Useless Account

February 6, 2007 12:01 PM

Useless Account is the newest, hippest web 2.0 site, with gradient blends, large text, and bright colors. And right now, they're offering free accounts with unlimited account editing. Sign up quick before your username is taken!
posted by scottreynen (29 comments total)

enough! please stop! let me off the self-referential satire train of Web 2.0.
posted by bhouston at 12:05 PM on February 6, 2007 [1 favorite]

Oh, I don't know -- maybe the Flickr old skool could use it before merging to Yahoo! IDs.
posted by pineapple at 12:09 PM on February 6, 2007

best of the web
posted by chundo at 12:20 PM on February 6, 2007

I have three invites for pro accounts. Subscribe to my Atom feed if you want one.
posted by Armitage Shanks at 12:23 PM on February 6, 2007

2.0 RLY?
posted by boo_radley at 12:28 PM on February 6, 2007

let me off the self-referential satire train of Web 2.0.

Don't worry; with Web 3.0, the pendulum will have swung back, and then some.
posted by cortex at 12:29 PM on February 6, 2007

This reminds me of Progress Quest only less funny and more work.
posted by Mister_A at 12:33 PM on February 6, 2007

Hilarious site cortex! I can peruse it as I play Progress Quest.
posted by Mister_A at 12:34 PM on February 6, 2007

How is that Web 2.0? It's clearly not written in Rails.
posted by chrismear at 12:37 PM on February 6, 2007

I signed up for this shit last month.

The support blows. They wiped my account information without warning because I had an illegal prime number in one of the fields. They're too fucking sticky, too. No export function. Fuck 'em. I'll just roll my own.
posted by loquacious at 12:43 PM on February 6, 2007

I <3 NDcent and he <3 me and there's nothing you can do about it, Father
posted by Roger Dodger at 12:50 PM on February 6, 2007

What?
posted by cortex at 12:52 PM on February 6, 2007

from here:

This made me want to vomit from my butt.
posted by ninjew at 12:53 PM on February 6, 2007

That's in the source code from your link, cortex
posted by Roger Dodger at 1:00 PM on February 6, 2007

twopointohnoes!
posted by Alt F4 at 1:15 PM on February 6, 2007

Actually, I liked the "sign up now!!1" bit.
posted by Alt F4 at 1:16 PM on February 6, 2007

And ... datapoint: 2987 signups as of right now.

on preview: 2995.
posted by Alt F4 at 1:17 PM on February 6, 2007

I'm disappointed they gave it an obvious name instead of a goofy one like "squeebo"
posted by O9scar at 1:19 PM on February 6, 2007

I signed up as mathowie, jessamyn, languagehat, cortex, jonmc, loquacious, dios, The Pink Superhero and stavrosthewonderchicken. I will sell you your account name for fifty gmail invites.

Except dios. I'm using that one to do some irreparable internet carnage.
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 1:19 PM on February 6, 2007

Oh, yeah. It's been a while since I wrote that. It's funny, because I thought to myself just now, "ah, another datapoint in the great How Do You Render "ND[cent character]" experiment!

How embarassing for me.
posted by cortex at 1:20 PM on February 6, 2007

Re: 2.0 RLY, first entry: Has Xeni ever authored an interesting post on boingboing?
posted by maxwelton at 1:45 PM on February 6, 2007

Shake it baby
posted by taosbat at 2:18 PM on February 6, 2007

I don't know what to say, I found that inexplicably satisfying.
posted by nanojath at 2:23 PM on February 6, 2007

This made me want to vomit from my butt.

You mean shit?
posted by delmoi at 4:39 PM on February 6, 2007

Re: 2.0 RLY, first entry: Has Xeni ever authored an interesting post on boingboing?

All her posts are interesting if you fantasize about spending hours talking about the Linux Kernel Space swapping, drinking champaign mixed with mountain dew, before fucking a beautiful slender woman.

*Note: don't know much about Ms. Jardin.
posted by delmoi at 4:43 PM on February 6, 2007

I enjoyed this very much. Thank you.
posted by Kwine at 7:45 PM on February 6, 2007

Useless account amused me with this bit of reasoning for signing up:

Impress your friends with your ability to tab through form fields and arrow through saved field values!

Hits a little close to home.
posted by chlorus at 6:11 AM on February 7, 2007

This is genius.
posted by wheat at 8:28 AM on February 7, 2007

I want to sign up, but I'm stymied by the "what would you do for a million that you wouldn't do for ten large" question. I dunno; maybe I'd refrain from doing something exactly 100 times?
posted by pax digita at 10:00 AM on February 7, 2007