You got Tim's number? Crap. There goes an exclusive source.

And when People Magazine announces me as one of America's Most Beautiful bloggers, I shall run it in my critics' faces!

I really don't care what everyone else says - I like it.

Wait.  While we're here discussing aesthetics....shouldn't Doc Cleveland be first in the left to right lineup at the top of the page, seeing as how he starts with a D?  I know it used to be Deadman, but Deadman has moved on to other things, and perhaps the D-A-G would make more sense as far as your name goes, if you switched up the blogger names now.

But then, Orlando has been here for a long time, and then, we can't forget good old Wolfie.  So maybe you should change your name to DAGOW blog.  But then again, that could cause some problems, couldn't it?  DAGWO?  But then, that sounds too much like Dagwood, doesn't it?  And you'd need two more bloggers starting with O and D. 

Then again, a name change ON TOP of a site aesthetics change might just blow too many people away, all at once like that, so....

But on the other hand...is that a dagger I see before me?

I like it.  Clean and Neat.  Now can you fix it so I can use spell check?  I don't spell well.  I want to make my comments look like I am educated.  

Is this a test to see if we REALLY want change? We go from TPM to here, then learn the ropes here real quick and change again? Cha cha cha cha changes... Seriously, looks good...do you have a Braille option for lis and stardust? They're getting old!

BTW, have I told you lately, but for the gazillioneth time how much I enjoy your writing? I really can't wait to see if you were able to incorporate your amazing sense of humor into your book! You make me laugh. A lot.

No comment. (Meta is such a bore.)

I like the new look, but I just posted something and don't see it. I'll be gone for the weekend, so I hope you find it.

The new version is cleaner, but still slightly "bitsy". You might experiment with the fonts. I think the problem, if there is one, is there. Helvetia might fix it.

And do something about the logo as soon as you can, it is horrible. It looks like something out of Stormfront.

Hey Genghis: Definitely a "cooler," cleaner, more sophisticated look -- although I'm feeling a brief pang of nostalgia for the old dagblog's handmade, earthy charm.

I like the control-wheel size function. Is that new? I often bumped the text up to 125% anyway. Aging eyes. One thing I find (and I'm not sure what's different): individual comments in a long string tend to run into each other visually now. Is there less spacing between them? Or just that the signatures are smaller?

The all-caps headlines impose a welcome consistency of style, plus they look better. As someone else remarked, the new black sign-in bar is really easy to miss, especially since the type is text-size and grey. For the benefit of newcomers, size it up, or cap it, or make it white. Or all three.

Another thing I notice is that registered readers are no longer greeted by name. Awww! That was actually practical, since it showed whether you were signed in before you tried to comment or blog. And when you click on Blog Now, the message should say more than "You are not authorized ... " It should add, "Register or sign in here to comment or post a blog." Also for new visitors, you might consider putting a FAQ link on the black bar, and put helpful hints in it like sizing up the text, along with your Terms of Use statement.

On the dagblogger's pages, there's a link to "Recent Blogs." Since all the posts appear immediately after that, those links seem redundant.

I read your Terms of Use to see if anything had changed. We're no longer allowed to post anything that's "false or inaccurate?" WTF! Is that your subtle way of telling Wolfrum that he's fired? Oh, and no obscene or vulgar language? Double WTF!!

In the lists From the Readers, From the Dagbloggers and Hits of the day, I'd try to avoid truncating the headlines. Running them in full will cost only a few more lines, some of which you can save by just calling Wolfrum Wolfrum.

There are a few other things I'm sure you're aware of, like the lines HEADLINE HERE on some of the inside pages. But on the whole, you've pulled off this redesign with barely a glitch. Josh Marshall must be livid.

Maybe the dagger would be less scary if it was an underliner:

It's Dagnabbit. Not Dag fricking Swedish guy or Dagwood's bloody sandwich from the 1950's or Dag Nazis. 

Dagnabbit.

Dagger... Skinheads... Nazis???

Someone has a very active imagination... albeit a bit narrowly focused.

But ... To waylay all the wailing and fear and rending of garment maybe the following graphic could be superimposed over the dagger.

Heh! Stab 'em with a writing quill. Although,  the majority of visitors will wonder what the hell is a writing quill...

Oh ... Did I mention how much I like the new layout? It's great.

Thanks for all the attention to details and requests.

~OGD~

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Or: Daguerrotype

The dagger as a "phallic symbol" is no problem...  the classic one is a Hindu lingam, but a banana would probably work as well or even a dildo in that sense.

The problem with a dagger is that they are for stabbing and killing people. In many places in the world it is forbidden to carry a two edged, pointed blade, because they have no other use but for killing... people.

Naturally this sort of sharp, stabbing, cutting symbol, which is unambiguously violent, has a great deal of attraction for violent people, fascists and the like.

<---- For example here is symbol of the American white power organization "Storm Front"

Or the very symbol that gave "fascism" its name --->.

<--- And here is an Italian "fascist high leader" dress dagger (quite a collector's item BTW).

And here is a really cool Nazi officer's dagger --->

I think I've made my "point" by now.

A dagger is not a proper symbol for a "progressive" blog aggregator.

For what it's worth, I've always liked the dagger. I've always thought of it as an ironic logo in a "the pen is mightier than the sword" sort of way. I say we keep it.