:forgetting is important:

Lately I've been thinking that the end is as important to a project as the beginning. The web is a curious place - sketches and half-finished ideas that would otherwise be confined to the shredder live on in perpetuity. I think that we've spent so long trying to preserve ideas that we automatically assume this immortality is a good thing. I'm not so sure. The persistence of all this flotsam and jetsam is like so much garbage strewn across the Atlantic. And perhaps things are more valuable when they're not forever.

I've had this website for so many years now (six? seven?). It's been a wonderful sandbox to explore new ideas and meet so many wonderful people, but the point of a sandbox is that you're supposed level everything out and try something new once in a while. So I'm levelling this site. With the kind help of Steve Moss, a decay code has been inserted into SciencePunk.com. Every time someone visits a page, little blank specks appear in a different page. Eventually these pages will be illegible and the only ones who'll visit will be spiders and bots. These crawling machines will keep tripping the code, and eventually there'll be nothing left at all.

Sure, I could simply delete everything, but that misses the point. The end is as important as the beginning. So come in, look around; you made SciencePunk what it is, and now you can help unmake it. I'm looking forward to the blank canvas that SciencePunk will become, and what fresh designs I might draw on it.