Tales From the Campfire: We Be Illin

This week we learned that an internet divided over the correct meaning of the word "illin" cannot stand. Families were torn apart as brother turned against brother. Even the placid waters of Gawker's group chat, Campfire, turned violent in the storm.
Google takes down App Engine sample — maybe because it was blatant ripoff
To demonstrate its new Amazon S3-killer App Engine, Google built a sample application for the domain HuddleChat.com. The problem: "HuddleChat is just a feature-for-feature clone of 37signals's Campfire," writes Daring Fireball's John Gruber.
