And yes, the domain name is available. ;)

http://www.cafepress.com/freetheOED

I couldn’t resist. It is free to set up, after all. :)

Now I just have to decide whether I really want to buy something with my poor design skills. Let’s let Ben redesign our logo. ;)

Katherine the First: If only you’d gotten a picture! Your roommate (my colleague) read this over my shoulder and said she hadn’t heard about the plate yet. It didn’t happen to be her plate, did it? ;) Just kidding.

Sixline: I like to support things well done. :)

Rikker: The OED says this:

[Cognate with Old Frisian nakad, naked, naket, Middle Dutch naect, nāket (Dutch naakt), Middle Low German nacket, nackt, nāket, nākt, Old High German nackot, nackut (Middle High German nacket, German nackt), Old Icelandic nøkviðr, nøkkviðr, Old Swedish nakudher, naqvidher, Gothic naqaþs, a participial derivative of the Indo-European base which is also represented by Sanskrit nagna (see naga n.2), classical Latin nūdus (see nude a. (adv.) and n.), Old Irish nocht (Irish nocht), Welsh noeth, Old Church Slavonic nagŭ, Russian nagoj, Lithuanian nuogas.

It's not entirely clear from there whether the participial derivative comes through a verb nake or straight from the IE base, so I looked it up in Bosworth & Tollers (the standard Old English dictionary):

nacod, næcad; adj. I. naked, bare; .... [Goth. nakwaþs : Icel. nökviðr : O. Frs. nakad : O. H. Ger. nachot, nahhut : Ger. nackt.] v. eall-, lim-nacod; nacian.

The last word was a verb, and it happened to be right above the entry for nacod, and I think it sheds some more light on the matter:

nacian; p. ode To strip (the clothes off a person) :– Ðá hé ðæt nolde hé wæs nacod and on carcern onsænded when he would not do that (deny Christ), he was stripped and sent to prison, Shrn. 51, 12. [The shenship of his flesh he shal nakyn, Wick. Lev. xx, 19; he nakide (later version, made nakid) the hous of the pore man, Job xx, 19 : O nice men, whi nake ye youre bakkes, Chauc. Boeth. 1. 4288 : Prompt. Parv. nakyn nudo, denudo, v. p. 351, note 1. The verb to nake occurs as late as Tourneur who has 'nake your swords;' v. Skeat Dict. s. v. naked.] v. be-nacian, nacod.

Alas, B&T doesn’t have a clear chronology of sources, so it’s hard to tell if nacod comes from nacian or if nacian is a back-formation of sorts from nacod. The first citation for nacian does seem to agree with Lewis’s hypothesis, though…

Terrah and Katherine the First: I can’t figure out why people would want to turn themselves orange, like Oompa-Loompas. It boggles the mind, it does.

Katherine the Second and Rikker: I agree, the OED should be free. “Free the OED!” came the cry from the crowd(er). “Free the OED!”

OED is silly for requiring paid subscriptions anyway. But they know they’re the tops and that every academic institution is bound subscribe. Gotta do something to bring in revenue when your physical product is as massive as OED2 is. Can’t imagine they sell too many sets. Anyone have $800 dollars I could borrow? Ha.