Tetris and Pong on a mechanically scanned display
— persistance of vision with quickly rotating LEDs (via) #
"I Am 8-Bit," retrogaming art show at L.A. gallery
— here's a small gallery of inspired artwork (via) #
Stopdesign redesigns
— try refreshing a few times for tributes to Kottke, Cederholm, Dominey, and Santa Maria #
Video: King Kong cast and crew discuss "Son of Kong" sequel
— Andy Serkis, as Son of Kong, will fight the Nazis in WWII; a brilliant and convincing prank #
UC Berkeley folklorist and hoax expert Alan Dundes dies while teaching
— this is terribly sad, he was one of the best teachers I've ever had (via) #
MP3: New Foo Fighters' single, "In Your Honor"
— Grohl is pushing the envelope with their new sound #
Bloggy, the first automated blogging robot
— Bloggy's blog is more interesting than 80% of human blogs #
The Commentator, utility to automatically comment your code
— see also: the Herman-Miller Pairon chair for extreme programming #
Urgo's list of April Fool's websites
— like last year, this is the ultimate reference for Internet Jackass Day 2005 #
WordPress Followup
I talked to Matt Mullenweg last night by AIM, from a wi-fi connection in Italy. He was just starting to catch up on the story, swamped under a ton of e-mail and interview requests. He wrote something brief on his weblog, and is in the process of composing an official response for the WordPress homepage. Update: Here it is. Please read it! It addresses many questions.
Update: Matt just posted a comment in this thread, addressing some of the conspiracy theories and saying that his response is coming very soon:
Andy did let me know he was working on the article, I was open and answered all his questions however I’d prefer if our AIM conversation wasn’t quoted more just because I don’t have access to it myself and I’m not terribly articulate on IM. It didn’t occur to me that the article would be finished while I was gone and there would be so much feedback. I’m back online and going to be posting a response shortly.
Otherwise, things are settling down from a very busy day yesterday. eWeek, MSNBC, The Register, Slashdot, Ars Technica, and Metafilter all posted articles about it. After deleting the offending articles, Google added WordPress.org back into their search results and reinstated the 8/10 pagerank.
Chad Jones, the creator of Hot Nacho, contacted me and asked me to post this statement. Several parts of his story were contradicted by Matt himself, and I don’t believe it myself, but I’m happy to reproduce it in full below.