Testing

It works great, Charles. Good Job.

You ROCK!

*refresh*

looks good.

What ammunition should we use when reloading?

Let's give it a try!

Charles never rests, so we can.

I see it works!

Yes!

Works great.

How many more small improvements before LGF can post my comment before I even think it? :-)

This is a test.

Looks pretty good!

The new comment system is so sophisticated, it previews comments I haven't even made yet, to posst that have yet to be written.

LGF is truly ahead of its time.

This is stupendously excellent.

Testing 123

Works great!

I still haven't even re-trained myself to not REFRESH each time I want to see new comments :-)

Charles,

What about the "cancel" button?

re: #8 nihilist

How many more small improvements before LGF can post my comment before I even think it? :-)

Remove the cord from the back of your keyboard and jam it in your ear. (I tried it - didn't work - might work for a nihilist, though)

Wow, the new feature even comes complete with transmogrification! Sweet!

Charles, you should donate your time to help the Islamic Rage Boy on his computer etiquette.

Spell check and preview. Both work great.

re: #16 ronaldusmagnus

re: #8 nihilist

How many more small improvements before LGF can post my comment before I even think it? :-)

Remove the cord from the back of your keyboard and jam it in your ear. (I tried it - didn't work - might work for a nihilist, though)

Already tried

Folks, what do you think of this suggestion:

Make the previewed text appear ABOVE the preview box, so that it's visible basically instantaneously without having to scroll down to see it.

Would this idea be an improvement, or just pointless fiddling?

It's sweeet.

re: #20 zombie

Improvement methinks!

re: #20 zombie

Folks, what do you think of this suggestion:Make the previewed text appear ABOVE the preview box, so that it's visible basically instantaneously without having to scroll down to see it.Would this idea be an improvement, or just pointless fiddling?

we must not be oppressed by the fascist scrollbar!

re: #20 zombie

Folks, what do you think of this suggestion:Make the previewed text appear ABOVE the preview box, so that it's visible basically instantaneously without having to scroll down to see it.Would this idea be an improvement, or just pointless fiddling?

Tried that -- but it pushes the form down and that's kind of annoying if you're working on a comment.

This is a test, its only a test.

I wonder how the Kos re-do based on Rosy Palms Ruby on Rails is coming?

re: #20 zombie

I don't find scrolling to be a problem. It's easy enough.

OT
I don't know if this is a nationwide phenomenon, but driving around the freeways of metro Detroit, I've come across three hand made Ron Paul signs on overpasses. Two of them say, "Who is Ron Paul?" The third one was something about Ron Paul saving the United States.

re: #20 zombie

Its never pointless to make suggestions. Thinking OUT of the Box is really fun. But, I ask, is it harder for Mr J to recode or for us to move our mouses (meeces?)

Got any new photo essays up?

re: #20 zombie

Folks, what do you think of this suggestion:
Make the previewed text appear ABOVE the preview box, so that it's visible basically instantaneously without having to scroll down to see it.
Would this idea be an improvement, or just pointless fiddling?

Isn't that along the lines of too lazy to get up from the couch to change the channel?

Pretty quiet on the terror front today. I question the timing.

/

#8 nihilist
How many more small improvements before LGF can post my comment before I even think it? :-)

Tech nerds at Stanford have already succeeded in doing that -- remotely picked up brainwaves and used them to control a computer cursor. First they started with wires from the head to the computer, then went wireless.

You gotta be no more than about 2 feet from the computer for it to work, though.

Still in beta testing. (Deisgned for disabled people and -- most importantly -- military pilots.)

Charles,

can you provide a button that would instantly turn LGF into an excel spreadsheet so it looks like I'm working when the boss comes around the corner?

thanks,

coz

re: #34 coz

LOL

Charles *is* the Master!

Dude, you rock like a canyon!
Roll like a biscuit!
Smokin' like a pickle!

/eat your heart out, tfk

re: #31 allah this

Pretty quiet on the terror front today. I question the timing./

I also find it disturbing that this occurs while John Edwards is off duty getting a haircut, when America has its guard down...hmmm

re: #33 zombie

You gotta be no more than about 2 feet from the computer for it to work, though.

That's quite often my actual natural range.

re: #34 coz

Excel, Peach, it would be great for me

Oh! Thank you, Charles --I keep forgetting to put ajax on my shopping list, and I am nearly out of it... :)

that formats, filters, and transmogrifies the comment

As long as it doesn't transubstantiate it. I always had "issues" with that.

re: #24 Charles
Tried that -- but it pushes the form down and that's kind of annoying if you're working on a comment.

Ah, that's true -- especially when writing a long comment. It wouldn't push it much down with a short comment -- but then again, with a short comment, not much scrolling would be necessary either.

It's a wash. Leave the design as it stands!

Can't improve on perfection.

You have already read this.

well WELL that fixes my little complaint about the old way!

re: #37 nihilist

I also find it disturbing that this occurs while John Edwards is off duty getting a haircut, when America has its guard down...hmmm

but silky pony didn't know the haircut cost $1,200, that's sort of like not inhaling, isn't it?

/need I?

Stinky thanks you, the hamsters thank me, and I thank myself for coding it.

Charles, did you pat yourself on the back? Because it's cool.

Teasing...

Testing...

re: #34 coz

Charles,
can you provide a button that would instantly turn LGF into an excel spreadsheet so it looks like I'm working when the boss comes around the corner?
thanks,
coz

You mean like the Boss Button on Click and Clack's Car Talk site?

Wow I am message 46, the earliest one I ever posted!

Err on the topic I got nothing.

Testing...this has made be change my mind about my new career..I am not going to be an astronaut after all!
I couldn't preview at all, by cleaning my cache, I had to sign in again! Duh!

Uh, never ...preview is too high for me to see! :)

re: #28 sonofsheldon

Where!?!?!
I want pictures, and have NOT seen.
Then again, I'm usally not looking at signage, as I know where I'm going, but busy keeping the shiny side up and the Round sides down.

Doe, a deer, a female deer.

Ajax rocks...Thanks Madge.

/...60s TV ad paraphrase/ripoff

We need a good car swarm today.

Charles, for someone who's looking to get into a bit of web develpment, what books would you recommend as a start in terms creating a dynamic website such as this lovely one you have here.

BTW, comment preview works great!

Hm not even message 46..

re: #37 nihilist

I also find it disturbing that this occurs while John Edwards is off duty getting a haircut, when America has its guard down...hmmm

Also, how can the contents of a 4" x 6" editing box magically appear in 2" high preview window? Where's the debris? There should be pixel fragments all over my screen!

The plot thickens.

Hmm, let's try this out...

Spiffy!

Charles I demand assurances that you are raising the hamster's pay in accordance with these wonderful improvements!

re: #52 Ackomanyuki

Ajax rocks...Thanks Madge.
/...60s TV ad paraphrase/ripoff

I thought Madge was the Palmolive diswashing liquid lady.

/you're soaking in it

/madge!

rage boy this is a good feature

Charles, is the following overly demanding and unnecessary time-saver possible to code in Ajax (or anything else):

Allow formatting of text in the comment box to mimic the capabilities of a word-processing document, specifically:

Highlight a word, and click "command-I" to make it italic, "command-B" to make it bold, "command-apostrophe" to make it quoted, and so on? (Not sure what the 'command" key is called on a Windows keyboard, but you get the gist).

In other words, allow keyboard shortcuts to format comments, as opposed to the formatting links above the box, or doing it by hand?

If it's a big hassle, don't bother, but if it's simple and easy -- well, let the public vote. Folks, what do you think of such a suggestion?

I can't see upside down, damn it!

Hmph! The best commenting/previewing implementation ever seen on the Internet's all well and good, as far as it goes, but...

...the [beer] and [pizza] buttons still don't work!

Very clever - like Drudge. When we reload does your counter increment?

You'd be amazed at how much processing has to take place when a comment is posted--just to make sure it doesn't have any bad HTML code, bad words, too-long words, annoying repetitions, 'first!' posts, bad karma, etc. etc.

re: #49 NY Nana

My sons have a water purifier for camping, that they say can do that...I pressed them so much that they finally admitted they had no intentions of trying it...heehee :)

re: #65 Charles

You'd be amazed at how much processing has to take place when a comment is posted--just to make sure it doesn't have any bad HTML code, bad words, too-long words, annoying repetitions, 'first!' posts, bad karma, etc. etc.

Karma filtering? That's me stuffed then.

I thought we could use bad words here if we wanted?

Shit!

re: #65 Charles
can I question the timing?

re: #61 zombie

It's a 'Control' key (or Crtl, fo rshort) and I think it's a lovely idea, if it works. Not sure it would be paltform neutral, tho.
Again, thighlight and click is not a big deal

PIMF!

But the typo was just TOO funny...

And not one change has upset the feel or usability of the site. Really cool.

I ululate with admiration.

re: #65 Charles

annoying repetitions, 'first!' posts, bad karma,

You are hereby being reported to the Department of Redundancy Department.

re: #65 Charles

Will the Ajax help that when you're done Ajaxifying the comments?

Stronger than dirt!

/can't help myself.

re: #68 Aladin Sane

that's not one of the 'bad' words...
try " " instead...

/no actual 'bad' words were harmed in this comment...

I like angry beavers

re: #68 Aladin Sane

Sorry to say, after all your help the other day (and those many others that tried to help me) Charles threw that single window feature, well, out the window. Pfft, gone. Thanks again. Now if you could just help me with all these "question marks" (perhaps instead of commas and >>) that keep showing up (got 4 MS updates and that is when it started) in inappropriate places, I'd be in heaven.

Bad karma test!

re: #72 Dom

And not one change has upset the feel or usability of the site. Really cool.

And that is what had me scared, this past weekend...I am, however, pleasantly, gratefully edified. :)

re: #77 Cattt

Stronger than dirt!/can't help myself.

You'll stop paying that keystroke tax .../me neither.

Much faster!

Very cool!

80 TimeQuake

Now if you could just help me with all these "question marks" (perhaps instead of commas and >>) that keep showing up (got 4 MS updates and that is when it started) in inappropriate places, I'd be in heaven.

I'm not sure what you're referring to. Can you tell me a little bit more about what's going on?

Bad karma not allowed.

Bad juju is encouraged, however. :-)

(storagemanager, are you around at all... :)

re: #65 Charles

You'd be amazed at how much processing has to take place when a comment is posted--just to make sure it doesn't have any bad HTML code, bad words, too-long words, annoying repetitions, 'first!' posts, bad karma, etc. etc.

Can you program something that would make me sound intelligent?

re: #75 savage_nation

This site is getting as close to magic as anything I have ever seen...

Tell me about it.

I think the final step to Total Magic^TM will happen when Charles makes the posting of comments be Ajaxified -- i.e. the page would not even have to refresh when a new comment is posted.

I don't even know if that's technically possible. But what a dream it would be!

Reload the page and there are now keyboard equivalents for the formatting links.

On the Mac you hold the Control key while typing the key (not command).

Strike: -
Bold: b
Italic: i
Quote: '
Link: l (that's an L, not a one)

re: #81 EC Marm

egad, man...WARN before you do that.

re: #34 coz

Charles,

can you provide a button that would instantly turn LGF into an excel spreadsheet so it looks like I'm working when the boss comes around the corner?

thanks,

coz

ya know coz, there is something close to what you seek (one key stroke, I think). I will find it - may take some time - I'll be back
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Wow! This is too cool - of course I sat here waiting for the preview to open ...then I remembered.
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Is it possible LGF "is not" in the spell check dict? It ain't. But ain't is.

Hmmm let's see this work. Not bad.

re: #90 Charles

Reload the page and there are now keyboard equivalents for the formatting links.
On the Mac you hold the Control key while typing the key (not command).
Strike: -Bold: bItalic: iQuote: 'Link: l (that's an L, not a one)

w o w

Charles stop!

It's too early for euphoria!

Just when I thought the idiot libs in Bezerkeley couldn't get any stupider, I read the following in the Chicago Sun-Times...

Thomas Jefferson Elementary School in Berkeley, Calif., is now Sequoia Elementary School because Jefferson owned slaves and his name "is offensive to a significant part of the population."

Preview

purview
previous
purvious

perverted

preverted but also previewed

and a link.

re: #90 Charles

On the Mac you hold the Control key while typing the key (not command).

Sheesh, now I gotta buy a MacIntosh...

Another great feature, thanks Charles

Ok, let's see...

Cool?

Yes, but the Quote box doesn't work anymore.

: - ((

Testing the preview.

Testing a quote

.

More testing

So have the wacky font sizes and colors been disabled now?

re: #85 Aladin Sane

They appear on my ISP home page ONLY when I turn on Firefox. Does not seem to happen in EI7, which I don't care for.

For example, instead of >>Title of whatever, it will appear ?Title.

And even here, in the posted comments (seems when someone copies and pastes from another source), there are question marks instead of commas, e.g, "they're" shows up as "they?re".

Weird.

I'm testing out what happens when the "new comments" button is pressed AFTER one has previewed.

Holy cow, it works!

That is the best part of the new feature!

My jaw is on the floor with admiration.

One can check for new comments immediately before posting one's one comment.

Muy excelente! ! ! !

re: #65 Charles

You'd be amazed at how much processing has to take place when a comment is posted--just to make sure it doesn't have any bad HTML code, bad words, too-long words, annoying repetitions, 'first!' posts, bad karma, etc. etc.

Thank you, Charles -- I know there's a lot of work involved for every change you make, and you've made so many lately.

I have questions, though:
"too-long words"-- um, how many syllables are we limited to?
"annoying repetitions" -- is that like grammar checking?

whoa! Building a better mouse trap. Reminds me of videosift's comment feature, but this is better...and less liberal tripe.

re: #90 Charles
Dude!
We are SO not worthy.
Well, Zombie, and Zulu, and Baba, and Fist, and those guys, but us piddlings?

This is all just too three cool!

OK

I am trying this out.

TEST TEST TESTES

CHARLES AKBAR!
ULULULULU!

re: #92 unrealizedviewpoint

Just have the spreadsheet up in another window!

Actually, I had a cool game once, back in the MS-DOS days, that let me turn a spreadsheet into a Space Invaders game.

Just one key click and I was back at work. Too bad it was my company, though.

re: #103 zombie

Hmmm I will have to try that.
That is very interesting.

re: #90 Charles

Reload the page and there are now keyboard equivalents for the formatting links.

On the Mac you hold the Control key while typing the key (not command).

Strike: -
Bold: b
Italic: i
Quote: '
Link: l (that's an L, not a one)

If this works, I'm going to faint.

Here we go --

giving

it a try!

/Falls on floor. Le petit mort!

re: #65 Charles

You'd be amazed at how much processing has to take place when a comment is posted--just to make sure it doesn't have any bad HTML code, bad words, too-long words, annoying repetitions, 'first!' posts, bad karma, etc. etc.

Wow! You've actually programmed in the avoidance of bad karma? You've ascended to truly immortal realms!

re: #66 Ma Sands

re: #49 NY Nana
My sons have a water purifier for camping, that they say can do that...I pressed them so much that they finally admitted they had no intentions of trying it...heehee :)

Sounds like my sons when they were the ages of yours...uh, guess what? They still like to pull schtick like that on me, and my son-in-law joins right in!

That article? Can you picture a loo queue in space? I hope albore doesn't see the article...he might try to demand that all toilets do this...I recycle paper, cardboard, glass, etc., but that really is OTT! :)

_{[covers head (no pun intended) in shame..I was looking for a place to hit'preview'! Oy!]}

Like everyone else on this thread, I'm just testing.
Heh.

Seems to work great on Opera 9.2! (unlike a lot of other things that come back to a javascript error return screen, like the "link" button etc. -- fortunately, the proper screen goes by so you can just go back one page without losing all the input).

Oh, this is excellent. Much improved!

re: #59 Ward Cleaver

You're right. Maybe it was a Mabel...Wait... that was Carling Black Label Beer...in any case...Ajax had a House Cleaner in an ad whose name apparently escapes me. She got the berry stains out of the sink with Ajax and the lady of the house was quite grateful for that IIRC.

Just as we are grateful for Ajax and the elbow grease of Charles Johnson.

#90 Charles

With this new formatting improvement, LGF has officially entered the stratosphere!

Is there a Pulitzer for blog design?

re: #65 Charles

You'd be amazed at how much processing has to take place when a comment is posted--just to make sure it doesn't have any bad HTML code, bad words, too-long words, annoying repetitions, 'first!' posts, bad karma, etc. etc.

You just described my posts.

:D

#110 zombie

ROFL.

That is one of the only Fwench things I am rather fond of.

#89 zombie

I don't even know if that's technically possible. But what a dream it would be!

Yes it is possible. Ajax is a fairly mundane technology these days. Charles has done a great job, but this is all fairly standard stuff. Ajax allows you to pretty much arbitrarily add/modify/delete stuff from the web page programmatically without a refresh.

Since LGF can already display new posts dynamically, it is relatively simple to code it to accept new posts and then display them in the same fashion.

I love the new LGF stuff, but hey guys, it's just Ajax programming at the end of the day.

OK,

Here's a better idea...

Just change the entire format of LGF to "look like" an Excel spreadsheet so I can keep reading with the 'appearance' of working!

re: #96 Bob in BreckenridgeI hope no one tells them that some Cherokee owned black slaves.

/Don't think Sequoyah did.

re: #34 coz

Coz - here's a program at tucows that will quickly hide windows programs at the push of a key.

[Link: www.tucows.com...]

There are others (I've seen them) that will do exactly what you want - make your desktop appear to be running a program like excel. If I see it, and see you, I'll let you know.

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re: #119 coz

OK,
Here's a better idea...
Just change the entire format of LGF to "look like" an Excel spreadsheet so I can keep reading with the 'appearance' of working!

Can we get that in MiniTAB format as well? I do a lot of data analysis and that would be swell to have.

re: #117 WriterMom

Agreed...

re: #122 Baier

Now, how did you do that...?!

re: #96 Bob in Breckenridge

Just when I thought the idiot libs in Bezerkeley couldn't get any stupider, I read the following in the Chicago Sun-Times...

Thomas Jefferson Elementary School in Berkeley, Calif., is now Sequoia Elementary School because Jefferson owned slaves and his name "is offensive to a significant part of the population."

That's old news around here. They've been furiously debating it for at least five years.

Here in moonbatland, Thomas Jefferson -- the single person most responsible for creation the United States of America, and the most liberal of the Founding Fathers -- is a diabolical slave-owning demon.

Yes, Viriginia -- liberalism is a mental disorder.

re: #119 coz

OK,

Here's a better idea...

Just change the entire format of LGF to "look like" an Excel spreadsheet so I can keep reading with the 'appearance' of working!

Kinda like the Mad Magazine or Playboy hidden inside the textbook at school.

re: #122 Baier

Oooh. Super secret comments.

Where's that button?

This is GREAT Charles!

Lao

Uh oh...did Charles add that 15-minute edit time frame, without me hearing of it...? ):

re: #122 Baier

Busted

"transmogrifies the comment"?

I haven't seen transmogrifies since the last issue of Social Text.

What's next? Hermeneutics the content...

/

re: #127 unrealizedviewpoint

Umm ... you can't prove I did that...

Back in the days of dual floppies and amber/green monochrome, most games had a "boss" key built in.

===

Mom says that Charles and Zombie are very couragous.

Mom said post that.

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Thomas Jefferson is offensive? Have they noticed the guy who is on the nickel yet?

NO
SPARE
CHANGE,
R

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re: #118 Pro-Bush Canuck

#89 zombie

I don't even know if that's technically possible. But what a dream it would be!

Yes it is possible. Ajax is a fairly mundane technology these days. Charles has done a great job, but this is all fairly standard stuff. Ajax allows you to pretty much arbitrarily add/modify/delete stuff from the web page programmatically without a refresh.
Since LGF can already display new posts dynamically, it is relatively simple to code it to accept new posts and then display them in the same fashion.
I love the new LGF stuff, but hey guys, it's just Ajax programming at the end of the day.

wow...way to take the air out of the sails...

How does it look?

re: #135 David E

Aww nuts, he's got the Super secret comment button too.

Where is it?!

re: #137 GFinOaktown

How does it look?

And how does this look?

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re: #138 coz

I didnt get one either.

re: #139 GFinOaktown

re: #137 GFinOaktown

How does it look?

that's hot
And how does this look?

oh baby

re: #140 Ma Sands

You too?!

(heeheehee :) --I am a master at sleuthing! :)

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.

What's with the blank no-line comments?

OT: probably posted already but cyberjadis jailed:

[Link: www.breitbart.com...]

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re: #61 zombie

It would be a hell of a hassle for Charles to turn the editing box into a WYSIWYG word processor. Even drag and drop would be very, very, programming intensive (although Wikiganda has that feature).

In the future, there may be a commercial application that does all this for blogs, but it would be a significant application that would have to stay resident on each user's computer.

(I used to be in the business.)

: - ))

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re: #134 Render

Mom says that Charles and Zombie are very couragous.

Hang on just a minute -- I haven't done anything courageous here except make annoying suggestions! Charles gets 110% of the credit.

I'm going to send Sasheen Littlefeather up on the stage to decline my award.

it works! :p

re: #146 Thanos

RE: #145

Run your cursor over the blank field.

re: #135 David E

What's with the blank comments now appearing on this thread?

A new form of "semi-delete"? I.e. the comment is still there, but it has no content anymore.

Interesting...

re: #153 zombie

re: #135 David E
What's with the blank comments now appearing on this thread?
A new form of "semi-delete"? I.e. the comment is still there, but it has no content anymore.
Interesting...

being too clever by half dude ;)

re: #145 TimeQuake

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.

At last, something I understood!

but

#135
#147
#149
have no data

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re: #148 Mardukhai

re: #61 zombie

It would be a hell of a hassle for Charles to turn the editing box into a WYSIWYG word processor

But he's already done it -- he implemented the change a mere ten minutes after I suggested it!

Unbeleivable!

re: #155 Dianna

Who'd of thought that a typing sentence, would actually be true and needed today?

re: #150 zombie

You're either courageous (the SAVE THE PALI rallies) or just a bit twisted. Maybe even REALLY twisted - I think everyone here has seen the Zombietime hall of shame. And I really don't think I could handle a How Berkeley Can You Be parade.

drat, taht's nto it, either...
I keep getting the "..." comments, not the 'empty' ones...
Hrmpf!

This is neat, Charles, but it appears that the preview
locks up upon encountering the "AMPERSAND" character
ANYWHERE in the text or html link.

Check out the page which comes up (Yeah, I did not think
transmogrify was a word) upon using the link here.
All preview halts upon encountering the "ampersand" character,
in quotes (or not), which was deleted from this copy of the
page, below.

So close . . .

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transmogrify

One entry found for transmogrify.

Main Entry: trans·mog·ri·fy
Pronunciation: tran(t)s-'mä-gr-"fI, tranz-
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -fied; -fy·ing
Etymology: origin unknown
transitive verb : to change or alter greatly and often with grotesque or humorous effect
intransitive verb : to become transmogrified
synonym see TRANSFORM
- trans·mog·ri·fi·ca&mid dot;tion /(")tran(t)s-"mä-gr-f-'kA-shn, (")tranz-/ noun

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Perhaps because this character looks like Arabic for their deity?
/ Sarcasm off /

I don't know if this was linked previously or not, but I could not resist:

Study: Women don't talk more than guys

Another stereotype - chatty gals and taciturn guys - bites the dust. Turns out, when you actually count the words, there isn't much difference between the sexes when it comes to talking.

The researchers placed microphones on 396 college students for periods ranging from two to 10 days, sampled their conversations and calculated how many words they used in the course of a day.

The score: Women, 16,215. Men, 15,669.

As a married man with 3 daughters, I offer this without comment. I may be dumb but I ain't stupid.

What is going on? Many comments above either have no text at all, or have just three dots.

And it's not "invis-o-text" either, because rolling over it produces nothing.

Are people posting some now-banned code that gets rendered to nothingness? Are other poeople seeing something that I am not seeing?

Confusion reigns.

trans�mog�ri�fi�caA 533;tion /(")tran(t)s-"m�

Testing if question marks I see, appear on comment.

Anyone who's read Calvin and Hobbes knows what transmogrify means.

re: #162 shmuli

Transmogrify - Origin Unknown.

I'm betting on Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes - he made a computer out of a cardboard box (Hobbes wondered why it wore little red sneakers)

re: #159 TimeQuake

But it's best - at this precise moment in time - to have only those who know to highlight for invisible text read it?

Gotcha.

re: #162 shmuli

Yeah, I did not think transmogrify was a word

Leaned that one in college, from Bill Watterson (via Calvin)

re: #164 zombie

I think they're just playing around.

I think we just took our relationship with preview to the next level.

re: #166 Silhouette

you beat me to it.

zombie,

i think its a super secret posting method whereby if you don't know the super secret handshake you cant see their posts

/complete wackjob off

re: #163 3 wood

I call Bravo Sierra.

Sorry, not "Locks up". Just stops processing the preview.

&&& Ampersands!

Charles..
Superbly cool.
Next task is to create a 'cloaking device' such as the Romulans had so when Kozkids, al-Rueters, etc. look in they only see mundane blog-talk, while the rest of us can have a thrilling thread going on!
Great work and THANKS!

re: #164 zombie

My #145 is invisible text. Your cursor must turn to an "I", left click and move over and you should see the text.

And where's my pal DesertSage?

Hmmm... :)

Ah, ampersand! Of course. Will fix.

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#162 shmuli

This is neat, Charles, but it appears that the preview
locks up upon encountering the "AMPERSAND" character
ANYWHERE in the text or html link.

That is true!

Charles, please note this minor bug, which I encountered earlier in the thread:

Ampersands (and all subsequent characters) don't appear in the preview. Something about them that doesn't agree with the code.

Is this intentional, to prevent the posting of special ASCII code characters? Or just a glitch?

re: #171 ChenZhen

Did you have a nice July 4th in spite of the crimes of the Bush regime?

re: #180 Charles

I can't keep up. I feel sick.

So, to test out the new thingamajig, I thought I'd share with the reader the latest trade I made in my fantasy baseball league. I traded away Todd Jones and in returned, Matt Holliday. Nifty, huh?

re: #178 ChenZhen

I don't think I've seen him since last night.

lol.
It's the old trick to get past the word filter.

THIS.IS.RICH. --> Islamic Science...er "science" that is

“Nobody can just write what he thinks without proof. But we have real proof that the story of Adam as the first man is true.”

“What proof?”

He looks at me with disbelief: “It’s written in the Koran.”

[Link: discovermagazine.com...]

re: #162 shmuli

another meaning for transmogrify: Verb - change completely the nature or appearance of.

LGF is being trans·mog·ri·fied.

[Link: www.thefreedictionary.com...]

...

Someone help me out here: is there, or is there not, some light, satirical verse about the ampersand? Something's nagging at my memory, but not enough even to answer.com it.

nice

BTW, EC Marm taught me that, blame him.

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.

So does #165 have question marks in it? Anyone? I see them instead of what should be there.

Heh. Got it.

/shooting blanks

#115 zombie

Is there a Pulitzer for blog design?

A quick search reveals at least two award sites:

http://2006.weblogawards.org/

http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/main/about

and an article about winning blog awards:

http://www.blogherald.com/2007/05/14/how-to-win-bl og-awards/

re: #174 Killgore Trout

Well, let's just say my personal experience has been what you might call at deviation with their study results. :)

re: #145 TimeQuake

do good women count?

re: #183 Killgore Trout

Did you have a nice July 4th in spite of the crimes of the Bush regime?

I did. Although I'm not sure if the rumbling sounds I heard were from the fireworks or the founding fathers rolling in their graves.

re: #177 TimeQuake

re: #164 zombie

My #145 is invisible text. Your cursor must turn to an "I", left click and move over and you should see the text.

Yours is invisotext, as is #170 EC Marm's, but everyone else's is just blankness to me. Nothing there -- no comment at all. Not even an empty space for a comment.

Reload and you'll see that the & bug is fixed.

this thread is way above me! my mom has to turn this on and off for me

Wait a minute, I don't see a live, as I type, preview screen.

re: #102 TimeQuake

re: #85 Aladin Sane
They appear on my ISP home page ONLY when I turn on Firefox. Does not seem to happen in EI7, which I don't care for.
For example, instead of >>Title of whatever, it will appear ?Title.
And even here, in the posted comments (seems when someone copies and pastes from another source), there are question marks instead of commas, e.g, "they're" shows up as "they?re".
Weird.

You've got me baffled!

re: #166 Silhouette

Anyone who's read Calvin and Hobbes knows what transmogrify means.

Calvin and Hobbes --- the best!

re: #198 Eowyn2

Absolutely!

"Breaking news -- John Edwards got some expensive haircuts and probably didn't pay enough attention to the bills," said spokeswoman Colleen Murray. "He didn't lie about weapons of mass destruction or spring Scooter Libby; he just got some expensive haircuts."

Losers...the whole lot of em...spoiled brat baby losers.

re: #193 TimeQuake
So does #165 have question marks in it? Anyone? I see them instead of what should be there

I see boxes... IE 6.0.29

re: #201 Charles

Reload and you'll see that the & bug is fixed.

& Is that so? ®™ &

Woo-hoo!

re: #183 Killgore Trout

re: #171 ChenZhen
Did you have a nice July 4th in spite of the crimes of the Bush regime?

I'm laughing. That was a good one!

Am I doing something wrong?

If you start a comment with the < symbol, it produces one of those blank comments because the parser think everything after the < symbol is an HTML tag it needs to strip out.

re: #188 PatFromGermany

unless i'm mistaken,doen't the koran also inform us that the earth rests on the back of elephants(or is it a giant tortise,having trouble keeping my ancient superstitions straight)

Google Earth Catches new Chinese sub in picture

Not only is it catching license plates and faces- we can now use it to find China's new subs

A commercial satellite image appears to have captured China's new nuclear ballistic missile submarine. The new class, known as the Jin-class or Type 094, is expected to replace the unsuccessful Xia-class (Type 092) of a single boat built in the early 1980s.

The new submarine was photographed by the commercial Quickbird satellite in late 2006 and the image is freely available on the Google Earth web site.

re: #200 zombie

re: #177 TimeQuake

but everyone else's is just blankness to me. Nothing there -- no comment at all. Not even an empty space for a comment.

messages to Carl Rove et al in the admin. no worries.

re: #186 Killgore Trout

I don't think I've seen him since last night.

Well he made the my blog again. If you see him, let him know, will ya?

Charles,

That's one supergroovalistictransmogrification! Now, if you can only code away those fascist headwinds...

/pfunk off

re: #131 David E

I only used the word "0rgazm" (SP) in response to Zombie post saying he had a "Petite Morte"... and my comment got blocked some kind of cursing sailor!

Alzazeera English: Israel Shoots "Journalist"...
Israeli Raids on Gaza (Warning - Graphic)

A new Israeli push into Gaza has left at least seven Palestinians dead and seen a journalist shot as he tried to cover the story.

...

re: #205 ChildOfMary

HAEL yeah!

Hey, one of my rare thoughts just occured to me.

I thought the Democrats were supposed to make everything all better in the world once they got back in control of Congress. Yet, there are still problems out there.

I wonder what went wrong?

I'm sure ultimately, whatever the reason, it will still be Bush's fault.

re: #199 ChenZhen

I did. Although I'm not sure if the rumbling sounds I heard were from the fireworks or the founding fathers rolling in their graves.

Where do you stand on a possible pardon for Al Gore III?

re: #204 Aladin Sane

Me too. Look at #165, do you see question marks? I copied and pasted from a comment up thread.

Didn't know if you all saw this or not...but it seems like father like son...

http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/07/05/news /doc468c543261843925688222.txt

re: #216 ChenZhen

Will do.

...

re: #216 ChenZhen

Well he made the my blog again. If you see him, let him know, will ya?

That's a sneaky way to draw traffic to your blog.

(So...what's the secret to having invisible ink that running your cursor over it gets it to show up...? :)

re: #223 EC Marm

Where do you stand on a possible pardon for Al Gore III?

He deserves whatever he gets. Fool was doing 100 mph in a Prius fer crissakes.

In spite on the Ajax updates, Islam is still a perfidious pigshit cult.

/personally, I think its gonna take a complete rewrite.

...

Marc Rich wasn't convicted, IIRC. He fled the country before the trial. IIRC, the FALN terrorists (what was it, 4 dead at the Fraunces Tavern bombing they did?) were pardoned as a favor to Hillary to help her with the Puerto Rican and/or terrorist supporting portion of the New York electorate.

Hillary has no room, whatsoever, to criticize Bush for any pardons.

I'd have a lot more respect, however, for Señor Jorge Arbusto if he'd use the pardon power on the various South Texas border agents and sherriff's deputies looking at hard time for enforcing the nations immigration laws.

re: #229 Ma Sands

IMPORTANT OT

London terror alert elevated to "Quite Elevated Indeed"

So reports Mr. Burge of Iowa.

All urged to "keep a sharp lookout for diverse people engaged in activities."

Africa rejects "union" w/ hostage extortionist Kaddafi;

Libya's Gaddafi Storms Out of AU Summit

A disappointed Libyan leader, Col. Muammar Gaddafi, left the AU Summit in Accra, Ghana, prematurely on Tuesday night after the majority of African leaders, including President Yoweri Museveni, rejected a call for the immediate creation of a United States of Africa.
---
The Libyan leader, dressed in a golden tunic and wearing sunglasses most of the time, reportedly angered several delegations by stating that he helped them in their liberation struggles and knew their countries better than them, accusing those who opposed his scheme of not being interested in developing.

He allegedly also caused unease when he proposed the immediate creation of continental ministries, beginning with a ministry of defence, which he proposed to head himself.

Reuters reports Kaddafi got a much darker tan for the trip.

Any guesses which side Rev. Jesse was there to lobby for?

In 1979, after Jackson met with Libyan Embassy officials at PUSH headquarters, a Libyan diplomat gave PUSH $10,000. The donation triggered a Justice Department probe "as to whether Jackson was required to register as a Libyan agent"...

Hillary has no room, whatsoever, to criticize Bush for any pardons.

If I remember this whole mess right, he hasn't pardoned anyone yet. He only suspended the jail time. Libby still has to pay the fines, is on probation for 2 years and has it on his record for the rest of his life. That means he's still a convicted felon and can never vote or own a gun for the rest of his life, correct? So WTF are the democrats bitching about?

Charles,
I love the preview box. It is quite nice. I'm glad that it lets me stay on the same page. You are truly a master of coding.

re: #231 saltmarsh

In spite on the Ajax updates, Islam is still a perfidious pigshit cult./personally, I think its gonna take a complete rewrite.

Nothing that 451 degrees and Mass De-programming can't fix. A small job.

/only the small part

re: #214 g3n3r1c

Google Earth Catches new Chinese sub in picture
Not only is it catching license plates and faces- we can now use it to find China's new subs
A commercial satellite image appears to have captured China's new nuclear ballistic missile submarine. The new class, known as the Jin-class or Type 094, is expected to replace the unsuccessful Xia-class (Type 092) of a single boat built in the early 1980s.
The new submarine was photographed by the commercial Quickbird satellite in late 2006 and the image is freely available on the Google Earth web site.

Very cool that we accurately knew the missile capacity before it was built.

re: #224 TimeQuake

No question marks. Let's see what happens if I cut and paste the same text

trans�mog�ri�fiA 533;ca�tion /(")tran(t)s-"m�

Charles the Master Blogger !
You are setting the bar so high that no other blogs will ever catch you.
The next Ajax button should post what i am thinking so i will not have to type anymore.
Your efforts are appreciated more than you will ever know.
Would it be an insult to you to call you the RUSH of the NET?
David

re: #237 Sponge

Hillary has no room, whatsoever, to criticize Bush for any pardons.

If I remember this whole mess right, he hasn't pardoned anyone yet. He only suspended the jail time. Libby still has to pay the fines, is on probation for 2 years and has it on his record for the rest of his life. That means he's still a convicted felon and can never vote or own a gun for the rest of his life, correct? So WTF are the democrats bitching about?

Oh, watch ..he'll pardon him completely ..and rightly so. Certainly we cannot expect silence from them. Can we?

MEMRI has posted an editorial from an Islamist website that makes a startling discovery. There just might be a connection between Islam and terrorism after all.

"This scene of bloody vengeance in Gaza came at the same time as another scene, no less bloody and perfidious, in the Nahr Al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli in northern Lebanon. There, gunmen from a group calling itself Fath Al-Islam opened fire on soldiers from a Lebanese Army battalion as it was carrying out a routine patrol near the camp, leaving some 20 of them dead...

"Despite there being no known connection between the events in Gaza and those in Tripoli, the proliferation of the use of Islamic appellations (The Islamic Resistance Movement [i.e. Hamas], Fath Al-Islam, Hizbullah, Jund Al-Sham, Islamic Jihad) has made Arab and Islamic public opinion ask itself whether there is something in Islam, as a faith or as a practice, that leads to all this violence and aggression. And it is understandable that they should ask this.

That pegged the obvious meter.

re: #225 sarah

Didn't know if you all saw this or not...but it seems like father like son...
http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/ 07/05/news/doc468c543261843925688222.txt

I could be wrong, but I always thought the pantagraph was what they called the thingie between a streetcar and the electric line.

Reminds me, when I used to visit my grandmother, I'd take the subway to Ashmont, and ride the only streetcar in America that runs through a cemetary.

re: #242 unrealizedviewpoint

re: #237 Sponge

Hillary has no room, whatsoever, to criticize Bush for any pardons.

If I remember this whole mess right, he hasn't pardoned anyone yet. He only suspended the jail time. Libby still has to pay the fines, is on probation for 2 years and has it on his record for the rest of his life. That means he's still a convicted felon and can never vote or own a gun for the rest of his life, correct? So WTF are the democrats bitching about?

Oh, watch ..he'll pardon him completely ..and rightly so. Certainly we cannot expect silence from them. Can we?

Where I realize that, clinton pardoned over 140 people in his last days in office...so I guess I'm just a bit confused over this whole 'crying over spilt milk' crap they're doing now.

Hmmm . .. . . .

re: #188 PatFromGermany

I saw that.

Having read Genesis, I know it was in the Bible prior to the Koran and since the Old Testament is taken from the Torrah, I think it might have been in the Torrah 1st (Jewish people help me out.) Of course, that is not a scientific proof but it does have as much validity as the chicken wire theory of 9/11

Try that again

Streetcar named Mattapan.

re: #209 zombie

ZOMBIE:

The other night you had asked about wiki etc. and then got so entranced in the new features that I think you missed my reply.

My host allows two wiki type content systems, and I can load one up for you but you have to admin it. Do you want me to do so for the lizard lexicon? (it would be a url that goes "noblesseoblige.org/lizwiki" or something like that unless someone want to buy a url, which we could do.)

re: #213 Boondock St. Bender
to my knowledge those were the hindus... they are more into elephants anyway:-) plus something this imaginative and pictorial as elephants carrying the world on their backs is not a view of the world i would attribute to islÄÄÄÄm ^^

Hey, don't blame Gor3, folks. Blame the Prius.

If he'd used a little Insight while driving, this would've never happened!

The GOrebot-Hybrid synergy drive. The car runs on gasoline and the driver runs on ethanol.

re: #246 Sponge

What pardons? huh? You're nuts!

/kiddies

They're just talking to their base. And you shouldn't be listening. LOL

But just pity the poor folks for a minute. They drooled for months and months over Plamegate, thinking it would bring impeachments and jail time for everyone. Topple the whole administration!

And in the end, all they got was one conviction that had nothing to do with the "crime", but with the investigation.

And then mean ol' Bush took that away from them too? How cruel is that.

re: #252 rappmandu

creative aren't you?

I suspect Libby wasn't pardoned so he still has standing to appeal his conviction. Far better, public image wise, for Libby, if an appeals court dismisses the conviction, than for him to just receive a pardon.

re: #253 Mich-again

The GOrebot-Hybrid synergy drive. The car runs on gasoline and the driver runs on ethanol.

Ethanol? Actually I believe he was stoked on the vapors of a renewable plant based fuel.

Sports Note:

Only a sports geek like me would get a grin out of this one:

Report: Roenick decides to retire

PHILADELPHIA -- Jeremy Roenick is retiring, a newspaper reported, after an 18-year NHL career in which he became the third-leading American goal-scorer in league history with 495.

Roenick, a nine-time All-Star who played with four teams, sent a text message to a reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer reading, "I'm retiring; is that still news?" The story was posted on the paper's Web site Wednesday.

Here's why I find this funny.

Former Black Hawk and current Detroit Redwing teamate Chris Chelios gave Roenick his nickname "The Moth". Chelios gave Roenick that nickname for Roenick's habit of running to the cameras in the club house like a human moth everytime the camera lights went on. Having been in the BlackHawks clubhouse a time or two myself after games, I can attest that you would have had to nail Roenick's feet to the floor to keep him from jumping in front of the cameras everytime the lights went on, when he played well that is.

Now he sends a text message when he is retireing.

Killgore...I was just discussing that "777" video clip with my son...must have been thinking of other things while watching it --I utterly missed that it was essentially "trutherism"! ):

re: #257 Ed Mahmoud's Sock Puppet

I suspect Libby wasn't pardoned so he still has standing to appeal his conviction. Far better, public image wise, for Libby, if an appeals court dismisses the conviction, than for him to just receive a pardon.

if appealing he can take the 5th under any other inquiry is reason i believe. if Bush pardons, he cannot.

re: #253 Mich-again

The GOrebot-Hybrid synergy drive. The car runs on gasoline and the driver runs on ethanol.

Now, THAT'S "high"-tech!

re: #248 Eowyn2

I wasn't really going into the direction you are suggesting.

This article is important if one tries to understand how twisted their view of the world really is.
Well, not how. We know how twisted they are. But in what way are the muslims twisted... we should know because it's a "know thy foe" thing.

Tremendously insightful article imho

i need to learn to capitalize. it annoys "me" to read my own writing.

re: #234 TimeQuake

Did you tell me, invisibly? :)
(...it didn't even show up for mine own cursor...sigh ):

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?

#260 Ma Sands
In the future look out for anything that mentions New World Order or Illuminati. Pretty much anything concerning those subjects is BS.

I never mke typoes so previw is stpid :D

re: #250 Thanos

re: #209 zombie

ZOMBIE:

The other night you had asked about wiki etc. and then got so entranced in the new features that I think you missed my reply.

My host allows two wiki type content systems, and I can load one up for you but you have to admin it. Do you want me to do so for the lizard lexicon? (it would be a url that goes "noblesseoblige.org/lizwiki" or something like that unless someone want to buy a url, which we could do.)

I saw your somment, but couldn't find a way to contact you. The email listed on your Web page is incomprehensible. I tried four different ways, but none reached you.

Email me -- zombie at zombietime dot com. And clarify the email listed on your site! it involves Swedish characaters and a bunch of other craziness.

#236 Terp:

Reuters reports Kaddafi got a much darker tan for the trip.

Ha! And they've also appointed him as "South Africa's President". Someone please get a screen shot.

re: #267 Killgore Trout

Yes, sir. I really must have been distracted! ):

:)