1x06, "Endgames"

[SaintPeter]

I was tired of doing a view source to find links, so I spent a couple hours learning this.  Added a new wrinkle to my brain.

Easter Eggs, the "easy" way
1) Install Firefox (any version)
2) Create/edit userContent.css in profile-directory\chrome\  (Details Here)
3) Add the following code:

Code:

@-moz-document domain(shadowunit.org) {
.hiddenlink {
color:   #660000 !important;
font-weight: bold !important;
text-decoration: underline !important;
}
}

4) Restart Firefox
5) Enjoy visible links

This should cause all hidden links to show up as bold, underline links with the normal red link color.

[mocknot]

:boggles: I guess that's one way to do it.

I dunno, I use Opera and that browser has a menu option that'll list all the links on the page. It's even clickable. Suddenly I feel very lazy though:).

[Emma Bull]

Firefox v.2 had that very thing. The beta of Firefox v.3, for reasons inconceivable, is missing it.

[Emma Bull]

I was tired of doing a view source to find links, so I spent a couple hours learning this.  Added a new wrinkle to my brain.

Easter Eggs, the "easy" way...

This should cause all hidden links to show up as bold, underline links with the normal red link color.

That looks very smart!

I'd be inclined to use it after reading the episode, though. I prefer to keep the links undercover so they don't change the way I read the sentence. But not everyone is as easily distracted by Teh Shiny! as I am. *g*

[glinda_w]

Which reminds me, I need to add money to my Revolution Money Exchange account, so I can send it out. They're not as... instantaneous... as PayPal is, alas.

[Bunny M]

(*sigh* Some days you get no love from the electrons.)

Ain't that the truth, and how?

 

[Joe Sherry]

That was a great episode! 

[Emma Bull]

Thank you!

[SCoran]

... I use Opera and that browser has a menu option that'll list all the links on the page. It's even clickable. Suddenly I feel very lazy though:).

Where's the menu option? I have to hit Source and search for "hiddenlink".

Wonderful episode. I really like the different mythologies we're shown and the different hosts' ways of dealing or not dealing with their situations.

Interesting now that we're getting into the time period covered by the livejournals and reading the episode you think "Oh yeah! Sugar skulls!"

[Emma Bull]

It was nutty--and fun--to do a story that had already been partly documented in Chaz's LJ. We knew as he was posting that those would be the events in "Endgames," but the story itself hadn't been written yet. So we were blogging blind, more or less.

Then when I set out to write the story, I had to stick to what he'd written, and, since he was foodblogging, what he'd eaten. I decided that he'd fudged the foodblog a little--listing every little granola bar and package of cheese & peanut butter crackers is just too boring when you're trying to save the world. 

But it was like a whole new weird layer of research. Or writing historical fiction about history you'd made up. And now had to live with. It was a hoot.

[MadGastronomer]

I'd been wondering about that, about how much of it you knew when you were blogging that stuff.  That's kind of wild, at least to me.

[Elizabeth Bear]

It is very live without a net. And we've also been using the blogs as structure in some ways--"If Chaz starts his food blog in late September, then the inciting incident must be sometime earlier that months, so Ballistic has to be set at X time..."

One thing I'm really pleased by is how it's evolved from a chore--something he was doing to reassure his friends and allow them a little oversight of his self-care--into an actual, you know, blog. We were caught off guard by that, but it's been awesome fun. The other thing we were caught off-guard by was how guilty Daphne felt about the whole thing, especially in the early days when Chaz was trying to figure out how to balance his intake and was getting so damned frustrated.

They're fun to write, those kids.

[mocknot]

... I use Opera and that browser has a menu option that'll list all the links on the page. It's even clickable. Suddenly I feel very lazy though:).

Where's the menu option? I have to hit Source and search for "hiddenlink".

It's under the 'tools' menu, listed as 'links'. Also ctrl+alt+L will bring the list up. Though, I'm using 9.27 and I don't remember if this was a feature in previous versions.

[Emma Bull]

One thing I'm really pleased by is how it's evolved from a chore--something he was doing to reassure his friends and allow them a little oversight of his self-care--into an actual, you know, blog...

In-house, it was referred to as "feeding Chaz." "Can you feed Chaz this weekend? I'm going to a convention." "Do you mind feeding Chaz today, 'cause I'll be at the library panel."

Bear got to where she was feeding him whatever she was eating that day, only moreso. I'm a vegetarian, and Chaz isn't, so I couldn't really do that. Though he always ate a lot of vegetarian food on my watch... *g*

(Also, Bear, you didn't mention the, ah, convenient timing on when he stopped logging his food...and exercise. *g*)

[Elizabeth Bear]

I don't remember the convenient timing, actually. *g* You will have to tell that story.

(Emma's going to reveal all our secrets tonight, in her expansive mood.)