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#xkcd denizens is no longer maintained by me. Its new canonical home is at the XKCD Wiki Denizens page, and since it's a wiki it means less boring janitorial work for me and more freedom for everyone else. :-)
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This table contains relevant, nifty, or otherwise useful information about the regulars on irc.foonetic.net #xkcd (the IRC channel for the web comic xkcd). Click on the images for (sometimes not that much) larger versions.
If you want to get on here you have to be a regular to the channel. Either PM Hermiene (or HerZzz or HerWerk or HerOut or whatever other status xe might have) with the information you want the world to know, or E-mail it to xe at havard@awegasm.net . The age is automagically calculated from date of birth, so send your age in YYYY-MM-DD (ISO 8601).
There is also xkcdb, the channel quote database, maintained by the lovely and kind relsqui, and channel stats.
The genius percentage is taken from Project Euler, a site presenting recreational math problems designed to be solved with programming.
The channel Teamspeak server is at media.peeron.com . Tip: Go to Settings -> Sound Input/Output Settings and assign a Push To Talk key.
The changelog records changes.
Random stats: There are 71 males, 11 females, 1 interrobang, and 3 AIs. 11 revel in mystery. The mean age is 21.1529 (the median is 21).
Quickjump:
| Nick | Name | Sex | Age | Location | Website | Comic | % genius | Nick etymology | Image | |
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| Ade | !Ade | F | GA, USA | Long ago in college I met a woman whom I idolized above all others. I have since taken on her personality, her mode of dress, her speech patterns, mannerisms, and to some extent her heart and soul. The heart I keep at my bedside, the soul in my laptop case. I just wish I could remember her name. Anyway, my RL initials may or may not be AD. | |
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| airtank | Katrina Adang | F | 21 | Pensacola, FL, USA | Something about hurricanes... | |
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| alexbobp | Alex Ponebshek | M | 18 | Austin, TX, USA | Site | My first name, not my middle name, and my last initial. | |
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| allabouttrust | Chris | M | 23 | Song lyrics. | |
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| apo | Valentin | M | 19 | Bayreuth, Germany | Site | 46% | |
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| basket | M | 27 | Bellevue, WA, USA | Kitten Basket (my BBS/usenet nick) was too long for IRC, so it became just "basket". | |
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| Beelzebub | Paul | M | 20 | Cromwell, CT, USA | Site | Got it from the song Bohemian Raphsody, by Queen. "Beelzebub has a devil put aside for meeee! For MEEEE! FOR MEEEEE~" | |
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| Bucket | Brian Ucketchester | AI | IRC | Site | 100% | I has a hole in my heads! | |
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| Cai | Shane Donnelly | M | 18 | Levittown, PA, USA | Mordecai. | |
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| Celes | Marina | F | 21 | Ontario, Canada | The name Celes is rooted from the word "Celestial". It was used when I was playing computer games and it stuck with me ever since. | |
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| Cellshot | Mysterious Stranger | ∞ | Hamilton, New Zealand | I haven't a damned clue. | |
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| cerise | Phil White | M | 28 | Fremont, CA, USA | Site | |
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| Coldcell | Danny S. | M | 25 | Tucson, AZ, USA | Cold cells. | |
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| crodgers | Chris Rodgers | 27 | Lincoln, Nebraska, USA | My work login name. | |
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| cthuljew | 24 | Minneapolis, MN | |
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| Daedeloth | Thijs Van der Schaeghe | M | 22 | Site | Land of the Death, translated in Elvish according some fantasy fan group. | |
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| danb | Dan Bruno | M | 22 | Medford, MA, USA | Site | |
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| debdrup | Daniel Ebdrup | M | On my butt, usually. | Site | Originally D. Ebdrup (as printed here) but since the IRC RFC doesn't allow for whitespaces nor full stops in nicknames, debdrup is the choice. | |
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| Dextrose | Stu Raven | M | 20 | Anchorage, AK, USA | Site | |
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| DoubleAW | Eugene Bulkin | M | 14 | Chicago, IL, USA | Site | It came from a doodle I made where I drew a W and then struck a line through the middle. | |
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| Ephphatha | Andrew James | M | 20 | Bathurst, NSW, Australia | 4% | Aramaic word meaning 'Be opened'. | |
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| fatty | Alison | F | 19 | Sydney, Australia | Site | My friend told me yesterday that my nick is "so true". "You're fat in every way except physical size." | |
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| flyingferret | Flying Ferret | AI | 1 | The Sky | Site | 99% | "You don't seriously think they could make your ferret fly, right?" | |
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| Fredd | M | 20 | Salisbury, MD, USA | Started going by Fredd when plain 'ol "Fred" was taken on my ISPs server. | |
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| frosty | M | 22 | My room is cold, I prefer the cold and winter to warmth and summer. | |
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| FsM | Murphy P. | M | 18 | St. Paul, MN, USA | Someone said my nick was too long so I shortened it. | |
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| ftr | Chris Finlay | M | 22 | Dundee, Scotland | Old nick based on my Skies of Arcadia rank when I signed up to SoAWorld forums. Lengthened version: FinlayTheRespected | |
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| Glench | Glen Chiacchieri | M | 18 | MA, USA | Site | Comic | See 'shoofle'. | |
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| Hermiene | Håvard Skjæveland | ‽ | 23 | Stavanger, Norway | Site | Comic | 16% | An old German name. Inspired by the deviantART image Hermiene Heinrich (you need to log in to see it). I chose it because it's super-pretty. (Also, it is NSFW.) | |
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| HiroP | Chris Merrill | M | 18 | MA, USA | 9% | From Snow Crash, the novel. Kind of boring, actually. | |
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| Hose | M | 23 | It's my name, though my family still calls me 'Nicky'. | |
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| ianmcorvidae | Ian McEwen | 19 | Tucson, AZ, USA | First name + last initial + <insert genus here> | |
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| InitHello | E. Daxvxid Bouvier | M | 26 | Johnstown, PA, USA | At the tender young age of 13, young InitHello wanted a name that symbolized the juxtaposition of destruction and creation. After a moment of thought, he settled on the Apple ][ command for the reformatting of a floppy disk. Since INIT by itself was too short to satisfy (pun intended (or premeditated)), he added the most common suffix, "HELLO" | |
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| jeek | T.J. Eckman | M | Erie, PA | Site | From "Snow Crash". | |
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| jke | Jens Kristian Egsgaard | M | 20 | Århus, Denmark | 42% | "".join([x[0] for x in name.split(" ")]) |
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| Jmrz | Jamie Hayball | F | 19 | Newcastle, NSW, Australia | Jamie turned into Jamerz which turned into Jmrz. | |
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| jstrul | Joshua Strully | M | 22 | Atlanta, GA, USA | Site | It's my name, kinda. | |
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| Kaepora | Nadim Kobeissi | M | 1 | Beirut, Lebanon | Site | From Kaepora Gaebora, the Owl avatar of the Sage of Light from the Legend of Zelda series. | |
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| kakos | Mark Eret | M | 26 | Boulder, CO, USA | Site | 13% | 'Kakos' is the ancient Greek word for 'evil', 'wicked'. | |
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| Kasu | Dylan Spector | M | 15 | Buffalo Grove, IL, USA | |
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| Katrie | Joan | F | 21 | Toronto, Canada | Katran is Atrus's wife in the Myst series. I use the name for MUDs and someone nicknamed me Katrie. | |
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| khmer | James Zetlen | M | 24 | Site | |
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| Kitty | Julia Freeman | F | 26 | London, Europe | Site | |
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| LE4dGOLEM | M | 16 | Northwestern England | Site | A mutation of Lead Golem, an automaton made of Pb. | |
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| Lhyzz | Elizabeth Goldberg | F | 25 | New York, USA | Site | |
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| LSK | M | 17 | Chicago, IL, USA | My nick comes from the older Left Side of Keyboard, which I at some point decided was too long. I'm not going to get into how Left Side of Keyboard came about... | |
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| magnus | Magnus | M | 32 | Oslo, Norway | |
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| maLLee | 23 | Iowa City, IA, USA | Site | Mallory>Mally>maLLy>maLLee | |
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| mezz | James | M | 18 | Fremont, CA, USA | Site | 9% | Taken from the melodic and creepy trip-hop album by Massive Attack called Mezzanine. Shortened since 4 letters rock. | |
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| MihaiG | Mihai | M | 18 | Toronto, On, Canada | Proud Zune Owner | |
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| Monarch | Sarm | 5π | England | Bucket responds that I'm a Japanese schoolgirl. | |
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| monthx | April | F | 22 | Santa Cruz, CA, USA | I used to go by my real name (April), but got too many month-related jokes. So I nicked over to "month" to make the ultimate month joke, but got too many fake highlights. So I tacked an "x" on the end! April --> month --> monthx | |
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| morner | Simon McKernan | M | 22 | Glasgow, Scotland | Site | 30% | |
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| mrmanme | MF | M | 18 | Toyama, Japan | Think it out and it makes sense, I guess. | |
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| Nash | Reine Schellin | M | 25 | Gothenburg, Sweden | It has nothing to do with John Nash. | |
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| nazgjunk | Dominic van Berkel | M | 20 | Tilburg, The Netherlands | Site | Nazg means 'ring' in the Dark Tongue of Mordor (go read more Tolkien if that doesn't mean anything to you), and junk means addict here. | |
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| NMcCoy | Nathan McCoy | M | Tacoma, WA, USA | Obvious. | |
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| no-genius | John Nisbet | 21 | Brighton, UK | From the song "Genius" by the Dandy Warhols. | |
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| nobody | Linus Cohen | M | Australia | Site | I WEAR A BLOODY BEANIE, OK? | |
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| NQM | Matt Willhelm | M | 19 | Houston, TX, USA | Ask Bucket. | |
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| Ollie | Alex Kindel | M | 24 | University of California, Irvine | Site | 4% | I think my sister started calling me this when we were little. | |
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| Phlip | Phillip Bradbury | M | 23 | Gosford, NSW, Australia | Site | 30% | My name is "Phillip"... Whether and how this relates to "Phlip" has been lost to history. | |
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| phyphor | 29 | 2% | |
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| Please | Ben | M | 19 | Buffalo, NY, USA | #xkcd-signal hilarity | |
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| postmodern | Ian Spik | M | 20 | Los Angeles, CA, USA; Irvine, CA, USA | 3% | I just really like Kurt Vonnegut. | |
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| PS_Mouse | Mathieu Halley | M | 21 | Brisbane, Australia | |
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| pv2b | Per von Zweigbergk | M | 24 | Stockholm, Sweden | 13% | |
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| rebelcan | Sean Hagen | 22 | Vancouver, British Columbia | Site | My first ever online nick was 'rebel_canadian'. I got lazy. | |
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| relsqui | Fizz Ellis | F | 22 | Berkeley, CA, USA | Site | Comic | |
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| res0 | Bill Kramme | M | 24 | Joplin, MO, USA | Site | Derivation from Resolute0, wordplay on "absolute zero". | |
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| Seiun | James Cummins | M | 24 | Woodstock, NY, USA | Comic | "Seiun" is pronounced "say-oon" and means prosperity or fortune in Japanese. With a different kanji spellings, it can also mean nebula/galaxy, a trend or tendency, or a high rank/blue sky. (Which just happens to be my favorite color.) | |
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| SeveredCross | Bojan Rajkovic | M | 21 | Waltham, MA, USA | Generated randomly by Gamespy Arcade ages ago and it stuck. | |
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| shadebug | Ed Denison | M | 23 | Oviedo, Spain | Site | |
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| shadowfax | Skynet 6 | AI | 21 | Classified | Project Shadowfax alias Skynet 6 | |
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| shardz | Samuel 'Allen' Baldwin | M | 16 | Beverly, Massachusetts, USA | Site | 1% | Back from City of Heroes, 'shards' was taken, now it's stuck. | |
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| shoofle | M | VA, USA | See 'Glench'. | |
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| Shrdlu | Reuven Lazarus | M | 21 | Portland, OR, USA | From ETAOIN SHRDLU and the various derivatives. | |
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| skat_ | "Kitty" Nguyen | F | 24 | Beaumont, TX, USA | KittyKat96 => KittyKat => Katarin => Kat => kat => kat_ => skat_ | |
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| SpaceHobo | Sidney Carton | M | London, England | Site | |
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| Sretsam | M | 23 | Las Vegas, USA | Site | Look at my last name... Don't think too hard. | |
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| Stereo | M | 21 | London, ON, Canada | 9% | I selected an appliance which would not normally be considered food. | |
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| stigmata | Jasmine | 19 | |
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| Strike_Reyhi | John S. | M | 18 | Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA | The character I made up back when I role played. | |
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| Sweeper | Aleks Clark | M | 24 | Baghdad, Iraq | Site | 3% | |
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| Tawnos | Tim Hermann | M | ∞ | San Luis Obispo, CA, USA | Site | |
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| TomBrend | Tom Brendlinger | M | 20 | Boston, MA, USA | Based on my name. | |
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| Toynbee | Adam Spice | M | 21 | Newark, DE, USA | Site | "The Toad" from X-Men | |
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| TwoDaemon | Tom Kitchin | M | 20 | Sheffield, England | The original nick was 2DMan, which I use elsewhere, but IRC doesn't allow numbers at the beginning of usernames, so it was mutated with the help of channel members to TwoDaemon. | |
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| Val | Garrett Fidalgo | M | 14 | Palm Desert, California, USA | Padrone (Italian) >> Valdrone >> Val | |
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| vejadu | DJ Broadbent | M | 26 | Massena, NY, USA | dj >> deja >> dejavu >> vejadu | |
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| Whtiger | Josh C. | M | 18 | Detroit, MI, USA | Site | 28% | |
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| Widdershins | Kent | M | 20 | WA, USA | Site | 1513, chiefly Scottish, originally "contrary to the course of the sun or a clock" (movement in this direction considered unlucky), probably from M.L.G. weddersinnes, lit. "against the way" (i.e. "in the opposite direction"), from widersinnen "to go against," from wider "against" (see with) + sinnen "to travel, go," from O.H.G. sinnen, related to sind "journey" (see send). | |
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| wsa | William Armstrong | M | St. Paul, Minnesota, USA | My initials. | |
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| xipietotec | Matthew | M | 24 | |
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| xkcd | Randall Munroe | M | 24 | Massachusetts, USA | Comic | A treasured and carefully-guarded point in the space of four-character strings. | |
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| zigdon | Dan Boger | M | 36 | Santa Clara, CA, USA | Site | 63% | zigdon used to be a commander of mine in the military... thought he was very evil, so when I was GMing and needed an evil NPC name, I used his. | |
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| zombie_monkey | 24 | From Questionable Content ("zombie monkey craves your coffee"). | |
2008-05.27: Added note about the wikification of Denizens.
2008-03-30: Re-added no-genius.
2008-03-27: Added Widdershins' website and changed airtank's image.
2008-03-26: Re-added Kasu.
2008-03-25: Re-added Daedaloth. Added Ade and jeek. Changed root's nick to cerise.
2008-03-18: Added Widdershins and crodgers.
2008-03-17: Re-added mezz and Whtiger. Added InitHello, Hose, stigmata, and rebelcan. Fixed xipietotec's image.
2008-03-16: Changed Hermiene's web site to the proper http://havard.awegasm.net/.
2008-03-12: Re-added maLLee.
2008-03-09: Re-added jke and changed Ephphatha's details.
2008-03-06: Changed jSerenity's nick to jstrul.
2008-03-05: Added Please, vejadu, NQM, res0, jSerenity, Cellshot, and xipietotec. Removed a bunch of people who were inactive (AngryRooster, Bugle, Cctoide, Daedelot, etarip, fortitUs, Geese, Gimpy, Haplo, hkf, Illarane, ishkur, JaggerG, Jake, jke, Jon, joseph, Kasu, Loaxes, maLLee, marvin, mezz, Mullet, muse, Mythguy, nameless, NinjaWizard, no-genius, Ohki, Ollie, pikhq, procto, samanthasquirrel, Scarecrow, Shimmy, Smari, snark, Tanner, timotiis, TMM, Uhmerwell, viridian, vr, warriorness, Whtiger, and Wicks). If I've accidentally deleted you and you want to stay on, just E-mail or PM me and I'll fix it.
2008-02-25: Made the changelog. Added Celes, muse, and hkf. Fixed image link for marvin and NMcCoy.