Now This

This blog is now read by more machines than humans: RSS robots, spam-laying insectopoids, echoes of blog-gathering .edu projects. This essentially is the state of affairs that all human activities w

Cleaning Up the Nation

Austin Bay:

If Air America were a conservative radio network its corrupt funding trail and cynical abuse of a poverty program would be front page news at the NY Times and full-time mega-scandal at

Rank Materialism

Freedom. I am now the proud new owner of a Gateway 6020GZ laptop, perfect for students and others with limited means. I can now go into a Starbucks or a Barnes & Noble and look like I'm doing some

Fallujah Fonda

Uh-oh. From the Telegraph comes this exciting news:

Jane Fonda is returning to anti-war activism and embarking on a cross-country tour to call for an end to US military operations in Iraq.

Acros

John Pilger: Partner in Terrorism

In an outrageous piece of terrorist propaganda appearing on the cover of today's New Statesman, John Pilger puts the blame for the 7/7 London attacks not on the terrorists, but rather on Tony Blair:

Turn and Face the Strange

ForNow, in comments to this post of mine, calls the format cool, but "forbidding". I can see that. Those buttons on the right seem to be multiplying like rabbits. So, in what is optimistically a clarifying measure, I've color-coded the buttons. Navigation of posts is now in green; meta-navigation (if you'll allow) is red; and the usual blog features like the blogroll and the link to the current page remain blue. I'm not happy with the black type on red over there. I may change it.

I do see that as simple as I've tried to make this, it is a bit much to learn just to read a single blog which was never all that popular in the first place. Ahem. On the other hand, it isn't that difficult either. If this format or the like were widely adopted, the 5 minutes it takes to learn its basic functions, and get comfortable with them, I hope, is nothing.

Anyway, I thank ForNow for the comment.

One thing this format does, it occurs to me, is to do away with the necessity for the MovableType feature of listing all the recent posts in the sidebar for easy access. Here, the posts and the list of posts are one and the same- the stack.

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Hi, Brian O'Connell, you're very welcome.

Actually I just meant that it's "forbiddingly" different in how one navigaes it. Don't be too harsh on yourself, I said only "a bit forbidding" or something like that. The color coding is definitely good. (On my screen the red buttons would be more readable with white not black words, or with black words on lighter red.)

I don't know whether this would be easy or difficult, but you might consider adding to the card bottoms (between Add a Comment & Link) a "Back into Stack" which would simply be the Reset. I know that it's more elegant to have the single Reset button on the right of the page, but I'd never have pondered it if I hadn't been thinking about the readability of black-on-red. I'm lazy. I'm typical.

Overall it's cool & has a simplicity that compensates for the "strangeness" & unfamiliarity.

As a fellow not(-yet-)too-popular & not-completely-regular blogger, I wish you luck! I first was interested in your blog in its earlier incarnation because of your discussion of one of the hijacked airplanes & a comparison you made between it & -- I forget now -- was it the whole country? Civilization? It was really good, & I quoted it on Lucianne.com as something said by "a blogger" because I couldn't dig it up quickly -- I'd forgotten your name & all that. I'm more diligent & organized now though, so if I quote you there again your URL will be there with it, which may send up to half a dozen hits your way. That's not many, I know but it's, in that handy phrase, "for what it's worth."

Back into Stack, eh? That's not a bad idea, especially with longer posts where you can't even see the buttons when you're at the end of a post. I'll probably put something together along those lines.

And the white on red definitely is better.

And, oh yeah! My 'we're all on Flight 93' post. I forgot about that one. That belongs in the Hits list. When I get around to it. Thanks.

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