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Something Awful, often abbreviated to SA, is a comedy website housing a variety of content, including blog entries, forums, feature articles, digitally edited pictures, and humorous media reviews. It was created by Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka in 1999 as a largely personal website, but as it grew, so did its contributors and content. Since then, the website has influenced Internet culture[1] and helped to perpetuate several Internet phenomena.[2][3][4] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Since the website's creation, its forums have amassed over 100,000 registered users, and the website in general has been involved in an array of events and conflicts. These include a conflict with the Spam Prevention Early Warning System, a Hurricane Katrina relief fund being caught in Paypal's red tape, and an exhibition boxing match between Kyanka and movie director Uwe Boll. The Spam Prevention Early Warning System (SPEWS) is an anonymous service which maintains a list of IP address ranges belonging to Internet service providers which host spammers. ...
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Uwe Boll (pronounced []), born June 22, 1965 in Wermelskirchen, Germany) is a German director, producer and screenwriter of films often adapted from video games. ...
History
Something Awful was created by Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka,[5] who remains in control of the site but is supported by other contributing writers and administrators. Kyanka's status as the webmaster has earned him an Easter Egg in the video game Icewind Dale II.[6] A virtual Easter egg is a hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, computer program, or video game. ...
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Kyanka started Something Awful several months before being forced to resign from his job at PlanetQuake for writing a derogatory website update about a fellow employee. He moved the "Cranky Steve" personality in question to the site in 1999.[7] In the years immediately following Something Awful's launch, several sponsors, including GameFan and eFront, failed to compensate Kyanka as promised for advertising on the site.[8][9] Diehard GameFan magazine (later known simply as GameFan magazine) was a publication started by Dave Halverson in 1992 that provided coverage of domestic and import video games. ...
eFront was an affiliate marketing network which purchased successful websites, such as Penny Arcade and BetaNews, and pooled traffic to those sites to command higher prices for advertising during an industry wide ad revenue slowdown. ...
In 2001, the site began charging a one-time fee (currently US$9.95)[10] for forum access. Currently, non-members cannot view all of the forums and are not able to post messages or threads. The site and forums draw continuous income from fees for new accounts,[10] forum upgrades such as custom avatars, and merchandise sales. Some suggest that the forum fee keeps undesirable users out.[11] USD redirects here. ...
Spam Prevention Early Warning System On July 20, 2003, the spam filtering organization Spam Prevention Early Warning System (SPEWS) added an entire class-B subnet with the Cogent ISP to their spammer list, since Cogent was hosting a known spammer that SPEWS found difficult to block. Something Awful was added to the list in the process, disrupting its ability to communicate with its customers. Upon appeal, SPEWS initially refused to unblock SA. The Something Awful administrators responded by telling their users to spam the official SPEWS newsgroup at news.admin.net-abuse.blocklisting. The administrators claimed that SPEWS was attempting to hack the Something Awful server. Forum users responded by threatening to perform a distributed denial of service attack on SPEWS, although this type of behavior was strongly discouraged by Kyanka and assistant editor Zack Parsons.[12] is the 201st day of the year (202nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Spam Prevention Early Warning System (SPEWS) is an anonymous service which maintains a list of IP address ranges belonging to Internet service providers which host spammers. ...
Cogent Communications is a multinational IP Internet Service Provider. ...
A newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from many users at different locations. ...
A denial-of-service attack (also, DoS attack) is an attack on a computer system or network that causes a loss of service to users, typically the loss of network connectivity and services by consuming the bandwidth of the victim network or overloading the computational resources of the victim system. ...
Hurricane Katrina charity Since the website's servers were located in New Orleans, the site temporarily went offline in August 2005 during the flooding from Hurricane Katrina. After the site was brought to a semi-functional state, Kyanka set up a link to a PayPal account where people could donate money to the survivors of the hurricane via the Red Cross. Kyanka put in $3,000 of his own money,[13] and promised to give some free merchandise to anyone who donated more than $10.[14] New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ...
2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- â Deaths in August August 31: Michael Sheard August 26: Lord Fitt August 24: Jack Slipper August 24: Maurice Cowling August 24: Dr. Tom Pashby August 23: Brock Peters August 22: Lord Lane August 21: Robert Moog August...
In 2005, there were extensive failures of the levees and flood walls protecting New Orleans, Louisiana and surrounding communities. ...
eBays North First Street satellite office campus (home to PayPals corporate headquarters) PayPal is an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. ...
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In under half a day, visitors helped to raise US$27,695.41 before PayPal froze the account under suspicions of fraud; automated messages informed that there had been "more than one report of suspicious behavior from your buyers."[14][15] PayPal stated that they would unfreeze the account once it was provided with proof of shipping from aggrieved buyers. Due to the nature of the collection, there were no actual "buyers", and it was impossible to provide proof of shipping for an intangible good such as a donation.[15] Eventually, Kyanka contacted a customer service representative over the phone, and asked to have PayPal donate all of the money to the Red Cross. However, he was told that PayPal would only give the money to United Way of America due to their business affiliation; Kyanka initially agreed, but after receiving several emails from readers detailing alleged corruption and inefficiency within United Way, he changed his mind and told PayPal to refund all of the money to the individual donors. PayPal refunded the money, but did not refund exchange and handling fees for international donors.[13] Kyanka has subsequently encouraged his users to boycott PayPal.[citation needed] USD redirects here. ...
A WWII-era poster encouraged American women to volunteer for the Red Cross as part of the war effort. ...
The United Way of America is a coalition of charitable organizations in the United States that have traditionally pooled efforts in fundraising. ...
Uwe Boll fight - Main article: Raging Boll
In June 2006, Kyanka accepted an open challenge from German movie director Uwe Boll, who had offered to fight critics of his movies in a series of 10-round boxing matches. Something Awful had posted a humorous and derogatory review of one of his films.[16][17] The event took place in Vancouver on 23 September 2006; after being knocked down several times and eventually counted out by the referee in the first round, a battered and exasperated Kyanka claimed that he had been told by Boll, a trained amateur boxer, that the fight would be just for show. [18] Uwe Boll (pronounced []), born June 22, 1965 in Wermelskirchen, Germany) is a German director, producer and screenwriter of films often adapted from video games. ...
Uwe Boll (pronounced []), born June 22, 1965 in Wermelskirchen, Germany) is a German director, producer and screenwriter of films often adapted from video games. ...
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Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Shooting deaths On September 25, 2007, forum member "West" posted a thread about a double homicide in Oviedo, Florida that involved an acquaintance of his. As the thread grew, other users admitted to knowing the victims, and they eventually found the website of Andrew Allred, who posted on the forums under alias "Bomber116". The website contained significant details about the victims and the murder; Allred's account was subsequently banned, and he is being held without bail and faces two counts of homicide, attempted murder and armed burglary.[19] is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
Oviedo is a city in Seminole County, Florida, United States. ...
In 2005, William Freund, a mentally disturbed SA member in Aliso Viejo, California, sought advice in the gun subforum about purchasing Hevi-Shot ammunition several days before embarking on a shooting, in which he killed two people before committing suicide. Freund had warned readers in the thread, which was closed before the killing spree, that he intended to use the ammunition to defend a pumpkin patch from vandals.[19] William Freund (c. ...
Aliso Viejo is a census-designated place located in Orange County, California. ...
Site content Something Awful is home to a variety of humorous content, including photo manipulation, parodies, pranks, satirical reviews of products, and reviews of obviously poor websites, video games, and movies. The material is written by several different editors, and occasionally by members of its forums as well. On July 12, 2005, David Thorpe —the author of the features Your Band Sucks and Fashion SWAT— "represented" the website on G4's Attack of the Show, although he made several absurd claims, such as that the site started up as a monster truck rally newsletter and that the forums were a front for a cult that required a registration fee of $80 per month.[1] is the 193rd day of the year (194th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
G4 is an American cable and satellite television channel originally geared toward male viewers aged 12â34, devoted to the world of video games and the video game lifestyle. ...
Sarah Lane is hott! Attack of the Show! (previously named The Screen Savers) is a live gaming and entertainment television program shown on G4 in the United States, G4techTV in Canada, and the HOW TO Channel in Australia. ...
2005 Bigfoot monster truck racing in Arizona A monster truck is an automobile, typically a pickup truck, which has been modified or purposely built with extremely large wheels and suspension. ...
On June 4, 2007, website columnist Jon "DocEvil" Hendren wrote "The Art of Wikigroaning", coining the term wikigroaning. Wikigroaning is a game in which readers explore two Wikipedia articles with similar topics of contrasting seriousness, such as half-life (the scientific concept) and Half-Life (the game), and compare the length and comprehensive depth of the articles. Hendren's article was featured in the Wall Street Journal.[20] Wikipedia, a free content encyclopedia project written collaboratively by volunteers, has attracted criticisms along with its size and popularity. ...
Wikipedia (IPA: , or ( ) is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization. ...
Half-Life For a quantity subject to exponential decay, the half-life is the time required for the quantity to fall to half of its initial value. ...
Half-Life For a quantity subject to exponential decay, the half-life is the time required for the quantity to fall to half of its initial value. ...
The Wall Street Journal is an influential international daily newspaper published in New York City, New York with an average daily circulation of 1,800,607 (2002). ...
Forums The site is home to a collection of Internet forums, which charge a one-time registration fee of US$9.95 and fees ranging from US$4.99 to US$9.99 for additional features. The forums have helped to perpetuate several Internet memes, such as All your base are belong to us[3] and Tourist guy.[2] A typical Internet forum discussion, with common elements such as quotes and spoiler brackets A page from a forum showcasing emoticons and Internet slang An Internet forum is a web application for holding discussions and posting user generated content. ...
Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...
The phrase is a piece of subtitled dialogue from the introduction to Zero Wing. ...
The tourist guy, supposedly standing on the balcony of the World Trade Center moments before his death. ...
Something Awful formerly hosted file sharing subforums "NMP3s" ("No MP3s"), "BTB" ("Bit Torrent Barnyard"), and "DPPH" ("Don't Post Porn Here")[21][22] for distributing music, movies, and pornography, including copyrighted material. Kyanka shut down the subforums on January 1, 2005 in light of the legal problems they caused.[23] Something Awful's FAQ currently states that file-sharing forums never existed, that discussion forums exist for discussion, and that individuals who joined the forums specifically for file-sharing reasons are "thoroughly retarded".[24] Users who request access to these subforums (or other file-sharing activities) are banned. The forums users often organize creative activities in which any member can participate. One such activity is "Photoshop Phriday", where users will modify existing images to create parodies through the use of image-editing software such as Adobe's Photoshop. Another periodic activity is "The Blue Ball Machine", where users create animated images that tile together in such a way as to appear like a seamless whole; these tiles are incorporated into a screensaver which displays them in random order. Adobe Photoshop is a bitmap graphics editor (with some text and vector graphics capabilities) published by Adobe Systems. ...
During Entertainment Weekly's "Entertainer of the Year" contest, in which votes are submitted online, forum users quickly found a weakness in the voting system, and scripts were written to vote for Kyanka dozens of times per second, thus ensuring his victory. Kyanka was quickly disqualified when Entertainment Weekly found that many of the votes were coming from very few IP addresses.[25] Kyanka did, however, get his name mentioned in the magazine.[26] Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated EW) is a magazine published by Time Inc. ...
References - ^ a b David Thorpe, Kevin Pereira. Somethingawful.com, Pink Five, Chris Gore [television]. G4 television.
- ^ a b Tourist of Death. Retrieved on 2006-11-24.
- ^ a b All your base.... Guardian Unlimited (2001-02-28). Retrieved on 2006-11-24.
- ^ All Your Base Are Belong To Frogstar. Retrieved on 2006-11-24.
- ^ Lynch, Steven G.. Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka (html). Retrieved on 2007-05-10.
- ^ Icewind Dale II - Lowtax reference!. Retrieved on 2006-05-15.
- ^ Kyanka, Richard (2005-05-10). Here's Mud In Your Eye, Batman (html). Retrieved on 2007-05-10.
- ^ Dan Knight (2000-10-11). Something Awful & Express.com. Low End Mac.
- ^ Tim Johnson (2001-03-13). eFront: What Went Wrong?. The Duke of URL. Archived from the original on 2002-06-17.
- ^ a b Jeremy Turnage (2006-01-23). Something awfully funny. Retrieved on 2007-02-13.
- ^ Sameer Pitalwalla. "A friend for every buddy", Daily News and Analysis (DNA), 2006-11-11. Retrieved on 2007-03-12.
- ^ John Leyden (2003-08-08). Something Awful going on with SPEWS. The Register. Situation Publishing Ltd..
- ^ a b Farivar, Cyrus. "PayPal Freezes Out Katrina Aid", 2005-09-08. Retrieved on 2007-02-18.
- ^ a b Koprowski, Gene J.. "Feds Investigating Fraudulent Katrina-Related Web Sites", 2005-09-26. Retrieved on 2007-02-18.
- ^ a b Demerjian, Charlie. "All your donations are belong us", 2005-09-04. Retrieved on 2007-02-18.
- ^ Kietzmann, Ludwig. "Uwe Boll does something awful to another critic", joystiq, 2006-09-25. Retrieved on 2007-03-12.
- ^ Chris Baker. "Raging Boll", Wired, 2006-12-01. Retrieved on 2007-03-12.
- ^ Tillson, Tamsen. "Boll K.O.'s crix in the ring", Variety, 2006-09-24. Retrieved on 2007-05-10.
- ^ a b "Murderer leaves clues for forum users", 2007-09-26. Retrieved on 2007-10-07.
- ^ Brophy-Warren, Jamin. "Oh, that John Locke". Wall Street Journal (June 16, 2007): P3. Retrieved on 2007-10-25.
- ^ Lowtax (2004-02-06). CALLING ALL GOONS! We have a MAGENTA ALERT! I repeat, a MAGENTA ALERT!. Retrieved on 2007-10-25.
- ^ Lowtax (2004-06-13). yay someone filled my btb request for Police Squad. Retrieved on 2007-10-25.
- ^ "Police, IFPI make bacon of OiNK BitTorrent tracker", 2007-10-23. Retrieved on 2007-10-24.
- ^ Forums Support FAQ. Retrieved on 2007-10-24.
- ^ Adam Gaffin (2001-11-30). The most useless software ever. Network World. Retrieved on 2007-02-06.
- ^ Michael Small (2001-11-30). Fan Flare. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on 2007-02-06.
Kevin Pereira (born December 28, 1982[1]) is co-host of G4s Attack of the Show! (formerly The Screen Savers) with Olivia Munn. ...
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Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
is the 328th day of the year (329th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
is the 328th day of the year (329th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 130th day of the year (131st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
is the 135th day of the year (136th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
is the 130th day of the year (131st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
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Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
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Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
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Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 71st day of the year (72nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 71st day of the year (72nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 130th day of the year (131st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
is the 164th day of the year (165th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...
is the 334th day of the year (335th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...
is the 334th day of the year (335th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
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