We’re back from spring break. Thank you for your patience. With any luck, the posting drought is permanently banished.

If you haven’t ever seen PostSecret, then you haven’t truly experienced the amazing weirdness and beauty of the internet. Reading the site each week is something like a cross between staring into society’s bleeding heart and rubbernecking as you drive by a horrible car wreck. What is PostSecret, you ask?

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.

Each week, a new post is published on their Blogger-powered blog and more amazing/horrible/beautiful private revelations appear for the world to view in perfect anonymity. Using the Blogger engine as more of a static-site backend, they simply change the top post each week to add in the newest batch of scanned postcards that they receive each week. From what I can tell, the old postcards from previous weeks are washed away into the sea of deleted bits. Or do they have an archive that I’m just not seeing? It’s a strange policy, but it adds even more immediacy and fragility to these confessions. (And it gives people more of a reason to buy the book…)

Why do I find PostSecret so interesting? I’m not exactly sure. Maybe it’s just because so many of the postcards are so interesting to read. Some postcards seem brutally honest while others seem fake, but they are unfailingly interesting to read. If the maintainers of the PostSecret site are actually making all of these up each week, then they’ve tapped into an amazing well of creative writing.

On second thought, I think I find PostSecret so fascinating because I can see myself in some of the postcards. It’s comforting to know that somewhere out there, someone was thinking the same thing as you. It’s a place where all of the anonymous IPs on the internet can see that they are not really alone. I guess that’s comforting.

Just take this gem from this week’s post for example:

Now that’s awesome. Subscribe to the RSS feed and prepare to be fascinated on a weekly basis.