January 15, 2002

8:31 AM

So lots of people hate links to news sites. How about an olds(?) site? Wrote reports the news of the past, and I don't mean last year.
posted by Su (8 comments total)

I'm disappointed to learn that glass pavements were a failure. Ok I can see how the splinters and breakage might have posed a slight problem, but it would have been something to see, none the less.
posted by lucien at 9:05 AM on January 15, 2002

Great site! Excellent layout and short, amusing content.
posted by cell divide at 9:07 AM on January 15, 2002

Good site. I liked reading about the vicious cycle of salt sticks and beer...
posted by transient at 9:29 AM on January 15, 2002

Great site. This is the kind of thing I come to MetaFilter for.
posted by ColdChef at 9:51 AM on January 15, 2002

Is anyone else besides me noticing a trend lately towards old-style, early 20th-century design ideas? McSweeney's, Textism, now this....It's almost like The Diamond Age, just a little early.
posted by 40 Watt at 10:47 AM on January 15, 2002

I love this- the layout is beautiful, and the content is a blast. I love the towel collection story; "I tell you, my boy, there's nothing like being unique, even if a hotel-keeper gets after you occasionally with a club."
posted by headspace at 10:48 AM on January 15, 2002

Great site. This is the kind of thing I come to MetaFilter for.

This really is worth a ditto. Thanks, Su.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 12:33 PM on January 15, 2002

Thanks for the accolades. Surely, there's got to be something that isn't quite jiving. PS: I know about the horizontal rule bug in Mozilla.

All told, I've been incubating the idea for Wrote over three years -- and just now got around to building it. I'm such a slacker. ;)

Cory
Proprietor of Wrote
posted by pedantic at 12:53 PM on January 15, 2002