Daily Archives: Mon 21 Apr 2008

It still needs a splash screen, though

Mon 21 Apr 2008 – 18:34:26

Matt Mullenweg on his new design: I wonder if there’s a way to only allow comments from people with Gravatars? It looks so much better. Boy did that rub me the wrong way. Still, it did inspire me to spend 2 minutes in The GIMP making this protest gravatar: I’ve no idea if it’s original [...]

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I see no ethics here.

Mon 21 Apr 2008 – 13:19:49

What started out as a simple bit of digital archaeology has spawned an epic thread touching on journalistic ethics–and common courtesy–involving many of the original Implementors of Infocom. There are also a number of comments from familiar names of the post-Inform era, including Graham Nelson and Emily Short. I’m sure that independent journalist Andy Baio [...]

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