{"id":466,"date":"2005-09-05T11:21:49","date_gmt":"2005-09-05T01:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=466"},"modified":"2013-12-18T08:40:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T22:40:53","slug":"boycott-lexmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/05\/boycott-lexmark\/","title":{"rendered":"Boycott Lexmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20070906191654\/http:\/\/blogs.surriel.com:80\/nb.cgi\/view\/surriel\/2005\/09\/04\/0\">Boycott Lexmark<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rik van Riel calls for a boycott of Lexmark &#8211; I&#8217;m joining him on this call. The behaviour of Lexmark with this is just crack-smoking crazy talk.<\/p>\n<p>I have never bought a Lexmark and never will. I will also strongly recommend against <b>anyone<\/b> I know every buying one.<\/p>\n<p>Screw you Lexmark &#8211; you suck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boycott Lexmark Rik van Riel calls for a boycott of Lexmark &#8211; I&#8217;m joining him on this call. The behaviour of Lexmark with this is just crack-smoking crazy talk. I have never bought a Lexmark and never will. I will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/05\/boycott-lexmark\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-7w","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1001,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/05\/unboxing-an-apple-c-never-opened\/","url_meta":{"origin":466,"position":0},"title":"unboxing an Apple \/\/c &#8211; never opened","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2008-02-05","format":false,"excerpt":"Found this via BoingBoing: Apple \/\/c - a photoset on Flickr which is unpacking a previously unopened Apple \/\/c. 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