YES. I don't think I can do anything about my nervous-highlighting tic. But nytimes.com *can* do something about their stupid-website problem.

Wow, that's obnoxious.

Kriston does what to online text?

I don't understand either. I feel so old.

Kriston truly is a clicking messiah - I was just looking around on the NYT website not two days go, trying to find the "off" switch to the contextual dictionary. Doesn't exist.

Huh?

Is this something I'm not seeing because of the way I've got pop-up blocking set?

Maybe it's a part of MY NYT, or something? Or maybe you have to be one of the Kewl Kidz. Why did Kriston and the NYT join forces to oppress me?

I just went over there and found a very peripheral question. Why does Jennifer 8. Lee use a period after the "8"? Is it the initial of some longer number? "Jennifer 86 Lee", perhaps, or Jennfer 8327154?

I'd never even heard about this until Sunday. Since then, I've had three people complain about the problem to me. I feel like Jennifer 8. Lee.

8 - Her middle name is 8. It's a Chinese lucky number. I think she just likes the way it looks with the period.

I don't understand either. I feel so old.

I'll see if I can upload a screencast of what we're talking about.

The "8" stands for "Obnoxious".

I went over to the NYT and highlighted a bunch of stuff. Nothing happened!

I've never seen this on my computer, either. My pop-up blocker is better than Kriston's, apparently.

Don't just highlight, double click.

Yeah i do this, occasionally you stumble over a link that you didn't notice was a different colour...and then you're OFF.

I hadn't noticed this before Kriston mentioned it, even though I do a lot of highlighting while I read, but the I went to nytimes.com and double-clicked on some words and presto! Annoying popups.

Don't just highlight, double click.

I did, I did. It highlights the word.

It would never in in a million years have occurred to me to double-click anything at nytimes.com.

weird! I got it to happen. You select a word (not a phrase) and double click and presto! a dictionary definition. Even if the word is "the".

Ok, now I see it. A giant pop-up dictionary from Answers.com with tracked banner ads. I sure wouldn't want that to happen to me all the time.

This is really the most annoying thing ever, and truly a cause for Unfogged collective action. Where's Megan? Where are the orange post titles?

While we're at it, can we teach the NY Times to learn how to link to other pieces? The article will have an underlined word. Click on the link, and go to a new article. But the underlined word is almost never a link to a topic relevant to the article. Reading about the Australian Open? "Click here for more articles about Australia."

It doth irk.

I've tried highlighting entire articles, and still, nothing. Is this one of those "terrible" things that doesn't matter if you use Firefox?

No, because I'm using Firefox. It's not, as has already been said, a matter of highlighting, it's a matter of the method of highlighting individual words by double-clicking.

25: G'dammit, Ben. I'm doing that. If you're just fucking with, I'll make empty threats.

Now I see it. But who does that? I highlight passages as I read, but not individual words. Sorry, Armsmasher, I'm just not sure your OCD corresponds with mine. I suppose we should un-Facebook each other now.

Continued clicking—triple or quadruple—proceeds to highlight lines or paragraphs.

SCMT, w-lfs-n's not just fucking with you this time.

The others? Malicious, I tell you, malicious.

At PZ Meyers they recommended Firefox extension "Adblock Plus", and it blocks more than just popups. All ads. I've just started using it but I'm very happy so far.

So who here knew this?

A·sian (ā'zhən, ā'shən) pronunciation adj.

Of or relating to Asia or its peoples, languages, or cultures.
n.

1. A native or inhabitant of Asia.
2. A person of Asian descent.

I'm really glad Smasher clarified that that's not his hand.

Ok, you can download me doing the neurotic highlighting/unhighlighting--and its catastrophic effects at the NY Times--here (23MB file).

I'm totally adding this feature to Unfogged.

All the links should go to pictures of titties.

34: Shouldn't we vote on it, then not do it, first?

Aaarrrgh! This is just like the fucking stereo-thingy pictures. Why can't I get this to work? WHY?!?!

There's a problem with the file in 33 so I removed the link.

What was the problem? It worked for me.

It crashed my browser.

Shit, sorry. Worth trying again?

Everybody should be using Adblock. Whenever I surf around the blogs on a computer without it, I'm always shocked by how much ugly crap it's been filtering out.

Also, doubleclicking on random things online seems like a dangerous habit.

Sure. It did show what was going on before it died.

Alright, I hate to complain about Smasher's complaint, but this could be useful. You have to go out of your way to highlight-then-double-click on words, which means that it's the unlabored equivalent of me lugging my Portable American Heritage Dictionary all through high school.

Seriously, what does "cavil" mean? I'm only fifteen! I don't know!

Seriously, what does "cavil" mean?

It's complicated and involves Emerson.

The video worked okay for me but I didn't need to see it anyway because that NYT feature has been DRIVING ME INSANE.

I am wracking my brain trying to think of what blog I read recently that had a post about how cool the clicking thing supposedly is.

Actually, this is kind of fun. I clicked on the word "Fuzeon" in this article and got this:

Your search for injectable drug called Fuzeon was approved.

Tally-ho! My search has been approved!

45: I know what it means now. Can you not tell from channeling?

Be sure to read SEK's feature in Salon about his decision to blog for the NYT campaign.

Yeah, I have Ad Block installed. I should update to note that it's no use.

I use the Google Toolbar. That seems to do the trick.

More interesting than the pop-up feature is the story that is placed quite prominently right now, that all major world stock markets had major sell offs today. For the whole Bush administration I've been having worries of economic collapse, so things like this make me jittery.

You have to go out of your way to highlight-then-double-click on words, which means that it's the unlabored equivalent of me lugging my Portable American Heritage Dictionary all through high school.

Can't you just use one of the dictionary extensions?

Don't think I don't recognize a Fuzeon abuser when I see one, Smasher.

I know what you've done, and with which member of the Holy Family recently defamed by James Cameron.

53: If I'd lugged around dictionary extensions in high school, I'd have been beaten even more badly.

Fuck, I'd have been bloodied w-lfs-n.

I know what you've done, and with which member of the Holy Family recently defamed by James Cameron.

Not Jofah!

I feel bad that we haven't heard from Ogged since I was all "sure...go ahead and make another video if you want, slaveboy". He's sweating and toiling and breaking his back in the screencapture mines and it's all my fault. Gah.

The capture's done, but it takes forever to upload.

57: It was quite infelicitous to kidnap and upload the lifeguard, ogged.

If that's all it is then pffffth.

(And to refer to her as "it.")

Ok, now that no one cares anymore, screencast here. 29MB

link?

Fixed.

Thanks. You could have just left me hanging there.

Co-blogger honor.

Yeah, it doesn't do that for me. Whatever. I never like you guys, anyway.

it takes forever to upload.

You used to spin this as a talent.

Becks is one of the impatient ones, apparently.

I was all "sure...go ahead and make another video if you want, slaveboy".

Becks is Academy Award–winning actress Helen Mirren!

Hey Ogged, any reason you're not using wink for these screencast thingies? I don't have a ton of experience with it, but a quick try in Parallels makes it seem like it produces much smaller file sizes.

Not impatient. Just guilty if you're going to spend a really long time doing something for my benefit and I'm not planning to do anything for you in return.

if you're going to spend a really long time doing something for my benefit and I'm not planning to do anything for you in return.

Oh, I'm sure he'll think of something, Becks. IYKWIM. AIKTYD.

AITIDidWhenIWroteTheComment.

72 "IYKWIM" s/b "IYKWYM"

I'm disappointed that ogged did not provide a voiceover.

Totally. Ogged has a good voiceover voice. It's a very deep "In a world..." type voice. Could have added a lot of drama.

Also, Camtasia does a good job with screen cap vids.

Somewhere along the line we lost the presumption of humor. Read the comments to the post linked in 67 and weep, first for joy, and then for irretrievable loss.

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BEGIN SECOND WEEPING

any reason you're not using wink for these screencast thingies?

Sorry, no; this is the first one I've done at home, and I just grabbed the first free program I came across. I'll try wink if I ever do another one.

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If I can go all the way back to 8, I think 8. is the initial for 8675309. I'll go ahead and ban myself now.

Jesus, that thread is masterful.

My child, when you had all those seemingly empty threads in 2005, I was the one commenting on them.

More interesting than the pop-up feature is the story that is placed quite prominently right now, that all major world stock markets had major sell offs today. For the whole Bush administration I've been having worries of economic collapse, so things like this make me jittery.

A barely 3% drop in the stock market isn't your canary in the coal mine for the coming economic Armageddon. Housing prices are.

Actually I got bored with that thread after about 50 comments or so.

Hey B, do you remember the good old days, when you were banned?

Or maybe you were making a joke in 86, in which case, welcome back, sister.

I am a woman of mystery.

You weren't making a joke, were you?

I know what you've done, and with which member of the Holy Family recently defamed by James Cameron.

Not Jofah!

"Can you point to where he touched you on this clay doll?"

'Smasher, if you're around, I saw The Rape of the Sabine Women tonight. By watching this, I was reminded that I don't really like non-narrative films.

Actually, I did get bored, *and* I posted about it because, considering the content of the post and thread, it was funny and therefore worth joking about.

Sometimes it's not either / or, you know. I have layers.

Like an onion.

8: Her middle name is Eight, not 8. You abbreviate Eight as 8. The period marks the abbreviation.

"8" is not an abbreviation of "eight". I discountanence the claim otherwise.

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An hour and seventeen minutes? Damn.

Standpipe is owning this thread. Purest genius.

Late to the party: I too obsessively highlight and click (glad to see I'm not alone), but on trying to figure out why I didn't get this problem, I realized double-clicking isn't part of my routine. Huh.

Ko·be (kō'bē', -bā') pronunciation

A city of southern Honshu, Japan, on Osaka Bay south-southwest of Kyoto. A port and manufacturing center, it was almost entirely rebuilt after World War II. The city was badly damaged by an earthquake in 1995. Population: 1,490,000.

If you have just normal Adblock installed, or some other script blocker, block the nytimes script:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/js/common/screen/altClickToSearch.js

Your problems will be solved and we can all go back to clicking incessantly.