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Cream of the Cool

Over the course of the next 48 hours, we will be systematically destroying the game world by setting fire to every major city, and by dropping excessively high level bulletproof tigers (that we've created for this purpose only) into the rural regions. You are welcome to stay alive for as long as you like, though this will get exponentially harder as time passes. We here at Omnipresence Ltd. advise that if you would like to extend the beta test for as long as you...

Adolf Hitler is widely regarded as the most evil man of the 20th Century. From his violent and manipulative rise to authoritarian power in post World War I Germany, to the instigation of World War II, to his "Final Solution" and ultimate suicide as his plans fell apart around him, Hitler is the very model of the evil dictator who can rally the multitudes to follow his madness.

I'm not sure whether to call it surprising or not that Hitler has therefore become so widely referenced,...

There is no such thing as an ex-KGB man.
~ Vladimir Putin

Chekism is the dominant political ideology in Russia today.

It derives its name from the Cheka, which was the first incarnation of what was later known as the KGB. The Cheka were formed immediately after Russia's Communist revolution in 1917 to act as the "sword and the shield" of the Communist state. The Cheka were a secret police organization whose role was...

It's 1976, a full year before Saturday Night Fever would tell you where to go when the record was over, a full year before Studio 54 began to fill up with the celebrities of the era. The Trammps, one of the original disco bands, down in Philadelphia, were about to release their defining single, the one song for which they would be most remembered. Not their first single, no - there was 1972's Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart and 1973's Love Epidemic. But ...

News for Noders

Server OS Updates Today

2008-08-19 16:17:59
I'm in Lansing today, and so we're going to be upgrading our server OSes and installing a new router. This might mean some downtime, but hopefully not more than a few minutes at a time.

update: I guess more than a few minutes of downtime. Apologies all around.

--nate

Another update (The Day After): Our problems related to the upgrade seem to be two: If you're having trouble with the catbox, chatterlight, or scratch pads, you may want to turn off Everything2 Ajax in the Javascript Repository until we fix it. If you're using Writeup Bonus and are missing a level or two, sit tight... we haven't figured out that one yet. It may take another day. Also, we're running off two back-end servers right now and only one of them has a problem. You may see things working fine on one pageload and not working on the next.

-ap (1545 EDT/1945 UTC)

update: This seems like its fixed now, lmk if there are other issues. --n

Footprints' band needs a name

2008-08-17 12:21:17
Footprints has a band but no name. You can help him out and win fabulous prizes.

Zen Theme for All!

2008-08-14 17:02:26
I got off my duff this afternoon and finally got around to deploying the Zen Theme (with Kernel Blue) for unauthenticated users, as well as new users on the site. This is the first bell-toll for the long-lived e2 jukka theme which will no longer be supported.

As always, shoot any complaints via email to e2webmaster at everything2 dot com.

--nate

Want to join the story-go-round?

2008-08-04 16:19:02

Tag team writing. Well, sort of...

e2collaborators is a new writing project led by artman2003. There's an ongoing story, a chapter of which is published each Friday. This is the first instalment. However, they need you, and your ideas, and your writing skills, to keep it going.

Let artman2003 know if you'd like to lend them your words.