That takes me back. The "Web Pages That Suck" book was what got me into web design and programming. Unfortunately, while I bet almost all designers would recog

That takes me back. The "Web Pages That Suck" book was what got me into web design and programming. Unfortunately, while I bet almost all designers would recognize that mystery meat is bad in the classic 90's context of using it on a homepage, its become acceptable with these sorts of interior toolbars. So while github is not using it on the project homepage - probably because they recognize it would be MM and be awful - they are using it deeper down.