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I have a new layout ready here. Could somebody with a blackberry give comments on it?
Features: one column only, wide-screen friendly. Inline comments. All “meta” stuff at the bottom of the page, where mobile readers aren’t bothered by it.
Please let me know what you think!
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Okay, I’m looking at all your comments, and I’m working on a new theme. I’ll let you test it this time, stay tuned!
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Skimapparaat
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Dinsdagochtend kwam ik aan op station Alkmaar en wilde een kaartje kopen bij een van de kaartjesautomaten die buiten op de stoep voor het station staan. Ik merkte iets vreemds op: het zilverkleurige deel van de paslezer was iets anders van structuur, te schoon en daarna zag ik in de gleuf ook een stukje van een leeskop die te prominent aanwezig was. Ik ontdekte dat er een plaatje voor de paslezer bevestigd was , waar ik mijn nagel achter kon zetten en toen ik eraan trok kwam een apparaat los, dat ik snel herkende als een skimapparaat. Het skimapparaat ziet er aan de voorkant precies uit als het paneel van de kaartjesautomaat waarop het was bevestigd. Het ding was op het dikste punt iets meer dan 1 cm dik en sluit bijna passend aan op de bovenkant en onderkant op de kaartjesautomaat. Ik heb dit gemeld aan het NS loket en later de politie. Ik heb het apparaat uiteindelijk bij de recherche in Alkmaar afgegeven, maar pas nadat ik het skimapparaat zelf goed heb bekeken en gefotografeerd.
(for the english readers: some guy discovered a pin-code skimming device, and wrote an article about it before handing it over to the police)
Holland Township family angry that supermarket won’t personalize cake for their son
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JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell, Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell and Adolf Hitler Campbell.
Good names for a trio of toddlers? Heath and Deborah Campbell think so. The Holland Township couple has picked those names and the oldest child, Adolf Hitler Campbell, turns 3 today.
This has given rise to a problem, because the ShopRite supermarket in Greenwich Township has refused to make a cake for young Adolf’s birthday.
Let them eat KKK.
Limits on Executive Pay May Prove Toothless
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Congress wanted to guarantee that the $700 billion financial bailout would limit the eye-popping pay of Wall Street executives, so lawmakers included a mechanism for reviewing executive compensation and penalizing firms that break the rules.
But at the last minute, the Bush administration insisted on a one-sentence change to the provision, congressional aides said. The change stipulated that the penalty would apply only to firms that received bailout funds by selling troubled assets to the government in an auction, which was the way the Treasury Department had said it planned to use the money.
Now, however, the small change looks more like a giant loophole, according to lawmakers and legal experts. In a reversal, the Bush administration has not used auctions for any of the $335 billion committed so far from the rescue package, nor does it plan to use them in the future. Lawmakers and legal experts say the change has effectively repealed the only enforcement mechanism in the law dealing with lavish pay for top executives.
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Orwellian Apple ad celebrates 25th birthday
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Today marks the 25th anniversary of Apple’s iconic 1984 TV ad. And no, we haven’t got our math wrong.
Apple’s introduction to the Macintosh – widely hailed by the overly-excitable as one of the greatest advertisements in the history of television – did not debut during the nationwide TV feeding frenzy of the 1984 Super Bowl. It first hit the small screen little more than a month earlier, when it aired at one o’clock in the morning on KMVT, Channel 11 in Twin Falls, Idaho.
Without a December debut, Apple and its ad agency, Chiat\Day, couldn’t qualify for the season’s advertising trophies.
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Madoff touted ‘advanced technology’ to his clients/victims
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Bernard Madoff, accused by federal authorities of stealing some $50 billion in an elaborate investment fraud, stressed the use of “advanced technology” and disaster recovery protection in an apparent effort to give clients some peace of mind.
Madoff was arrested last week by the FBI and charged with fraud. The operation has been described as a Ponzi-like scheme that sailed under the eyes of federal and state regulators.
Madoff fostered a reputation for his firm as a leading edge user of technology. His firm claimed “proprietary automation” that included use of “proprietary smart router” and “proprietary web technology.” which was all part of the “industry’s most advanced technology.”
Madoff’s firm didn’t just have computers — it had “sophisticated computers.”
Ah, sophisticated computers! That makes it alright, then, here’s a billion of my money….
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Looks great on the iPhone! Type is a little small unless you turn the phone sideways though.
I don’t really like it; long lines are not very readable (unless you increase line width) and the title is not enough of a marker to see where a new post starts. The comments are very small (esp. with the long lines) and are too similar to the main post/ content.
Try the column width of the header, and very VERY large type headlines;
Try blockquote for comments, but otherwise the same font treatment, (or color a shade of grey, or a very light grey background)
Can you tell I’d wish I had time just to design a layout for you?
yep.
I DO like the fact it’s just one column, it could just use some alignment and a better hierarchy in typography.
okay – few more changes – maximum width of the main column, smaller resizes properly. Maximum width for pictures as a percentage of the column, so they resize smaller in smaller windows. Larger type for the headline, and comments background color makes a slight difference.
Typography cleaned up – all “meta” info the same small font and combined in less lines, all text (article and comments) the same larger font. Comments lined up with article text a bit better.
Good job, John. The new layout looks good and reads well. Thanks.
agree to comments 3 and 5. Besides that it is nice to be able to read on BB as well, thanks John!
The inline comments are kinda cool, and I wouldn’t argue to remove them, but it’s handy to have a place to see if anyone followed up on comments posted without having to dig up the specific posts I previously commented on–is there a link for a “recent comments” page? (Maybe place it near the header?)
One little nitpicky thing: either “The Daily Irrelevant” or “the daily irrelevant”, but not “The daily irrelevant” (currently in the banner image) or “the Daily Irrelevant” (currently in HTML).
Very good and readable on my blackberry now.
Sjoerd.
PS – I mailed you 2 (low quality – could not get the flash switched off) photo’s of how it looks.