss Angel. I enjoy people who post comments to the wrong site because they are utterly devoid of clue. But the fact is if we wanted to turn it back on we'd have to move to a hosting solution that's more robust than the one we have. And frankly, we don't make enough money off the site to pay for gas, much less pay hundreds of dollars a month just so we can withstand the spam bastard Visigoths at the front gate. If we somehow manage to start slinging some coin out of this gig, trust me, we'll get them back on. But until then, they're off and I'm not going to worry about them anymore. There's other things I want to do, apart from our new Press Release Section and revamping all the DreamCasts. So if you need to comment on things, join up on the Gabfest or you can reach me specifically at widgesucks at needcoffee dot com. Categorized as: Admin
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