"History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club." -- John W. Campbell, Jr.
I used to get the disappearing link bug regularly in the past, when viewing your site in Konqueror, and being annoyed at having to open Firefox to read it. But this stopped happening a few months ago. I assumed you had fixed something, but now that I hear some Safari users have been seeing it recently, I suspect the change was at my end. It sounds as though there was a browser bug that got fixed in Konqueror but not in the Safari branch of the code. I've never seen it on my own Mac though.
(For those not familiar with the incestuous details of the software industry: Konqueror is a leading browser on Linux, part of the KDE desktop project. Apple ported an earlier version of Konqueror to the Mac, gave it a new chrome job, and called it Safari. Since then the KDE people have had some harsh words for Apple on the subject of dragging their feet on passing their own changes back to Konqueror, but I gather the situation has improved recently.)
The bug Steve Taylor describes, where all you see is a page full of ads and have to hit "back" to get the real page, is one I've never seen here, but I do see quite often on Atrios. (For a while I was reliably getting it every time I went there.) I'd always assumed it was something either the webmaster or one of the advertisers was doing on purpose, as yet another variation on the annoying popup theme; I'm relieved to hear it's an actual bug.
Anybody else noticed how much the guy resembles Boris Karloff?
And speaking of hypochristians and things that make you go misanthropic...
The Australian government has been widely condemned by human rights advocates for its longstanding habit of incarcerating immigrants in concentration camps in the desert. Now they're adding insult to injury by offering to expedite the release of Muslim immigrants who convert to Christianity.
See the Sydney Morning Herald's report (registration required, see Bugmenot as usual):
"Thirty of Australia's longest-term immigration detainees are having their cases reviewed and could be freed because they have converted to Christianity since arriving. The Federal Government has made the move quietly as it searches for a face-saving way to soften its policy on failed asylum seekers who have been in custody for more than three years, and cannot be repatriated to their countries of origin. It follows strong lobbying efforts by several Government backbenchers, churches and the powerful Family First party for the Government to relax its refugee policy for Christian converts."
Why, no, of course the West isn't engaged in anything remotely resembling a new Crusade against Islam. Whatever could have given you that idea?
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