09 23 2005: our longtime client gawker media launched their invite-only commenting system today. this is the culmination of a lot of backend development work from tim appnel, who developed the custom invitation system.

-pk

09 15 2005: the design encylcopedia, a gift from under consideration to the design disciplines, is now live. i’m proud to say that i had nary a single thing to do with this—but su did: he built it. not an easy task. enjoy.

-pk

09 05 2005: the devastation of new orleans has hit us quite hard. su and i and i met there; the city is our surrogate home.

without new orleans, su and i wouldn’t be a couple and pretty wouldn’t exist. we never would have met our friends jonno and richard, who patiently hosted us for the first few days of our relationship. i wouldn’t have met nick denton. and if that hadn’t happened, the face of gawker media would be quite different.

without that region, an irreplaceable part of our culture will end. the arts of the gulf coast cannot be synthesized—the buzzing humidity of the deep south is their only possible incubator.

chicagoans can donate to the mccormick tribune foundation, which will match 50% of donations for disaster relief.

-pk