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By drorzel on April 13, 2006.

I know the cookie bug is still afflicting some commenters-- the folks who make Movable Type are aware of the bug, and it will be fixed with the next release, whenever that is. You can get around the bug by either deleting cookies from scienceblogs.com, or by logging out from TypeKey, if you have a TypeKey identitiy, and have logged in.

Other than that, if there's anything I ought to be aware of-- bugs with the site, articles on other sites, nifty tricks involving magnets-- you know where the comments are.

UPDATE: the developer for ScienceBlogs recommends the "zap cookies" tool from this collection of bookmarklets for those having cookie problems.

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