I admit it: I am Raging Platypus. I would like to thank Glenn, Cory, Jason, Anil, Aaron, and Dean for playing along and playing it straight. Last Thursday night, I sent them an email trolling for links; last Friday, they drove 10,000 visitors to the parody site in 24 hours.

You hear that, bovitch? That’s the sound of 10,000 bloggers laughing. Rest assured, we are not laughing with you; we are laughing at you.

All right, joke’s over. Surely there are more important things to do with our time now.

Oh, and yes, you are free to steal all those stinkin’ badges. They’re based on Antipixel’s Steal these buttons. Go forth, reuse, and smile knowingly.

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Fourteen comments here (latest comments)

  1. =-o

    I also happened to notice you used XHTML 1.1.
    Hmm! I guess the plat ain’t knowing nothing about no stinking MIME problems. :)

    — Jesper #

  2. This is hilarious. Wonderful job. I was curious about the rage about the platypus. Now I feel so much better for not getting it. Whew.

    — Tony #

  3. anil dash's daily links (trackback)

  4. Would you believe I initially served the XHTML as application/xhtml+xml (using the technique I described in my XML.com article), but it broke the “remember me” Javascript in Mozilla. Thoughts on how to fix this are welcome.

    — Mark #

  5. Mark, that was YOU?? Awesome.

    On second thought, I’m not surprised at all. :)

    — Gina #

  6. Mark: Use PHP files instead of HTML ones and make them prefill the form fields by fetching the cookie. Setting the cookie could be done in mt-comments, probably.

    — Jesper #

  7. I must admit to not being surprised. Something about the turn of phrase made me suspect it was you, although now I can’t find the particular one that twigged. Or maybe it was just that you didn’t blog for a week, then suddenly came back to link to another totally random site that everyone else was linking to, and that seemed to have no purpose but to be an in-joke amongst those linking to it.

    Of course, I wasn’t sure enough to say this before you owned up, so I don’t score any nerd-points. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.

    — Charles Miller #

  8. That explains that “dive into this, ya fuckin’ crybaby” title on the xhtml 1.1 badge.

    — Arthur #

  9. Fragments (trackback)

  10. You have far too much time on your hands :)

    — Nik #

  11. Had me fooled. I thought Ben Hammersley was behind the whole thing.

    — Gary #

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