Tue, September 27
Labor Dispute
Survivor gets down and dirty as teams battle in the muck for survival, and evidently they don't hand out those "Football Chick" shirts to just anyone. (Read more.)
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Mon, September 26
Television by the Ton
The workhorse week in this year's Annual TiVo Gauntlet of New Fall Programming brought thirteen new shows and many returning favorites. (Read more.)
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The End of a Fake Era—7:23 AM
As regular readers of this site are well aware, Joe and I have been partners for almost three years on the Athletic Reporter, a fake sports news website. As of today, that site is officially shuttered – at least for the foreseeable future. There are new projects to focus on now (among them Baby Mulder, due next Spring) and Joe has decided to take a break from the 'Porter indefinitely. It's been great fun being a part of the site, and I'm proud of a lot of the funny articles and pictures that he and I have generated (respectively). I certainly hope we'll team up again in the future to bring you further silliness.
In the meantime, Ted Sundquist's wife is doing a frenetic and highly inappropriate victory dance.
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Thu, September 22
I would've voted for this guy—12:08 PM
Okay, technically I voted for Kerry anyway, but I would've meant it if he'd been saying things like this at the time (from a Kerry speech at Brown University – which I cut-n-pasted verbatim from The Man Who Would Be Tidball, who should also get credit for believing in Kerry even before he lost).
Katrina is a symbol of all this administration does and doesn't do. Michael Brown – or Brownie as the President so famously thanked him for doing a heck of a job – Brownie is to Katrina what Paul Bremer is to peace in Iraq; what George Tenet is to slam dunk intelligence; what Paul Wolfowitz is to parades paved with flowers in Baghdad; what Dick Cheney is to visionary energy policy; what Donald Rumsfeld is to basic war planning; what Tom Delay is to ethics; and what George Bush is to "Mission Accomplished" and "Wanted Dead or Alive."
[The administration] has consistently squandered time, tax dollars, political capital, and even risked American lives on sideshow adventures: A war of choice in Iraq against someone who had nothing to do with 9/11; a full scale presidential assault on Social Security when everyone knows the real crisis is in health care – Medicare and Medicaid. And that's before you get to willful denial on global warming; avoidance on competitiveness; complicity in the loss and refusal of health care to millions.
Where was that guy this time last year? Granted he couldn't have said the Katrina part, but everything else in his example was fully known a year ago (or more). The electable Kerry would have been the Kerry who was unafraid to say this stuff as often and as loud as possible.
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More Comments Out There—10:16 AM
The Once and Future Tidball is whipping up more bloggy goodness for all of us to enjoy. In his discussion of the intersection between filmed entertainment and interactive stories (like video games), he sparked a bit of inspiration for an angry diatribe I've always meant to write about the dopey prognostications about the future of movies – the mini-rant version of which is in context on Jeff's post, or out of context below:
When you're between the ages of 18 and 25 and you're at a party with a lot of your parents' friends, you get a lot of well intentioned but meaningless advice. ("One word. Plastics.") When people who otherwise didn't know me from Adam learned that I was in film school and I knew something about computers they all said, "Ohhh. Ahhhh! Then you're poised at the perfect juncture, since in five years all movies will be immersive virtual reality stories in which the audience directs the action via a computer keypad." And I always said, "Dear Lord, I hope to hell not."
You're absolutely right that interactive stories would destroy the narrative experience of film. To say nothing of the havoc that would be wreaked upon the momentum and creative continuity of: actors' performances, the musical score, etc. Moreover, lazy screenwriters and/or directors would just be shrugging off the tough decisions to the audience. Do the castaways go down the hatch now, or do they wait at camp until sunrise? As the storyteller, it's your job to choose the most compelling answer and craft an interesting and meaningful reason for the story to take that path. Handing that decision over to the audience is basically saying, "Eh. I can't be bothered to pick. Here's five endings, you choose one." It's a terrible practice in interface design, and even worse in storytelling. If audiences wrote movies while they watched them, it would represent the ultimate capitulation to the focus group/test screening mentality, and the art would suffer gravely for it.
But if you want to make video games more filmic, I'm all for it. I think you can set up choices that are more emotional than "I hope this bullet fells the baddie; I fear it won't" because there are plenty of non-mechanical decisions in life that are still difficult. Should I break up my best friend's wedding, or let go of my feelings for her? The challenge is to put enough emotional weight into the choices, so that there is a real struggle in the mind of the player - off the top of my head, this would probably mean longer cutscenes with more of a story arc to them, so the player/viewer is more invested in the characters and understands the pros and cons of those decisions.
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Wed, September 21
Bender for Prez!—1:20 PM
I know less than nothing about this, but Variety says that Patric Verrone has been elected as the new head of WGA West, beating Ted Elliott. This is good news to me, because Verrone was a writer on Futurama (which I love!), and Elliott was a writer on Shrek (which qualifies him to be chemically castrated, lobotomized, and dropped into the ocean in a burlap sack).
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Tonight: Lost Pre-Show—10:43 AM
I haven't been paying close attention to the Lost buzz because I already know how I feel about the show and I'm afraid if I spend any more time thinking about it, all I'll do is fret that tonight's season premiere won't live up to my expectations and then I'll suffer some sort of identity crisis at the thought of having gone from a five-star-slinging Lost evangelist to a non-viewer in the course of barely a year.
But I know one person who's laboriously punched out all the little collectible cards from the EW ad, crunched the numbers about each person's seat assignment, and drawn up a few speculative blueprints of what might await the castaways as they descend that fateful ladder...
Brandon, what's the deal with "Destination Lost", airing at 8:00 tonight before the Lost season premiere? TiVo calls it "new," so I'm assuming it's not a rehash of the creepy, narrator-driven recap from the end of last season. Any idea what to expect there?
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Tue, September 20
Actually Meet the Survivors
A scorpion battles a tarantula, a snake eats a monkey, and Probst announces the start of yet another Survivor. In 39 days, that monkey's friends will be calling him the luckiest monkey ever. (Read more.)
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Heavy Puns Dept.—10:36 PM
I don't know if you've seen them, but LA has a number of billboards featuring a public service announcement to raise awareness about childhood obesity.
The thing I find strange about these ads is the text: "Childhood obesity. Don't take it lightly." Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't it fit the description of taking something lightly if you make a really lame pun about it?
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Lobster stuffed with tacos—11:45 AM
This is a really hilarious post (and a tremendously enjoyable blog, especially because it's not updated often enough to leave me behind), but as much as I want you all to click on it and enjoy it, this link is really for my dad, because it includes a version of one of my favorite little battles we used to have – wherein I'd order the most expensive thing on any menu, and he'd hate it.
Swimming with Shrimps [I find your lack of faith disturbing]
Mon, September 19
No Bones About It
Have you seen the ads? Apparently, there are some new shows starting on the networks this month. In case you missed them, here's the misery you narrowly escaped (or the fun you missed out on!). (Read more.)
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Returning Shows, Week 1—1:47 PM
Oops, I forgot about the quickie blurb for returning shows, which remains an integral part of the Annual TiVo Gauntlet of New Fall Programming. In the future, this will be part of the weekly update, but for now here's the catch-up:
Returning this week are The Simpsons, Survivor, House, and the Seth MacFarlane Guy/Dad Hour which is the only way to look at the block that kicks off with Family Guy and slinks to a finish with American Dad. The two shows are strikingly similar in all the ways that make them good and different in all the ways that make American Dad disappointing (except the Paul Lynde alien – that's fucking genius). But, squish them together and you've got a pretty damn decent hour of animation. Remember, most of the humor from both shows comes in the form of whiplash-inducing non sequiturs, which have little to no relationship to the characters – so basically the ones in the second half hour are just a little more political.
We reserve all the Survivor-based rantery for the Survivor columns, which will be airing on Tuesdays during the ATGoNFP, so nothing remains to be said except the show is back, and it's as Survivory as ever. House seems great, looks great, and, from everything I hear, is great. I still haven't seen a second of it, but I think I've got most of last season on TiVo from the summer reruns. (Conflicted with The Amazing Race and Veronica Mars last year – enough said.) So far, I've been lucky enough to schedule recordings of its new episodes this year, too. I hope to catch up at some point.
The Simpsons is exactly what we all know it to be at this point. The disappointing final throes of a once-great legacy. There was a lot of Groening-generated hype that this might be the year of its return to glory, but so far no glory is forthcoming. Will this finally be the year I quit watching it altogether? It probably depends how many flashy musical acts du jour show up for guest roles.
The Simpsons
Guy/Dad
House (speculatively)
Survivor
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Fri, September 16
From Google They Come...—4:01 PM
One fun way that I procrastinate when I should be working on the onebee logging feature (one of the few tiny items that remain) is to peruse the basic site logs provided by Analog, which come free with my DreamHost account. The most entertaining aspect of these is the listing of which search engine queries brought viewers to the site. A few choice picks from this month so far:
By far the most popular search is chesty morgan which would take you to a Survivor recap from a couple of years ago, which I named after the extraordinarily well-endowed actress. I thought it was a funny – if dumb – pun, and I had no idea anyone knew who she was. Apparently, over the whole Internet, a few hundred people a month are looking for her.
bionicle fanfiction accounts for more than ten search queries this month. I'm overwhelmed that anyone would be searching for this, and in fact it negates the purpose of my having written any.
kiele sanchez pictures: If I had 'em, I'd share 'em, folks! She's a doll. Queries like this account for quite a portion of the list, and a healthy chunk of Internet searches in general. Kiele, Missy Peregrym, Evangeline Lilly, I get them all. The funny thing is, a Google result for Kiele Sanchez at onebee is probably going to lead you to my Fahrenheit 9/11 review, which is not at all what you're after.
masturbation to dakota fanning (This one is disturbing, even for me.)
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Amber Alert—9:07 AM
Not too long ago, I was driving on the 10 (or I-10, as the parlance may dictate in your region), and they had lit up the "Amber Alert" signs, which notify motorists of a child abduction and tell us what model of vehicle to look out for. Most of the time, you completely forget that these signs exist, because they're dark and blend into the trees. In L.A. Story they were giving traffic information and relationship advice, but in real life, they just sit there, silently wasting money until a kid gets stolen.
Anyway, this alert mentioned the make, model, and color of the kidnapper's vehicle, as well as the license plate. So, I was reading license plates a little more carefully as I made my way West (although it's a pointless exercise; the way you're going to recognize the kidnapper's vehicle is when it swerves off the freeway as soon as the driver sees the Amber Alert) and before long I noticed that one of the cars in front of me had a novelty plate.
Which got me thinking: how ironic would it be if the license plate on the Amber Alert sign were something like PDRAST1?
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Wed, September 14
Cory Doctorow is an alarmist shit—1:38 PM
PVRblog noted recently that the latest version of the TiVo OS incorporates Macrovision copy protection features (something we already knew was coming). These features threaten to destroy much of the beauty of the TiVo experience, but in the particular case mentioned, they only showed up because a local Fox affiliate had accidentally flagged a couple of syndicated reruns with the Macrovision tool. To date, no one – not even "on demand" content providers – has used the "do not copy" flag.
I noted this with a link yesterday, adding as a caption the most reasonable response one could have after sifting through all the evidence in the post at PVRblog: "Worth regarding warily." All signs indicate that nothing evil is afoot, but the potential for serious trouble exists, so I say: keep an eye on it.
Not so over at Boing Boing. They ran the following incendiary diatribe, focusing on the worst-case scenario and ignoring many important details: "TiVo won't save certain shows or allow moving them". This is true in the sense that one guy's TiVo won't save two certain shows, but it completely overstates the issue in order to cause greater alarm, and I detest that from the Bush Administration but doubly so when it's regarding something important like TiVo.
I wouldn't be going off all half-cocked about this, either, if they hadn't done it before: read the daring John Gruber's excellent analysis of Doctorow's huffy arrogant blow-up ("I'm burning off my Apple tattoo!") over the mere possibility of TPM technology in the new Intel-based Macs. (It doesn't matter if you don't know what TPM is; I barely do, even after reading Gruber's insightful explanation. The point is: Doctorow is an alarmist shit.)
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Tue, September 13
Commenting Yonder—11:25 AM
I don't always copy onebee when I post comments on another site, but in rare cases it's worth doing – since I won't have time to compose my own entire post on the subject today, read Alicia's take on W's statement of responsibility regarding Katrina, and my comments to follow:
I think the key phrase here is “to the extent the federal government didn’t fully do its job right.” Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad he’s owning up to some accountability, but adding this qualification is similar to his flip-flop on the Rove/Wilson affair: “If anyone’s committed a crime, they’ll no longer work in my administration.”
Basically, he’s saying, “If the Katrina investigation panel determines that the federal government dropped the ball, I’ll be the first to step up and take the blame. Now, let me pack the Katrina panel with partisans and stymy its efforts to get at the facts - then we’ll let the chips fall where they may.”
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"Jefferson High School"—11:04 AM
As is typical with Buzzworthy links, I link first and read later. Earlier today I linked to the study of romantic and sexual relationships in a Midwestern high school, and now that I've read it, I can post my reactions to it and brighten your day.
First of all, I don't think I'd answer any questions about my sexual experience coming from this guy:
Also, I annotated the supporting figure for the story, for no other reason than it's damn fun for me. All in all, it's a fascinating and encouraging study and I'm glad that these kids could feel so open about discussing their romantic histories and it's heartwarming that the researchers found 63 pairs who had not been with anyone but each other. Still, in good fun, some points:
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Mon, September 12
The Great Race: LA
Beth, Stephanie, and I sped all over Los Angeles in a modified version of The Amazing Race. Gas shortage? What gas shortage? (Read more.)
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Great Race Update—7:59 PM
Sorry, the power outage that crippled LA this afternoon also took out DreamHost's data center, meaning the onebee family of sites was down for most of the afternoon. And it happened just minutes before I could upload the latest snapshots from the Great Race: LA. The pictures from Beth's camera are in, so now you can see proof that I actually attended the event. Enjoy!
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EW Earl Ad Incites Fury—10:57 AM
The most recent issue of "Entertainment Weekly" arrived in my mailbox positively trashed, because it had so many fat inserts in it that the mailperson had to squash and bend it to fit it in the box. Among those is the entire first episode of Everybody Hates Chris, a show that has already spent more than Episode III in marketing. Another is one of those cheeky audio ads, this time promoting Jason Lee's new NBC sitcom, My Name is Earl.
My Name Is Earl, Please Don't Watch My Show [Defamer]
I admit these ads are kind of annoying, although more for their bulk than their noise. The Sopranos did a similar ad last year, which played the show's signature theme song. The thing is, I always pull out the card-stock ads as soon as I get a new EW anyway, because they make it hard to flip through the pages naturally, and so I suffered no unintended repeat performances from Jason Lee. Also, like with the Sopranos ad, I quickly tore apart the technology, because if you do that you end up with two or three free watch batteries. (Not that I need watch batteries... but you never know.)
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Fri, September 9
School's Out Forever!
The fall season kicks off with Reunion on Fox, which squanders a cushy O.C. lead-in with clunky lines like: "A good best friend wouldn't try to talk me out of having an abortion." (Read more.)
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Ahhhh... Dammit—11:29 AM
When Tom Brokaw announced his retirement, I put myself on a daily regimen of hating Brian Williams's filthy little usurper guts, but I can no longer resist against his series of excellent appearances on Conan and The Daily Show – including a masterful turn last night, providing a real context for both the humanitarian tragedy of Katrina and the bureaucratic clusterfuck that ensues. He is an anchorman in the truest sense of the word: a gifted Kronkitesque narrator of world events and a source of clear-headed analysis and perspective.
Plus, what a showman! He's an effortlessly adorable raconteur and displays a great sense of humor with that most rare and exquisite of side dishes: the ability to not be funny, when the situation (or diplomacy) demands it. (Ahem... Jon Stewart.)
So, I'm fully in love with Brian Williams now. (Although he's not without his faults: the Al Sharpton deal at last year's DNC reminds us he can make mistakes on the air.) If this results in me watching the national network news with regularity for the first time since high school, I'll be stunned, confused, and reduced to a quivering, sobbing, fetal-position lump under the table, questioning my identity and all that I stand for.
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Thu, September 8
Fall TV Paperwork
It's time to get cracking on the 2005 fall TV season – and not a moment too soon. Downloadable fall TV guides included. (Read more.)
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Comments Bug—5:09 PM
A number of readers noticed that when submitting new comments, there is an inconsistency in the display of personal information (name, e-mail address). When first posting the comment, the login may be displayed instead of the "Public Name," and the e-mail may be displayed improperly according to the user's "show my e-mail with my comments" preference. Some users brought this problem to my attention using the onebee comments; others were more discreet, and mentioned it over the phone. (Thanks, Mom.)
First, let me be clear that this inconsistency is only visible to the user at the time of the comment. Your information is not being displayed improperly to the world at large. It is not being stored improperly in the database. It is only a matter of the comment view being displayed back to you at the time of your posting – as soon as you reload the page it will look right, which is how it will always look to any other viewer of the site.
Second, I think I fixed it.
As I detailed in the comments, the issue arose from the fact that there are two ways comments are displayed on onebee: from the POST variables (the data that you send to the site when submitting a comment form), or from the database. Comments are displayed from the database in every case except for the comment-you-just-posted-it-as-you're-first-posting-it situation described above.
The reason they're displayed from the POST variables in that case is that it enables comment previewing, which is a glorious new feature that as you know has been added to this site at the behest of some whiny malcontents. Previewed comments must not be stored in the database, because the whole point is that the person may revise them or decide not to post them altogether. So, they're displayed from the POST variables, and it made good sense to do the same with posted (i.e., not previewed) comments as well, so that's why there are two ways that comments are displayed.
Why they were displayed inconsistently is a slightly more complex story. In the old days, far before most of you remember, there were no comments on onebee. (!) There wasn't even a onebee: it was pH7media.com, and the entire purpose of the login was to drive community and search-personalization features at the Starting Point, an outdated and unpublicized vestige of pH7media's early years – which would've fallen victim to the "kill it" side of the re-bee "Fix it or kill it" mantra, except that it's Mom's start page in Safari and I didn't want to disrupt that. So I created a special third case just for the Starting Point: "leave it."
Anyway, in those days you had this thing called a "community profile" and you could decide whether or not to display information about you (like your name, your e-mail address, your birthday, your location, your AIM screen name, etc.) as part of that profile. Preferences were stored in the database under fields like "showname" and "showemail". The community profile is now long dead, but the old preferences are still in the database because there's never been a reason to change them.
During the re-bee, when I was coding some of the comments displays, I cut-n-pasted code from the previous onebee comments code because the functionality was the same. In other areas, and in the code for the the cookie-based login, I created new code from scratch. And in those cases, I just looked at the database, found the fields I needed, and put them in the code. Problem is, the fields for the preferences should be "pubnameshow" and "commentsshow" but I saw "showname" and "showemail" and figured those were the ones, and put them in the code.
I would have discovered this problem earlier, but for my profile, all of these prefs are on. As I've mentioned before, I'm a giant idiot: I test the site primarily while logged in as myself, or occasionally not logged in at all. I have other test logins, but I forget to use them during the QA process. For some of you, the "showemail" (wrong) pref was off, but the "commentsshow" (right) pref was on, and thus: inconsistency.
Now, that's all been corrected. The presentation of your information will now be consistent in any situation, because it will be consistent with the preferences you set on the Edit Profile page. You can specify whether to display your e-mail address using the checkbox, and you can specify whether to display your Public Name by entering a Public Name. ("pubnameshow" is now always on; there's no checkbox. The site displays your Public Name if you have one, or your login if not.) If displayed, your e-mail is always encoded to prevent against spambot harvesting. There are no guarantees, but we do what we can.
From now on, you shouldn't experience the comment bug again. (If you do, try logging out and back in – I hate to place the onus on the user here, but that'll quickly reset your preferences to the correct values, so it's the easiest fix.) Keep me posted if you have any trouble, and continue enjoying the new site!
(For OmniWeb users experiencing login problems – I'm still determining why OmniWeb rejects my Ajax code; you can login at onebee.com/account/login/ in the meantime.)
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Photo Improvements—11:58 AM
If I die of a premature cardiac arrest, you can be damn sure that CSS and Win/IE 6 are to blame. One of the issues that kept me up latest and screaming loudest was a problem with the photo gallery displays in Windows IE 6. When you moved your cursor over the slide image, it would slide (quite literally) to the left, and stay there.
I spent a few hours troubleshooting this yesterday, digging through every line of the site's main CSS style sheet to figure it out: the answer was actually a combination of things (just like in Batman – the face cream won't kill you but the face cream with the hair spray will). For one, the application of borders to links (the little dotted line that appears under a link when you put your cursor over it – or "rollover" in web parlance, or "hover" in CSS parlance). If I took this out, the images would stay put. But it had to be more than that, because the images in text (or in the Related column) weren't moving.
So, I kept digging and found out that if I removed an additional "position: relative" declaration in the style rules for that object, it would work. One tiny line: four hours of searching. But it's fixed now! (W00t!)
Also, the ability to navigate through the entire photo archive using the same flicker (prev/next) that powers the photo gallery views. Once I started using the site, that seemed conspicuously absent, so I made it work. You can use that flicker to navigate through individual galleries, or pseudo-galleries (galleries of images related to a particular item), or search results – so why not the whole photo archive, too? So that's done, and it's kind of a fun way to go because images are added at random times for all different reasons, so each click of the "previous" link is a surprise!
Thanks; keep enjoying the new site. And keep e-mailing me if you run into glitches – or posting them in the comments if you prefer to shame me publicly.
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Wed, September 7
V-Bee Day
We should have some sort of scavenger hunt to see who can find all the new features. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the new site. (Read more.)
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Comment Notification—10:49 AM
A few of you (a very, very few) have made use of the comment notification checkboxes on onebee. They occur under every comment input box, and there's another checkbox in the Profile Editor which is kind of the über-checkbox: check that bad boy and you get e-mail automatically whenever anyone replies to any comment you leave on onebee.
Well, those checkboxes didn't really do anything for about a year and a half, starting with the time pH7media.com turned into onebee.com. I was under the gun designing the site and I never got around to making that work. So, if you've checked those boxes before and been disappointed, c'mon back! They're working now, and they're pretty cool. (And don't worry, each e-mail comes with its own pretty little unsubscribe link, so if you ever want off the train, we can make that happen.)
There are other little improvements like this scattered around, too; I hope you enjoy the new site.
Jeff Tidball, I replied to your comments on my JavaScript post, and you didn't get the e-mail notification you were promised. For that I am deeply, deeply sorry. You may consider this post a coupon valid for free babysitting in the future – and if you want, I'll even teach TEASPOON how to juggle fire: no charge!
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Tue, September 6
Guess what? Excuses!—4:48 AM
I really wanted to finish today, and I got very close. But the data entry portion of the process took much, much longer than I thought, which left no time for the QA on Windows browsers. I'd rather release the re-bee a day late than release it without knowing what might break.
Sooooo close, though. Believe me; I wouldn't still be up at 5am if I hadn't been convinced that I'd make it. Tomorrow is one of those days when I actually have to go to work. But I think we'll all be happier if I finish it up tomorrow evening.
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Fri, September 2
Damn Liberal Media—10:08 AM
CNN's copy editors are getting a little punchy.
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Thu, September 1
Wikifying the FAQ wiki—12:38 PM
If you saw The Aviator (ha ha!), there's that stuff towards the end where DiCaprio is pretty much batshit insane and he's focusing on bizarre minutiae to the detriment of his own hygiene and ability to lead a normal life. (Presumably; I didn't see The Aviator. (ha ha!))
Anyway, that's what the last throes of the re-bee are reminding me of right now. The super heavy lifting items are out of the way, so there's time to focus on features that don't deserve any focus at all.
Like the viciously spurned onebee FAQ/Esoterica wiki. This was a really cute idea that came to me during a meeting at the office, so I put it together and released it onto the site, but then nothing really happened with it. That's cool. No big deal. But I couldn't bear to kill it, so I fixed it instead. Now it supports all the editing features a wiki should have, like the ability to browse through past revisions and compare them to see what's changed.
Will these features drive a renaissance of the FAQ wiki? Probably not. However, the motto of the re-bee is "Fix it or kill it." We're not going to have any half-finished features lying around like we did before. (Witness, the ancient design portfolio which was never updated from the old pH7media design.) I didn't want to kill the FAQ wiki, so I fixed it. Now it acts like you'd expect a wiki to act – especially if your idea of how a wiki should act comes from MediaWiki (the engine behind Wikipedia), since that's where most of its interface features were lifted from, along with some of its code. God bless open source software!
Now, back to my Ice Station Zebra marathon...
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