{"id":294,"date":"2006-11-07T12:28:42","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T17:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/?p=294"},"modified":"2006-11-07T12:28:42","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T17:28:42","slug":"offensive-virtual-festive-gourds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"Offensive virtual festive gourds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I upgraded my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macromates.com\/\">Mac text editor<\/a> today and saw the following surprising entry in the release notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n[REMOVED] TextMate no longer pays tribute to human sacrifices, rape, nor does it show a picture of the God of the deaths in your dock &#8212; ticket 945BEB5D\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Normally I&#8217;d expect to see a list of bug fixes or new features.  The above entry surprised me, and I had to find out why it was there.  It all spawned from the company deciding to push out a Halloween-oriented theme for the software.  The theme included this dock icon:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/116\/288809312_924f921303_o.jpg\" alt=\"pumpkin\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Inevitably, someone found it offensive, and their complaint caused it to be removed:  &#8220;I found this offensive and promptly removed the theme. Please understand I do not think it is offensive because I am some fanatical weirdo. But the roots of Halloween are in animal and human sacrifices as well as rape in the name if Satan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/jasongraphix.com\/archive\/2006\/11\/textmate_is_no\">full story with more detail<\/a>.  I can only imagine what will happen if they push out any Christmas-oriented imagery in their December updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I upgraded my Mac text editor today and saw the following surprising entry in the release notes: [REMOVED] TextMate no longer pays tribute to human sacrifices, rape, nor does it show a picture of the God of the deaths in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=294\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,16,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bizarre","category-computing","category-meaningless","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}