As Donlon would say, "Hard core, man. Hard core."

How about you linking to a post where you agonize about the whole "slitting throats" business post-Berg, and generally explain that that's not what you mean, etc. etc.?

Anyway, nice new look.

Oops, by "you linking" I meant linking the (red) words "slitting throats" in the header to such a post, etc.

LOL! Can't wait

Ace, you know I love ya man (not in a gay way-- like a Viking), but I'm not sure if you're as hardcore as Ghost Rider. Now, if it was YOUR head that was like Bob Dole (i.e., on fucking fire), then we could talk.

In the meantime, keep riding around on your motorcycle while swinging those kickass chains, and no one will be ashamed of you.

But seriously, an animated flaming skull would be so fucking sweet I'd pray for national crises just so I could see the urgent updates come rolling in, all bearing that kickass freaking skull. Oh, hell yes.

Wait a second... that was a METAPHOR?

oh...hehe...yeah, I knew that.

All the same, if anyone asks, I was with you last weekend, right?

Wow, a comments page that no longer makes me rip the eyes out of the socket while reading! bravo!

Um, Ace, you managed to mangle her link twice.

Ace, SKULLS.

Text selection works fine in Firefox.

Trivial BS, just FYI -- Both links to Web Diva are broken.
Headline link: bitchAlic...
Body text link: needs '.com'

Why not the flaming skull of Mister Paul Anka, Ace? That would alert us as to when you were about to slice like a fucking hammer.

The new site is very Norweigan..."Viking-esque" even...

Me likes.

Oh yeah, and skulls will flaming eyes (or something) will own Drudge's siren. Good call. :P

burning FUCKING SKULLS...?

Kinda redefines the whole skull fucker genre, if you ask me.

Personally, I think the words "slitting throats" should not only be red, but should be in a font that looks like blood is dripping. If you're going to be hard core, go all the way.

Looks great

The new site design makes me feel like an abused spouse. And by the way, MoveOn will be sending a donation soon - so you'll be bought and paid for, just like the DNC. MINE.

Ok first off.
I didn't say I didn't LIKE it. I just said that I'm a girl and this isn't my 'style'.
He did mangle my links. I should go fix them.. :P
And I mentioned Firefox to him. I think I'm going to send him the install file. ;) Firefox rox ur sox!

And yes he did mention flaming skulls, crossed swords.. bloody men.. pillaged villages and naked woman hostages...

And by the way. I'm glad you like it Ace. :)

And yes he did mention flaming skulls, crossed swords.. bloody men.. pillaged villages and naked woman hostages...

One thing now we have your attention Rachel - weird that the tab order is fixed going from the comment box (this one) back up to the URL box, but the reverse order doesn't work. Not that I know anything about HTML, but that just strikes me as odd.

Great job though!

It skips the comment box because of the preview comment plugin. Do I know why? No. All I know is that everyone of the 100's of sites I've installed this plugin on does the same thing.
I'm sorry but thems the breaks.

I can't see the slitting throats Mencken quote any more! Don't know if that's intentional or not. I'm using IE 6.

I'll pledge another buck via Paypal, here and now, if you put a cool flaming skull on the site. That would be worth the price of admission, indeed.

Oh, the text highlighting problem persists, in IE 6, as of this post.

Neat how the post preview works as you type, I like it!

Ace, Ghost Rider should be your new mascot. Drop Stan Lee a bucketload of that mad blog money and buy the rights. Then you could have a floating GR pop up and run all over the frontpage every time it loads like those damn annoying ads for whatever the hell movie or bullshit that you can never close.

Oh wait. No, don't do that.

But the flaming skull would be kind mach.

Nice to see your site ordered properly. Having your posts on the left just sucked, and it made you write like a pussy. Now that all is rightly odered, let the blood flow (like Viking).

And Rachel, if you could write a script that would throw in some random pics of naked women, I'm sure that would rock, too.

Damn I thought I was the only one who noticed that tab-skip thing.

Love the Mencken quote. Always makes me think of the Black Company novels by Glen Cook.

The slitting throats part being red though seems kinda lame tho. The quote stands fine by itself, it doesn't need the extra attention on "slitting throats."

Yo ACE! Your Web Diva is right, the quote needs no red and it IS very hard to copy text - please fix! And as previously stated, A REAL ACE OF SPADES would look a whole lot better, certainly no burning skull (oh my!). Other than that it really is good, and the colors are perfect. You had a really good idea from the start. Good luck in the Good Fight!

Ace,
The page looks great. Glad to see the use you made of my two cents. One thing, though. Useing the f'ing adjective to describe things is overdone. Just my opinion and I'm sure it's not shared by many of your readers. Overall good job!
-ken-

You can never over-do F bombs. IMO.

*this is me wondering (not really) if ken enjoyed my comment about that girl in the bathtub*

:) ;)

In any case, this never really was a site that was "100% OK" for work - let's not try and persuade Ace to make it one, OK? That is, if that's even what you're trying to say... Though if it did go that way I could pretty much guaranty that me, and the probably 50+ people I've referred here would find it much less entertaining.

Thanks, everyone, on behalf of Rachel's hard work, which I'll take credit for.

RD,

Thanks for the skulls. Actually, I looked around last night for a burning skull, and damnit, there just isn't a good one on the net. You'd think there would be, and yet, not so much.

There's a little tiny dinky one, there's a kinda cool one but the flames are blue (not really my color scheme, and what the hell is blue fire? I'm not making tea), and then there's an okay one but it says "EMAIL" at the bottom.

So, the burning skull siren will have to wait, I guess.

I've got skulls coming out of my ass right now, but not that perfect burning skull I dream about at night.

BTW, I'll probably be losing that "slitting throats" in red, due to numerous complaints about readibility and suitability.

I like the flaming skull concept. Especially if you use it to alert us when the fat kid posts the tub girl link ;)

Rachel: The textarea tag for the comments text does not have the tabindex property. As good of a job as you've done with Ace's sight I'm sure you know that but if you're like me sometimes the obvious lies just outside our grasp :)

Thanks BrewFan.. I totally missed that.
Tab/Cut/Copy/Paste/ away. :)

Flaming skull is a must have for the Holiday Season.

F word; also necessary when necessary.

Red 'slitting throats' more lame than 'lame- o.'
I'm just sayin.

Did I mention that the Holidays suck and please allow me to die while killing a retail customer? Ok then.
To all of my customers; didn't mean you.