Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

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We had to get rid of the comment buttons in the comments because that addon just sucked. In place of buttons is a list of things you can do. For example, if you want to block quote something, it should look like this while you are writing it:

The finished product will look like this:

If you see a WP site with a comment button plugin that works well, let us know. Until now, you have to do it manually.

Also, we can now do polls:

[poll id=2]

*** Update ***

There is no plugin that can deal with end-user stupidity. If you can not figure out how to use the tags listed below from the pictures I have given you above, this is not my problem or a problem with the html. That is simple operator fail.

Or maybe not. It looks like something is all funked up.

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  3. 3.

    dr. luba

    well, there’s still all that Pajamas Media crap in the left column.
    At least put it on the right (preferably far right and off of my
    screen) where it belongs…………… Otherwise, cleaner
    interface, nicer fonts, but I’ve only just now glanced at the re-do
    the first time. Worth it, though, if I can stop seeing that
    WordPress error screen every other time I try and log on.

  6. 6.

    Annette

    That also cleaned up a boatload of apache errors in the system
    logs. Testing refresh to verify no oddball junk bloating the
    logs…

  7. 7.

    John Cole

    For christ sakes, are you people drinking? I am not going to go through and fix every blockquote. Why do you all insert spaces all over the place?

    blockquotetag+text you want blockquoted+closeblockquotetag

    I figured it out.

  11. 11.

    Comrade Bey

    “No one ever likes a redesign at first.”

    ‘cept me. New = shiny! Well crap. Blockquote hosed.
    Ihate everything now…..

  12. 12.

    TheFountainHead

    This is a test of the emergency blockquoting system.

    If this were a real emergency, your hair would be on
    fire. Edit: Apparently the blockquote emergency broadcast system is
    FAIL. Expect to burn to death.

  14. 14.

    Annette

    @joe from Lowell: No, a piece of
    crap, outdated plugin was dropped so that people would use code
    that actually works (manually) rather than relying on a hit or miss
    use of something that works marginally.

  15. 15.

    SGEW

    This is a test of the emergency blockquoting system. If this were
    a real emergency, your hair would be on fire.

    The goggles! They do nothing!

  17. 17.

    SGEW

    ??

    Why do some blockquotes work but not others?

    I swear I did nothing different!

    blockquote test

    ?

  18. 18.

    SGEW

    QUIT FUCKING HITTING RETURN AFTER YOUR BLOCKQUOTE OPENING TAG.

    I didn’t! I swear! [I’m editing this post now, and it
    appears that a return was added, even though I didn’t hit return.
    For reals! And when I go back and edit (after removing the return)
    it’s back! This shit is above my pay scale. Me feel stupid now.]

  19. 19.

    Billy K(hrushchev)

    The best part of Balloon Juice 3.0 is watching John’s meltdown over
    his retarded commenters. Onward to BJ4.01!!!

    Also, testing blockquote…. do I win?

  20. 20.

    Kevin

    @John Cole: Sorry, I never saw that
    you had edited it, until just now.

    I have no idea what I am doing wrong, I mean, I put the <
    blockquote > and < /blockquote > around what I’m trying
    to quote, and the quoted text gets moved below the blockquote. I
    thought I understood HTML tags..

  22. 22.

    John Harrold

    I tried to post this in the test poll thing. Is it possible to get
    rid of the numbers beside the comments? They take up a lot of
    screen real estate but don’t really provide much in the way of
    utility.

  23. 23.

    Comrade Bey

    Once more into the breach dear friends

    /crosses fingers At the risk of infuriating the great
    and powerful JC — me too. Something is inserting the returns. I
    remove them and presto! they reappear

  24. 24.

    Billy K(hrushchev)

    SGEW is right, John. I didn’t hit return after my blockquote tag,
    but one was inserted anyway. It showed up properly on the preview.

  27. 27.

    John Cole

    You all keep inserting extra stuff. I have no idea why. All you need is:

    {blockquote}TEST OF BLOCKQUOTE{/blockquote}

    but subsititute { with < and } with > and you get:

    TEST OF BLOCKQUOTE

    I have no idea why you are throwing in all sorts of /p and other crap in there.

  28. 28.

    Scott H

    I prefer hand-coding.

    QUIT FUCKING HITTING RETURN AFTER YOUR BLOCKQUOTE OPENING TAG

    If John Cole is driven to the f-bomb, thing are truly
    well coming together.

    Edit: The ‘submit’ button is inserting the crap, btw.

    Edit 2: Yep, When I hit ‘submit’ leading spaces are being
    inserted to the cited text.

  29. 29.

    Billy K(hrushchev)

    Also, are we not Communists anymore? I didn’t get the memo! Why
    didn’t anyone tell me to take off my commie hat?

  30. 30.

    John Cole

    I give up. It works every time for me doing exactly what I have said. I have no idea why it is not working for you all and hopefully Stacy can figure it out.

  34. 34.

    NeeMoh

    I suggest that different contributor’s posts be in different fonts,
    so it’s easy to tell who wrote immediately without looking for the
    author’s name.

  36. 36.

    John Harrold

    John, In my comment above WP inserted returns after the words
    ‘get’, ‘of’, and ‘of’. I didn’t put those carriage returns there
    and it looked fine int he preview. I didn’t put any returns in this
    post either.

  37. 37.

    SGEW

    “I have no idea why you are throwing in all sorts of /p and other
    crap in there.” I was told to do so on another thread! They made
    me!

  42. 42.

    Thomas

    I like the look of the new site, and I’m used to using my own tags
    for html formatting, so… Win.

    Here’s how you blockquote

    Looks fine in the preview. But not in the post. Sorry
    John, but there’s something wrong. On the “edit comment,” there
    seem to be random hard returns, as well as original HRs missing.

  46. 46.

    comrade chopper

    I give up. It works every time for me doing exactly what I have
    said.

    so let’s see… edit: even better. so now the text
    quoted shows up, after the blockquote.

  47. 47.

    Scrutinizer

    I typed “ltblockquotegt” then closed the quote with

    lt/blockquotegt. What I see when I view page source is
    blockquote/blockquote, then what I typed. FF3, Vista.

  49. 49.

    Kevin

    wtf?

    “I have no idea why you are throwing in all sorts of /p and other
    crap in there.” I was told to do so on another thread! They made
    me!

    Let me try this again. I give up too.

  52. 52.

    srv

    Wasabi greasemonkey magicians or somebody – can we add back in a
    horizontal scroller and widen the comments column? Unless I switch
    to a 21 inch monitor, the left + right columns = 50% and the
    comment number takes up 25% of what’s left… Leaving a little over
    a third for the comments. Not practicable for those with a browser
    up and multiple applications on a laptop. Other than that, I like
    it.

  53. 53.

    comrade chopper

    i think the server has become self-aware and went back and read all
    the posts on this blog.

  54. 54.

    TheFountainHead

    Trying this one more time.

    The preview and all logically thought says I have done
    this correctly. Now I hit submit…. EDIT: The preview is a lie. I
    can’t handle this kind of stress…

  56. 56.

    Nathan R

    Yeah, I’m just gonna delete this whole comment, since it’s pretty
    clear that the content’s been covered already.

  60. 60.

    Comrade Bey

    I will be drinking soon.

    So, we’re back to normal then? (The above block quote
    was created without spaces or returns by the Comrade Bey.)

  61. 61.

    srv

    Oh, you have a horizontal scroller at the bottom of the page here
    (!), bit it isn’t attached to the browser pane, it’s inside of
    it… Crazy. At least on Opera and Firefox…

  62. 62.

    Davebo

    Programming since 1984 but I can’t make blockquote work. Epic Fail
    am I… And yes, it does work in preview. But that’s….. OK….

  63. 63.

    Cain

    John obviously is not well suited to computer support. We can thank
    our lucky stars that we don’t call up and get him on the other
    line. ha. Now I want to test blockquote.

    This is a single line of test. No returns have been pushed

    Works well in preview.. now..hit the submit. I have
    re-edited and had to remove the CRs in the text. Lame. cain

  64. 64.

    Billy K(hrushchev)

    [blockquote]I followed the instructions and I still
    fail.[/blockquote] Story of my life. (I’m just gonna do my
    blockquoting like this from now on.)

  65. 65.

    Comrade The Moar You Know

    QUIT FUCKING HITTING RETURN AFTER YOUR BLOCKQUOTE OPENING TAG.
    DID YOU SEE ANY SPACE IN THE PICTURES ABOVE?

     

    I will be drinking soon.

      This is why I keep coming back here.
    Interesting. The software really is inserting carriage returns on
    its own.

  66. 66.

    john b

    let’s see if i can blockquote:

    stuff someone else said

    strong words someone else said.

    confirming that you can’t use multiple carriage returns

    and maybe an image for fun: (exclamation test):
    !http://tijiuanahitsquad.com/pics/panda.jpg! (html test):

    Who is driving? Oh my God, Bear is driving! How can that be?

    edit: and just to confirm, I did not put carriage
    returns in that first blockquote. those were kindly inserted by the
    site after i pressed submit.

  68. 68.

    Montysano (All Hail Marx &amp; Lennon)

    Testing blockquote

    Testing paragraph

    testing paragraph again

    Testing link

    testing paragraph again

    My computer password here at work is “HTML”, so I feel safe in
    saying “it ain’t working”.

  71. 71.

    Comrade Scrutinizer

    Now I’m going

    to try it in the dreaded IE7

    I hope it’s not a browser problem. Hmmm.I

  72. 72.

    JGabriel

    John Cole, I know you addressed this in an earlier post, but I have
    to add my voice to the bad font brigade. The new font renders
    weird, with uneven kerning – for instance, in “financial” the ‘i’
    is much closer to the ‘c’, rather than being centered between the
    ‘c’ and the ‘a’ – and some of the letters look blotchy, for
    instance, the peak in the middle of the ‘w’ looks bold compared to
    the rest of the letter. .

  74. 74.

    4tehlulz

    The most frustrating part is everything looking fine in Preview but
    not when it actually posts.

  77. 77.

    D. Mason

    This is a test

    This is only a test.

    (edit) I used the blockquote syntax as described and got the
    above results, it seems the text is being re-formatted to include
    a space after the blockquote tag and again after the quoted text,
    I hope this helps.

  79. 79.

    srv

    In IE, you have a vertical scroller inside the pane that’s not
    visible in Opera or Firefox. Never seen anything like that. So get
    rid of these embedded scrollers and let the browser do it.

  81. 81.

    HeartlandLiberal

    In the ‘Thar She Blows…3.0’ post, in the comments, using FireFox
    3.0.3 latest, noscript but trusting the site, at comment 156 and
    below the screen pages disappears completely into a black hole, the
    rest of the page rendered from there down is solid black from side
    to side to the end of the page.

  90. 90.

    Billy K(hrushchev)

    Typical. The new site only costs $800, but it’s an extra $100 if
    you want blockquoting. Should we get a fundraiser going? Any other
    hidden costs, Cole?

  93. 93.

    cyntax

    Everytime I post, I’m sent to this error page (but the post comes
    through):

    Error 403 We’re sorry, but we could not fulfill your request for
    /?p=11572#comment-1054728 on this server. You do not have
    permission to access this server. Your technical support key is:
    62d2-9a34-dfd9-b1ad You can use this key to fix this problem
    yourself. If you are unable to fix the problem yourself, please
    contact jgriffincole at gmail.com and be sure to provide the
    technical support key shown above.

  94. 94.

    Comrade The Moar You Know

    failboat

    John Cole, I know you addressed this in an earlier post, but I
    haveto add my voice to the bad font brigade. The new font renders
    weird, with uneven kerning – for instance, in “financial” the ‘i’
    is much closer to the ‘c’, rather than being centered between the
    ‘c’ and the ‘a’ – and some of the letters look blotchy, for
    instance, the peak in the middle of the ‘w’ looks bold compared
    to the rest of the letter. .

    Not in my browser (Opera 9.52) or in IE7. Try another
    screen resolution.

  97. 97.

    Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse

    John, go ahead and start drinking now. I’m already ahead of you.

    Data point #1: John, as King Sultan Supreme User, seems to get to
    use all the comment area width, while most of us plebes get
    wrapped against our will about 2/3 of the way across. What’s up
    with that?

    Data point #2: In teaching, we don’t call it “user error”. That
    hurts people’s feelings and your end of day assessment scores go
    down. What we do is walk over to their chair, sigh, and say,
    “Gosh, it’s that PEBKAC problem again. Let me help you fix it.”

    (PEBKAC = Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair).

  99. 99.

    Товарищ НеинтереснаяСобака

    Wow, that’s fucked. I can’t fix it in edit, either.

  100. 100.

    greynoldsct00

    I’m not going to even try to quote something, I’m only going to say
    that John dropping f-bombs and thinking we’re nuts is all part of
    the charm of BJ and it’s why we hang out here and take it. I like
    the new site, the fine tuning will take a few days.

  101. 101.

    Comrade Scrutinizer

    Stacy is cheating.

    Cheating, I tell you.

    It doesn’t bother me so much that it doesn’t work,
    it’s that Preview shows me it does. For some reason, that really
    annoys the shit out of me. I do like the upgrade, John. This will
    rock when the kinks get worked out.

  102. 102.

    cyntax

    Well at least there’s still some barrier to entry for posting; for
    awhile there I was starting to miss the WP error messages.

  105. 105.

    Comrade jnfr

    I told you in the last thread that something was inserting hard
    returns, thus causing comment lines to wrap funny.

    Now what I am seeing is that some comments have the hard returns
    and some wrap normally. I do not know why, but it could be
    related to the problems with blockquote.

    Trying some P and BR tags. Let’s see how this does.

  106. 106.

    Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse

    Stacy is Queen Sultan Supreme User, so she gets the nice stuff.
    What are you, some kind of commie?

  110. 110.

    D. Mason

    John Cole, I know you addressed this in an earlier post, but I
    haveto add my voice to the bad font brigade. The new font renders
    weird, with uneven kerning – for instance, in “financial” the ‘i’
    is much closer to the ‘c’, rather than being centered between the
    ‘c’ and the ‘a’ – and some of the letters look blotchy, for
    instance, the peak in the middle of the ‘w’ looks bold compared
    to the rest of the letter. .

    Wow you notice too much shit.

  111. 111.

    TheFountainHead

    Obama just released an iPhone app. Not gonna lie. I yipped a little
    in excitement. Clearly BJ needs an iPhone app to make my geek-life
    complete.

  114. 114.

    Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse

    And Michael is the Jack of Diamonds. Rank hath its privileges.
    We’re plebes. We’re fucked. Get used to it ( at least until Stacy
    beats the bug into submission, which she will by the time I get
    back here, I bet).

  115. 115.

    Comrade The Moar You Know

    “And I apologize for dropping f-bombs and calling you all stupid.
    Even though I really meant it, it was rude.”

    This is the best “apology” ever.

  117. 117.

    Товарищ НеинтереснаяСобака

    Yeeooww! I just turned off font smoothing to see what you people
    were complaining about, and WOW!. That is one ugly font. It looks
    just about perfect with ClearType on, though, so I’m not
    complaining.

  118. 118.

    Test Monkey

    Do monkeys shit in the woods?

    You bet your ass they do and they’re happy to do it, too.

  121. 121.

    Scott H

    I am impressed that John Cole has a base who are more than happy,
    actually completely enthusiastic and overjoyed, to keep banging at
    this thing until his host and designer can get the bugs worked out.
    I am into the merlot +1. Huzzah.

  122. 122.

    Stacy

    Not even going to talk to someone who actually brings up KERNING as it relates to website rendering.

    Because it doesn’t.

  124. 124.

    Comrade Scrutinizer

    Hmm. If I can’t blockquote, can I use it as a rule? ?

    I’m about to
    reach the adult magazine black screen of opacity. Is that going to
    pop up here soon?

  125. 125.

    JGabriel

    The Moar You Know:

    Not in my browser (Opera 9.52)

    Interestingly enough, I’m also using Opera
    9.52.
    …
    Perhaps there’s a font I’m missing and the system is replacing
    it with something fugly. Can anyone tell me in which font text
    should be rendering?
    …
    D.Mason:

    Wow you notice too much shit.

    Yeah, yeah, fuck you too.

  126. 126.

    The Other Steve

    HURRAH! The Page down keys work again!

    Yeeooww! I just turned off font smoothing to see what you people were complaining about, and WOW!. That is one ugly font. It looks just about perfect with ClearType on, though, so I’m not complaining.

    You should see it from my home in Alaska!

  127. 127.

    cyntax

    Quoting without hard breaks:

    We had to get rid of the comment buttons in the comments because that addon just sucked. In place of buttons is a list of things you can do. For example, if you want to block quote something, it should look like this while you are writing it:

    And with:

    We had to get rid of the comment buttons in the comments because that addon just sucked. In place of buttons is a list of things you can do. For example, if you want to block quote something, it should look like this while you are writing it:

  128. 128.

    AkaDad

    …………………………………………………………………………………………

    Stacy, when you’re done fixing blockquotes, can I have a pony?
    …………………………………………………………………………………………

    That’s pretty fucking insensitive. For five and a half years, John McCain couldn’t have a pony.

    Yes, I just made my own blockquote, bitchez.

  131. 131.

    FearItself

    I only got through the first thirty or so posts before I was overcome by the suspicion that the inability to do blockquotes by Balloon Juice commenters is somehow related to the inability to do pass blocking by the Steelers’ offensive line.

    But maybe its just a concidence.

    Did it work? YES! No sack on this snap! Wooohooo!

    Ouch. I think I broke my shoulder cheering.

  132. 132.

    TheFountainHead

    This Obama iPhone app uses the GPS to locate you and suggest nearby Obama campaign events.

    Nifty.

    It also appears to allow you access to their caller database to call voters.

    Uber-Nifty.

  134. 134.

    Scott H

    The font looks good to me. I am using the Safari browser with default encoding set to "Western (ISO Latin 1)" – whether that makes any difference or not.

  135. 135.

    Comrade Bey

    That’s pretty fucking insensitive. For five and a half years, John McCain couldn’t have a pony.

    Yes, I just made my own blockquote, bitchez.

    Nicely done, dad.

  136. 136.

    Billy K(hrushchev)

    …………………………………………………………………………………………
    That’s pretty fucking insensitive. For five and a half years, John McCain couldn’t have a pony.
    …………………………………………………………………………………………

    Well, I’m an élite, and I need a pony for my terrorist arugula farm.

  138. 138.

    Billy K(hrushchev)

    This Obama iPhone app uses the GPS to locate you and suggest nearby Obama campaign events.

    But will it give me hope?

  142. 142.

    CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII

    Does anyone here know how to design a Firefox widget that will insert the tags easily? I used to have one for Kos, which I plan to reinstall on this computer eventually, but the tags are different here.

    Just wondering.

  143. 143.

    cyntax

    I am impressed that John Cole has a base who are more than happy,
    actually completely enthusiastic and overjoyed, to keep banging at
    this thing until his host and designer can get the bugs worked out.

    Well, when you’re rooting for the Dems, you do become habituated to a whole lot of fail, so this is just like warm exercises for reading about what Congress’ latest scheme will be for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory…

  144. 144.

    Comrade The Moar You Know

    JGabriel: I don’t know what font this is supposed to be. You may want to follow a suggestion above and turn on ClearType if you haven’t already. Also, what OS are you running? I get weird rendering issues in Linux sometimes, especially with Opera.

  147. 147.

    Nick

    @Scott H:

    I am impressed that John Cole has a base who are more than happy,
    actually completely enthusiastic and overjoyed, to keep banging at
    this thing until his host and designer can get the bugs worked out.
    I am into the merlot +1. Huzzah.

    Even if he only insults us and then gives us a half-hearted apology when he figures out it isn’t our fault. It is pretty impressive we’re still here.

    At work -1. I’ll need alcohol to make up for the debt…

  148. 148.

    Dennis - SGMM

    Seems like just a few days ago BJ would be randomly non compos mentis, leading to much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Now we’re hearing about kerning.

    I’m beginning to believe that "progress" actually means "the granularity of the bitching has increased significantly."

  149. 149.

    Roonieroo

    Does anybody else get a HTTP Error 403 page whenever they post comments? My comment posts but I have to reopen Balloon-Juice.

    The error I get is:

    Error 403
    We’re sorry, but we could not fulfill your request for /?p=11572#comment-1054795 on this server.

    You do not have permission to access this server.

    Your technical support key is: 1899-cbf3-dfd9-b1ad

    You can use this key to fix this problem yourself.

    If you are unable to fix the problem yourself, please contact jgriffincole at gmail.com and be sure to provide the technical support key shown above.

  152. 152.

    Kevin

    I think the Obama App just locked up my iPhone.Less than nifty.

    I was going to try that out, but now you have scared me off.

  153. 153.

    Billy K(hrushchev)

    Safari keeps giving me a "Slow Script" alert if this means anything to anybody.

    It means Michael Bay is never going to option your boring screenplay.

  156. 156.

    Comrade Bey

    Again with the un-privileged testing

    GET OUT!

    That felt good. For some reason, I suddenly want a cigarette…..

  157. 157.

    TheFountainHead

    It didn’t actually lock up my iPhone, it just took a long time to load a page. It’s working smooth now. It’s actually the prettiest iPhone app I’ve ever seen. I could see it being very useful for canvassers.
     
    Heh. It sorts your contacts by battleground states so that you can call them to be sure they’re registered to vote. Brilliant.

  158. 158.

    AkaDad

    ……………………………………………………………………………………..

    Nicely done, dad.
    ………………………………………………………………………………………

    Thanks, comrade.

  159. 159.

    Marshall

    The design is fine, but the progressive shading at the top of the page as it loads looks very similar to the progressive shading beginning at the top that signifies a Mac OS X kernel panic. Twice now I have loaded BJ and had a moment of kernel panic panic. Some, of course, might regard this as a feature.

  160. 160.

    jake

    This is the funniest post evar. John reminds me of the dad on a cross country trip. The kids are either fighting and crying or making fart noises and laughing like helium sucking hyenas. Though he tries to concentrate on the road he keeps flipping out because they Won’t. Shut. Up.

  161. 161.

    JGabriel

    The Moar You Know:

    You may want to follow a suggestion above and turn on ClearType if you haven’t already. Also, what OS are you running?

    XP.

    I may have to turn on Clear Type, though I’ve gone w/o it for 6 years and really hate to turn it on now. It makes most fonts look blurry, to me anyway.

    Maybe Annette or Stacy (hint hint) can chime in with what the default font is supposed to be?

    .

  162. 162.

    cleek

    i repeat myself when under stress

    i repeat myself when under stress

    i repeat myself when under stress

    i repeat myself when under stress

    i repeat myself when under stress

    i repeat

    the more i look at it, the more i like it.

    i do think it’s good.

    i wish you were here to see it.

  163. 163.

    cyntax

    Dennis – SGMM
    I’m beginning to believe that "progress" actually means "the granularity of the bitching has increased significantly."

    WIN!

  165. 165.

    Michael D.

    Stacy:

    A couple of things I am noticing.

    1. I can’t use the Page Up/Down keys to scroll through the site. I can’t use the arrow keys either.

    2. Whenever I leave a comment, it takes me to an error page – although the comment does post.

    3. Whenever I come to the site or refresh, it seems to lock up for about 15 seconds and I can’t do anything.

    I am using IE 6.0.2900

  166. 166.

    Billy K(hrushchev)

    Twice now I have loaded BJ and had a moment of kernel panic panic. Some, of course, might regard this as a feature.

    I noticed that, as well. And yes, we Mac élitists even have delightful BSODs. (I got one yesterday at work – first one in a couple years.)

  167. 167.

    jake

    Does anybody else get a HTTP Error 403 page whenever they post comments? My comment posts but I have to reopen Balloon-Juice.

    Yep, every time. But if you hit Back your post is there. Allegedly it is because the spam filter caught malicious crap from your IP address. I think John put it in there to remind us he can bring back WPE if we act up.

  168. 168.

    cyntax

    @Roonieroo-October 2nd, 2008 at 12:54 pm

    Yep, getting Error 403 evertyime (using IE 6.0); emailed it up the chain.

  170. 170.

    Polish the Guillotines

    The frackin’ Black Wall of Censorship is still in full effect with FireFox (2.x).

    It seems to kick in just after comment #162 on any thread that runs longer than 162 comments.

    Please, please Annette & Stacy: Save me from having to use IE7! I beg of you!

  172. 172.

    Comrade The Moar You Know

    JGabriel: ClearType’s "blurriness" is somewhat monitor-dependent, worse on some than others. Try it for testing purposes, you certainly don’t have to leave it on.

    You’ll be happy to know that when you are eventually forced to "upgrade" to Vista, Vista’s version of ClearType is much, much better.

    I’m probably the only person on the planet with a fully working, no problems whatsoever Vista install. I have dealt with enough Vista installations that didn’t work properly (or at all) to say that I could not in good conscience recommend it for anyone. But mine, for some weird reason, is awesome.

  173. 173.

    Kevin

    With Firefox 3 the page goes black after 151 comments, but works in IE 7.

    Also works with Google Chrome.

  174. 174.

    SGEW

    It’s been said earlier, but I shall second it.

    BEST. THREAD. EVER.

    I’m never going to get any work done at this rate.

  175. 175.

    Billy K(hrushchev)

    Please, please Annette & Stacy: Save me from having to use IE7! I beg of you!

    Annette & Stacy….Annette & Stacy…. weren’t they the two keyboard players for Prince in the Purple Rain days?

  176. 176.

    cyntax

    Billy K(hrushchev)

    I am using IE 6.0.2900

    There’s your problem.

    Meh, looks like I’m missing out on the Wall o’Censorship, so I’ll call it a push.

  177. 177.

    Comrade Scrutinizer

    I’m now getting the

    dreaded black screen

    on FF3 after comment 162.

    Don’t make me use this piece of MS crap, Please!

  178. 178.

    Billy K(hrushchev)

    Also works with Google Chrome.

    Chrome & Safari = Webkit
    Internet Exploder = WTF MS BBQ?
    Firefox = Gecko

    Hmmmm…..

  182. 182.

    Polish the Guillotines

    "ClearType’s "blurriness" is somewhat monitor-dependent, worse on some than others. Try it for testing purposes, you certainly don’t have to leave it on. "

    Try using the ClearType tuner. You can do it online or download and install it. If you do it online, you’ll need to use IE.

  183. 183.

    JGabriel

    Moar: Yep, Clear Type makes the site look much better, readable even – except for the blurriness/blotchiness that’s inherent to Clear Type itself.

    Frankly, it’s pretty annoying that one has to turn on Clear Type for the page to render correctly.

    John Cole, please change the font to something that renders correctly without requiring Clear Type. Please? That really shouldn’t be a requirement.

    Anyway, glad to hear Vista is working out for you, Moar. I’ll probably switch to Linux rather than do the forced upgrade, but we’ll see.

    .

  184. 184.

    TheFountainHead

    Man, I hope I get to blockquote again by tonight, I suspect there will be some funny-ass quotes to mock this evening.

  185. 185.

    cyntax

    AkaDadThe paig okazunally freezes up in IE 7 and I have no spel chek.

    Yeah you say it’s lack of spell check but that looks a lot like being +4/5.

    I’m not saying, I’m just saying.

    If it walks like a duck…

  186. 186.

    Billy K(hrushchev)

    Man, I hope I get to blockquote again by tonight, I suspect there will be some funny-ass quotes to mock this evening.

    Blockquoting is fun.

  188. 188.

    JGabriel

    Polish the Guillotines:

    Try using the Clear Type tuner.

    Thanks, I’ll try that. But I still object to throwing away processor cycles on Clear Type.

    Irritating, that is.

    .

  194. 194.

    SGEW

    Our childrens can learn!

    I is in a box! I special!

    Yay!

    Now Mr. Cole maybe not yell at me! Or skull fuck a kitten!

  195. 195.

    Billy K(hrushchev)

    Now Mr. Cole maybe not yell at me! Or skull fuck a kitten!

    Don’t get your hopes up…

  198. 198.

    Polish the Guillotines

    Thanks, I’ll try that. But I still object to throwing away processor cycles on Clear Type.

    Yet you’re 188 comments into a thread about web design. Isn’t that throwing away life cycles? Why do hate America?

  199. 199.

    tripletee (formerly tBone)

    @JGabriel: The default comments text is Lucida Sans. Yes, it looks like ass without Cleartype enabled. Sack up and deal with it.

    @The FountainHead: the Obama iPhone app is really slick (no lockups for me thus far). I don’t know who handles the campaign’s web presence, but they’re pretty amazing. Even though they didn’t invent the Blackberry.

    Annette & Stacy….Annette & Stacy…. weren’t they the two keyboard players for Prince in the Purple Rain days?

    Fun fact: Wendy & Lisa currently do the music for "Heroes."

  200. 200.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    Now I’m going to be late for work, but this thread was so worth it. I’ll miss the debate, but can’t wait to get home to see what you crazies have to say about it, blockquotes or not.

  201. 201.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    The B-J experience. Come for the snark, stay for the abuse.

    The story of my life.

  202. 202.

    Jen R

    Oh my God, this thread is making my day.

    I took a drink just before reading #51 and almost choked to death.

  203. 203.

    Xanthippas

    This is possibly one of the greatest threads in the history of Balloon Juice (or at least since I’ve been coming around. I don’t even know how to describe it…it’s like a sitcom where the kids pick on the beloved uncle with a legendarily short fuse, who then flies off the handle to the amusement of the family and audience alike.

  204. 204.

    Xanthippas

    Never mind, Jake at 160 has a better analogy. Also, I just fucked up a blockquote in a newer thread, so I’m really glad I wasn’t around to test this earlier this afternoon.

  205. 205.

    littlesky

    This is possibly one of the greatest threads in the history of Balloon Juice (or at least since I’ve been coming around. I don’t even know how to describe it…

    preview says it’s all good, but I hear preview is a damn liar…

    edit: it eated my picture. oh well…

  206. 206.

    MelodyMaker

    Whoah! this blinking cursor indicator goes to China!
    (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.16 (Ubuntu-feisty))
    My real comment was going to be about readability. At work I keep a reely skinny little browser box so the prying eyes… That’s been working for me with Digby and WaMo and even TPM, but reading BJ posts is now a few words per line. Now I go back and read some comments.

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