We're the culprit cuimhne - we've just installed a new caching system to help the server cope with traffic and it was wreaking havoc for some Neato users. Sorry about that!

It should be fixed now. I hope ...

I've stopped worrying and learned to love the tyspo! Nevertheless, thanks for pointing it out, Bunny!

Fascinating ...

Well, the rabbit certainly got itself some ear massage!

I agree with WillF - it was a very creative way of telling a story. Got me to read the entire thing, too!

Whoa - that was cool! I had to close my eyes and just listen, but it was pretty clear.

Thx lovedrug420 - I've fixed the title.

I knew that! Thanks for the fix!

I've never played Risk, so I didn't realize the similarities. ;)

The trick, at least for me, is to make sure that you have a lot of dice in the areas that border your enemies. Once you do this, then attack the areas that have a lot of dice, but less than yours (don't bother attacking the onesies and twosies, those can't possibly beat your dice-maxed areas).

Once you have a lot of dice-maxed areas, then attack with abandon, but only do so knowing that the reinforcements will always "refill" the areas to maximum levels. Works for all player modes.

Congratulations to Wincey who won with the comment "Gonna sue that damn carwash for shrinkage"

Hah! That was very funny!

What's up with this post, Excellent? I fail to see what it has to do with the McGilles website it's linked to. (If you would, please write a text description to the post as well).

Ah, my gravatar is fixed! Turns out I had to clear out some caches.

It's 32x32 pixel - the one at gravatar is 80x80. I like your gravatar, VonSkippy - now if only I can get mine to work!

More ...

Re: Calendar with condensed version of Neatorama by Nicholas and sort by date idea by gabtastic. Hm, those are two neat ideas. Let me see if we can do them, maybe in the archive section ...

Re: User forums by Kelly. Another neat idea - I've been trying to get one done, but got side-tracked. Later this year, maybe :)

Re: Search box to find a post by its title by andrewstewart20. We have this already - the keyword match has to be exact though.

Re: re-size on full window by Jason. Hm... that would require a redesign of how my tables are done (yes, I'm an old school coder who prefers tables to pure CSS layout). Not hard, but just a lot of work. Probably won't happen unless a horde of people started asking for it!

Re: flurry of activity by ian. Yes, this is a by-product of how I write for Neatorama. My posts are prepared off-site, and then uploaded to and posted on Neatorama in a batch. I've spaced posts before, but most of the time, I just forget to do that. :)

A post every hour is a standard I just can't begin to dream to fulfill ... not without quitting my job and working full time on Neato anyhow.

Re: magic category by qureyoon. Believe it or not, we used to have a magic category, but it was so skimpy that I just did away with it ... we'll try to find more cool magic stuff for you.

Re: contributor by floatingk. Hey, thank you for the offer! I'm quite flattered. We'll probably open up Neatorama to more authors in the future, but for the time being, we've had enough great people writing for the blog. I'll keep you in mind, though, floatingk!

Re: static ads by Evil Pundit. I'm all for it - unfortunately, I haven't found a high paying ad network that displays only static ads. I've heard about The Deck, but never got invited :)

Re: USA-centric perspective by Lasse. Kind of hard, since I live in the US - I don't know how to write in a non-USA-centric perspective!

Most of Neatorama readers are from the US, too, although we do have a significant number of international readers. We have international authors, so maybe they can put a more "international" feel to the site.

Re: related posts by Fran. That's a good idea - I don't know if there's an automatic way of doing it. I try to put "Previously on Neatorama" kind of links whenever I remember.