Anyway, the new classic heading is "Question and Answer," with a headline from one place answered by some headline somewhere else. Yesterday's BOTW column had 3 examples:
"Why Is Australia So Hot Right Now?"--headline, Guardian website (London), Jan. 14When I finally get done laughing about that, I notice — I hope you're enjoying this meandering story of the order in which I notice things — that the main topic of that column is something I've been talking about for a long time: free speech values beyond the First Amendment right. The constitutional right is held only against government entities, but we can and should demand that private entities show respect for the freedom of speech. BOTW, i.e. James Taranto, is weighing in on the "Duck Dynasty" controversy and defending Bobby Jindal — who said "I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment" — against mockery.
"Just in Case You've Forgotten, Half the Planet Is in the Middle of a Sweaty Summer Right Now"--headline, Puffington Host, Jan. 7
"Where Are the Jellyfish, Exactly?"--headline, New York Times, Jan. 16
" 'Spineless' England Face Backlash"--headline, Australian Associated Press, Jan. 6
"What if Satan and Hitler Opened a McDonald's in Hell?"--headline, Wired.com, Jan. 15, 2014
" 'Big Mac' Remains Red-Hot"--headline, HernandoToday.com (Tampa, Fla.), Dec. 17, 2013
UPDATE: LOL. Taranto winks at this post.
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I'm noticing two things when I've visited Althouse in the last two days.
1.) Chrome now displays a speaker icon on the tab when auto-play audio runs on a page. Yea! Great when you've got a lot of tabs open.
2.) Althouse will now intermittently run an auto-play audio ad (with no related video or ad copy that I can see). Chrome displays the speaker icon on the tab. Right now the ad is about 20 seconds long for a cat product.
Anyone else see that?
Or. more precisely, hear that?
Adblock Plus FTW, EDH. I haven't seen a Web ad in years. Guess I'm missing out on some fantastic shopping opportunities, though, ah ha ha ha ha ha.
"Althouse will now intermittently run an auto-play audio ad…"
Really?!
I've never experienced that.
Firefox + Adblock Plus. I don't see ads. No Youtube ads, either.
"Althouse will now intermittently run an auto-play audio ad"
I get that also with Opera.
Ditto John Lynch.
I guess I need to get rid of that BlogAds ad that serves up things I don't get to pre-approve.
I guess I need to get rid of that BlogAds ad that serves up things I don't get to pre-approve.
Again, I don't see anything. Just audio.
I just clicked this post on a different computer than this morning. The speaker icon appeared in the tab and I heard three beats of a timpani drum. No ad played though. Speaker icon disappeared thereafter. Weird.
If someone can figure out what in the code is making that happen, I will try to remove it.
I use Chrome and it never happens.
I can't believe it! Just now you noticed BOTW's bottom half? I have linked to BOTW from your blog for years and usually end up laughing out loud when I get to the bottom half.
Ann, you are only now noticing the Questions and Answers section of BOTW? JT has done it for years but it's not as common as "Questions nobody is asking" probably because the two headlines to make the Q&A don't show up as often (or get sent to him by his faithful readers). But they are usually funny.
Ann, Taranto has left you a special present today in response to this post.
I think I found out about Althouse from BOTWT and Taranto is always a great read. I have contributed links I found that meet his categories in the past but haven't had time for a couple years.
p.s. - I use Chrome and haven't noticed any audio.
I haven't had the issue when loading Althouse for awhile, but I solved the case of the mysterious audio for another blogger this morning, so thought I'd post my findings here, as I recall being quite annoyed by it in the past...apparently SiteMeter is the culprit.
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