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He's no King Kong...

...but a 10 ft tall, 1200 lb gorilla's difficult to ignore.

While the existence of these apes has been known from fossil fragments since 1935, what's new is the discovery that they coexisted with humans for a significant stretch of time before dying out roughly 100,000 years ago.

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Doc Nebula said…
That is one big monkey.

Hey, how do you do the thing where only the first few sentences of your post appear, and then someone has to click a link to read the rest? I'd like to do that with my blogspot page, but can't figure out how.

I'd also like to liven my blog up with some photos, but can't be bothered with it, either. Why can't I just think them into there? Dammit.
9:21 AM
Mike Norton said…
It's called Conditional CSS and info on it can be found in the Blogger Hacks section
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=898&topic=41

I read about it early on, had some questionable experiences with tampering with my template code earlier and so put it off for a while. Once Tim Tjarks did it with his I revisited the idea and it worked fairly easily. The (tiny) downside is that the format will be retroactive, so your earlier posts will be fully on display with a link to no-more-text ("More", "Full Post" or however you decide to designate it) at the bottom of each.

They've made adding images very easy, the biggest difficulty being that if you want them to appear at a particular place in your piece, once you've added a pic you'll need to go to the html edit screen, cut the image code block at the top and paste it where you want it below. There's no intermediate ftp image upload step and addresses to remember, so if it's an image on your hard drive you can send a copy up and access it in your blog in one step.
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