April Fools Site: Auto-Fading Text

Posted April 1, 2008, 12:02 a.m.

For April Fools Day 2008, the site faded away . . . 90 seconds after loading it each time. It appeared at the same time as my Website 20 launch, so I put them together to confuse people. The Website 20 launch message included this message:

I’m happy to announce that today, the first day of April, I have launched a major revision to my web site. Version 20 marks my shift from the Joomla content management system to WordPress. The most important new feature made possible by this switch is Auto-Fading Text, which encourages the reader to read my site quicker and more efficiently (and makes the text nearly illegible if they do not). Read on to learn more details about Auto-Fading Text and the other new features.

Auto-Fading Text: Auto-Fading Text is a new feature I’m developing in conjunction with the WordPress team to encourage blog and web site readers to read content faster and more efficiently. This cutting-edge technology slowly reduces the brightness of web site content over approx. 90 seconds until it is nearly illegible, making it necessary for the reader to speed-read or risk squinting and eye damage. Users who are slow readers may be required to refresh the page one or more times to finish content, which is annoying and further reinforces the need to read quickly.

Click to enter and see how it looked.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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Holy Bible

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Paul the Apostle

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Paul the Apostle

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Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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Paul Skousen

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Scott Bradford

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Alexis de Tocqueville

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.

Unknown

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Francis (Pope)

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Bertrand Russell

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William Grayson

There is no great merit in any merely outward act; all depends upon the inward motive that provokes the deed.

Henry Steel Olcott

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Nikola Tesla

Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

John Wesley

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Ronald Reagan

Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.

Nicolas Chamfort

I have come as light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.

Jesus Christ

Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense, to repay every one for what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.

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