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And it uses Flash for static images. Can't they get anything right?

You sure?

http://img.skitch.com/20100719-ckjke8bssjpmxxtgnfngnbbsr.png

Weird. But still: it needs to load a Flash file in order to display some HTML? WTF? That's actually even worse in my opinion.

Don't you want some cookies besides the milk?

You'll notice that that bit of the document is dynamically inserted, by a bit of javascript that it looks to me like being called by a flash slideshow controller. Maybe they want to discriminate against people who don't watch ads? Wouldn't be the first media company to do so.

I also noticed that the page contains all slides, as well as some logic to change them dynamically, yet fails to do so.

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