Got this email today from Bebo and it looks like every song except for Borderline has been removed from my Bebo music page:

from: Bebo Service service@noreply.bebo.com
to: brad@bradsucks.net
date: May 22, 2007 2:48 AM
subject: Bebo Bands: Songs Removed for thebradsucks

Brad

Song content was removed for your Bebo Band, Brad Sucks.

Content was removed because it was recognized by the Bebo copyright filter to violate the Bebo Terms of Service:

<http://www.bebo.com/TermsOfUse.jsp>

As a result, the upload songs feature for this band has been disabled. If you believe that a mistake has been made, you can request that your Bebo band page be reviewed:

<http://www.bebo.com/BandReviewRequest.jsp?MemberId=1530240065>

Please don’t submit bands that you do not own the copyright to or your band may be deleted all together.

Thanks,

The Beboers

I think it’s pretty awesome that I seem to have violated my own copyright somehow. Well done! I’m sure glad my copyrights are safe!!

What is with the Internet’s obsession with numbered lists? Right now on del.icio.us’s popular page are:

• 30 Scripts For Galleries, Slideshows and Lightboxes
• 25 Code Snippets for Web Designers
• 50 Ways to Increase Your Productivity
• Do It Yourself: 12 Cheats for Independent Entrepreneurs
• Open Source Projects: 15 To Watch
• Collection: All 6,288 Smithsonian Images
• 8 web menus you just can’t miss
• 世界の最もきれいな都市トップ25
• 「あなたの生産性を高めるための50のTips」を自分でも作ってみよう！ | P O P * P O P

I should probably name my next album 11 Songs for Developers You Can’t Miss (Will Increase your Productivity).

Thanks to everyone who submitted artwork for the upcoming ccMixter/Brad Sucks remix compilation, there was a lot of great stuff. My favorite was by Katie Sekelsky:

Hooray for almost being done with this project!

I updated the Brad Sucks Digital Download Store to v.0.02. Some people have been paying me for hosted installations (which is SWEET) so I’ve been able to take the time to put in some fixes and also add international currency support in the config options.

I also put it on Google Code so you can use SVN to check it out, submit issues, etc. Questions about installation and stuff go in the forums.

Three years ago I posted about my experience with OfficeMax. I guess it was high up there in searches for “OfficeMax sucks” and became somewhat of a search honeypot. Since then I’ve received countless angry emails about the replies to the post. From OfficeMax managers who were slandered demanding me to remove posts, to OfficeMax employees who mistakenly slandered their managers under their real name demanding me to remove posts, to the (I guess) OfficeMax-employed trolls defending OfficeMax, it’s been a wild and interestingly retarded ride.

Today, after 765 replies (and I’m pretty sure zero albums sold to angry OfficeMax employees), I’ve turned off comments for that post. Spread your wings and fly, disgruntled OfficeMax employees. I’m sick of hearing from you! Please go away forever!

Other search honeypots I’m aware of on bradsucks.net:

There’s Something Wrong - Get one fan in Sweden, attract many more searching for “sweden sucks” I guess. What’s there to hate about Sweden?

Record Deals - I’m not sure search this is popular for, but if anyone’s looking for a white teenage rapper who can’t spell, you might want to check out the comments.

Had one of those “this is all garbage, maybe I should bail on this album and start over fresh” musical panic attacks yesterday. So I think I’m right on track to release my second album around 2010.

I guess we’re worm composting now.

Kind of weird that our first house pet was a pound of red wigglers, but that’s life.

So long, Kurt Vonnegut.

There’s a new section on the site called You, an organized directory of all the remixes, lyrics, videos, tabs, frets on fire projects and so on that people have made to go with my songs. (For example here’s Making Me Nervous.)

I know I’m missing a lot of stuff in there so please submit if you notice something missing. Also let me know of any credits and credit urls you want updated, I did a fair amount of guesstimation.

Also: newer songs are not in there yet but will be soon. Just upload stuff as “other” for now and let me know in the notes what it’s for.

By the way, I stole this idea from Jonathan Coulton.

Thank you to everyone who’s contributed stuff, it was awesome going through it all again.

I’ve been loading all user-submitted stuff (remixes, tabs, etc) into a database so I can display and maintain it better. I loaded all the remixes people have done of my songs into it today and spat out this chart:

Interesting, I always figured Making Me Nervous and Dirtbag would be way up there as they’re my most popular tracks, but I’m surprised to see Overreacting in the top three.