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Holy crap! Imagine hiking through the woods, then seeing that thing walking towards you. When it slips and tries to regain its footing: very uncanny valley.

We observed that non-technical staff with Internet access are more likely to use their computers to view and collect pornography than to post spelling corrections.

Heh.

I have only just discovered that Joss Whedon (of Buffy and Firefly fame) will be launching a web series called Dr. Horrible. Excellent. The trailer is available now, and the first episode premiers tomorrow.

This week’s big internet kerfuffle sparked by BoingBoing is already dying down, but I’ve been entertained enough by the MetaFilter thread (already at +1200 comments) to point it out.

The short version is that, at some point in the last year, one or more BoingBoing employees (possibly Xeni) deleted all posts even mentioning sex writer and internet personality Violet Blue [NSFW]. This week, someone noticed that VB had been excised. BoingBoing offered no explanation, apology, or even—initially—acknowledgment of their actions.

Seeing as BoingBoing has campaigned for corporate transparency and against censorship, charges of hypocrisy were leveled. BoingBoing moderator Teresa Nielsen Hayden (of Making Light) was taken to task for “disemvoweling” comments critical of BoingBoing.

No one outside of BoingBoing (including Violet Blue) has any idea what caused the “unpublishing”.