Here are some quick tips for adding simple Textile formatting to your comments, though you can also use proper HTML tags:
*This* puts text in bold.
_This_ puts text in italics.
bq. This "bq." at the beginning of a paragraph, flush with the left hand side and with a space after it, is the code to indent one paragraph of text as a block quote.
To add a live URL, "Text to display":http://windsofchange.net/ (no spaces between) will show up as Text to display. Always use this for links - otherwise you will screw up the columns on our main blog page.
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BTW, if you're taking submissions:
Reduncity: the act of making a response to a comment in a manner essentially identical to a previous response, thus demonstrating that you haven't read the entire thread.
Insinuendo: With thanks to my friend Bob Ramsay. Implying that someone is doing something of an illicit nature as in John Kerry and interns.