[gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Wow! KDE 3.5.1 & Xorg 7.0 w/ Composite

[Duncan]

William Tetrault posted <200602021938.45044.xcourse97@×××××××.net>,
excerpted below,  on Thu, 02 Feb 2006 19:38:45 -0600:

> On Thursday 02 February 2006 14:05, Duncan wrote:
>>
>> [screenshots at] http://members.cox.net/pu61ic.1inux.dunc4n/
>
> Very impressive screenshot.  And I got a real kick out of some of the titles
> at the bottom of the bottom!

LOL!  I hadn't noticed them, as I was too busy figuring out how the Cox
website worked, what I wanted in my screenshot, and the like.

That is of course Slate.  I believe it was last year that the Washington
Post bought them off of MS, and I decided I wanted to see what the site
was all about.  Many web-active folks at least here in the US are probably
aware of them already, but for those that aren't, Slate is a political and
society commentary site, with, I am told, a pretty active "In the Fray"
user participation section as well.  I haven't tried it yet, but I find
enough of the commentary interesting enough to have subscribed to their
RDF feed for knewsticker.

My biggest gripe is that the titles aren't always descriptive enough to
know if it's something I'm interested in or not -- they are aimed at the
satire or bite, and don't always convey whether it's say sports (which I'm
not much interested in), TV/Media/Celebs (same, tho I'll read or skim some
articles), or political commentary (the reason I'm subscribed).  There are
of course other RDF readers that would display the subheader and/or first
paragraph as well, which would supply the info, but not in that nice
little scroller I can leave running and not worry about it.

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