Wrong Planet

Site Upgrades and Fixes Made

By on June 22, 2004

Various updates have been made to WrongPlanet.net in preparation for its launch this upcoming Monday. The changes made today include:
  • Upgraded to PHPnuke 7.2
  • Added new blogs feature (a different approach to the existing journals feature)
  • Fixed bug with avatars (you will need to pick your avatar again if it is not displaying correctly)
  • In the edit profile screen, the diagnosis and gender are now set by default to what you already have set.

What Asperger’s syndrome has done for us

By on June 20, 2004

BBC News writes Michelangelo might have had it. So, too, may Einstein, Socrates and Jane Austen. All are claimed to have had Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism. What is it about this developmental disorder that can lead to genius? We will never know for sure if the genius of past greats may have been a symptom of a form of autism. Informed speculation that Michelangelo might have had Asperger's syndrome is just that - the Renaissance...