I think maybe we should put the pic of the author of a blog post or article up at the top of the page, to the right of the hed and dek. There's often a lot of white space next to hed/dek, and, especially in the blog posts, it'd be nice to highlight the personalities a bit more.
One now-apparent disadvantage of the recent-threads instead of recent-comments…if a thread has a poster who quickly responds to any new comment (which is behavior we want to encourage, of course), you only end up ever seeing that one person for that thread in the mrc. Elisa just posted to the Peter Singer thing, which is fun for all of us, and I immediately responded, and now it's just me again for that thread in the MRC, and who wants to see that shit again, and no Elisa?
of course, diamond rings would always be the best type of wedding rings that you can give your wife;;