It's not Time, it's actually TIME. The schmaltzy starts there. And you are absolutely right.

Perhaps WiS is their ad-link guy?

I've been using a little tool called "Readability" to fix this problem on most sites - it seems to find the content of the article, format it nicely, and throw everything else away, which is great for reading long articles or fiction.

It's here: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readabi…

Those horrible red links are the first thing I've seen a site do that Readability didn't fix.

I wonder what makes it on the "top 10 everything" list?

Google easily has the best website design. Simple, straightforward, uncluttered. Hard to beat that.

I only wish their default background was gray or something less bright. Too much white on a screen is like looking directly at a lightbulb.

TIME's Web site sucks for me because, with my not-very-old, not-Microsoft browser the article is completely covered with some kind of overlay just as it finishes loading. Sometimes if I hit the stop button just right I'll be able to copy-and-paste text; mostly I can't be bothered.

I'm sure somebody's already done this, but if not, I propose rob!s law: The bigger the corporate entity, the lamer the Web site. I haven't been able to pay my Verizon bill on-line in three years because their Web site sucks moldy fundie balls.

I have the usual tricks of someone with extremely limited bandwidth: popup blocking on, javascript off unless necessary, image loading turned off when needed. I don't feel like wasting more time until my next hardware upgrade/wireless access in a couple of months.

Don't get cocky, Stranger motherfuckers. I usually turn off javascript and images if I want to read an article. For Slog I use the mobile link (thanks for that). Don't forget 30 million people still have slow internet.

And thanks, @4!

It's still more readable than the Huffington Post site. I'm lucky if the number of Flash elements doesn't cause the whole browser to hang.

ha ha, made me think of this:

http://www.theonion.com/video/time-annou…

Meanwhile, every time I open a page on Slog I get a pop-up asking for a Twitter username/password:

"A username and password are being requested by http://www.twitter.com. The site says: "Twitter API"

Glass houses and all that.