and fire the designer

Dear Project Gutenberg,

You might want to redesign your thumbnail logo--you know, the one that shows up when someone googles you, and also at the corner of the browser tab?--so that it looks less like a Nazi swastika.





Really, who thought that was a good idea?

behind the curve

You people with your Yuletide letters all done and posted are scaring me.

Also, this is probably not a great time to realize that I should have nominated 20th Century CE RPF, specifically Kaiser Wilhelm II and his bestie Philip, Prince of Eulenberg, whose nickname for the Kaiser was "darling" and who in 1908 was involved in a massive gay scandal. Oh, the pain of missed opportunities. Because someone would certainly have written it, right?