But I... can... no longer... resist... the tide.

Very well. This article sucks. Most of Bennett's articles mostly suck.

Where do I pick up my bucket of tar and feathers?

You might do better to ask why yours seems to pretend it couldn't happen.

AC, please. Anybody with five minutes--and the sense that God granted a goose--can see you're attempting to rewrite history in a pretty major fashion.

China would like to speak to you about paper, gunpowder, the printing press, the magnetic compass, and the fork. Amongst other things.

You've evidently got me mixed up with someone else who said things that I did not. Thanks for playing, though.

Some of us do this thing known as "work" with our browsers. Making radical changes in my UI with neither prior warning nor a built-in way to revert to the previous layout is not something which I find to be particularly workflow-friendly.

There. Managed to say it without foaming at the mouth, this time. ;)

I saw one of those posts and thought at first it must be some kind of weird put-on. Guess not. O tempores, o mores...

(And yes, when we need a site to explain XKCD comics, it's pretty strong evidence that the end is near.)

Someday I shall have the privilege of modding up one of these... but not today, alas.

Sorry, pal--that argument's already been had, and won.

I call dibs on Æ, Ø, Œ, and Þ!

Hell, /. can't even do the whole Latin set. WTF?

Most Americans wouldn't recognise a welfare state if it walked up to them and and handed them its ID.

I tend to think that pursuing this sort of endeavour doesn't lead to a nice place.

I've found that just managing to stay alive for a while is proving to be an excellent ageing simulator.