Rodent Regatta

Life can be such a rat race!

Yesterday I linked to this. It told of the demise of www.dooce.com, the weblog of a talented designer and writer. I don’t necessarily care for some of the subject matter or the foul language I read there. But, the expertise, ability and talent overflowed in the work!
I’ve watched the comments posted here. Near the bottom of the comments someone posted using the name and email address of another extremely talented designer. Finally, out of respect, the person that had been ’impersonated’ entered a civil comment/retraction.
I’m not sure what I (really) believe about punishment for malicious hacking, violating security, web impersonations, etc., but I’m reasonably sure that penalties can’t get too severe for idiots who do absolutely ridiculous pranks with information systems that exist for 1001 reasons other than their amusement!