picklepete

This is so cool! I used to love playing around with RunUO back ~2003, it's great to see the community stay alive.

I hope you’re joking.

From their T&Cs ( http://huvrtech.com/legal.html):

"The inclusion of any products or services on this website at a particular time does not imply or warrant that these products or services will be available at any time."

Just in case anyone thinks this is a real product.

See the title of this post, the $225 million they raised.

Parsing HTML with a RegEx pattern is considered very bad practice, there are other more robust ways of scraping. For example, in Python, BeautifulSoup.

You do have a fair point though, this functionality does exist in most major programming languages.

"an insider with a good track record of leaking unannounced information regarding Microsoft’s plans"

It sounds like he/she has successfully leaked information before.

It's powered by John Polacek's Scrollorama (http://johnpolacek.github.com/scrollorama) jQuery plugin.

Not quite - "is now in the default search engine list". It's still an incredible achievement. :-)

It now throws a real "global name 'abc' is not defined" exception. This is getting pretty meta!

Damn. I thought this was an easter egg: http://gigglebang.com/?q=exception

(In case it's fixed, it'll actually throw an exception)