Further to my last entry, about the new Snap Shots feature on this site: Go to the current “Snide Remarks” column and scroll down to comment #10, posted by my brother Lane. Hold your mouse over his name.

That is six kinds of awesome.

While you weren’t looking, my brother and webmaster Jeff, acting more in his capacity as webmaster than brother, added a new little feature to the site. It pertains to links. Let’s say I was linking to XKCD, a very entertaining web comic that often deals with math and science and other matters of geekery. See that little icon next to “XKCD” in that link? That means that if you hover your mouse over the link, a small window will pop up showing you what the linked page looks like. Move your mouse away and it disappears. Fun!

What purpose does this serve? Almost none! But it’s nifty, so there it is. It’s only for links that take you away from EricDSnider.com, since we figured you don’t need previews of what other pages on this site look like. (They’ll look like the page you’re already on, only with different text. Duh.) And if everyone hates it, maybe we’ll take it away again. But everyone won’t hate it! It’s nifty!

Actually, it is useful when I’m linking to a few specific sites. If it’s an Amazon link, like this one, instead of showing you a picture of that Amazon page, it presents you with a text description of the item being linked. (Harry Potter 7, in this case.) It does the same for Wikipedia links, IMDb links, and probably some others.

Anyway, there it is, in case you hadn’t noticed it. Enjoy your mouse-hovering!

EDITED TO ADD: For those who do hate it, you can disable it simply by mousing over one of the links and clicking “Disable” in the upper right corner of the pop-up box. As long as you have cookies activated, it will remember to disable the feature whenever you visit the site.

Monday! Fie upon you! You vex me!

But on the bright side, there is this week’s edition of “Snide Remarks,” hot off the griddle, entitled “The Feminine Mistake.” You can hear me read it to you via the futuristic SnideCast© player on that page. Or you can listen to it here. Or you can subscribe to the podcast by feeding this address into your podcast-listening-to thingee and listen to it that way.

Also, I somehow managed to watch “Delta Farce” over the weekend, and it somehow managed to be even worse than I was expecting. Let my review stand as a testament against it at the last day.

Oh, but back to “Snide Remarks.” There probably won’t be one next week or the week after, as I’ll be traveling and might not have time to write it. I wanted to give you some warning, lest you visit the site next Monday as usual and be disappointed. But I’d still like you to visit the site, regularly and repeatedly, because it boosts my hit count. The daily blog entries and weekly movie reviews will still be published at the regular intervals.

(Remember, if you get on the “Snide Remarks” mailing list you’ll get a notice whenever a new column is published, so you don’t have to worry about missing one.)

OK, that is all I have to say to you right now. I must contend with Monday, that brutal mistress, for her needs are many.