Paul Boutin

10th anniversary redesign. Jake says:

For one thing, we’re no longer owned by Microsoft, which for some reason seems to make it easier for us to build a site that works as well in Firefox and Safari as it does in Internet Explorer. And now that larger computer screens and broadband have become commonplace, we felt Slate could do more to take advantage of both. The new home page, for example, is wider than the old one and has graphics so numerous that a dial-up modem would have choked on them. We’ve used the additional real estate to give permanent homes to Explainer, the Has-Been, Doonesbury, Today’s Pictures, and our editorial cartoonsóregular features that have sometimes been hard to find.

I missed Greenpeace’s press release fiasco earlier this month until I caught up with Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me episodes this morning. So maybe you missed it, too.
To recap, this was Greenpeace’s press release as it appeared on the wires:

“In the twenty years since the Chernobyl tragedy, the world’s worst nuclear accident, there have been nearly [FILL IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE]”

This was the response of the Greenpeace spokesperson who accidentally sent it:

“Given the seriousness of the issue at hand, I don’t even think it’s funny.”

This was Wait Wait’s response to that:

“[INSERT DERISIVE DISAGREEMENT HERE]”

And this was the WaPo’s kicker:

The final version did not mention Armageddon; instead it warned of plane crashes and reactor meltdowns.