[icco]

I'm not sure about what OP was thinking, but I felt the same way. The article seemed to have mixed messages. One was, "how dare you steal from us" and the other was "Everyone steals".

Looking at the two sites, they were both using such common web design styles these days, that I would have assumed they both based their site off of someone else's.

If I were them, I would have stuck to the second argument, realized that no idea or design is a unique snowflake and everyone steals constantly.

[heyitsnick]

I think they're just having fun and making light of a crappy situation.

[HNaTTY]

And also showing off their design chops. What better way to show how much you care about design than to defend your site versus its copy?

Personally, I plan to steal their idea for changing the title of a page when it loses focus. Not today, but some day.