Ordinary Times

New New Since Last Visit Comments Comments

…changes in how comments “new since last visit” are defined and displayed.

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Testing Ajaxified Comments – Experiment Halted

Testing “Ajaxified Comments’ which may or may not be pretty darn terrific added to the main site.

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New developments…

New SOTD feature; enhanced Spoilerization; development blog in development; logical categories; more to come.

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Spoiling you some more

Demonstrating some additional spoileration that writers (and in-the-know commenters) can use.

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Pseudo-Redacting Spoilerer

All will be revealed (if you want it that way).

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Developing Site Developments

This “sub-blog” or “sub-site” or blog on the “League” network-to-be or network-to-be-again is still in development – kind of “open beta.” If you stumble across it, you are welcome to leave a comment, or drop me a line, or make suggestions, or raise issues about site functionality and so on, but “Developing…” hasn’t been fully developed or “officially rolled out.” It should be taken as a “draft” in both form and content. Eventually, if all goes well, it will be one of several and then of many and eventually of very many and many varied similar and not so obviously similar sites or sub-sites.

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U.S. Grant, Artistic Genius…

“Grant arrived at his operational vision through perceptual speed and a ‘gift of historic imagination,’ that enabled him to ‘take in at a glance the whole field of war, to form a correct opinion of every suggested and possible…campaign, their logical order and sequence, their relative value, and the interdependence of one upon the other.'”

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Realizing The Commentariat: Phase 2

Submitted for your consideration and feedback: “State of the Discussion,” “Comments This Thread,” “Commenter Archives.” Also: Old-Yellering “Gifts of Gab.”

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Should We Retire the Mystery Man?

The figure is traditionally taken to be a “he”: Maybe it’s because he seems to be bald. Whatever the explanation, and despite WP’s decision to rename him the “Mystery Person,” relying on him or zir or it may still qualify as sexist. Plus he happens to be… white.

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Fast Approaching Official OT Comment Number 500,000

Things move too fast in this high-paced internet pseudo-world.

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