I use Firefox, and that might be the issue, as I've noticed lately that embedded videos don't show up in Firefox. I would imagine that Salon has a high percentage of non-IE users, so if this is a browser related issue, you might want to rethink what you are using for embedded video.

My family and I really enjoyed this show. It created a lot of discussions about various behaviors and attitudes shown by the kids. The constant prompting by the "journal" got old -- set up some guidelines ("you need to create a workschedule") and let the kids decide how to do things.

Too many of the situations were obviously pre-determined before the season began. If the Town Council was really leading, sending them away for two days would create more drama and conflict, but the town barely missed them.

I've seen ads for a Creature Creator that's got a list price of 9.99. In fact, I pre-ordered it for my son who's been waiting for Spore for a good portion of his gaming life now. Is that this same program, or is it a different version? I noticed that the download page listed this as a trial version.

why does the editor's note disappear when you go to print mode? I'm sure it's a CSS or formatting issue, but if an editor's note is important enough to attach to the main page of the article, it should be carried over to the print version as well.

even if Amazon is right, the fact that people are so willing to believe this about a company that to date has done so much to keep books in print and available is really a reflection of what we've come through in the past decade or so. People, including myself, are very able to see this sort of thing as not only possible, but probable in the face of protest. Trust me, if you live anywhere outside the largest metropolitan areas, Amazon has been a goldmine of newly available material. They've also been a strong advocate for freedom of the press and easy access to material. This is a major change, if it is a change and not a glitch.

glitches happen, but my biggest disappointment so far in this has been Amazon's lack of corporate awareness of how this will be perceived. Even if the CSR's are incorrect in what they've told people, the fact that Amazon is letting CSR's speak to this and not someone with a title and authority is a mistake.

Think about us here in Nebraska. We used to elect Democrats like Bob Kerry and J.J. Exon and it's since devolved to hacks like Nelson. How embarrassing is it that our senator who challenged the Bush Republicans the most was Chuck Hagel, not our Democrat?

Nelson is, and always has been, in the pocket of Nelnet when it comes to student loans. But what people forget (or don't know) is that Omaha has a large insurance industry base too. Mutual of Omaha ring a bell? Principal Financial is based in Iowa, but has huge numbers of offices and employees in Nebraska. I once heard that proportionate to population, Omaha had the highest number of actuaries of anywhere in the nation. Lots of insurance business here in NE.

I don't know that they could speak specifically to France's debate, but in this part of Central Nebraska, we have a growing Sudanese population that has a significant number of Muslim women who wear the traditional dress. I can't say that I've seen any chadri's, but at my dentist the other day, there were three women in burqas over the course of an hour.

So I would imagine that young girls in this part of Central Nebraska certainly could (and probably would) talk about burqas. Are they enthnographers? no. Would they be as culturally sensitive as most Salon readers would like? most assuredly not. But they would be familiar with the concept. As Judy points out, a show that actually talked with these people about their views and compared them with their international contemporaries would be great. But I have little to no faith that VH1 or Jessica Simpson's handlers are going to be the ones to create that show.

I've long held that at least part of the problem was the Chinese government purchasing and stockpiling oil so that there would be no chance of a shortage during the Olympics. Going into the Olympics the price kept going up and up; after the Olympics were safely over, the price fell sharply. I do realize the potential for faulty cause-effect correlation here, but I never, ever hear anyone bring this possibility up. We still have a hard time seeing China as the economic behemoth that it really is.

I was aware of Conservapedia when it was first announced - I haven't been back recently, so this may have changed, but originally it was designed to be a wikipedia created by homeschoolers. The idea was that homeschool kids would do their research and then build the conservapedia wiki.

So this really simply follows a trend with that site. If you don't like something, create your own version instead.

your new design is clearly to increase clicks and thus ad revenue - I can understand that. however, premium members are ad-free, so you aren't generating ad revenue, just annoying us with unnecessary extra clicks.

simple solution - Let Premium members still have the ability to have the older "Facebook" style table of contents.