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August 22, 2008
Lawrence sent in another tribute: this time, it's Calvin and Hobbes drawn in a superhero style. Neat!
August 20, 2008
As of today, Kim's Calvin and Hobbes Page is 5 years old! (Next year, it'll be as old as Calvin.) Of course, I feel now is a good time to list all the changes I've made to the CalvinClub:
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[*]There is a "Remember Me" option when you log into the CalvinClub. While unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work correctly, it does a good job remembering your login info. [*]Instead of hastily loading from the CalvinClub page to the members page, clicking on the CalvinClub page now smoothly loads the members page. But only if you're logged in. [*]I've changed "View All Avatars" option for writing a blog to something that doesn't take an eternity to scroll through (What kind of idea was that?) [*]The forum and CalvinClub are completely integrated. Here's how: ", "") $this->parseBBList(" [*]If you're logged in, the forum will automatically fill in your name for you. (The same goes for writing a blog as well.) [*]That being said, I strongly recommend leaving your CalvinClub name as is when posting. Why? Because now you can post as a guest under your CalvinClub name, log in later, and be able to edit or delete that post. How cool is that? [*]Having said that, logged in members can now edit or delete their own posts. [*]New avatar support. Logged in users can add the address to their avatar under "Avatar URL" and have it show up beside their post. I'd like to work more on this, though: making it an option you can set from the members page, perhaps an avatar upload, things like that. [*]The smilies, BBCode and avatar options are only available to logged in users. While I was unsure of doing this myself, my reasoning was that none of these except for the avatar are blocked out from guests. A guest can still type in ":)" and have a smiley show up. They can still follow the BBCode guide to use that, but no one really uses it anyways. So don't worry guests, you didn't lose much. [*]Logged in users don't have to type in the CAPTCHA (the 5-digit code) when making a post. The way I see it, if you're logged into the CalvinClub, you're obviously not a spambot. :P [*]Want to be a moderator? ;) The forum now has support for moderators. Basically, you can lock and unlock, stick and unstick, delete or edit anyone's posts. However, I don't think the forum is active enough to do this yet. [*]The "View memberlist" link doesn't bombard you with hundreds of usernames; it's now nicely spread across 4 pages. ", "1") If I can come up with (and implement) more features, I'll be sure to do so. Reader Lawrence Burdick has sent me some nice tributes he found. They're called "Calvin as an Adult" and "Transmogrification". You can see them under the Other Tributes section. There's also a new strip under the Fake Strips section called "Calvin and Hobbes at Carnegie Mellon University". And another great thing is that there are no more dead links in the Cinema section. If you see one, let me know! And that should cover just about everything. Who knew how far this site would come in 5 years? I remember Chris on http://www.calvin-and-hobbes.org saying something to the extent of "It's only got one page, but it's sure to grow." How right he was! P.S: If you want comments enabled for this post, just let me know in the forums and I'll turn them on. The reason I turned them off were because the spammers were getting so bad, I almost lost my site because they were overloading the server. I'm not sure what would need to be discussed here that couldn't be discussed in the forums, but like I said, just let me know. ') . '">Read more...
August 05, 2008
Check out this tribute to the inspiration for Calvin and Hobbes, John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes. It's pretty clever!
August 02, 2008
Check these fake strips out. Taking a note from Garfield Minus Garfield, this site has Calvin and Hobbes minus Hobbes. Some of them are surreal, some of them make no sense, and some of them are funny in a really bizarre way. Either way, it's worth a look.