Darrin Perry has passed away, notes Boing Boing.

Perry redesigned Wired in 2002, and I took the occasion to snark at the magazine. Perry gently corrected one of my mistakes in the comments, prompting me to look a bit more seriously at what he’d been up to.

RIP, Darrin. That one comment was a highly effective bit of consumer-and-critic management. I’m sure you’re deeply missed by those that knew you.

sweet thunder – tape findings, via MeFi.

For balance, here are some inbound messages. Much to my amazement, I found no widespread incidence of collections of either odd messages, (such as these), or greeting messages (like the first link) as I Googled my way through my morning cuppa. This collection of outbound messages is frequently presented as traffic bait on bottom-trawling commercial sites.