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Why we removed on-site comments.

January 16, 2012

We’ve thrown this around in our head for some time now, and we finally decided to pull the trigger and disable site comments. There was no particular event that forced us to do this, and we weren’t encumbered by moderation problems like much larger sites are. So why bother nixing comments? Over the past several [...]

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mendax.iphone 2.0.

June 17, 2009

As we hadn’t updated our recommended iPhone apps compilation in some time, we thought that a quick refresh was in order, especially with iPhone OS 3.0 out, and a new iPhone just days away. With the iPhone 3G now a mere $99 (albeit with a two-year contract), many holdouts will undoubtedly be giving up their [...]

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mendax.org -> wyldkard.com.

March 13, 2009
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When we began mendax.org in 1996, we had reasonably concrete aims for the site, but as with all things, situations change and end-goals shift accordingly. Where mendax.org was launched as the public face of a multi-person operation, we’ve been in a very different place for years, with content now produced almost exclusively by one author. [...]

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Top mendax.org posts from Feb, 2009.

March 1, 2009

Haven’t been regularly reading mendax.org? In case you missed them, here’s a quick digest of the top posts from last month: For the Boleyn story, watch Tudors.Posted on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 in Prolefeed – Views: (137) After slowly making our way through the available episodes of Showtimes’s Tudors, and nearing the end of the [...]

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mendax.mac v1.16.

February 8, 2009

We finally got around to updating our recommended list of OS X applications, bringing the virtual “distro” of mendax.mac to version 1.16. Changes include the removal of ClamXav in light of the fact that we rarely used it. That fact brings us to the second reason for ClamXav’s removal: anti-virus apps for OS X are [...]

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Top mendax.org posts from Jan, 2009.

February 1, 2009

Haven’t been regularly reading mendax.org? In case you missed them, here’s a quick digest of the top posts from last month: Blogo needs work.Posted on Thursday, January 1st, 2009 in Technocracy – Views: (150)After reading Apple Gazette’s fairly positive overview of Blogo 1.2, we decided to give the stand-alone blogging application a try. (We tried [...]

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