Linked List: April 1, 2005

Friday, 1 April 2005

George Hotelling Goes Gopher, Powered by Markdown ★

George Hotelling has given his site a 1991-era redesign for April 1. 1991 predates the web, so it’s using the gopher: protocol, which means plain text rather than HTML markup. He’s using Markdown to format his entries, which means they just work as plain text. Very clever.

If you don’t have a web browser that groks gopher:, there’s an http: approximation here, on port 70.

WordPress Follow-Up ★

More on the WordPress link-spam fiasco from Andy Baio, including a link to Matt Mullenweg’s response (written while on vacation in Italy) and a message from the “CEO” at Hot Nacho, the company that paid Mullenweg to host the articles and ads.

Baio’s coverage of this has been fantastic — his investigation thorough, and his commentary fair. There’s been a rush of mainstream media coverage of this story, not a single bit of which has added anything more than Baio’s coverage. This is weblogging-as-journalism.

Camino 0.8.3 ★

Bug fixes and minor improvements.