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Via Dave Weigel, at Slate, the Glitterati Go Large.
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He found the perfect tongue-in-check counterpoint, too, but you’re gonna have to click over to appreciate it.
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Via Dave Weigel, at Slate, the Glitterati Go Large.
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He found the perfect tongue-in-check counterpoint, too, but you’re gonna have to click over to appreciate it.
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Matthias
Barbarians? You call us barbarians? Well… it is an honorable name. We mean to cancel the world you civilized people made. We will simply erase history from the time that machinery and weapons threaten more than they offered. And when you die, the last living reminder of hell will be gone.
Joseph Nobles
Now that the disappearing margins are a once-a-month occurence at most and the Reply button is back, I’d like to put an word for my personal blog software pet peeve – external links that open in the same window/tab. It just doesn’t feel natural. I am forever going to an external link, reading what there pertains, and then clicking it out of existence, only to have to open an new window/tab to reload Balloon Juice and find my place again.
Internal links within the blog I understand should be in the same window/tab. But external links that open in the same window/tab are an abomination.
I just thought I’d throw that out there. Readership capture and all.
John Puma
Admittedly, Mr Bachmann’s idiotic premise that a true barbarian can possibly BE disciplined IS “consistent” with the idiocy of his “retro-gay” therapy, for which his is paid, apparently, at least in part, by federal tax payer funds.
M. Bouffant
@Joseph Nobles:
Me too. So I right click & “open link in new tab.” But it would be nice not to have to do that.
The Pat Robertson “counterpoint” makes no mention of the Pope & his hat being blown off stage recently, or of the Nat’l. Cathedral taking more serious damage than the Washington Monument. Funny, that.
Amir Khalid
@Joseph Nobles:
I’ve learned to always open links in a new tab. In Firefox, you right-click on the link to get the menu, from which you select that option.
ETA: Ah, I see that M. Bouffant was first with the same advice.
Scott
Any time I read news about Pat Robertson, I’m comforted by the thought that, if God exists, he will absolutely spend his afterlife dunked in a lake of fire. And if God doesn’t exist, then ha ha, he still gets the nonexistence he deserves.
MikeJ
@Joseph Nobles: Nothing annoys me more than javascript tags to open links in new tabs. It breaks everything, makes it impossible to decide if you want to open in a new tab, new window, or in situ, means you can’t copy the url, and stops working altogether when you have javascript turned off (as I do for 90% of sites.)
Oh, and you don’t need to use right clicks to open in a new tab. Control+click will do it much faster.
Ben Cisco
@Joseph Nobles: Clicking on a link with the “middle” mouse button (scrolling wheel) will also open a link in a new tab.
arguingwithsignposts
@MikeJ: @M. Bouffant: and Joseph Nobles: WP links can be set up to open in new tabs, and it doesn’t take a javascript tag to do so (target=”_blank”), but it requires the poster to change the target in the link box when writing the post, which can be a PITA if you’ve got a few links.
It’s also a matter of taste. If you trust Jakob Nielsen – usability “guru” – the majority of web users prefer links that open in the same window. I personally prefer links that open in a new tab.
In short, there’s no FYWP thing preventing the FPers from implementing that function other than their own style of blogging. For commenters, they’d need to change the html code in the comment, like this (youtube song). I usually control+click if I want to read something that someone puts in a comment.
ETA: I notice from the experiment that the software does strip out the target=”_blank” code and replace it with rel=”nofollow”, which is probably an anti-spam measure.
harlana
Love Marcus’s televangical look there, the clothes, the hair, perfect – How long will she be able to keep the press away from him?
Omnes Omnibus
@MikeJ:
@Ben Cisco:
You kids with your clicking and Control, get off my lawn. I got your middle button right here, you sunzabitches.
harlana
I just read that Perry had a 2.0 at A&M – anybody know if that’s true? This was in a comments section of David Brooks’ article
harlana
@Omnes Omnibus: whippersnappers!
Omnes Omnibus
@harlana: Exactly. Right click and “Open Link in New Tab” was good enough for my great grandpappy and it’s good enough for me.
arguingwithsignposts
@Omnes Omnibus: We used to dream of having a right click and “Open Link in New Tab” in my day!
We’d have to get online 24 hours before the post was put up just to click the link and hope the new page would open before we got home from work!
Omnes Omnibus
@arguingwithsignposts: Luxury! We used to have to read blog posts and other content on paper. And we had to go to a library to get it. But we were grateful.
arguingwithsignposts
@Omnes Omnibus: Oooh, the paper cuts!
But tell that to kids these days, and they’d never believe it.
Ben Cisco
You two are hilarious!
gene108
Anybody have any details on the accounting gimmicks used by Bob & Crew to show VA has a $500 million dollar budget surplus?
I checked in on another forum and right-wingers there are treating the VA “miracle” as some sort of validation that everything they ever thought about how government should be run – don’t raise taxes, slash social services, etc. – will lead us to the land of milk and honey.
I pointed out they borrowed money from other funds, such as retirement, in order to arrive at a cash surplus, but right-wingers don’t care because the money’s being paid back and retirement checks haven’t stopped.
I tried explaining that the retirement system (and most well run pension plans) have money to meet current obligations, but without continuous funding future obligations get dicey.
Anyway, long story short, McDonnell’s budget surplus in VA seems to be a rallying point for right-wingers, with regards to justifying that slashing government spending and not raising taxes will produce an economic “miracle”.
Also, too they point to VA job creation in the private sector, but I wonder how many of those private sector jobs that were added are a result of private firms winning government contracts.
I think the whole VA thing could be a big issue down the line, because right-wingers are taking it as personal vindication of their views and any criticism as a personal attack against them.
SRW1
Pat Robertson has an inkling of his being weird? What is the world coming to?
Obviously God hasn’t phoned him yet on the monument thing.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@Omnes Omnibus: @arguingwithsignposts:
Two words for you two young ‘uns: Gopher! Lynx!
arguingwithsignposts
On a more serious note, looks like Irene is taking aim for the NC coast, should be there tomorrow afternoon as a category 3. (weatherunderground Dr. Masters link)
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@gene108: My wife’s family construction business in central VAthat has been in business for 80+ is belly up.
Omnes Omnibus
@Comrade Scrutinizer: What does “The Love Boat” have to do with any of this?
Comrade Scrutinizer
@Omnes Omnibus: Packet transport.
gene108
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
That sucks.
Anyway, when liberals start talking about the need for more stimulus money and raising taxes to balance the budget, look for right-wingers to roll out the VA “miracle”.
Unless this “miracle” gets shredded, it will become a rallying point for right-wingers and you know how they get, when they believe something’s true…there’s no reasoning with them…
arguingwithsignposts
Now that I think about it, an update of that Monty Python skit with internet-related language would be a hoot.
We used to dream of having packets to transport! We got by with bytes.
TheMightyTrowel
Totally off topic: I have a job interview! For a permanent academic post in my field! In Australia!
Omnes Omnibus
@Comrade Scrutinizer: That will put you in a Turkish prison if you aren’t careful.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@TheMightyTrowel: G-day digger.
arguingwithsignposts
@TheMightyTrowel: G’Day Bruce!
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@gene108: Ironically, her brother ran the business and he blames it on Obama even though it’s been failing for 10 years.
TheMightyTrowel
@arguingwithsignposts: That’s a serious drawback of this position, actually, and one I’m not too excited about: I don’t think i make a very convincing bruce.
scav
@arguingwithsignposts: pAckets? POckets! And the little XXs, LLLs, and IIIs kept poking holes in them! (CCs and DDs weren’t too much of a problem).
arguingwithsignposts
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): Wow, if that’s not a comment on the modern GOP, I don’t know what is. They ran the economy for 8 years, and they blame it on Obama too!
Villago Delenda Est
@gene108:
Well, they need to change miracles, as the “Texas miracle” of Governor Goodhair doesn’t stand up to casual scrutiny, either.
There will be another “miracle” in another Kochsucker governed state once the Virginia one has been thoroughly debunked.
Wingtards are so fucking stupid.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@TheMightyTrowel: We’ll have to call you New Bruce.
WereBear
For those Juicers who remember the adoption of our three week old foundling kitten; see how he’s grown up one year later.
WereBear
Then, as in so many other ways, I’M A MUTANT. I like the new tab/window.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@arguingwithsignposts: Yea, I try to stick to football when we are together.
MikeJ
@WereBear: I much prefer opening links in a new tab, but I like having a choice about it more. As long as no nonsense is added to the site I do have a choice about it. Add stuff to make it “easier” and my choice in the matter is gone and the site actually stops working unless I turn javascript back on.
superluminar
@scav
Hmm…that wordsalad of acronyms sounded suspiciously similar to another poster here. Can we expect posts mentioning 142ld Torbrokkian quantum gravity next?
scav
@superluminar: No fear. There’ll be arterial blood splattered over the nearest wall well before that
ETA (The clue and subtext is being numerate in Latin).
Keithley
@TheMightyTrowel: “What’s the new Bruce gonna teach?”
harlana
@Omnes Omnibus: did you have to walk 50 miles in the snow to get to the library?
superluminar
@scab
I’m certainly intrigued, but without my Latin dictionary to hand I must admit defeat to your riddle. :-(
scav
@superluminar: Poor dear. IQ RIP MMII.
newtons.third
If I recall correctly, the tear in the curtain in the Temple was so that the barrier between God and man would be removed. The curtain was between the place where God “resided” and our world. Only the Israelite high priest could enter, once a year. After the death of Jesus, that barrier was removed, allowing all people to access God, in some way. We are all able to seek God and commune with Him.
If Mr. Robertson is drawing a parallel here, and I think he is, I believe that his thought is that God is punishing us for our Kenyan-Socialist Other President.
I would argue that if there is a parallel, it is that we the people are excluded from the political process, except for an elect few. But now the curtain is being torn down, and we can get our government back. In that case, it would seem that he, and the other power brokers have the most to fear from such a statement from God. As it would allow a more direct access to the government, where we do not have to go to the high priest to bring our sins to God for forgiveness, but we can go directly there ourselves. That scares him, I think.
scav
I’m suddenly a little worried about having crossed union lines to post here: hadn’t realized blogging had gone as lefty as all that. Think I’ll stick with being a crust of hardened blood and serum over a wound. Still, how’s this for a definition (by Jack London “written with barbed wire on sandpaper”)
Ukko
Raven (formerly stuckinred), was he was the third generation of the family in the business? That is a very common problem with family businesses. The third generation runs them into the ground.
Omnes Omnibus
@ Harlana: Walk?! I wish. I had to push through the snow with my hands.
replicnt6
Take on gay people and you risk facing some serious… well… choreography.
TheWorstPersonInTheWorld
Glitter and choreography in the parking lot! Love it!
Especially the young boy taking part…good for him.
The Other Chuck
What’s in YOUR wallet?
Makewi
The most important discipline this group needs is to learn to stop after the first Big Mac.