Sploid: Subversive and Spunky Source Silenced

We were desolated, shocked and dismayed to learn today about the death of Sploid, a tacky, raucous and fun blog from Gawker that was the source of many important and deep TreeHugger posts:

the first coverage of the Wave farm in Portugal;FBI most wanted: Treehugger wackos!Galactic Pizza: not only Green, but Crimefighting tooUS Cities Make You FatLive in a box for $ 160K: Shipping Container HousingChristmas Trees add to Global Warmingand our favourite:Patent Issued for Global Warming Solution

A proud and distinguished voice has been silenced. We are poorer for it. ::Sploid