Purple Number Signs

“Until this weekend Iíd never heard of ìPurple Numbersî but theyíve been across the radar twice in the last day, first in some commentary by Chris Dent on the Atom-Identifier issue, then again over at Jonas Lusterís place… I look at these things and the idea of sticking a visible anchor on each paragraph to make it addressable seems like, well of course! In particular here at ongoing where Iím prone to write thirty-paragraph rambles with multiple allegedly-related arguments, it would make Mark Pilgrimís life so much easier if he could directly point at a paragraph thatís particularly wrong. The more I think about this, the more it seems like every paragraph on the Web should have its own address. I also like the soft unobtrusive purple, #c8a8ff. But I donít like the numbers.”