02/06/2004: 
Stuff That Doesn't Suck
athenæum: a retrospective
from prof_booty
as we approach our 500th post, i thought it would be a good time to look back at the athenæum, and look forward to when we take the "beta" tag off of the masthead. the athenæum technology working group (atwg) has been dilligently developing standards for the next version of the website. one wish is to make it XHTML 1.0 Transitional so that we'll all be able to read/post from our mobile devices. there are a few other housekeeping issues to attend to as well, but the atwg wants to hear what you want to see in the athenæum in the future. drop us an email or post to this message.
athenæum stats as of 2:40 PM 2/6/2004
total posts: 484
| arcanum: 24 | breaking news: 62 | criminally absurd: 97 | fraud & conspiracy: 73 |
| nauru: 26 | stuff that doesnt suck: 58 | technologica: 89 | urban archaeology: 27 |
approx. number of posts and comments by user, listed in inverse proportion to amount of productive work done. does not include aliases such as "leftly mcleft" and "radioactive uterus rock"
prof_booty: 308
awiggins: 183
santo26: 108
rafuzo: 94
crazywriterinla: 85
posts about james brown: 2
posts about mars: 21
insults hurled from behind anonymous usernames: 5,254,895
% of posts also seen on /. and fark: 50 (we beat them sometimes)
number of other websites devoted to breaking the latest news on sawin's pond and nauru: 0
4 Annotations Submitted
Friday the 6th of February, Abe Froman noted:
Dear atwg,
Well done!!! I have come to enjoy reading and contributing (well contributing may be a bit of a strong word) here at the athenaeum.
My only requests are as followed:
1)Keep up the good work
2) More James Brown
3) Go out and get some fresh air once in a while
Friday the 6th of February, Howard Dean noted:
There is something to be said about the left wing ranting that goes on here.
Saturday the 7th of February, crazywriterinla noted:
I'm just glad that this site is here for me to post the wacky entertainment-based stories I cannot post elsewhere for fear of mass quantities of teenage girls rushing to my house because I know some celebrity they have a pin-up of.
The new Fantastic Four script just came in...review to come.
Saturday the 7th of February, Athenaverse CEO noted:
As I look here upon this quadrant of my multimedia empire, I think to myself of the day this all truly began, when wiggins, prof and I were all snowed in during a blizzard and I mentioned how I wanted to use athenaverse.com not merely as a business card floating on the Internet, but saw it as a forum to post about Sawin's Pond. Great work everybody!
