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Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:12 +0000

[...] καλύτερα πολυμετοχικά μπλογκς στο χώρο της φυσικής, το Cosmic Variance, γλίστρησε εν μία νυκτί στην μοχθηρή άβυσσο της [...]

By: Philip Downey

Philip Downey — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:56:34 +0000

A third for getting the author’s name at the top of the post.

By: mk

mk — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:10:36 +0000

Aesthetics matter.

By: Lab Lemming

Lab Lemming — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:34:14 +0000

Woo-hoo!

By: Lab Lemming

Lab Lemming — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:33:51 +0000

$latex D=N(e^{\lambda t}-1)$

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:34:44 +0000

Lab Lemming, we've uncovered the problem with LaTeX. The procedure is no longer to begin with [tex] and end with [/tex]; it's to begin with $latex and end with $. So $latex y = e^x $ becomes $latex y = e^x $.

By: tyler

tyler — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:26:11 +0000

oh, I can’t use adblock, I work in a highly technical web development environment and Adblock borks some things in strange ways. But, I don’t care.

By: tyler

tyler — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:25:05 +0000

Discovery: fine (I, for one, welcome our new corporate overlords)

ads: fine (its how things work now)

new design: unspeakably bad

For shame on that last part. Seriously; the old CV was distinctive. This look, to put it in plain internet speak, sucks.

A lot.

You should change it.

By: chemicalscum

chemicalscum — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:05:13 +0000

Miss the CMB but its not the end of the Universe. Oh it has advertisements, I never noticed, I thought everyone used Adblock.

Well as long as the RSS feed keeps working I’m happy.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:25:57 +0000

I can only agree with previous commenters with regards to the color scheme and post author’s name, although i’m sure we’ll all get used to it regardless…

Also thanks for the tip boreds – adblock plus works like a charm.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:44:58 +0000

I’ll pile on with the others and request that the post author’s name goes at the top with the title. Otherwise, I wish you all happiness in your diggs.

By: onymous

onymous — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:41:53 +0000

Also: in Firefox on Mac OS X, if I don’t have my browser window sized to fill almost the whole screen (1024×768), the text is being displayed right up against the left edge of the browser window. A few spare pixels there would be nice. (This could be a browser rendering issue, but I suspect it’s something poorly designed about the page.)

By: onymous

onymous — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:39:35 +0000

Can you get your new Discover overlords to add a “Posted by: ” line at the top of the post, so we don’t have to look at the end to know who we’re reading?

By: Arun

Arun — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:25:28 +0000

Congratulations! I hope this move marks the beginning of a public revival of interest in science and technology.

Discover editorial staff:
For the record, our editorial staff is run by Satan himself, and our servers are powered by burning sacrificial animals.

You really, really need a technology upgrade and a new boss.

By: Sili

Sili — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:32:20 +0000

Cosmic Variance is dead! Long live Cosmic Variance!

(The Cosmos hath given, the Cosmos hath taken away. Blessed be the variance of the Cosmos.)

By: miller

miller — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:01:04 +0000

I’d like to second the complaints that the author is not listed at the top of posts.

By: Ben Lacy

Ben Lacy — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:59:54 +0000

Nice! One of my favorite blogs, now under the umbrella of one of my favorite magazines! Congrats guys.

By: Chuck White

Chuck White — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:28:18 +0000

Sean and Amos,

Your comments regarding (non) censorship are hilarious, greatly appreciated and reassuring.

Since I’m not a scientist, so my “contributions” are few and probably superfluous. Nonetheless, I enjoy CV quite a lot.

Amos, c’mon … let CV have a css file that changes the look a little … you know you can. It’s the WHITE! In spite of my name … it’s the WHITE!

By: Pieter Kok

Pieter Kok — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:14:02 +0000

I’ve resigned to the fact that it has happened, and I know from Bad Astronomy that the original design is gone, never to return…

Having said that, I hope you can still have the author of the blog displayed near the title. Not that I skip contributions by certain individuals, I just like to know whose post I am reading. Another feature I would like to see is a search facility within this blog. Bad Astronomy has it, so it is possible (and probably already on your to-do list).

By: Roman

Roman — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:41:57 +0000

Well, I’ve clicked on ad for Nova. My first clicked web ad ever.