I want to make it clear that I understand and respect Patrick's opinions about "blink", and I almost always agree with them. The only exception I observe is for describing authors and their first books. And if I could figure out how to combine "blink" with "coruscating rainbow light", I'd do it -- purely for the sake of accurately conveying how brand-new authors think of their books.

Let me repeat: it's all my fault.

And I agree. First books deserve extra attention! Huzzah.

The joke wasn't worth annoying people.

The thing about configurable tools is that everyone can have their preferences.

As for the blink tag, just because someone I respect uses them, it doesn't make it not a sin.

Jim, you could make it <font color=red>V</font><font color=orange>e</font><font color=yellow>r</font><font color=green>y </font><font color=blue>F</font><font color=purple>i</font><font color=red>r</font><font color=orange>s</font><font color=yellow>t </font><font color=green>B</font><font color=blue>o</font><font color=purple>o</font><font color=red>k</font>.

X-Get-A-Real-Newsreader: <FONT SIZE=7 COLOR="#FF0000"><BLINK>

...to discourage people from using Netscape Navigator as a Usenet client. It was pretty tough on AOL users, though.

I almost forgot about blink tags.

One of the very first web pages I ever made was The Blink Sink.

I moved it from my CMU web space to my io.com web space when I graduated. When I dropped io.com I moved it here.

And it still works!

I suspect Apple has just unilaterally vetoed blink tags. I can't find a preference regarding the blink tag, so I'm pretty sure I didn't tell it to disable blink.

Argh!!! Bad Touch!!! ;) [0]

[0] Okay... I couldn't resist... I apologize!

...what, everyone's beaten me to it? Crap.

Oh, yeah, that sounds right. Maybe the "triggering event" I was thinking of was people discovering all the nefarious uses of the X-Header dealie. I do recall having to knock it off because it was creating havoc for all the AOL users.

It was pretty funny while it lasted, though.

* The UNIX-Hater's Handbook
* "The Problem With Music" by Steve Albini (scroll to bottom)

That's it, I think.

(What, there was no 'this is not a political thread' disclaimer!)

I don't remember who said that, but it wasn't me-

Some opponents are so quick that you can only afford to blink one eye at a time during combat.

And also one of the most awesome uses of the blink tag ever. As a parody of the mid-90's Star Trek fan page it's as spot-on as the film itself was as a loving parody of Star Trek and its fans. It might not look good but it sure does look right.

Michael: I believe we drove Remarq out of business with our tags and poetry, which pretty much serves them right for trying to sell us. If this is true, it's a pretty terrific bit of guerilla theatre too, as well as a pretty cool example of ordinary people uniting to defeat exploitation through better understanding of tech -- as in Little Brother now I come to think of it.

It was very science fictional of us.

Clarice was a child when Apocalypse took over Miami. Blink was discovered by Apocalypse's Horseman Mister Sinister and his right-hand, the Dark Beast (...) Blink was briefly transported into the Negative Zone, where she became romantically involved with the amnesic Annihilus, although he forced her to leave when he began to transform back into his original form.

From Miami to the Negative Zone?

Remarq! Yes, of course, that was it. Can't remember if Avram's guerilla tactics were part of that same episode, or what, but I suspect it was.

Ah, those were the days...

Here you go.

You could stick a blink around it too, but that would be a bit superflous, wouldn't it (plus, it's irritating in a way that just having the shiny rotating colors isn't, quite).