false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255992864m/3852882.jpg 3852882 2 On September 13, 1998, John Scalzi sat down in front of his computer to write the first entry in his blog "Whatever" -- and changed the history of the Internet as we know it today.<br><br>What, you're not swallowing that one? Okay, fine: He started writing the "Whatever" and amused about 15 people that first day. If that many. But he kept at it, for ten years and running. Now 40,000 people drop by on a daily basis to see what he's got to say.<br><br>About what? Well, about whatever: Politics, writing, family, war, popular culture and cats (especially with bacon on them). Sometimes he's funny. Sometimes he's serious (mostly he's sarcastic). Sometimes people agree with him. Sometimes they send him hate mail, which he grades on originality and sends back. Along the way, Scalzi's become a best-selling, award-winning author, a father, and a geek celebrity. But no matter what, there's always another Whatever to amuse and/or enrage his readers.<br><br>Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded collects some of the best and most popular Whatever entries over the history of the blog, from some of the very first entries right up into 2008. It's a decade of Whatever, presented in delightfully random form -- just the way it should be. 3897912 13 9 2008 Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded total:28|5:9|4:13|3:6|2:0|1:0| 28 115 83 7 5 0 false false Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 19:22:10 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 13:02:55 -0700 2009
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They range from funny to serious, timeless to topical, and even one post about taping bacon to a cat.

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