There's so many circles of irony there it must be art.

....or someone's geometry final.

I'm not your friend buddy!

Here, to round out the end....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adYbFQFXG0U

have some lion-lovin'.

Damn, it didn't make 1337!

In all seriousness, and after reading this for the past 2(!) days (thanks for the workday time sink!)....

I am personally fine with the way BB handled this. I do not see them as hypocritical or otherwise 'shady' for doing things the way they did.

BB are champions of transparency and openness, but that is only for things that should be for public consumption. I feel pretty certain that they are NOT for transparency and openness in private matters of a personal nature, because they are just that, private and personal.

What happened here was private and personal to the BB team and they handled it in the best and most discreet way they knew. Remember, it was VB who decided to shed the crocodile tears to the public to generate an outcry. Well congratulations, you fell for it, her mission was accomplished!

I have read VB's stuff before, and I gotta say, she has never rubbed me the right way (no pun in...aww who am I kidding, how could I resist THAT pun?). The whole Steve Jobs thing, remember that? He was calling a duck a duck, and she went shedding the crocodile tears to anyone who'd listen. People fell for that shit too.

Boing Boing: I appreciate what you guys do here. It's unfortunate that you may have tried to be discreet when dealing with this issue, but it seems the discreetness (is that even a word?) was wasted on the wrong person.

If anything, this incident has made me respect you guys (and gal!) more. You are people, mistakes (and shit) happens. You learn and move on.

As for the mods: I say good on them. I prefer mods to NOT to handle things with the kid gloves. If someone comes bringing a fight, they should expect a fight back.

Must....get.....to......1337!

Yet another mirror:

http://mozilla.isohunt.com/firefox/releases/3.0/

I used to work near there. The sign is real.

@#15
It’s highly relevant since if you truly enjoy Hunter S. Thompson, maybe actually mimicking the spirit of what he did makes more sense than paying an inflated price for a sneaker that is stamped with a logo.

Ah, but how do you know that I don't?

As for the price; the last pair of Chucks that I bought (about 1.5 years ago) cost me less than $50US brand new. Now, I know that $50 is more than it cost in the early eighties, but you do have to account for inflation.

do you want to be fashionable, or do you want to be an amphetamine crazed warrior burning down the mutant highway, prepared for the worst and keeping your ankles cool?

@ #8

The main reason people bought Chucks back in the day was because they were cheap and relatively easy to maintain.

Yes, I know this. I was around back then, and buying Chucks. This hardly has any relevance to the article, or my posting.

More people own Che t-shirts than have actually ever read Che's bio.

So challenge people on it. It's fun, I do.

Either way, you obviously didn't read the note at the end of my post.

Note pt. 2: I love Chucks, and I love HST. If these do come out. I would have to admit, that I probably would buy a pair.

I dunno...if I were famous, and a company wanted to pay me to say that I use their crap....when I actually DO use their crap (and enjoy it) in the first place, is it a sellout?

What if this actually promotes sales of his books, and encourages people to find out more about him? Is it a bad thing then?

This could be a new and unique way of promoting literacy. Imagine branding the "cool" products with literary personalities. It certainly beats sports stars, or *gasp* rock stars.

Note: These are random questions that popped into my head after reading the post, and do not necessarily represent how I really feel about this.