Hey, guys. Marvin here.

The BB home page has now started filling its pages with video content, and material from BBTV, which the vast majority of people cannot watch at work. Like many folks, I read BB during breaks at work. That's why I started reading the BBGadgets page, because it actually had articles instead of video links. And now this weirdness has befallen the BBGadgets page.

What's going on guys? This is seriously whacked content.

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#4 posted by cmuwriter , October 13, 2008 10:35 AM

Attention freaking world, click on the Infomerica Icon and it will explain everything. Regardless, this is annoying.

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#5 posted by Talia , October 13, 2008 10:37 AM

#3 I would assume they're going somewhere with all this.

angry rants aren't really going to get you anywhere. Don't like it its very easy to not read it.

Also, I will say that BB doesn't cater exclusively to the "people at work" crowd. There aren't THAT many BBTV episodes.

I am at work and have no problem finding stuff to read on BBTV. I really have no idea what you are complaining about in that regards.

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#6 posted by reikiwes , October 13, 2008 10:37 AM

Yes, very annoying. Guess I'll try coming back in 3 days, because this is neither entertaining nor clever.

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#7 posted by Talia , October 13, 2008 10:39 AM

er, on BB, not BBTV.

Oh, and thanks cmu :P took me a bit to find what you meant.

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#8 posted by Anonymous , October 13, 2008 10:39 AM

No, this is fucking awesome.

Smash the state, Marvin!

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#9 posted by reikiwes , October 13, 2008 10:41 AM

At #5. I'm not saying I can't find anything to read on BB. I am saying that, like many, I am at work, and like many, I cannot freely play a video at work but could read an article. At this very moment, 10 of the posts on the BB home page are video links.

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#10 posted by Zarniwoop , October 13, 2008 10:43 AM

I'm detecting a much higher number of people here with sense of humour malfunctions than usual. Carry on, boingboingers!

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#11 posted by chrisrosa , October 13, 2008 10:45 AM

There are bubbles, and there are bubbles inside of bubbles. That's where you guys are now. So I'm glad you guys are having fun being edgy and all, but it's being missed by a lot of folks out there.

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#12 posted by TJ S , October 13, 2008 10:48 AM

To quote Slashdot: "It's funny, laugh."

I'm looking at this as a sort of vacation for the BBG editors, and reading it for the inherent entertainment value.
If you really need your gadget fix, drop over to engadget or gizmodo for the day. They're quicker on the uptake most of the time anyway (no offense). I come to BBG for the perspective it gives on gadget news.

So please, either let yourself read, laugh, and enjoy, or hang out elsewhere Mon Wed and Fri this week.

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#13 posted by dculberson , October 13, 2008 10:50 AM

You are a true believer. Blessings of the State, Blessings of the people. Buy more, Buy more.

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#14 posted by alowishus , October 13, 2008 10:51 AM

What did you do to Brownlee? I hope he swoops down from the heavens and strikes this poor prose from BoingBoing Gadgets forever! We are in dire need of his magical pen! O master wordsmith, where are you?! We need you! Defeat the evil and talentless hack that has taken over this site!

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#15 posted by metafactory , October 13, 2008 10:51 AM

Beautiful dissonanc3!

There are enough freakin' gadget pages out there. I like this conrades. I do. As per usual, some posts interest, others don't. Some posts reek of insider humour but whatever... The visual and ideological refresh is clever and grand.

Reject corporatized gadgety kitsch-lingo and in the pocket of capital ninnery! Kvetching is fine but this glitch says miles more about boingboing-ethic than anything I've seen in some time.

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#16 posted by alowishus , October 13, 2008 10:54 AM

Here's the thing: It's not entertaining, funny, or even well written. So there. Nanner nanner goo goo. *sticks out tongue*

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#17 posted by Anonymous , October 13, 2008 10:55 AM

TJ S, you make it sound like a back handed compliment, but you are right. This sort of thing IS why I come here.

If people havent noticed them doing stuff like this all the time, they' probably are the types who just scane feed headlines looking for news.

I admit from time to time I wonder why Boing Boing of all places runs dry gadget press release news like all the other blogs. This is the kind of thing they should be doing ALL THE TIME

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#18 posted by erzatsen , October 13, 2008 11:13 AM

Infomercia?
like infomercial truncated?

Infomerica?
like america of information?

no matter - one is the same as the other.

Consume! Enjoy! Replace!

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#19 posted by Anonymous , October 13, 2008 11:20 AM

C'mon folks, this is brilliant! They've turned their entire blog into an avante garde consumable, and you are as much a part of the project as anything they post!

Kudos to them for having the cajones to risk their entire blog to make a social statement. They're challenging consumerism on a consumer blog! Don't you get it?!

Oh, you don't like it? That's kind of the point! Who here isn't at least a little conflicted over lusting after nifty new gadgets and worrying over the moral price of constant acquisition? Seems to me they really touched a nerve.

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#20 posted by TJ S , October 13, 2008 11:21 AM

@17:
Reading back over my comment, it does sound backhanded, but I didn't intend it that way (chalking that up to a lack of coffee this morning). I really do enjoy BBG's regular style, and I love that they're willing to change it up like this.

Now, about that coffee....

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#21 posted by darkray77 , October 13, 2008 11:22 AM

Well, it's not the first day in april yet, so yea I don't get it either. Is this site no longer going to be about gadgets. or are we just going to see more double talk orwellian-speak type crap?

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#22 posted by doggo

, October 13, 2008 11:32 AM

I, for one, DO NOT welcome our new Orwellian editors. This was funny/interesting for all of one posts. If you're going to do this all week, I think I'll spend the week in Engasia. Or at least elsewhere.

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#23 posted by cusqu , October 13, 2008 12:07 PM

I love what they're doing so much I think I'll stick around for these three days and then never make my way back to any dystopian consumer blog again(and hey they're all dystopian).

I've been a slave too long and now my plugs are free! I am free!
Long live the resistance!

LONG LIVE MARVIN!!! LONG LIVE MARVIN!!!

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#24 posted by workergnome , October 13, 2008 12:08 PM

I am appreciative that you're taking Tuesday off to handle the MacBook launch...though it might have been interesting to see how a Greek Chorus/Infomercia mashup would work.

Keep up the bizarre.

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#25 posted by noahsachs , October 13, 2008 12:22 PM

Infomerica rules!

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#26 posted by Anonymous , October 13, 2008 12:29 PM

This takes too much effort to read and appreciate. I hope Informercia goes away soon. Or I will.

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#27 posted by booticon , October 13, 2008 1:12 PM

What the fuck is happening?

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#28 posted by St_Stevie , October 13, 2008 1:23 PM

How DARE you deviate from regular programming!
My teeth flew out of my mouth at the shock of not receiving my morning GADGET enema.

Now, I will have to go back to prunes.

Damn you!

Prunes!!!

I expected better from Brownlee.
Und er wiess GENAU warum.

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#29 posted by mennonot , October 13, 2008 1:47 PM

#1, #2 and #3 are part of the plot line.

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#30 posted by pikematerson , October 13, 2008 2:02 PM

Doubleplus brilliant! Banish nayspeakers to the fourth circle of the geegawtubes!

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#31 posted by Thaddeus Smith , October 13, 2008 2:06 PM

what's ironic is that people will vent with great fury and disgust at such things as this, yet not lift a finger (or voice) in matters of true social, economical, or political importance.

pretty pathetic actually. it's a fucking blog; either you're personally edified by this or you aren't. from what i know of joel (isn't all that much really), this is par for the course ..and i love it.

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#32 posted by prion , October 13, 2008 3:02 PM

Informercia is winning hearts and minds!

Mine included!

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#33 posted by Lea Hernandez , October 13, 2008 3:20 PM

MARVIIIIIIIIIN!