To your other comment, the transient nature of the web can be kind of disconcerting. It would be nice to know that pages you point at or bookmark will be there later when you want to return to them.

Would that all blogs and forums maintained backups as diligently, as often as one every night, as a hedge against this kind of thing.

The question is, has anyone heard anything, like whether or when Dan Lockton will have it restored again and whether anything’s being done about identifying the culprits and bringing them to justice? And in the meantime, is there anywhere where it’s mirrored? I was able to get up to date on top-level posts via Google’s cache, but not the comments. One thing sorely needed over at Google is somewhere to just put in a URL and view whatever Google’s spider last saw at that URL. Currently you have to formulate a search that returns the specific page you want as one of the first few hits, even if YOU KNOW THE PAGE’S ADDRESS, which is just silly. You CAN do this at the wayback machine, but the wayback machine is slow, unreliable, and generally takes weeks to catch up. Mind you, before long Google will catch up to the current state of the page and all its cache will show is the defacers’ message; really, Google ought to subsume the full functionality of the wayback machine. It’s a natural extension of Google’s business, and Google has the resources to do a good job of it. (So what if everything has some added Adwords? Just to be able to avoid losing things when morons deface web sites or other morons like William Patry delete their own web sites, it would be worth it…though in the longer term we really need to make the web based on an immutable, ever-growing mass of content with no single point of access, using Freenet or something like it.)

Apparently, about 15% of people aren’t affected at all by the oil from the plant (urushiol). In fact, the author claims that if you make it all the way through childhood without coming in to contact with it, you’re chance of being affected drops to 50/50.

Didn’t have any problems while brushing and clearing the driveway and camp site, which goes along with what I’ve heard that it tends to show up more in cleared areas. Nature’s Revenge!

So maybe this is telling me to just sit on my chair and relax. :-)

If not, then I guess we weren’t meant to get quite that much in touch with nature.

You won’t be so rash next time eh?