As for general recommendations, I’d second the following: numbered comments, a time-stamp for your original posts, & a “Blogs” link in the row of orange links just below the Discover logo at the top.

I like the color scheme fine, and the font size doesn’t much bother me either. My favorite new thing are the Doctor Who ringtone ads, since there’s more David Tennant in my day that way.

Larissa

So the next time you see an astrology ad here, pat yourself on the back for “taking one for the team” and protecting more innocent eyes.

Anyhow, as I said in a prior post, I’m not gonna complain much about the new site layout as I know you’re still tweaking it, but things I’d like to see: change the font… it’s tough to read… I liked the alternating background greyscale for every other post on your old site. I like the green border around your posts… I think we often like to be able, when someone addresses you with a question, to scan down quickly for your response and pick it out. Also makes sure that we know the name isn’t being spoofed by some loser. I’d like to see the return of the blog-roll… lots of good sites there that I don’t have links to. And lastly, as always, either an edit, preview, or spellcheck function or some combination of them, cuz some of us (ahem) can’t spell worth a lick, especially when we are “angry typing”…

Even minus any of these things… still love the place, Phil.

Please feel free to read outrageousfortune’s comments above, and remember why we must never rest when fighting antiscience.

I love how these guys seem to think I am some sort of NASA agent. Do they actually read what I say about NASA? Or are they so paranoid they think my railing against NASA is some sort of confusion ploy?

Anyway, this is all off topic. If you have any specific comments on the blog, please leave them here. Thanks.

His prey is money and fame, and he gets it by using tools such as disinformation to win over the minds of people who cannot or will not look any farther into an issue than what they get told by someone with some fancy sounding letters after his name and a spot on national TV.

He’s not even innovative in his approach. Christianity has been using the same approach for years. Hoagland just borrows some of their methods for personal gain. To some degree, you have to respect the cojones he must have. I don’t think he’s stupid enough to believe his own crap, but spewing the crap is lucrative, and he knows which side his bread is buttered.

The ads are a bit disconcerting, though. Not the fact that there are ads. We all understand the economics of the internet. If everyone used Adblock eventually there would be little or know free-to-me content on the web – someone has to pay for the bandwidth so it’s either you or me. But whenever I see the GoogleSense ads appear on the sidebar I can be sure that there will be some sort of pseudoscience or antiscience link displayed there. I’m not sure when or how GoogleSense ads decide to appear but I know you are not personnaly responsible for selecting these ads. It is a bit disconcerting nonetheless considering the content of your Blog.

Keep up the fine work.

Just writing to ask if in this new form you’re also going to post the allegations presented earlier?

Quote: “Does NASA hide anything? No.” End of quote.

Please let me congratulate you to your omniscience. Could I reserve a seat on your next trip to Mars? You must have been there countless times.

Had I not read your blog I would have continued to think that the skulls scattered in the Mars Rover images were real, helmets, bullet holes and all. Thanks to you I discarded the notion as silly, the skull-looking rocks with the teeth-looking pebbles in them are about three feet from the rover’s camera so one cannot be sure anyway. Please proceed to enlighten us as to what NASA allows us to see in their solar system, Master.

As to your desperate endeavors to “debunk” Richard C. Hoagland let me tell you that it is not enough to apply what you learned at NASA’s Disinfo Crash Course, i.e. to play stupid, use country-bumpkin vernacular and pretend not to understand math. There are lots of similar trolls on ATS. If you don’t understand math have it explained to you, but, seemingly, this undertaking would be a waste of bandwidth when applied to someone who simply may not understand such things ’cause NASA says so.

Before getting up the nerve to, again, call Richard a disinfo agent, you’d better think about it twice. To assert that NASA images are not tampered with may perhaps sit well in the visually impaired community but, hey, take a look yourself for a change. Rocks hovering two inches above the ground, mismatched shadows, missing shadows, lousy paint jobs, virtual sand dunes, rocks, shadows, black splotches, white splotches …. . You do not need to be a graphics expert to see these effects of NASA’s obfuscating software.

Just look how many disinfo operatives they pay with your taxes, which in your opinion is perhaps an acceptable way to get some of your money back.

In a community where people are simply searching for the truth behind all the lies put out by the government, you do not fit in. But since you already know everything you can still be a scientist. You know, scientists at one time used to be people interested in learning new things. This no longer applies, today your brand of scientist helps the government in the war against its own people.

I feel sorry for you. But as long as you are alive, there is hope.

Sincerely, Karl

PS: Lets not forget to get some groceries and a couple of six-packs with your NASA paycheck before going to Mars.

I imagine you can barely focus! Ar ar.

BigBob

BTW, I can’t believe there are still people who do not use Firefox with Adblock.

Does this apply to comments, too? If so, I think we have a challenge: let’s see just how wacky we can make the ads by our choice of words.