'To Asamoth' is a verb used in the E2 community to refer to a user removing all (or most) of their writeups because they are unhappy with some aspect of E2. It is a pejorative term, and would not usually be used if a user, for example, removed writeups so that they could be published elsewhere or for some other 'valid' reason.

This practice is named after Asamoth, one of the first users to do this. In the olden days of E2 users could not remove their own writeups to draft, and 'pulling an Asamoth' required a user to blank the text of a writeup, leaving either a blank writeup or a short note. These had to be deleted by the E2 staff, and as many Asamoths were both unannounced and did not involve blanking every writeup, it could take the staff a good long time to hunt down the blanked writeups.

While today users can remove their own writeups, disappearing without leaving a mess, it is still considered a significant act, and a loss to the database. If you are considering…

A Letter to the World of Everything2

My fellow men and women of Everything2,

On April 6th, 2013, I became a member of this society. I remember the day when I opened up Google, typed into the search box "Star Trek is stupid," and hit the enter key on my computer at work. There were many (many, many) choices to choose from on this...uh...topic, but one caught my eye. I clicked on the link, and lo, a writeup!

Absorbing the writeup as I read it, I was utterly…

A blowhole is the hole through which a whale breathes. It is anatomically the same structure as our nostrils, although it has slowly worked its way to the top of the head, making it easier for the whale to breathe with minimal protrusion above the surface of the sea.

The nasal passages have been extended to travel to the top of the head, but in all whales the blowhole emerges in front of the cranium - the equivalent of the top of their forehead. In the toothed whales the skull…