It has come to my attention that a number of web sites (like, 50 of them, at least) have been stealing images from Fate of Io for display on their own sites. In particular, this image, by Gilgath, is very popular. Most of the offenders were weblogs. Some claimed to have created the image themselves. Others simply displayed the image to go along with some text. In all cases, they embedded the image by URL, meaning that fateofio.org's server was footing their bandwidth bill.

We've finally arranged our older submissions into a useful hierarchy and added links to each respective node. If you like, you can browse all of the archived submissions by starting from http://www.fateofio.org/old2/.

URL changed because crazy people were using Google image searches to find our images and embed them in their web pages, stealing our bandwidth. New URL is not searchable.

The server will probably be down temporarily next Monday, the 27th of October, or possibly the day after that. I am moving the server from its current location at a friend's house over to a new location in my basement. Sadly, this means that the server's uptime -- currently at 210 days -- will be returned to zero.

UPDATE: The move is complete.

It has become apparent that our current Friday meeting time doesn't work well for many people. We decided yesterday that we should try to hold future meetings on Saturdays, but we could not decide exactly what time. We want to find a time which works well both for people in the US/Canada and the UK, so ideally it will be no later than 6 central time (midnight UK). Everyone, please post below to indicate what times work for you, and what time zone you are in. Thanks.

There will be a Fate of Io development meeting this Saturday, September 13, at 6:00 PM US Central time (forum time). The meeting will take place on AIM in the "Fate of Io" chat room, as usual. Read on for the meeting agenda.