DEBRIS.COMgood for a laugh, or possibly an aneurysm

I’ve squashed a few bugs, implemented a few new features, and made some changes to the layout, both in response to reader feedback and my own testing:

• the RSS feed is back online (although still due for an overhaul) (or overdue for a haul, one of those two)
• the font in the channels list is smaller and somewhat less clunky
• the masthead photo changes every 60 seconds, increasing the chances that, at least sometimes, you’ll become convinced that I have as much an eye for color selection as I do for hats. (By the way, it won’t change if you wait for it; you’ll have to reload, or in some browsers, force-reload.)
• comments in image ALT tags are no longer highlighted in search-engine results (yes, this broke pages magnificently; thanks for asking)

Not yet changed, as of this writing, is the hanging nature of list-item bullets. The fact that bullets sit to the left of the text margin causes many people concern. I have not yet determined whether to change this… the stylesheets are not finished, but honestly I like hanging punctuation.

My publishing software attempts to honor the traditions of typography. Note the “smart” quotes — and the emdashes. And the hanging bullets, darn it!

• You’ll
• learn
• to
• love
• it!
  Or your money back.

You know what would be really neat: hanging all punctuation, like in the #3 example of Typography 101. I used to do that in Pagemaker when I did lots of design work on paper, approximately 400 years ago. Another rewarding challenge those days: making sure text baselines were consistent across columns. It was trickier than you might think, but the results were cooool.