Yeah my life is certainly no worse for never reading Slate anymore. Not sure if the bad for the brain part you're referring to is spending a lot of time on a website, or actually reading their content…… I think both.

I used to read Slate multiple times a day. Since their batshit crazy redesign I've never gone back. This at least is not in the same stratosphere of that design; apparently the energy-drink and pixie-stick addled pre-teen who did both designs was at least coming down off his high for this one. It's not like my…

They're regorganzing these sites into total disorganization. I guess I'm old. I find it incredibly frustrating to use. And I have a tablet and it's even worse there. There is no more "big picture" of the site you're looking at; how it's organized, a consistent layout you can be familiar with. It's like a…

Oy. Well, at least from what I can tell so far you guys didn't Slate the site, a term I coined which means redesigning a site so insanely poorly I literally never go back to it.