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out why everyone’s getting so worked up about the sale of Fuckedcompany on ebay. Not the Metafilter crew, really (they’re more than worldly enough to take this in stride), but the attention this has generated in the press seems just a little breathless to me. It’s like they’re trying to be all cool and cynical about it but are really quite appalled. Really though – pud is just taking the hack one step further towards its logical conclusion: he increases the site’s notoriety, sets up the site as its very own fucked company for whoever buys it (how pomo), and all the while keeps and enhances his own notoriety – after all, he can sell if for whatever he wants, but at the end of the day he’s still the guy who founded Fucked Company.