Here’s an open thread for an egalitarian Thursday evening.

Some small but helpful interface enhancements in the comment rating system:

* The numbers are slightly larger, and now are colored green for positive numbers, black for zero, or red for negative numbers.

* When you rate a comment, your choice is recorded, and the button you clicked on will be a slightly darker shade of gray to indicate whether you chose yea or nay.

Oh, and I want to put in another big plug for the excellent jQuery Javascript library, which makes writing quick and not-too-dirty Ajax functions extremely easy (among many other great features).