Barger's robotwisdom, through a print link in the New Yorker's little squib section about online things of interest that used to run in a middle column in the movie and theater listings at the front of the mag that had a clever name that I can't remember now, was how I found this, all of it really. I remember when he went to the black background, when the bombs began. I wish he'd go back to something like Danny Yee, his most direct descendant. Try reading fafblog and robotwisdom back-to-back.
There was a serious amount of antagonism from some quarters toward Barger's online presence pre-hiatus that's seemingly still unmentionable, even in the article in Wired cited by barista, above.
