Revision Notes

A short history of this site. The pre-2026 entries are summaries; the original revision log was a chronological list of contributor submissions, most of which have been retired along with the submissions program itself.

2026 — Site refresh

Site rebuilt as a static site. Headers and footers are now centralized; pages are generated from a content manifest by a PHP build script.
Stable legacy URLs preserved for every kept work — song HTML pages, lyric pages, MIDI files, and PDFs all live at the same paths as before.
MIDI files rendered to MP3 so the music plays directly in the browser. Each song page has an in-page audio player with track-level deep links and a PDF preview modal.
AI-generated vocal covers added for most songs (Suno / AI Song Maker), clearly labeled as covers.
New song: Not a Vegetable.
Outside submissions and the discussion forum retired. The site is now a personal showcase.
Visual redesign in a folk-chapbook idiom — pale-green paper background, forest-green accent, hand-set serif headings, generous typography.
The "Why Animal Rights?" essay and the McDougall nutrition factsheet are preserved as historical content with editorial banners — the McDougall page in particular contains 1990s-era B12 and calcium guidance that's been superseded.
The 1990s "Selected Links" page has been retired (most of the links pointed to defunct directories like Yahoo and GeoCities).
Internal links to retired pages inside the legacy essays have been unwrapped to plain text rather than left as dead clicks.

2006 and earlier — original site

From 1995 to roughly 2006, this site collected songs, stories, poems, and commentary from many contributors in addition to the original works of Mohan Embar. It went through several technical eras (raw HTML, Microsoft FrontPage, JSPs on EnviroLink) and accumulated revision notes for each new submission. Selected milestones from that period:

1995 — site founded.
1997 — Listen to Chief Seattle added.
Jan 1998 — moved to EnviroLink under the Animal Rights Counterculture banner; new domain animalsong.org.
Dec 1998 — added Antilullaby, Farmer Boy, Here; full-length MIDIs for all songs.
1997–2006 — many contributor poems and stories added (now retired).