Comments on: Some blog moving notes

By: mln84

mln84 — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:34:57 +0000

Hi,

On the old blog, external links opened in new tabs/windows, now they don’t. If you can still do it, I liked the old way better.

Congrats on the move,
Malcolm

By: moving and storage company

moving and storage company — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:37:28 +0000

A lot of positive comments!
good luck

By: Melusine

Melusine — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:22:54 +0000

It’s not bad – glad you’re happy! I would agree with JanieBelle about missing the non-generic spacey title at the top. There is something cold about this one. Also, the font being smaller and the style of font in the comment section is not as comfortable on the eyes.

As far as the blogroll, it was what led me to those sites, and say, with Jennifer’s Twisted Physics site, she has a very large science-related blogroll. Since it wasn’t a large blogroll I took it to mean ‘highly recommended’, and in fact each was a different style of communicating science or skepticism.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:32:55 +0000

First of all… Congrats!!!
Second of all… I love that it is on discovermagazine.com. I read all your stuff and then I can read a bunch of other cool stuff!! I am not sure why I never went to discovermagazine.com before, I love the magazine… Two great things on one site!!! (and many more as I will Discover)

By: Guillermo Abramson

Guillermo Abramson — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:22:38 +0000

Phil, congratulations on your move. I see that you mention font and layout, and I wish to let you know the first things I noticed, which you may consider when “tweaking”: 1. The left margin is so narrow, that the letters actually touch the border of the window (or the screen, if maximized). I have seen this with 3 browsers in XP (IE, Firefox, Opera). 2. The font is, I believe, harder to read than the one at your other host.

Anyway, the content is what matters, so I will stay.

Keep up.

Guillermo

By: StevoR

StevoR — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:06:47 +0000

Not meaning to hijack the thread or anything …
Sorry if it seems that way.

I just really think this idea is worth considering & want to get it out there.

By: StevoR

StevoR — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:58:30 +0000

Oh yes, I know there’s that silly traditional mumbo-jumbo about the then tentribes of wanderers being the “Chosen people” (cough, BS, cough, cough!) with somebody elses land being promised to them by their stone age tribal god … but well, come on, the jewish peopel have been Europeans in geographical residence and culture since about 70 AD.

The land of Palestine does actually belong to the Palestineans and if we’d set aside the guilt over the Shoah for a second we’d see that and accept their right totheir own country in a nano-second!

(Shoah = the Nazi Holocaust – which incidentally was not just about the Jews and nor, in reality, was it the worst holocaust ever – Stalin and Mao killed far more and the Europeans killed most during colonialism when it comes to these sort of ugly atrocities ..)

Like I said, why not have a win-win scenario and shift Israel away from where it doesn’t belong, back somewhere where it does?