Looks like the chat page didn't make it (yet?).
pest
Yet is right (though does anyone care?). I have to reconfigure some things and so far I've just done the main page, soon I'll do the
rest.
Since the chat page was buried in a link in a now-archived post, if you really want to bring it back it might be
best
to have some other way of getting at it,
lest
it become nothing more than a joke. (You know how we can't abide jokes.)
it become nothing more than a
jest
Ben's reading the care label on his boxers again.
Yes, the headlines weren't bolded. Don't pretend they weren't.
I also just had a weird DNS hiccup where I was being taken to the old site. How odd.
I also just had a weird DNS hiccup
That's why the headlines didn't look right: the pointer to the stylesheet wasn't working for you.
But they're not bolded now, either. At least for me. But bolded headlines might add
zest.
That's why the headlines didn't look right: the pointer to the stylesheet wasn't working for you.
If I explain how this makes no sense, will you get all "AMTF" ("Acid Mothers Temple, Fool!") on me?
It all works for me as of this point in time, sofar.
Blest
the homepage loads a lot quicker now, which is great- thanks. looks like the swich of servers was successful, unlike Liza's marriage to David
Gest.
this makes no sense
You're right, it doesn't. By "headlines" do you mean the post titles?
It's a rhyme
fest!
(schmoov, mike.)
Soon we can get back to discussing
titties!
Your fondness for the word "titties" has always been oddly endearing. So filled with innocent glee.
"The 'female' melon is the most sought-after and can be distinguished when the end opposite the stalk has a large coloured circle resembles the areola of a woman's breast."
Wisdom from the Larousse Gastronomique.
Not just for the word, either.
Going out for a bit; though it's far from finished, perhaps you'd like to poke around the reading group site and let me know (here) if you have any suggestions or requests.
An areorbic melon. Sweet.
On the reading group site:
1. The pages reachable from the "June 2005" link and the "Terminology" category use a different style than the main page.
2. The main page would benefit from a narrower column of text. The rule of thumb is about 66 characters, give or take. I find "37em" works pretty well as an approximation.
3. I'd suggest using the same font for both body text and blockquotes, since the quoted text is set off enough simply by being indented. Right now there's a mild ransom-note effect.
4. The banner text looks like a screenshot. If you really want bitmapped text up there, you'll get better results from Photoshop or the Gimp.
5. The black line separating the banner from the posts is a little gratuitous. White space should work just as well.
6. One more banner thought: The "Unfogged Reading Group" subtitle's present location gives the banner an unbalanced feeling. I would put it underneath the title and the two, uh, color blobs.
ogged,
while trying to comment on the reading group:
An error occurred:
mkdir /home/unfogge: Permission denied at lib/MT/FileMgr/Local.pm line 104
Also: you want to avoid "text-align: justified" on web pages, since browsers generally lack both hyphenation and a smart line-breaking algorithm. Without these, you get ugly "rivers" of whitespace coursing down the textblock.
I'd 2nd SB that it seems a little wide.
I'm having trouble leaving a comment.
Did you just call my comments poo?
Of course he didn't just call them poo. Look at the timestamps.
Things that are not poo: aeroplanes, loving kindness, Michael's comments.
Thanks, SB.
1. That's part of the not done yet.
2. I'm having trouble deciding what to do about the width of the main column. I really like the width at Unfogged, but I expect posts to be significantly longer at the URG, and I wanted to avoid interminable scrolling. I'll play with it.
3. Meh, I like it the way it is.
4. Not a screenshot; made in Fireworks, not happy with it, but trying to balance crispness with small file size for fast loading. Will continue to play with that too.
5. Yeah, maybe.
6. Those are Rothkos, philistine.
And I hate unjustified text, so we'll have to live with the rivers of white.
(Comments are fixed, y'all.)
And I hate unjustified text, so we'll have to live with the rivers of white.
Not that I'm in the reading group or anything, but I'm with SB re: justified text.
Why do so many people like it so much? Or rather, why do so many people have an irrational hatred for unjustified text? (I've found this to be the case on basically every publication I've ever worked on). Yes, justified text gives you a neat right margin, but at the expense (even with "hyphenation and a smart line-breaking algorithm") of both general readibility and of the aesthetics of the whole . It would make just as little sense to make every word, rather than every line of words, exactly the same width.
It's Procrustian, says I, and has about it more than just a whiff of Teh Fascism.
I had no idea that there was any anti-justified sentiment in the world. Unjustified text looks scraggly and messy to me, and I like those rivers of white; they make patterns.
Unjustified text looks scraggly and messy to me . . .
FASCIST!!!
I like those rivers of white; they make patterns.
If you are noticing patterns, you are distracted from the text. You don't want to disrespect the text, do you?
What an obstinate fellow. Are you going to make me whip out the Bringhurst?
"Bringhurst" sounds funny. There are lots of things I'm willing to change about the site, but unjustifying the text isn't one of them. If you were actually participating in the reading, as you ought to be, I would, however, make a show of considering your suggestion seriously.
Fair enough.
But you know this means we can never date, right? Not even a little bit.
You know I love you Bridgeplate, but I love abusing my small privileges even more.
I love abusing my small privileges
Don't be so hard on yourself. They're probably not that small.
Oh, they're tiny. That's why, whenever I actually find one, I abuse the bejeezus out of it.
Be careful, now. They're the only ones you've got.
SB, by grouping my comments with "loving kindness" are you trying to imply that I am some kind of Oggedian Wimp??
(seriously though, that was a nice gesture. you're banned.)
Oh man, I love me the Bringhurst. Everyone should learn it, love it, live it.
Especially ogged. I guarantee it won't shrink your small privileges. It might even make them bigger!
Rivers can be good. In the Humument, which I just bought (and it is Teh Awesome for the Proudly Pretentious), the hero, Bill Toge (who appears whenever the word 'together' or 'altogether' does in the original) is composed entirely of rivers.
The guy who did the Humument did album covers for both Brian Eno and King Crimson, and the King Crimson one had, on its back, the humument-like phrase (I don't know if it was actually generated in the same fashion as the humument or just rendered to appear that way) "this night wounds time", which is pretty awesome.
It's actually from the Humument. p. 222, IIRC (I was looking).
AMM performed his opera, Irma, too.
"this night wounds time", which is pretty awesome.
But not as awesome as "this machine kills fascists".
