salon vs. slate vs. atlantic

http://www.salon.com/
ew

freezes my browser for like 3 minutes every time i go there + looks ugly = mega-dud

and it was so sensible-looking before, shame

so gross

The "S" looks deformed

hahaha what??

it looks for all the world like the design team was given a brief with one phrase on a piece of paper:

"vogue for men"

from the pages of slate comments:

Molly
I have been a s!ut many many times. I am not proud of it. I think I understand this left-leaning website continuing to write articles about it. They seem to think it will help them get a liberal elected. I do not think it will. Nothing they say here will matter in the election just as what I just said will not matter. Still, it is fun having a place to tell the world stuff. Thank you, slate for letting me say that.
55 Minutes Ago from slate.com · Reply

no molly, thank you

there's actually a whole weird comment community going on on this article:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/04/27/sluts_across_america_doesn_t_reclaim_the_word_slut_it_makes_it_meaningless.html

same bunch of ppl teaching each other how to post and telling corny jokes

DaveB_NH
"There is no such thing as a slut,"
Said Sister Ignatius, "but
Do not be a skank;
They're really quite rank:
Kardashians don't make the cut."
Molly, outsidethebox and PatriciaSage like this.
5 Hours Ago from slate.com

^^too easy

xp

solitary dadjoekz that sum up ilx

was gonna say new board descrip

i really love Salon running those Imprint columns

excerpt from anthony swofford's new memoir. i really don't know what to make of it. it seems totally insane to me, but i think that's the point right? the author is acknowledging his own sort of psychosis here? http://www.salon.com/2012/06/11/sex_facing_death/singleton/

that redesign is something

what is up with slate's new recent fascination with adults that choose childlessness?

read that as "adults who choose childishness" and was gonna be like i don't think it's just slate

how was there not a "wait, what's the difference?" option

recent fascination with adults that choose childlessness

is this really that new? almost feel it's up there with "feminist dissatisfied" as far as "provocative" trend pieces go.

except they've run an article on it every day for the last week!

it's like one of the editors went crazy for the topic

no-baby crazy

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/06/child_free_women_explain_themselves_.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/06/12/choosing_not_to_have_kids_i_d_rather_die_alone.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/06/13/choosing_to_be_child_free_career_mobility_.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/06/13/choosing_to_be_child_free_tubes_tied_at_26.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/06/14/child_free_do_they_change_their_minds_.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/06/14/choosing_to_be_child_free_there_are_other_kinds_of_babies_.html

there may be more that i missed

It seems like all the slate editors have four kids each, so it's either some perverse fascination or yearning for a different path

It was week long series btw, not a bunch of random individual articles

this person is responsible for a lot of shitty salon articles:
http://twitter.com/prachigu

she literally just started there last week

this is a horrific nightmare

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/29/what_if_the_romney_sons_were_a_boy_band/

well, first i read this piece of breaking news: http://www.salon.com/2012/08/29/dumb_tweet_of_the_day_14/

then went back into the archive and found these unconscionable acts against humanity:
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/29/child_bride_courtney_stodden_turns_18_today/
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/29/what_if_the_romney_sons_were_a_boy_band/
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/28/more_naked_prince_harry/

it seems like it goes on and on. if she really only started last week then she's already produced a prolific amount of vapid celebrity webpage view content!

five

i dunno man if you think this is shitty and unconscionable i hope you dont read my website!

well obv

sorry bro

i did like the romney infodump series tho! great stuff.

Xanax
Wednesday, Aug 29, 2012 09:26 PM CDT

The only thing dumber than these tweets is the person who had the idea for this feature.

didn't know 'strong jaws' could be hyphenated

i would rather read all of those articles than another interminable 'thinkpiece' from michael lind

Mordy Hates Prachi

new atlantic business/tech news property, making a big deal abt how its optimized for mobile for whatever reason, not sure how that relates to anything, all sites should be built to work good on mobile devices, but anyway http://qz.com

Quartz is a digitally native news outlet, born in 2012, for business people in the new global economy. We publish bracingly creative and intelligent journalism with a broad worldview, built primarily for the devices closest at hand: tablets and mobile phones.

brace yrselves for creative and intelligent journalism

"Qz" because "Hz"=hertz in the International System of Units? oooooooh that is annoying.

http://qz.com/5270/before-we-came-along-quartz-really-was-a-symbol-of-the-global-economy

that site actually is pretty crap on an iPad despite being specifically tailored for it

layout is p similar to gakwer

gakwer gakwer, can't you see i'm burning burning

there's just too much going on on the screen