Site problems

Rule 1: If the software's being stupid, write in a text file so that when it goes away and doesn't come back, you still have your work.

Good luck!

I've noticed the slowness but just about every time, when I check, the comment was actually posted.

Now some good news, if off-topic: Two years of getting an inoculation against pneumonia cuts the risk of heart attack by more than half. An unintended benefit!

Stuff like this always compels me to try and see if my comment will be posted.

The wonders of infested software...

Maybe this is God's way of telling you to destroy more Eucharists.

You've all finally gone and done it. After all that Jesus bashing, sticking nails in his flesh, the punishment is being handed to you all. Soon, Armageddon shall ravage your flesh and fling your innards in an expanding spherical shell to your neighbors house. The wrath is coming, abandon ship. Well, it's not as silly as the techno doom scenario parlayed by the Y2K nonsense.

OMG!!!! DDOS ATTACK BY THE CL!!!!!

Make sure that Dr. Jellyfinger sees the "EXIT ONLY" tattoo on your back! Or not.

it is all mercury's fault..

it is all mercury's fault..

It's ok ScienceBlogs! Just keep praying and God will heal you! And if that doesn't work, maybe a good hit to the forehead will do the trick...

it is all mercury's fault..

I can't tell if that's a comment from an anti-vaxer or an astrologist any more.

:p

It's all your own fault, PZ. You didn't pray hard enough.

¡uǝʞoɹq ʎllɐǝɹ ǝq ʇsnɯ ʇı
˙˙˙ʇuǝɯɯoɔ ʎɯ oʇ pǝuǝddɐɥ sıɥʇ ʍoɥ ǝnlɔ ɐ ʇ,uǝʌɐɥ I

I'm having visions of Bill Donohue wearing a funny hat in a darkened room, surrounded by clouds of incense and holding burning candles. What are you doing, Bill? ... Bill? ... Oh, no! Bill! (Hey, where did the candles go?)

See, and now I've made me self a fool by double posting and triple posting for my first two posts here ever. Oh well, so goes the learning process.

Found this little gem on the NRO:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Y2U5YTJiMzhjNDNhZTcwZGYyZjcyMzQyZW…

Will Obama kill science? Probably not, but McCain might.

"¡uǝʞoɹq ʎllɐǝɹ ǝq ʇsnɯ ʇı
˙˙˙ʇuǝɯɯoɔ ʎɯ oʇ pǝuǝddɐɥ sıɥʇ ʍoɥ ǝnlɔ ɐ ʇ,uǝʌɐɥ I"

MPG, how did you do that? It looks cool.

Found a funny comic:

http://www.gocomics.com/poochcafe/?ref=poc_gce_b5

It must be John Knight's threat coming true.

MPG, you need to work on your 'L's. They're still normal side up.

How long have you been waiting for an excuse to use this talent?

It's like that in the source: must be Unicode characters.

˙ʇɐɥʇ ǝʞıl ǝq ǝuıℲ

Someone has had too much time on his/her hands, though I wouldn't be surprised if MPG used someone else's example as a template. I did.

Pasting his characters into the keyboard input screen on my Mac shows that there are quite a few Unicode characters with names like 'LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED R' which is 'ɹ'.

Since apparently not all letters are available, some of his are ingenious adaptations, like 'ɔ' which is really 'LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O'

I hope MPR or the person responsible for the above marvel has access to a more efficient way of doing this than searching through the Unicode pages, as I would have been forced to do.

Nerds. Where would we be without them? Lʉlʑ.

@#22:

Aww. C',mon. It was at least engaging for a moment.

#11: You win at humor. :D

For what it's worth -

I've posted two comments that resulted in the timeout window. Both comments were posted sucessfully, though.

I'm impressed by MPG's handiwork.

No wonder! They run redhat!!!

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.scienceblogs.com

Try installing a real distro, f00lz!!!!!

:)

I used to do the "upside-down" Unicode text trick manually, but someone else went to the trouble of creating a tool that does it for you, so it's not nearly as nerdy or timewasting as it appears.

¡ɥƃnoɥʇ 'ʇı ɟo pnoɹd puɐ pɹǝu ɐ llıʇs ɯɐ I

http://swizzy.frih.net/tools/49/flip

The tool isn't perfect though - no caps, no numbers, and a few of the letter forms could have been better chosen. But it's great for bamboozling people all the same.

So thats prob why I double posted on the train post. I thought it was because I have an old steam driven laptop and on Sunday while spending my obligatory hour on Richard Dawkins site I spilt some red wine on it while eating my cracker......Ohhh shiiiit!!!

To flip text put "flip" (without quotes in the email field).

Didn't someone yesterday ask how we'd like it if someone tried to break this website? Guess he made good on the offer.

Does this mean that PeeZed will get a Ferrari next?

Anyway. I think we know who to blame for this problem. The old git has terrible aim.