When people like Dan Kennedy and Pax Arcana woke up this morning, they were faced with an abomination on boston.com: A Globe op-ed piece reproduced entirely as a giant .GIF image. boston.com has since done the right thing and turned it into text that the visually impaired can read and which won't give people with 20/20 vision headaches.

Equally impressive, at least boston.com-wise, was how its obituary on that poor Newton kid who died of the flu actually has a link to a YouTube video of him playing the piano.

Yeah, cute commercials boston.com's been running of late, no? Unfortunately, boston.com seems to have some problems figuring out Boston neighborhoods. The Missus fumes how the site initially identified Aria as "a South End nightclub:"

... Newsflash Boston.com... Aria ain't in the South End. It's in the Theater District. It says so right on their site. But in case you don't know the difference, I decided to quickly put together a map of the area for you...

However, I'm not sure I'd agree with her that Aria is "deep in the heart of downtown," either.

Maureen Rogers lists the ways she is sick of the whole thing.

Harry, meanwhile, explains why some boston.com feature that shows alleged top Super Bowl commercials sucks:

... It is a 2008 version of Suck.com. It's lame most importantly because nobody really enjoys having their choices in such a feature filtered by the opinion of some wretch at boston.com. ...

See Kerry Healey party with Duran Duran '80s-style.

How can you resist? Well, OK, easily, but still.

Chris Fournier points us to this boston.com ad, which pretty much sums up winter in Boston, in a perfect so-don't-I sort of way:

It only shifts the problems to sidewalks, where teens now take risks as they ride bicycles shirtless in the middle of winter. At least, that's what this package from boston.com seems to indicate:

The online staff seems to have left for the day (save for the Extra Bases guy). As I type, it's 8:35 p.m. and there's nothing on boston.com about a 3 p.m. shooting across from the Forest Hills T stop the lots of people saw, heard or watched the aftermath of (many because Washington Street/Hyde Park Avenue traffic was all messed up).

Channel 4 had something up pretty quickly after the shooting (Channel 4 is generally excellent at such stuff); Channel 5 wasn't all that far behind and a Herald editor was blogging about it not far after them. I had something up in an hour or so, but only because I happened to be getting out of Forest Hills station (returning from a meeting) just as the ambulance was driving away with the victim.

Geoff Edgers reports you can now post comments to boston.com blogs, like, oh, his:

... The procedure: I get to see all the comments before they go up. Then I have a choice... to post, or not to post. I'm pretty active on this blog, but there may be a six or eight hour period when I'm not by the tubes. Be patient. The delay doesn't mean I dislike what you have to say. It just means I'm sleeping or on a run. ...

Because, you know, the Globe wouldn't want to see the same sort of mouth-breathing commentary some bostonherald.com blogs are getting (scroll down a bit).

How else to explain the live frickin' updates from the opening of the new Natick Mall? Jesus.

... A stone's throw from the state's first Nordstrom department store is Stil, the only local business to be awarded a spot in the new Natick Collection expansion. ...

Oh, and how lucky they must feel!

Ed. nauseous note: Yes, of course, it's no longer the Natick Mall but the Natick Collection of Stuff for the Ruling Class.

It's so bad they've sent in Duck Boats to pick up survivors:

Thanks to Dave for noticing this. Hmm, I wonder why nobody else is reporting on this?