{"id":1138,"date":"2006-03-27T10:44:54","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T15:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2006-03-27T22:00:05","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T03:00:05","slug":"geek-irony-at-newsweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/geek-irony-at-newsweek\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek Irony at NewsWeek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current NewsWeek, with cover story <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/12015774\/site\/newsweek\/\">&#8220;Putting the We in WEb,&#8221;<\/a> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/11977271\/site\/newsweek\/\">&#8220;How Geeky Are You? Quiz.&#8221;<\/a> The quiz doesn&#8217;t show on the second most geeky of all combinations, Mac OSX and FireFox, and it tries to send you a pop-up advert!<br \/>\nThis is sad.<br \/>\n<strong>Note:<\/strong> Newsweek is hosted by MSNBC.<br \/>\n<strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Doesn&#8217;t work with Safari either.<br \/>\n<strong>UPDATE 2:<\/strong> Doesn&#8217;t work on Windoz with FireFox (Thanks Sayan for the Windoz testing)<br \/>\n<strong>UPDATE 3:<\/strong> Does work with Internet Exploiter on Windoz after sending a bunch of pop-up adverts.<br \/>\n<strong>UPDATE 4:<\/strong> Selffulfilling question:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>19. Which Web browser do you use most at home? Explorer<br \/>\nFirefox<br \/>\nSafari<br \/>\nOpera<br \/>\nI wrote my own<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s a Web browser? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 5:<\/strong>  Doesn&#8217;t render the quiz on Firefox 1.5 over Linux. (thanks DLS)<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 5.1a:<\/strong> the round-robin advert under what would have been the quiz depicts a very non-geeky Triceritops in a suit inviting us to explore the absolutely-devoid-of-geekdom Microsoft Office calendar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 6:<\/strong> Doesn&#8217;t work with Moz or FF in Linux (Thank Roblimo).<\/p>\n<p><strong>BOTTOM LINE:<\/strong> If you can take the quiz, you are not a geek.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE XXX:<\/strong> MCNBC just added a one line, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/11977271?pg=2#anc_nwk_060323_geekpage\">&#8220;Click here to start the quiz&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current NewsWeek, with cover story &#8220;Putting the We in WEb,&#8221; has a &#8220;How Geeky Are You? Quiz.&#8221; The quiz doesn&#8217;t show on the second most geeky of all combinations, Mac OSX and FireFox, and it tries to send you a pop-up advert! This is sad. Note: Newsweek is hosted by MSNBC. UPDATE: Doesn&#8217;t work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}