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PostSecret is one of those rare one-note blogs that actually works, mainly because the note is so beautiful and resonant. The blog is an ongoing community art project in which ordinary people mail in a personal secret written by hand on one side of a homemade postcard. The cards are then posted anonymously on the blog exactly as received, presented without comment. You can't make this stuff up because someone else already has: one postcard depicts a man holding a baby with the scrawled secret: "I've ranked all of my past and present lovers. My husband comes in 4th out of 5 in both size and skill." And there's: "I saved my husband from the drug that killed my dad...everyday I regret I saved the wrong one." This is about as real as blogging gets, extraordinary confessions — at least we think they're confessions — from ordinary lives.

Sample PostSecret Post: (Scrawled on the front cover of The Great Gatsby) "I enjoy going into bookstores and tearing the last pages out of novels."