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[bedlamsbard]

Oh my gods, the BSG Wiki is actually going to either (a) make me blind (b) destroy my grades or (c) all of the above. I went on for five minutes to check a point of canon and emerged two hours later having discovered the transcripts of the BSG podcasts by Ron Moore. The eye strain comes from the fact that the wiki is white text on dark red and the font is a size or smaller than is actually comfortable to read. I can feel my eyes dying.

BLIND. I'M GOING BLIND.

I was going to write for fifteen minutes and then do my Greek homework. This was at 5 pm. TWO HOURS AGO. Agh agh agh.

And I only wrote two hundred words before getting sucked in, too. On the bright side, I now know many and varied points of BSG trivia. Did you know Grace Park was one of two finalists for Starbuck? MIND-BOGGLING, I tell you. Or that the actress that plays Ischay is Jamie Bamber's wife? OR, hmm, what's something actually show-related, that Hera's name when she's being fostered with Maya is Isis? BLIND. (Or how many times Ron Moore and David Eick apparently went, "Hey, do we know why we're doing this?" "Because it'll look cool.")

Comments

[darklyndsea]

My browser, at least, has an option to make a page black on white (alt>view>page style>no style on firefox), and a separate zoom option which helps with tiny text. Sometimes they make things weird, but it's better than blindness! Any browser that allows addons will have a readability addon somewhere in the place you get the addons from. Also, I have totally seen worse page color choices than that, but it never makes me stop wondering why they feel the need to make it that way.

[bedlamsbard]

Thanks, I'll look into that. (I'm on IE. I know. I like IE.)

I spend a lot of time wondering why white on red? Why red at all? I guess because of the Cylon eye thing? But why that shade of red? Red isn't the color associated with BSG in my head; for whatever bizarre reason, it's deep purple. (Although I think a lot of people go for blue.) I don't know, I've spent a lot of time thinking about the colors because I have no idea why it's coded purple to me.

[waywren]

If nothing else, if you're on Firefox or a relative, ALT+V (if you're on a PC, but look for the View menu) should get you to the view menu, where you can select Page Style->No Style. That'll strip most CSS files, which in web 2.0 sites should get you a rather more eye-friendly set of colours.

The formatting may be hosed, but...

[bedlamsbard]

Thanks, I'll see what I can do. I am actually on IE (I KNOW...but it works for me), but I'll check it out.