in high school i thought it was the coolest thing on the planet to refer to the "internet" using terms like "the interblag" or "the interweb" or things of that nature. maybe we should go back to doing that

Had the thought that—given cohost's user base are mostly vaguely-techy nerds and how big a part of site culture CSS crimes and hacking are—someone has to have implemented DOOM (1993) on here. It's surprising no one has yet.

UPDATE: someone has, sort of

This is Squirrel Girl rendered as HTML5 pixel art using <div>s for the rows and <span>s for the columns! The image is quantized down to a 32-color palette and rows are "compressed" using run-length encoding.

Code is available online and I'll get a live web version running soon.

gender of the day: Wanda, an obscure mario character who only appears in the Japan-only Mario & Wario on the Super Famicom.