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Livejournal encourages reading too fast.

New postings I do generally pay a reasonable amount of attention to, but when catching up with new comments on an old posting my fingers automatically page down or close as I read the last few words. If I realize I wanted to say something I have to go back and figure out what post it was; if I can remember whose journal the posting was in then I stand a chance.

I read things and realize a moment later I've no idea what I've read, and have to go back and pay attention this time.

I keep misreading things in bizarre ways. "Kidlington" comes out as "Klingon" (...actually that one was unusually persistent). This isn't just livejournal, irc and news have the same effect. This is more an amusement than an annoyance, though possibly not to be writers I insist on announcing my misinterpretations to.

I've long been a quick reader, but I'm starting to think that my own speed is beginning to catch up with me.

Livejournal could be improved; the further back you look the more you have to look at to find the same amount of new material. It doesn't have to be that way; usenet clients usually do a much better job. Livejournal could have, and could still, adopt that model in addition to its existing interface. Browsers could be improved too, albeit only in band-aid sorts of ways; for example 'undo' should be able to re-open tabs you just closed. (This would be great anyway, not just for dealing with broken-by-design user interfaces.) We could invent horrible screen-scraping bodges which figure out what the new comments are, going back as far as necessary, and presenting them in a more useful way.

(But I have enough going on anyway that I don't have time to follow any of these suggestions.)

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Zombies

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Can you figure out the rule? Took me about half a dozen rolls. (via sobrique)