A Bright Day :)

[The Beatles]

I went to my favorite morning-fix site, slashdot.org, this morning. What gives? It looks like utter... horribleness!

Compare the old:
http://students.washington.edu/jbarbero/sd-old.png
http://students.washington.edu/jbarbero/sd-new.png

Tragic! I tried a graphical browser, and it looked... presentable, although obviously there are some kinks they haven't worked out yet; i.e. the new (CSS) version is still a bit inferior to the old (HTML) version.
On Elinks, I have to scroll down about 4 pages before I see articles, and those are uglier than before too.

~Beatles

[The Beatles]

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   Posted by Zonk on Tuesday September 20, @07:42PM
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   tabdelgawad writes "The New York Times offers this excellent and entertaining writeup on cursing and its role in recent studies of the brain. The article discusses the
   universality of cursing across time, space, and culture, its varied roles, from linguistic evolution to anger management, and its uses in recent brain research. You can
   also read all about the sexual effects of uttering obscenities and the swearing habits of sorority women." From the article: "Researchers point out that cursing is
   often an amalgam of raw, spontaneous feeling and targeted, gimlet-eyed cunning. When one person curses at another, they say, the curser rarely spews obscenities and
   insults at random, but rather will assess the object of his wrath, and adjust the content of the 'uncontrollable' outburst accordingly." As someone who plays a lot of
   MMOGs, in my experience this is only mostly true.

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[windhound]

=-P

that'll teach you to use text-based browers

[Philip]

=-P

that'll teach you to use text-based browers

I've been waiting for you.

[windhound]

...creepy philip... creepy...

go antisocial now

[Devari]

Doesn't elinks have dodgy standards support above HTML 3?

[The Beatles]

I don't think so. The problem is CSS.