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2009 in retrospect
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Posted by: Marty | 12/25/2009 at 06:22
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With only a couple of days left in this year it's about to time to publish our own "looking-back-at-2009" thing. So here goes...
- 2009 was the first full year with the new site design, which was introduced in November 2008.
- Site themes were introduced, of which we now have 7 different ones, but are only available to registered users: New Maps of Hell, Recipe for Hate, The Gray Race, Into the Unknown, The New America, The Process of Belief and Against the Grain. If you haven't found them yet, have a look at your Control Panel.
- Last year both Brett and Bobby signed up.
- We revived the Bad Religion Tribute
TapesEPs. - We've managed to dig up the old "Bad Times" newsletters and published them here on the site.
- We've embedded the BR Lexicon into the lyrics in the Discography.
- Talking about the lyrics, we believe that they're now 99% correct and free of typos; Thanks to Wrong Planet and several others who helped pointing them out.
- A shoutbox was added to the homepage.
- Thanks to Google Ads we've made our first million dollars.
- We've joined the Twitter hype for the sole purpose of attracting more visitors to the Bad Religion Page. We now have close to 800 followers.
- In 2009 we obtained www.thebrpage.com; so we now have .net, .org and .com.
- Against The Grain is still the #1 album as voted by almost 200 fans.
- I Want To Conquer The World has beaten American Jesus being the most popular song.
- n1ckb0n3z finally got his member title.
- And finally but not least, in 2009 someone we only know as "-Fatal- Apocalypse" came and went.
Some facts and figures:
| Northernmost visitor: | 1) Norway: Lakselv (69°25'60N) 2) Russia: Murmansk (68°58′N) |
| Southernmost visitor: | 1) Argentina: Rio Gallegos (51°38′S) 2) New Zealand: Invercargill (46°24'0"S) |
| Highest # of visitors in one day: | September 28: 1320 visits / 1026 visitors |
| # of doodles: | 38 |
| # of forum posts: | ~17,000 |
| # of forum threads started: | ~800 |
| # of new shows added to our archive: | 110 |
| # of news items: | 50 |
| # of comments added to news items: | 877 |
| # of song interpretations added: | 111 |
| # of show/tour images added: | 988 |
| # of people who registered: | 374 |
And, of course, a big thanks goes to out to all our visitors; both those who speak up and those who remain silent. Without you there wouldn't be a Bad Religion Page. Merry Christmas! But let's not forget:
Extra tidbit - Our southernmost visitor came from Rio Gallegos? That's just weird...
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02/10/2010 at 16:22
What's Bobby's username? Or did you mean Brian?
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02/10/2010 at 16:15
I think you forgot to mention "Piano in lost pilgrim". That was a highlight for me.
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01/21/2010 at 09:21
Wickerman... hmm? isn't that the crazy dude on the back of the case? and wasn't that the first album that Wackerman recorded for? wickerman...wackerman -_- Wickerman....... Wakcerman o_O |
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01/16/2010 at 13:31
wow ..mine is always TPOB..
still wishing for the wickerman or the shooting target to show up :( |
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01/16/2010 at 02:37
Lol, I never noticed the themes either... They're well hidden *goes to check*
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12/28/2009 at 08:19
SHHHHHHH!!!!!! You'll wake it up! |
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12/27/2009 at 15:08
-Fatal- Apocalypse....*cringe*
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12/27/2009 at 11:42
I never noticed there were themes either. I like the Recipe for Hate one and the Into the Unknown is cool though really simple.
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12/26/2009 at 18:54
i feel silly =P
im going with atg until they put a suffer one up, if they do. |
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12/26/2009 at 15:56
lol
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12/26/2009 at 12:24
Rio Gallegos. Provincia de Chubut. Argentina. I knew a girl from there.
Right next to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Gallegos |
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12/25/2009 at 22:36
egg LOL yes!
try ATG! its a nice one! but the stock one is still the one i use :P when jesse isnt busy they are both working on lil stuffs like that cause they rock Jesse wasnt there gunna be a wickerman in the TPOB one? id so use that if there was! |
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12/25/2009 at 21:08
wtf theres themes?
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12/25/2009 at 19:50
What happened to Fatal Apocalypse anyway?
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12/25/2009 at 16:16
Shouldn't I be the northernmost user, after all, I am Santa Claus.
Just kidding. It was a good year, and congratulations on the first million dollars. |
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12/25/2009 at 15:59
"Thanks to Google Ads we've made our first million dollars."
That one gave me a good laugh. |
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12/25/2009 at 13:47
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12/25/2009 at 11:47
Yay... I'm #2 southernmost visitor :)
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