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Hind Site Made Slightly More Accurate

Adam Mathes, the genius who cofounded Consumating with me, also plays the role of ombudsman for this web site. After reading my post about Consumating’s point system, he dug up this email exchange from April of 2005. At the time, he and I were working on the code we had written for […]


I Love My Chicken Wire Mommy

The topic of member points and reward systems online and offline is interesting to me, so over the next few posts, I will be babbling about this topic in a new Ben Brown Blog Miniseries entitled “I Love My Chicken Wire Mommy.”
One of the things that I tell people who want to build an […]


Happy Birthday, Über!

Dear loyal readers,
Today marks the 7th anniversary of the launch of Über.nu, the web zine I started in Y2K with Adam Mathes, Andy Pressman, Andrea Spencer and Anne Sussman. Über published on an almost daily basis for 5 years - 992 essays, skits, weird poems, short stories, and a variety of things that had […]


One Less Blowjob.

On my departure from Consumating:
No offense to Jesse, who I’m sure is awesome, but this is like the Democratic Party without Clinton.


Oh, TWiGBY! Flattery will get you everywhere…

… this is captain murphy dying levels of jumping the shark
On my announcement that I’ll be leaving Consumating